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Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure | TechCrunch
Neysa, an Indian AI infrastructure startup, has secured backing from U.S. private equity firm Blackstone as it scales domestic compute capacity amid India’s push to build homegrown AI capabilities. Blackstone and co-investors, including Teachers’ Venture Growth, TVS Capital, 360 ONE Asset, and Nexus Venture Partners, have agreed to invest up to $600 million of primary…
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Finally, a robot vacuum that cleans my dogs hair reliably well
ZDNET’s key takeaways The Mova P50 Pro Ultra is available for only $799, down $400 from its regular price. This is one of the strongest robot vacuums on the market, with 19,000Pa of suction, reliable edge cleaning, mop removal, and obstacle avoidance. While its obstacle avoidance far exceeds its price point, the P50 Pro Ultra…
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Apple may be adding a splash of color to its upcoming budget-friendly MacBook
The hardest choice to make for building your next MacBook might be selecting a color. According to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, Apple has tested colors including light yellow, light green, blue and pink for its next entry-level MacBook that’s aimed at students and enterprise users. Beyond the more vibrant colors, Gurman said that Apple has also…
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Spotify vs. YouTube Music: I paid for both services, and this one gave me better value
Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. Music streaming services are surprisingly not one-size-fits-all, and one service might be better for your needs than another. If you’re moving between Spotify and YouTube Music, Spotify offers higher-quality streaming, social features, and several AI-powered features, while YouTube offers subscribers a simpler experience and…
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Is safety dead at xAI? | TechCrunch
Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged,” according to a former employee who spoke to The Verge about recent departures from Musk’s AI company. This week, following the announcement that Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring xAI (which previously acquired his social media company X), at least 11 engineers and two co-founders…
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Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts | TechCrunch
The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of social media accounts that criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to The New York Times. This echoes other recent reporting, with Bloomberg pointing to five cases in which Homeland Security sought to identify the owners of anonymous…
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Designer Kate Barton teams up with IBM and Fiducia AI for a NYFW presentation | TechCrunch
On Saturday, designer Kate Barton will unveil her latest collection at New York Fashion Week — with a twist, of course. Barton teamed up with Fiducia AI to create a multilingual AI agent (built with IBM watsonx on IBM Cloud) to help guests identify pieces of the collection and try them on virtually. TechCrunch caught…
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Turn your doodles into video clips in minutes with this new AI tool – heres how
AI transformed doodles of birds into scary winged creatures. Webb Wright/ZDNET/via Runway AI Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways A new feature from Runway lets you generate video from doodles. It’s impressive, but it performs best with some careful hand-holding. Access requires paying for (at least) a Standard Runway account….
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