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Indian travel-fintech startup Scapia has raised $63 million in a Series C round led by General Catalyst, pushing its post-money valuation past $500 million — more than double its April 2025 mark, according to TechCrunch . Existing backers Peak XV Partners and Z47 also participated in the all-equity round.
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Who says software is dead? Jack Dorsey’s Block today unveiled a new “collaboration workspace”—software people can use to communicate and work together—which Dorsey says aims to reduce “our dependency on Slack and GitHub.” That’s a bit of a provocative statement from Dorsey, who also co-founded Twitter and therefore knows a thing or two about communication platforms (even if he was a dismal CEO of Twitter). Known as Buzz, the new... Read more ›
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It was reportedly an evaluation that went haywire involving GPT-5.6 Sol, along with another even more advanced OpenAI model. Read more ›
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A new bill would ban phone calls on flights. Former flight attendants say it would be good for passengers and crew. Read more ›
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Nintendo argues in a court filing that customers willingly paid the higher prices for consoles and accessories, and aren’t owed any money back. Read more ›
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Anthropic today said Claude Code for desktop has been updated to work with the iOS Simulator, with the integration available in public beta. Claude Code can open in-progress apps in the iOS Simulator pane when it's instructed to build, run, or check an app. Claude can watch the iOS Simulator live as it runs, interact with it, and then iterate until a project is finished. Developers can continue to use... Read more ›
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Today Google is launching its newest Gemini models. Gemini 3.6 Flash is described by the company as its "workhorse model that delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance". It's supposed to be more efficient and better quality than its predecessor. Google boasts that customers "have found it particularly capable at multimodal tasks like document parsing, chart and data analysis, and report drafting". Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is "designed for both... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, check out our story from earlier today about Mercor. My colleague Cory and I reported that Mercor generated $614 million in gross revenue in the first half of this year, overwhelmingly from AI foundation model customers. That concentration highlights the risk to Mercor’s business if any of the big AI firms, which include OpenAI and Anthropic, switch to a rival.Of course, Mercor’s co-founders are... Read more ›
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For companies in the life sciences industry, medical communications is a core pillar for sharing clinical trial updates and connecting with peers. Because these materials require strict accuracy and academic rigor, biopharma companies have historically relied on specialized external agencies. This traditional approach guarantees expert messaging but often results in slow turnaround times and high ... Read more ›
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French startup Celeste Ecoflyers is developing an inflatable drone capable of 10-hour flights, a 500-mile range, and compact transport inside cars. Read more ›
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There is an oddly revealing moment in modern life: someone needs to remember something, reaches past the phone already in their hand, and looks for a pen. Maybe it is a shopping list. Maybe it is the three things that have to happen tomorrow. Maybe it is an idea that will disappear if it is ... Read more Read more ›
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Stand like a superhero for two minutes before a job interview, and your body chemistry shifts to make you braver. That was the promise of one of the most-watched talks in TED’s history. The trouble is that the claim about your hormones did not hold up, and the scientist who first reported it later said ... Read more Read more ›
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There is a particular kind of desk that looks as if it belongs to two eras at once. A smartphone handles messages, maps, calls and appointments. Beside it sits a paper calendar, open to the whole month, with crossings-out, arrows and small blocks of handwriting. The easy interpretation is that its owner has failed to ... Read more Read more ›
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Singapore became an independent country on 9 August 1965 after a brief and bitter union with Malaysia. It entered that day with no hinterland, no industrial base, no significant natural resources and a water supply that depended heavily on agreements with the country it had just left. “Expelled” is a fair description of the political ... Read more Read more ›
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A physical book makes a narrow promise. Open it and there will be the book. No messages will arrive in the margin. No application will ask to be updated. No alert will appear over the final sentence of a chapter. For adults who continue to choose print, that limitation can be the point. The preference ... Read more Read more ›
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In 1996, Cornell psychologist Thomas Gilovich sent students into a room wearing a Barry Manilow T-shirt and measured a gap that would reshape how psychologists think about self-consciousness: wearers guessed 46 per cent of observers noticed the shirt. The real number was 23 per cent. Read more ›
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After 340 days on the ISS, astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth to find his own home felt staged, his skin broke out from soft furniture, and the smell of rain on his patio hit him like a physical event — a reentry the launch had never prepared him for. Read more ›
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have spent the past year trying to prove that enough capital can purchase a way out of a monopoly. Read more ›
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Cuttlefish have monochromatic vision but produce some of the most accurate colour camouflage in nature. New computer-vision studies of their chromatophores are finally showing how. Read more ›
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Astronauts return from long missions up to 5 centimetres taller as their spinal discs swell in the absence of gravity. Within 48 hours of landing, the spine begins compressing again — and the injury risk that follows can last for years. Read more ›
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