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Nvidia says it is working with Peak XV, Z47, and other VC firms in India to fund AI startups; 4,000+ Indian AI startups have joined its global startup program — American AI chip darling Nvidia is expanding its partnerships in India, including with venture capital firms …
More: Benzinga, Adani, NVIDIA, Tech in Asia, Moneycontrol, The Register, Coinpaper, Bloomberg, DealStreetAsia, and The Hindu BusinessLine
| Abu Sultan / Reuters: |
Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50B by 2030 to help expand AI across the Global South, after unveiling $17.5B worth of AI investments in India in 2025 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Wednesday said it is on pace to invest $50 billion by the end of the decade to help expand AI to countries across the ‘Global South’.
More: DatacenterDynamics, CNN, Blockonomi, Digit, Fortune India, Economic news, Tech in Asia, and Hindustan Times. Forums: r/technology
| Himanshi Lohchab / The Economic Times: |
More: The Hindu BusinessLine, NVIDIA, Reuters, Coinpaper, Digit, Business Standard, Economic news, and NVIDIA
| Shruti Rajagopalan / Get Down and Shruti: |
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, computer use, instruction following, and more; it features a 1M token context window in beta — Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet. It's a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use …
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| Bloomberg: |
Saudi-backed AI company Humain invests $3B in xAI, becoming a “significant minority shareholder” in a deal that happened just prior to SpaceX's xAI acquisition — Saudi Arabian artificial intelligence company Humain has invested $3 billion into Elon Musk's xAI … | George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sources: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by Google DeepMind's ex-Principal Scientist David Silver, is raising a $1B seed led by Sequoia at a $4B valuation — Sequoia Capital leading funding deal for David Silver's start-up Ineffable Intelligence at $4bn valuation| Financial Times: |
Meta commits to buy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a multiyear deal; a source says Meta's in-house AI chip strategy suffers technical challenges — Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue ads, which it introduced in 2024, after phasing them out in late 2025 over fears they would erode user trust — Leading start-ups have recently embraced sponsors as they search for revenue — AI start-up Perplexity has abandoned advertising …
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| Joe Miller / Financial Times: |
How US citizens, clergy, and elected officials in conservative communities like Missouri are leading a grassroots rebellion against the Trump-backed AI boom — Republicans fear backlash against White House agenda could undermine support in this year's midterm elections| Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal: |
A Las Vegas federal appeals court rejects Kalshi's emergency bid for an administrative stay against Nevada's efforts to block the platform, a major setback — A federal appeals court rejected Kalshi's bid, setting the stage for Nevada's civil-enforcement proceedings| Nathan Bomey / Axios: |
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| Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Tesla agrees to stop using the term “autopilot” to market its electric vehicles in California to avoid a 30-day suspension by the state's DMV — Tesla has stopped using the term “autopilot” to market its electric vehicles in California in order to avoid a 30-day suspension by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the “latest AI breakthroughs and updates” in Gemini, Android, and more — Following the puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2026 is taking place May 19-20. — I/O 2026 will feature … | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Synthesia founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, AI regulation, and more — The founder of the $4bn UK start-up talks about his mission to reinvent content creation and how Europe can compete in the global AI race| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing — Looser regulation and new investment are helping groups such as NeuroXess accelerate trials of ‘brain-computer interfaces’
Bluesky: @metacurity.com
| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
DG Matrix, which builds solid-state transformers to handle up to 2.4 MW and boost data center power efficiency, raised a $60M Series A led by Engine Ventures — Data centers face a conundrum: how to power increasingly dense server racks using equipment that relies on century-old technology.| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, down from a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak — Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel and his Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla Corp., according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
More: DL News, Cryptonews, crypto.news, CryptoPotato, The Block, CoinGape, CoinDesk, The Crypto Times, BeInCrypto, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing
| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: while Meta offered OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger more money than OpenAI, he ultimately aligned more closely with OpenAI's overall vibe and vision — Less than a week before he ultimately joined OpenAI, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger talked about the two job offers … | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses — - Amazon halts Blue Jay robot project amid strategic shift in warehouse technology. — Blue Jay faced high costs and complexities … | Bloomberg: |
Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 — Robinhood Markets Inc. is seeking to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering of a closed-end fund designed …
More: Benzinga, Coinpedia Fintech News, and CoinGape
| Alexandre Rajbhandari / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75%+ to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December — Berkshire Hathaway Inc. slashed its holding in Amazon.com Inc. by more than 75% in the fourth quarter, while also building … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber plans to spend $100M+ to build fast-charging, autonomous vehicle charging stations in the US, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, and Dallas — Uber Technologies Inc. is planning to spend more than $100 million to build fast-charging, autonomous-vehicle charging stations in the US …
More: Reuters, Axios, New York Times, Economic news, and Motley Fool
| Bloomberg: |
Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid AI disruption concerns — Global investment firm Battery Ventures has raised $3.25 billion to fund new tech deals, including investments in software companies …
More: VCWire and Tech in Asia
| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
WBD joins Disney and Paramount in claiming infringement on ByteDance's AI video tool Seedance and demands ByteDance cease training AI on Warner Bros. characters — The studio's legal counsel fired off a letter on Tuesday to John Rogovin, the general counsel of ByteDance who happens … | The Economic Times: |
Bengaluru-based Stable Money, whose app lets users invest in fixed deposits and corporate bonds, raised $25M at a $175M valuation, taking total funding to $65M — The startup plans to grow its overall business five times by the end of this year, enter new cities through physical expansion … | Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins — What to know: … Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure firm owned by Stripe, said Tuesday it has received conditional approval …
More: Bridge, PYMNTS.com, The Crypto Times, and crypto.news
X: @stablecoin, @conmanfitz, @gregreveret, @storaker, @amamujee, @sternhenri, @defyneric, @kidponga, @zcabrams, and @segall_max. LinkedIn: Zach Abrams
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