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The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Lux Capital, DCVC, Jeff Bezos, Databricks and Rao himself - marking the biggest early stage fundraises in the AI hardware sector this year
Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab earns a Golden Globe nomination, expanding global attention on the film’s emotional retelling of a five-year-old Palestinian girl’s final moments and its acclaimed festival journey.
Donald Trump has criticised Paramount’s $108 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery as Jared Kushner and Gulf sovereign funds emerge as key backers of Paramount, adding new political friction to an already heated takeover battle with Netflix.
Paramount has launched a $108.4B hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, challenging Netflix’s earlier deal and triggering a fierce industry, political and regulatory showdown that could reshape Hollywood’s future.
Football legend Cristiano Ronaldo expands his empire into AI with an undisclosed investment in Perplexity, the ChatGPT rival valued at $20B. As global partner and ambassador, he launches an interactive CR7 Hub for fans to explore his career via AI-powered queries and rare content. The deal signals athletes' rising bet on tech for fan engagement and performance edges.
In a seismic $82.7 billion deal announced Friday, Netflix is set to acquire Warner Bros. studios and HBO Max - sparking immediate antitrust concerns and theater industry protests over competitive consolidation.
Micron is shutting down its Crucial consumer-memory business by February 2026 as soaring AI and data-center demand forces the company to redirect supply toward high-bandwidth, enterprise-grade memory.
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son emotionally admits selling entire $5.8B Nvidia stake to fund OpenAI investments. "I was crying," he said at a Tokyo forum on Monday.
In a wide-ranging chat on Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s podcast, Elon Musk revealed for the first time that his partner Shivon Zilis, mother of several of his children, has Indian ancestry and that one of their sons carries the middle name “Sekhar.”
With rapid user growth and expansion plans into apparel and electronics, the startup is positioning itself to challenge retail giants.
Byju Raveendran will appeal a Delaware court’s default judgment holding him personally liable for over $1.07B, arguing the ruling was rushed and denied him a defence. The founders say lenders misled the court and plan federal racketeering and obstruction claims.
Four individuals, including a CTO-designate, have been arrested in the U.S. for allegedly exporting restricted Nvidia A100, H100 and H200 GPUs to China using falsified paperwork and shell companies, violating tightened American export controls.