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Databricks Raises $5 Billion at a $190 Billion Valuation
The data and AI company says its revenue run rate has passed $7 billion, while the new capital will support databases, agents and acquisitions.
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Sony and TSMC Are Betting $4.7 Billion on the Future of Seeing
A new Sony-controlled venture will combine sensor design and advanced manufacturing to produce smartphone image sensors from 2029.
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French Publishers Want Regulators to Stop Google’s AI From Taking Their Traffic
French news groups are pressing the competition authority to examine how Google’s AI search features use journalism and affect referrals.
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Cheap Deals Aren’t Fixing Fast Food’s Value Problem
Low-priced menus can generate attention, but diners are judging the full meal, experience and price—not a promotional item in isolation.
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Social Platforms Lose Their Attempt to Stop Thousands of Addiction Lawsuits
The 9th Circuit dismissed an early appeal from major platforms, allowing more than 3,000 federal cases to continue without deciding the allegations.
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AI Earnings Are Outrunning the Rest of the Market. The Gap May Be About to Narrow.
AI-linked companies are posting substantially stronger earnings growth than the rest of the market, but expectations for the next quarter suggest the extraordinary gap may begin to narrow.
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Zuckerberg’s New AI Manifesto Is Really About Who Controls the Stack
Mark Zuckerberg is making openness and individual control central to Meta’s AI doctrine. The harder question is whether an open model can offset the concentration of compute, distribution, identity and data.
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South Australia Is Putting AI Under a Royal Commission
South Australia is launching a royal commission into artificial intelligence, moving the debate beyond individual rules and toward a broader examination of how AI should reshape public life, work and government.
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OpenAI Acquires NextSlide as ChatGPT Moves Deeper Into Presentations
NextSlide’s team has joined OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, bringing expertise in turning prompts, notes and documents into polished, editable presentations.
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Europe’s Broadcasters Are Starting to Act Like Platforms
ProSiebenSat.1 is bringing ZDF programming into Joyn and seeking more domestic partnerships while its parent prepares a six-market streaming platform. Europe’s broadcasters are responding to global streamers by pooling distribution, not just producing more content.