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China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you

  For years, buying something online in China meant typing keywords into a search bar and scrolling through an endless grid of listings. That ritual is being dismantled. On Monday, Alibaba Group integrated its Qwen artificial intelligence assistant with Taobao, its largest marketplace, giving the chatbot access to a catalogue of more than four billion products. […]

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Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.

Asked what kind of guardrails on the way out, the US president told reporters on Air Force One: ‘standard guardrails that we talk about all the time’. H200 deliveries to ten cleared Chinese buyers remain stalled. Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday that he and Xi Jinping discussed AI guardrails and […]

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Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe

The round, led by Schroders Capital, follows January’s acquisition of Berlin-based StackFuel and 50% year-on-year revenue growth. Customers include the AA, Babcock, and Capital. Multiverse, the London-based AI- and tech-upskilling platform founded by Euan Blair, said on Friday it had raised $70m in primary funding led by Schroders Capital, at a $2.1bn valuation. Existing investors, […]

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Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.

  Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In the week through 13 May, individual investors were net sellers of $82 million worth of Palantir shares, […]

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Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing

The name is the tell. Graphon AI, which emerged from stealth on Wednesday with $8.3 million in seed funding, is named after a mathematical object that most people in AI have never heard of and that its two most prominent advisors helped invent. A graphon is the limit of a sequence of dense graphs: a […]

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BCG is training its AI sales agent on what not to do – and that might be the smarter bet

  Boston Consulting Group is doing something slightly unusual with its new AI sales agent. It is teaching it how to fail. The agent, called Jamie, is being trained not only on the call transcripts, engagement patterns, and conversational habits of BCG’s strongest-performing sellers, but also on the behaviours that did not work, the approaches […]

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This memory chip works at 700 degrees Celsius. The startup behind it is already building AI chips that compute where GPUs cannot.

  Every probe humanity has sent to Venus has died. The Soviet Venera landers survived between 23 minutes and two hours on a surface where the temperature exceeds 460 degrees Celsius. Their electronics, designed to endure heat that would melt lead, still failed. The longest-lived mission in the history of Venus exploration lasted 127 minutes. […]

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AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change how work gets done. On paper, […]

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Vapi raises $50m Series B led by Peak XV for enterprise voice AI

Peak XV leads. M12, Kleiner Perkins, and Bessemer Venture Partners join; earlier investors return. Amazon Ring, Intuit, and New York Life are named enterprise customers; total funding now stands at $72m. Vapi, the San Francisco-based enterprise voice-AI platform, has raised $50m in a Series B round to scale its voice-agent infrastructure, the company said on […]

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