The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up. On 16 July his administration publ…
Lees meerSixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm h…
Lees meerJapan’s three biggest power-chip makers want to become one company, and the wiring is proving harder to rearrange than the ambition. Mitsubishi Electric is exploring a combination of its power-semiconductor operations with those of Rohm and Toshiba,…
Lees meer$188bn is a large number for a company that keeps insisting it is in no rush to go public. That is the valuation Databricks has reached in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, a figure first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The mark sit…
Lees meerGoogle has finally paid its record EU antitrust fine, and the money is about to do something unexpected. The €4.6bn will flow into the EU’s central budget and reduce what member states owe Brussels, Politico reports. The mechanism is dry, but the ef…
Lees meerXi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence “should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” casting Beijing as the patron of open, shared technology.…
Lees meerPayPal’s board reckons that a $53bn (£39bn) joint takeover approach from Stripe and the private-equity firm Advent International sells the payments pioneer short, the latest twist in a fast-moving round of payments consolidation. People familiar wit…
Lees meerThe most precise figure yet attached to DeepSeek’s worth did not come from the lab, its bankers or its founder. It surfaced in a stock-exchange filing by Anhui Korrun, a Chinese luggage maker, which discloses a stake small enough to imply the Hangzh…
Lees meerBalaji Srinivasan built Network School as a working prototype of the “network state,” his theory that an internet country of engineers and founders can eventually do the work of a real one. This week a real one reminded him who still holds the passp…
Lees meerChina has performed the world’s first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface. Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai implanted a coin-sized chip in a patient with impaired hand movement, the South China Morning Post reports…
Lees meerOne of China’s leading AI startups is closing in on a milestone the rest of the industry keeps missing. Z.ai, the company behind the GLM models, is set to become the first independent Chinese AI firm with $1bn in annual sales, Bloomberg reports. The…
Lees meerGetting dressed is the sort of task nobody thinks about until they can no longer manage it. For millions of older and disabled people, pulling on a sleeve is a daily negotiation with buttons, shoulders, and gravity, and it usually needs a second pai…
Lees meerEoptolink Technology, a Chinese maker of the optical parts that shuttle data between AI chips, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise as much as $5bn, according to Bloomberg. The paperwork arrives roughly three months after the company p…
Lees meerFora, a platform that lets ordinary people become travel agents and gives travellers a way to find them, has raised a $60m Series D at a $1bn valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures. It has 15,000+ advisors (97% new to the profession) who h…
Lees meerRoblox announced Build on Wednesday, a new creation tab inside the Roblox mobile app that lets anyone turn a text prompt into a basic playable game without touching Roblox Studio or writing a line of code. A creator can describe something like a coz…
Lees meerVolkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary Moia has begun offering rides in self-driving ID Buzz vans to preregistered residents in Hamburg, marking the first time a major European automaker has launched an autonomous passenger service on its home …
Lees meerThe driver of a Tesla that crashed into a Texas home and killed a 76-year-old woman had manually overrode Full Self-Driving by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report relea…
Lees meerGoogle is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing 10 current and former employees. The com…
Lees meerGameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dismissed the decline of physical video game sales as “totally, totally irrelevant” to the company’s business in an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday. Cohen was responding to Sony’s announcement earlier this month that it…
Lees meerGoogle will have to let rival AI assistants run on Android the way its own Gemini does. It must also hand some of its search data to competitors. The European Commission set out both requirements on Thursday. The two decisions fall under the EU’s Di…
Lees meerTwenty-nine countries signed an agreement on 16 July to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), Reuters reported. China says the intergovernmental body aims to promote international cooperation and global governance in AI. China’s f…
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