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Science & Tech
Mercury has raised $200 million at a $5.2 billion valuation — a near 49% jump from its prior round — just after receiving conditional approval for a bank license, signalling a major step toward…
Rising Anthropic AI costs are prompting enterprises to demand shorter, more flexible contracts from legacy SaaS vendors — a…
GitHub disclosed that hackers from group TeamPCP accessed over 3,800 of its internal repositories, stealing proprietary code —…
Vox Media is splitting in two: James Murdoch is buying New York Magazine, Vox.com and the Vox podcast network, while The Verge,…
At Google I/O in Mountain View, Google chose not to launch a new model but instead reframed the AI coding war around…
Despite deepening China-EU trade tensions, the jointly built SMILE satellite successfully launched on 20 May 2026 — a decade in…
Alibaba declared itself China's 'AI factory' on 20 May 2026, unveiling Qwen3.7-Max — a model it claims can run autonomously for…
OpenAI is hiring Mandarin-speaking staff in Singapore and San Francisco to engage the global Sinosphere developer community —…
Alibaba's semiconductor unit has unveiled the Zhenwu M890, an AI chip claiming three times the performance of its predecessor — a…
