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Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhere

People in the European Union are now allowed to access alternative app stores thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a regulation designed to foster

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India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats up

Sarvam, an Indian AI startup focused on building models for local languages and users, on Friday launched its Indus chat app for web and mobile

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General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years

General Catalyst, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm with more than $43 billion in assets under management, has announced it plans to invest $5 billion in

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OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW

OpenAI has partnered with India’s Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-ready data center capacity in the country, with plans to scale to 1

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U.S. court bars OpenAI from using ‘Cameo’

A federal district court in Northern California ruled in favor of Cameo, a platform that allows users to get personalized video messages from celebrities, and

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Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models

Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit. The models, dubbed Tiny Aya,

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African defensetech Terra Industries, founded by two Gen Zers, raises additional $22M in a month

Just one month after raising $11.75 million in a round led by Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, African defensetech Terra Industries announced that it’s raised an additional

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The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell

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Nothing opens its first retail store in India

Nothing, the hardware company backed by Tiger Global, is opening its first retail store in India, its biggest market. The store is located in Bengaluru,

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Waymo is asking DoorDash drivers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars

It still feels like a technological marvel: Waymo’s autonomous cars are now transporting passengers across six cities. Alas, this driverless future comes with its own