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Canadian news companies sue OpenAI
A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI, alleging that…
Sequoia nears first Asia-Pacific deal since regional split
Sequoia is closing in on making its first deal in India and the broader Asia Pacific…
Zomato raises $1 billion in first major fundraise since 2021 listing
Zomato has raised $1 billion through a so-called qualified institutional placement, completing its first major fundraise…
Akhetonics gets fresh funding for a contrarian bet on all-optical chips
Photonics — a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data — has a bright future,…
Indian tech IPO pipeline swells as startups eye 2025 listings
India has bucked the global trend in initial public offerings this year, establishing itself as a…
Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
A new so-called “reasoning” AI model, QwQ-32B-Preview, has arrived on the scene. It’s one of the…
TikTok will restrict some beauty filters for under-18s
TikTok is now the go-to social network for more than a billion users, bringing it to…
Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars’ X accounts to The Onion
The Onion, a satirical publication, won a bankruptcy auction earlier this month to purchase conspiracy theorist…
OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked
A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, in protest of what…