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US tech companies are racing to establish more and bigger offshore campuses in India, fully staffed with highly skilled professionals in cities like Bengaluru — An abundance of motivated young professionals is luring American businesses to base their global operations in Indian cities.
X: @behroozparhami, @harinyt, @toiplus, @_ryanwinkler, @mujmash, @milanv, and @arnabnsg
LinkedIn: Kaitlin McCartan, Hari Kumar, and Sandeep Payal
| Financial Times: |
Marketing executives say big brands are allocating small amounts of their ad budget to X, seeking to avoid being perceived as boycotting Elon Musk's platform — Marketers want to avoid being seen as boycotting billionaire's social media platform — Big brands are allocating small amounts …
Bluesky: @eicathomefinn and @librariancapital
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Dyna Robotics, which is building AI-powered robots to help businesses automate repetitive tasks like chopping food, emerged from stealth with a $23.5M seed — When Instacart acquired Lindon Gao's self-checkout shopping startup, Caper AI, for $350 million in 2021, it marked a big win …
More: Dyna Robotics. X: @jasonma2020, @kristacanfield, and @sharongoldman
LinkedIn: Brian Zhan, Bill Trenchard, and Lindon Gao
| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese chip equipment manufacturer SiCarrier debuted ~30 “domestically controllable” products at the Semicon China show, as China pushes for chip self-reliance — The equipment start-up kept a low profile until this week, when it unveiled about 30 new products at the Semicon China show
Bluesky: @kentindell
| Bloomberg: |
How Klarna's Walmart deal ahead of its IPO put long-simmering tensions between Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Affirm CEO Max Levchin on public display — Even by Sebastian Siemiatkowski's standards, it's been a wild month. — The chief executive officer of buy now …
More: Affirm Holdings, Inc.
| Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: |
A look at the new, open-source Model Context Protocol for connecting LLMs to data sources and why its success depends on overcoming middleware challenges — There's a long history of “middleware” in our industry. Everyone wants it. There's always a hot one, but it rarely makes to the finish line and often disappoints.| Taylor Telford / Washington Post: |
How AI tools are causing problems and sowing distrust in both job hunting and hiring; a Polish cybersecurity startup says it almost hired a deepfake candidate — The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools and overreliance on software such as ChatGPT is making the job market increasingly surreal.| Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Waterloo, Ontario-based logistics software company Descartes Systems Group acquires 3Gtms, an Ohio-based transportation software vendor, for $115M in cash — Waterloo, Ont.-based multinational and logistics software company Descartes Systems Group has acquired Columbus, Ohio-based 3Gtms …
More: FreightWaves, Descartes, and FinSMEs
| Emma Beavins / Fierce Healthcare: |
NYC-based Navina, which has developed an AI copilot for clinicians, raised a $55M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $100M — Artificial Intelligence KLAS Research Goldman Sachs funding round — Clinician AI assistant company Navina has raised …
More: Navina, Modern Healthcare, CTech, MobiHealthNews, MedCity News, FinSMEs, HIT Consultant, Tech in Asia, and Business Insider
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, which has raised $500M+, made 1.4M+ deliveries in seven countries, and delivers packages for Walmart in two US cities — Soon your burrito bowl could arrive via the sky. Zipline's drones make deliveries by lowering small coolers on 300-foot cables.
LinkedIn: Costa Samaras, Danielle Meister Lurie, and Christopher Mims
| Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
PE firm Clearlake agrees to acquire and take private Dun & Bradstreet, one of Wall Street's oldest data and analytics providers, for $7.7B including debt — The private equity firm will pay $9.15 per share in cash for Jacksonville, Florida-based Dun & Bradstreet, according to a statement Monday …
More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Dun & Bradstreet
| Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber and DoorDash are pressing GOP lawmakers to include independent contractors who drive rideshare vehicles and deliver food in Trump's no-tax-on-tips proposal — GOP proposal offers tax breaks to employees—but not independent contractors such as ride-share driversSponsor Posts
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