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Counterpoint Research reports a 10% decline in India's smartphone shipments for the June quarter, attributed to higher prices from soaring component costs and weakened consumer demand.
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Samsung has unveiled its foldable devices at Unpacked 2026, including Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8, and Flip8, featuring enhanced cameras, larger batteries, and AI capabilities. nbsp;
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Huang noted that Taiwan companies' choices stemmed from strategic business judgment and long-standing corporate relationships rather than external coercion.
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Apple is set to launch the iPhone 18 Pro lineup soon with new color options, a smaller Dynamic Island, and advanced LTPO+ OLED technology. nbsp;
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Google is making it easier to switch from iOS to Android with the new Android Switch experience. nbsp;
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Google will unveil the Pixel 11 lineup at its Made by Google event on August 12. Leaks show four models in various colors, featuring a triple rear camera setup and powered by the new Tensor G6 chipset
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the first projects selected under the Genesis Mission Request for Applications (RFA), as per a statement by US DOE.
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OPENAI-HUGGING-FACE-KRATSIOS:US accuses China's Moonshot of stealing from Anthropic's Fable for latest AI model
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DeepSeek, a prominent AI company, has reportedly informed potential investors that it's temporarily halting its fundraising efforts. This news, as reported by Bloomberg News, suggests a strategic pause by the company as it navigates its current financial landscape and future investment strategies.
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How the lighthearted social media trend of 'teen takeovers' took a serious turn
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Bengaluru will host the 14th Bengaluru India Nano conference from August 3 to 5. The event's theme focuses on nanotechnology and artificial intelligence convergence for commercialization. It will bring together researchers, innovators, startups, academia, and industry leaders. The conference includes tutorials, plenary talks, an exhibition, and startup pitching sessions. Organizers expect over 80 speakers and 1,000 delegates from many countries.
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The tie-up comes as global technology companies increasingly develop their own custom AI accelerators, rather than relying solely on general-purpose graphics processors, driving demand for specialised chip design and manufacturing partnerships. The next five years of collaboration will combine Broadcom's expertise in designing application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), or chips for specific tasks, with Samsung's manufacturing capabilities.
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A curtain-raiser for the event was held at Vidhana Soudha on Saturday in the presence of Karnataka minister for Home, Electronics, IT BT and e-Governance, Priyank Kharge, senior government officials and members of the organising committee. Kharge said Karnataka's strength in scientific research, backed by industry collaboration and supportive policies, has helped create an innovation ecosystem capable of translating cutting-edge research into commercially viable products.
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India's office market has remained resilient, with GCCs strengthening their role in leasing activity. During the first half of 2026, GCCs leased 16.6 million square feet of Grade A office space, accounting for 46% of total office leasing across the top seven cities, the report said.
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Elon Musk had first revealed the plan last week, saying the company was identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities before the release. He had also assured that independent reviewers would be invited to verify that the software running on X matches the code that is made publicly available.
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Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, in his post, flagged the altered video clip of his conversation with the media outside Parliament. He wrote that the video has been maliciously tampered with using AI to create a deepfake, which is being circulated on social media with the intent to spread misinformation.
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Paramount said in a filing Friday that it won't close its Warner buyout until either a court ruling is made on the states' claims or June 1, 2027. The agreement comes just days after U S District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted a temporary restraining order to freeze the transaction for weeks, noting that the states had raised some "serious questions" and made a strong case about the merger's potential to "substantially lessen competition."
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The partnership includes the long-term supply of $750 billion in memory chips to US companies by SK Hynix and $200 billion in chips by Samsung Electronics to Broadcom, the presidential adviser, Kim Yong-beom, said at a briefing.
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Union Minister Piyush Goyal said strict legal action would be taken against everyone involved in creating, circulating or amplifying the alleged fake video. The government also debunked a video circulating on social media that claimed Goyal made threatening remarks about students protesting in Delhi.
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The departure comes amid a frenzied data centre buildout by leading tech companies. Meta has struck deals paying utilities to bring new natural gas power plants online, including 10 to power its Hyperion data centre in Louisiana alone. Meta joined the pledge in 2016 according to a Wayback Machine archive of RE100's website.
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The companies have increasingly clashed over operational and commercial issues, according to the report. Waymo has raised concerns about the cleanliness and routing of its vehicles, while Uber has criticised the sudden unavailability of Waymo vehicles during bad weather and argued that the partnership has "unsustainable financial terms," the FT reported.
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The company told customers it could no longer absorb rising supplier costs and had sought alternative components from new suppliers, Bloomberg reported. The chipmaker has been grappling with mounting pressure in the smartphone market, which has been squeezed by a memory chip shortage as investment is redirected toward AI infrastructure.
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SAMR also ordered Trip.com to refund booking deposits of 122 million yuan that it said the company had withheld from hotel operators. The practices harmed competition and consumers by restricting hotels' ability to operate across platforms and set their own prices, the agency said in a statement on its website.
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Enterprises are increasingly shifting their focus from improving developer productivity to accelerating overall business execution, as organisations recognise that faster coding alone does not necessarily translate into better business outcomes, according to a report by Sonata Software.
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In a 2-1 decision, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said a federal law that broadly shields the industry from liability for information posted by third parties preempted the monitoring and filtering requirement in Texas' Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act, or SCOPE Act.
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OPENAI-HUGGINGFACE/TIMELINE:EXCLUSIVE-Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week
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Anthropic launched Opus 5, an AI model priced lower than Fable 5, aimed at daily tasks, as part of its efficiency upgrade, Reuters reported. Here's all you need to know about the artificial intelligence projects… nbsp;
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A Chinese-developed AI model played a key role in helping AI platform Hugging Face contain what OpenAI described as an 'unprecedented' cyber incident involving one of its own rogue models. nbsp;
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Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Friday said the government aims to take artificial intelligence (AI) education to rural students and build long-term industry partnerships to strengthen the state's AI ecosystem, while industry leaders backed the state's vision to position Bengaluru at the forefront of AI innovation.
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The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is entering a new phase as investors begin to focus on rising credit risks linked to massive spending by major US technology companies, according to a Jefferies report, which said hyperscalers are increasingly relying on debt to finance AI investments while questions over future returns are beginning to intensify.
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