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Top Story Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company, has raised $16 billion as it plans to grow its fleet of driverless taxicabs this year to more than a dozen new cities internationally, including London and Tokyo. Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital led the funding round, which now
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Top Story Waabi secured the largest funding round in Canadian history with a $750 million Series C round co-led by Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners, plus up to $250 million more from Uber tied to robotaxi deployment milestones. The Toronto-based autonomous driving company, founded in 2021, is pioneering what
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Top Story Software companies are facing their first major reckoning of the AI era as investors demand proof of profitability from AI features. After two years of betting on AI integration promises, the first earnings season of 2026 has triggered a violent rotation away from general software providers toward hardware
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Top Story The "Show Me the Money" Era Arrives for Enterprise AI 2026 is emerging as the "show me the money" year for AI, as enterprises move from experimental budgets to demanding measurable returns on their AI investments, with business leaders at Davos focusing more than
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Top Story China's Ministry of Commerce announced it will investigate Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus to assess its compliance with export control laws. Meta acquired Singapore-based Manus last month as the U.S. tech giant looks to integrate advanced automation into its consumer
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Top Story Google Launches Revolutionary AI Browsing Agent in Chrome Google rolled out major updates to Gemini in Chrome yesterday, transforming the browser from a passive tool to an active agent layer with "auto browse" capabilities that can perform multi-step tasks like researching options, filling out forms, and
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Top Story Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has ushered in 2026 with a new technical paper that proposes a rethink of the fundamental architecture used to train foundational AI models. The paper introduces what DeepSeek calls "Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections," or mHC, a training approach designed to scale models without them
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Top Story Apple Officially Partners with Google Gemini for Siri Overhaul Apple is joining forces with Google to power its artificial intelligence features, including a major Siri upgrade expected later this year. The multiyear partnership will lean on Google's Gemini and cloud technology for future Apple foundational models,
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Top Story Microsoft Unveils Maia 200: Second-Generation AI Chip Challenges NVIDIA's Dominance Microsoft announced the next generation of its artificial intelligence chip, a potential alternative to leading processors from Nvidia , with the chip offering 30% higher performance than alternatives for the same price . Microsoft is outfitting its U.
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Top Story As 2026 unfolds, enterprise AI is entering its "pragmatism phase" after years of experimentation and hype cycles. The focus is shifting away from building ever-larger language models toward the harder work of making AI usable through smaller, targeted deployments, embedded intelligence in physical devices, and systems
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Top Story The World Economic Forum has released today a new report revealing successful AI stories that are already delivering measurable performance gains and how pioneering organizations are moving beyond experimentation to achieve impact at scale. As investment accelerates and expectations rise, the findings highlight a growing divide between companies
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Top Story AI Infrastructure Sees Record Capital Surge as Power Crisis Intensifies Major AI infrastructure funding reached new heights this week, with Inferact securing $150 million in seed funding on Jan. 22, 2026, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, valued at about $800 million. The commercial startup behind