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The all-cash deal, Dropbox's largest ever, comes with DBX Agent Cloud, a new S3-compatible storage service for developers building AI applications and agents.
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In Abu Dhabi, the UBS Global Wealth Management chief economist said falling oil could tame inflation by mid-2027 and that a Democratic Senate could reshape the Federal Reserve.
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Chief executive Adnan Bu Fateem says the Midterm results will not change the Abu Dhabi company's plans, as Gulf energy firms look abroad for stability while war costs rise at home.
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Four people said the Kimi developer discussed renting clusters of 8,000 or more GPUs from neoclouds, which US export rules on remote access do not yet cover.
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Three companies, led by autonomous excavator maker Bedrock Robotics, took most of the money as contractors short of skilled workers look to machines.
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The GPU cloud company is the end user behind Project Red Clay in Lowndes County, where residents are suing over the tax breaks approved for the site.
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The San Francisco company, which uses AI to search for new chip materials, says frontier models made little headway on the problems after days of autonomous work.
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The textbook publisher announced the beta integration alongside quarterly results showing revenue down 5.5% and digital sales up 2.6%, as it pitches AI platforms as a new market.
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Most Tokyo stocks rose and the broader Topix gained 1.2%, but money left chip equipment makers after the Democratic midterm sweep.
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The Digit maker raised about $465 million through its SPAC merger, including a Foxconn-led PIPE, but booked only $174,000 in revenue in the first half while losing $362 million.
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The 50-megawatt ProEnergy units at xAI's Southaven, Mississippi plant may emit twice as much carbon monoxide as its other turbines, and the permit faces a hearing on November 9.
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Chinese tech groups have each received only about 10,000 of the chips in recent months, and an eight-card H200 server now costs roughly three times what it did a year ago.
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The bitcoin miner's quarterly filing shows it could owe Anthropic up to about $3.6 billion in build costs, repaid through rent credits at 12% a year if Riot cannot borrow on acceptable terms.
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The service turns a few prompts into shareable web apps and games, charging $10 a month once a 30-day free period ends.
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US Prime members can now order Uber Eats meals inside Amazon's website and shopping app without an Uber account, with no delivery fee on orders over $25.
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Treasury says a Chandigarh couple posed as registries for Guyana, Eswatini and Laos, and also targeted a Turkish ground handler serving sanctioned Iranian airlines.
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A national compact for sites OpenAI owns comes with a policy blueprint urging states to make large electricity users pay the grid costs they create.
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The Taoyuan fab was meant to make DRAM and high-bandwidth memory for AI servers from 2028, but a fight over sharing AI-boom profits with workers has stalled it.
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Incoming governors in Texas, Georgia and Ohio have pledged to pause large projects, while Democrats in Congress agree on hearings but not yet on AI legislation.
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Tokyo wants advance notice of serious undisclosed vulnerabilities for government agencies and infrastructure operators, under an emergency cyber package that could come as soon as Friday.
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The Taiex closed at its lowest since July 31 as investors sold AI hardware names, with Delta Electronics down 7.38% and MediaTek losing NT$255.
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Acting chief executive Adnan Bu Fateem says growth will come from Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt and the Commonwealth LNG project in the US, where construction has started.
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Walmsley, a Microsoft director with no tech hardware background, takes over the PC and printer maker on January 4 as memory chip shortages squeeze device makers.
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The polyolefins producer formed from Borouge, Borealis and NOVA Chemicals signed AI and digital deals with Microsoft, Emerson, Immensa and Cognite at ADIPEC.
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It is the second setback in weeks for the Nvidia-backed British AI cloud company, which filed for a US listing in September with Microsoft expected to be a major customer.
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Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari said a pause on advanced AI and a ban on superintelligence should top her party's agenda, adding to a sell-off in chip and AI cloud stocks.
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The two retailers control 88% of US retail advertising, but bots that shop for consumers never see the sponsored listings brands pay for.
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The sites, nicknamed Gun Range and Spam, would add about 420,000 Nvidia GB300 chips to the Colossus 2 campus as the company faces a pollution lawsuit and state penalties.
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Anthropic is pitching the unit's speed to investors as an edge, and the report has already weighed on shares of chip design software makers Synopsys and Cadence.
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The three-year-old Tel Aviv start-up secures the keys, tokens and credentials used by AI agents and other software, and would be Palo Alto's fifth announced deal this year.
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Emil Michael, vice chair of the White House's superintelligence task force, warned that without a federal framework "535 legislators" could write rules that harm the industry.
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Asked whether the ChatGPT maker will be ready to go public next year, its president said "I think so", as it competes with Anthropic for corporate customers.
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Investors dumped Korea's two memory giants on fears that a Democratic Congress will tighten rules on AI data centres, while carmakers, banks and internet stocks rallied.
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The former IBM infrastructure unit said revenue fell 1.9% but hyperscaler-related sales rose 27.2%, and it kept its fiscal 2027 outlook.
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The venture firm says it has raised about $10 billion in new funds and will flatten its partnership, with seven general partners now running the firm.
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Senators, former FTC chair Lina Khan and New York's mayor accused Google of using its classroom dominance to push Gemini, and DuckDuckGo is now pitching schools to switch.
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The USDC issuer took a $9.1 million restructuring charge, and a one-off token presale accounted for about $182 million of its $865 million in revenue.
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Wu, who led product for Claude Code and Cowork until October 30, will run product management for OpenAI's Core Products group, which owns ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
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Claude showed AP-attributed results on election night under the content and data deal, which comes weeks before Anthropic's planned stock market listing.
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A trust the two data centre groups own equally offered A$9.50 a share, a 45.5% premium to Wednesday's close, two weeks after a power delay cut NextDC's guidance.
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Experts say the new Texas leadership could tighten oversight of data centres through state agencies and county powers, but split control of the legislature and developers' strong vested rights would limit any changes.
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A proposed class action seeks more than $5 million, claiming the Taser and body-camera maker failed to disclose how it collects, uses and shares drivers' plate data.
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At a hearing in the publishers' $3 billion lyrics and piracy case, the court threw out the direct infringement count against Amodei but allowed it to be refiled.
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The 65-billion-parameter dense model, released under Apache 2.0, edges much larger US open models on Terminal-Bench 2.1 by the company's own measure, but trails them on science and knowledge tests.
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Under its new Grid Protectors Program, Georgia Power can cut up to 1,000MW from OpenAI's planned 3.2GW Effingham County campus at peak times, and OpenAI will pay for the grid connection.
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The two-year-old company runs teams of coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI in parallel workspaces, and it will shut its cloud service on November 20.
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Microsoft blamed late third-party data centre capacity for lower quarterly spending, and The Information identifies the AI cloud firm as one of the providers involved.
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The banks are offering slices of a record lease deal for Nvidia Vera Rubin chips to Wall Street investors, a day after Democrats won control of Congress.
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Some engineers' daily caps for AI models have fallen from $300 to $200, and some teams could drop to $100 or even $25 a day.
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The Facebook owner is raising up to €9 billion in six tranches to fund its AI build-out, a day after selling $15 billion of dollar bonds at wider spreads than in April.
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