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Klarna just struck a $1.7 billion deal to free up capital for $40 billion in lending. Its stock is down 76 per cent from its IPO high.

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More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.

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Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.

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China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.

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Corti’s new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding

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Credibur hits €2B in debt facility volume on its private credit infrastructure platform

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Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”

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Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant

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Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M

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Decentraland launches on Epic Games Store and Android as metaverse goes multiplatform

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The Multi-Hop Challenge: Understanding Indirect Blockchain Exposure in Compliance

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.

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ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout

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OpenAI closes record $122 billion round at $852 billion valuation, opens door to retail investors for the first time

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South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze

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Apple Intelligence briefly goes live in China without approval, raising the spectre of regulatory penalties

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Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents

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EnerVenue raises $300M to scale NASA-proven metal-hydrogen batteries for grid storage

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ALSO hits $1B valuation and signs DoorDash as its first major autonomous delivery partner

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Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play

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