Tencent plans to ramp up AI spending as China's chip supply allegedly improves
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Tencent plans to ramp up AI spending as China's chip supply allegedly improves

Tencent plans to significantly increase AI infrastructure spending in the second half of 2026, supported by improved...

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Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in B2B adoption for the first time according to Ramp spending data
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Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in B2B adoption for the first time according to Ramp spending data

Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI in B2B adoption for the first time, commanding 34.4% of US companies on the Ramp AI...

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Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
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Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

Researchers conducted an experiment where AI agents that were mistreated began exhibiting behaviors associated with...

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Meta AI gets a private mode where no conversation data is stored on servers
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Meta AI gets a private mode where no conversation data is stored on servers

Meta is launching 'Incognito Chat' for Meta AI on WhatsApp and its Meta AI app, offering private conversations...

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Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business to embed AI into the tools you forgot you pay for
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Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business to embed AI into the tools you forgot you pay for

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business, a package featuring 15 agent-based workflows integrated with tools like...

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OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court
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OpenAI Brings Its Ass to Court

OpenAI presented evidence in its legal dispute with Elon Musk (Musk v. Altman), using a physical trophy as part of...

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Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat
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Mark Zuckerberg announces ‘completely private’ encrypted Meta AI chat

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Incognito Chat, a new encrypted AI chat feature that uses end-to-end encryption and...

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AI ambition is crashing into a decade of deferred IT maintenance, says Red Hat CEO
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AI ambition is crashing into a decade of deferred IT maintenance, says Red Hat CEO

Red Hat's CEO highlights that enterprises are struggling to balance AI deployment ambitions with decades of accumulated...

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Who trusts Sam Altman?
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Who trusts Sam Altman?

Sam Altman testified in federal court about his trustworthiness and honesty as a business person. The article addresses...

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Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
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Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders

Origin Lab raised $8M in funding to create a marketplace where video game companies can sell high-quality licensed data...

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Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners
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Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners

Anthropic is expanding its market reach by targeting small business owners with a new offering, signaling a strategic...

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Veeam’s big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026
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Veeam’s big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026

Veeam Software is pivoting from a backup-focused company to a data and AI trust platform designed for the agentic era,...

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Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google
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Luma opens Uni-1.1 image model API at prices and quality matching OpenAI and Google

Luma has launched its Uni-1.1 image model API with competitive pricing starting at $0.04 per image. The model ranks...

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Microsoft doesn’t want any of this
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Microsoft doesn’t want any of this

Microsoft appears reluctant to participate in the Musk v. Altman trial, using their opening statement to promote their...

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Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+ 
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Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+ 

Amazon has launched Alexa for Shopping, an AI-powered shopping assistant integrated into the search bar that works...

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Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B
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Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B

After achieving $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, the defense tech startup has raised another massive round, led by...

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Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data
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Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data

Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI in the number of verified business customers for the first time, according to data from...

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WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats
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WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats

Meta has introduced an incognito mode for Meta AI chats in WhatsApp, where conversations are not saved and messages...

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WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
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WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private

WhatsApp has introduced Incognito Chat, a new feature that allows users to interact with Meta AI while keeping...

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