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Visa crackdowns are blocking students’ study-abroad dreams, so India’s Leverage Edu is rerouting them

As visa crackdowns and diplomatic tensions block traditional study-abroad routes, India’s Leverage Edu is helping students reroute their dreams — from Canada to Germany, and

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U.S. government takes stake in Canadian lithium miner and its Nevada mining project

The U.S. Department of Energy has taken equity stakes in Canadian company Lithium Americas and its Nevada mining joint venture with General Motors as part

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Notion Capital raises $130M growth fund to tackle Europe’s follow-on gap

The lack of growth capital in Europe is such a persisting issue that some early-stage firms have taken the matter into their own hands. London-headquartered

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Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed

Manny Medina, previously best-known as the founder of sales automation startup Outreach ($4.4 billion valuation), has wowed investors with his young startup, Paid. Paid just

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Beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘workslop’

Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, have coined a new term to describe low-quality, AI-generated work: “workslop.” As

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Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst

Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has a wake-up call for investors pouring billions into humanoid robot startups: you’re wasting your money. Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and

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Thousands of Indian bank transfer records found online

A data spill from an unsecured cloud server has exposed hundreds of thousands of sensitive bank transfer documents in India, revealing account numbers, transaction figures,

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Smartphone maker Nothing to spin off its affordable CMF brand

Hardware startup Nothing said Thursday that it plans to make its affordable device brand, CMF, into an independent subsidiary with India serving as its headquarters

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OpenAI is building five new Stargate data centers with Oracle and SoftBank

OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it plans to build five new AI data centers across the United States with partners Oracle and SoftBank through its

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After India, OpenAI launches its affordable ChatGPT Go plan in Indonesia

OpenAI is expanding its budget-friendly ChatGPT subscription plan beyond India. The company launched its sub-$5 ChatGPT Go paid plan for the country’s users last month