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Vertice buys Vendr to build what it calls the largest procurement dataset

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Vertice has bought Vendr. The London-based AI procurement company announced on Monday that it has acquired the US software-pricing firm, a deal it says creates the world’s largest procurement intelligence dataset by combining the two companies’ data on what they buy and how they negotiate. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The combined dataset, […]

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SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan’s most valuable company on the AI rally

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SoftBank’s market cap topped Toyota’s on Monday for the first time in 23 years, lifted by its ~$65bn OpenAI stake and a Nikkei breaking 67,000 for the first time. SoftBank Group overtook Toyota Motor on Monday to become Japan’s most valuable listed company, the first time the auto giant has been dethroned from the top […]

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Apple destroyed the mid-tier watch market. Now it’s coming for the $200 billion eyewear industry.

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When Apple launched the Apple Watch in 2015, the mid-tier wristwatch market had a handful of dominant companies. Swatch Group sold watches under Tissot, Hamilton, and Longines. Fossil Group sold under Michael Kors, Armani, and Kate Spade. Movado sold under Coach, Hugo Boss, and Tommy Hilfiger. Ten years later, the damage is quantifiable. Swatch’s revenue […]

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LG Electronics stock jumped 24% in a day after unveiling Google-based car tech that cuts automaker costs

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LG Electronics shares surged as much as 23.95% after the company announced a range of automotive solutions built on Google’s Android Automotive operating system. The stock last traded at 279,500 won. It was one of the largest single-day moves for the company in recent years. The core product is a multi-display system that uses a […]

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Meta is building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.

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Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing within the next year, according to an internal memo viewed by The Information. The device builds on the Limitless acquisition Meta completed at the end of 2025. Limitless made a pendant that users could clip to their shirt or wear as a necklace […]

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The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you

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I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time – that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder. Lots of the top-line […]

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Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

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Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in its January 2026 Series D round. The company, which builds AI agents for enterprise customer service, has also surpassed $50 million in annual recurring revenue with […]

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Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.

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In February 2026, AI research lab METR tried to repeat a groundbreaking study measuring how much time developers take to complete tasks with and without AI. It could not. Developers refused to participate because they would not work without AI, even for a limited number of tasks in a research setting. The original 2025 study […]

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AI is killing the summer internship. The entry-level pipeline that built careers is breaking.

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Katelyn Watterson owes her career to a summer internship. As a student at American University, she spent a summer working for a high-end beauty brand in New York. Her boss offered her a full-time job over drinks at the Plaza Hotel. Almost two decades later, Watterson runs her own marketing agency, Fifty Six. At times, […]

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‘We’re Just Getting the Crumbs Here’: Striking Contractors Protest Layoffs at Meta’s European Headquarters

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Soon-to-be-laid-off Meta contractors say they’re being treated differently than Mark Zuckerberg’s full-time employees, who stand to receive more generous severance packages.

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