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An oversubscribed fund closed in weeks, with more than half of the previous $650 million vehicle still undeployed. That is not a typo — and it tells you everything about where institutional capital thinks Asia's next decade of tech is being built. Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within
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A doctor doesn't just listen — they watch. They catch the subtle wince when you shift in your seat, the shallow breathing you didn't mention, the cough you dismissed as nothing. That observational layer has always been the hard ceiling for AI in medicine. Google Research and Google DeepMind just pus
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Seven billion dollars. That's how much OpenAI just handed back to its own employees — not through an IPO, not through a secondary market scramble, but through a structured tender offer that valued the company at $852 billion. The OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer story l
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Google just made a significant move. On August 10, 2026, the company announced a wave of AI and agentic upgrades across Google Ads and Google Analytics — tools designed to collapse the distance between raw data and decisive action. If you've been waiting for a signal that AI-native marketing infrast
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Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has a pointed diagnosis for the tech industry: its most powerful leaders are bad readers. Not bad engineers, not bad fundraisers — bad readers. In her upcoming book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, Lepore argues that Silicon Valley'
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A hedge fund that just sold half its portfolio is doubling down on chips. That's the headline, but the real story is what it signals about where serious AI money is flowing — and why developers and founders across Asia should be paying close attention. The embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness
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Airbnb just confirmed what a lot of engineering leaders have been quietly saying for months: AI isn't just a product feature — it's changing how fast product features get built. The company revealed that AI is helping it ship features faster while simultaneously testing a new AI-powered search exper
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Amazon is building a data center in Pecos County, Texas, with an on-site power plant permitted to release 33 million tons of CO₂ per year — potentially making it the single largest source of climate pollution in the United States. The planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate signa
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A frontier AI model getting too capable to ship safely — that's not a sci-fi plot anymore. OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns after internal evaluations revealed the model had crossed what the company calls a "critical cybersecurity threshold." For developers and fo
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A donut-shaped speaker with moving parts, built from premium metal, designed by the man who gave us the iPhone — and priced somewhere between $300 and $400. That's the picture emerging around OpenAI's first hardware device, and it's already raising more questions than it answers. OpenAI's new AI sma
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OpenAI just pulled a significant lever. Starting this week, ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users — removing one of the most friction-heavy barriers that kept casual users from going deeper with the platform. For developers and founders across Asia who've been building on or around ChatG
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Serial entrepreneurs rarely get to write second acts inside the companies they helped shape — but Elias Torres just did. Klaviyo's acquisition of Agency, Torres' three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup, is one of the more poetic deals in recent memory: a founder who helped define conversa