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Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai
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Google Is Using Nvidia’s Playbook to Build a Rival AI Chip Business

Google is making an ambitious play for a bigger slice of the 21st century’s most important market: the chips that power artificial intelligence. Its financial…

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Plans to list Jio Platforms Ltd had been in the works for some time now. (AFP)
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Jio IPO to be filed with SEBI today, says Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Industries Limited Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani has announced that the board of Jio Platforms has approved an IPO document and will be…

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Microsoft’s Fairwater AI datacenter in Atlanta (Official photo)
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The AI data centre paradox: Can India’s natural resources keep up?

There’s a recent thread that holds together San Francisco, Vancouver, Tucson, Santiago, Dublin, London, Johor, Batam and the Indian port city of Visakhapatnam, also called…

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Ericsson India underlines that 5G adoption is being accelerated not just by affordable smartphones but also a continued rollout of 5G FWA services. (AFP)
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Wired Wisdom: Ericsson’s 5G data, Apple’s AI agents, and foldable phone market

Opening thought. This week, the latest Ericsson Mobility Report arrived. The headline estimates are that India’s 5G subscriptions are expected to breach the 1.1 billion…

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The retailers, television stations, brewers and betting houses that make up capitalism’s starting XI are an ageing and injury-prone lot. For some, this could even be their last tournament. (Unsplash)
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Tournament of losers | Business News

Money, it is often said, has ruined football. Staging the men’s World Cup mostly in America, a country that has produced so many great businessmen…

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On June 15th Fox took a big step into the streaming business, with the surprise announcement that it had agreed to acquire Roku, (Unsplash)
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Fox, Roku and the next phase of the streaming wars

One of the main winners of the streaming wars, Hollywood’s years-long content-spending free-for-all, has turned out to be a non-combatant. While companies such as Disney…

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The National Stock Exchange has filed draft papers for its long-awaited IPO, which could become the largest public issue in India. (REUTERS)
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NSE’s ₹30,000 crore IPO explained: Why it matters and what investors should know

India’s largest stock exchange, the National Stock Exchange (NSE), has taken a major step towards its long-awaited stock market debut by filing draft papers for…

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If you’re regularly gaming, then the Redmi Turbo 5 has a distinct advantage. (Vishal Mathur | HT Picture)
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Xiaomi Redmi Turbo 5 is remarkably close to value perfection

Quite how Xiaomi has managed to retain such powerful specs at these prices, is worth a certain degree of admiration. This is particularly true as…

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OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen said Shazeer would be the company’s lead for AI architecture research (REUTERS)
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Star Google researcher joins OpenAI in coup for ChatGPT creator

One of Google’s most prominent researchers is leaving for rival OpenAI, dealing a setback to Alphabet Inc. in a multibillion-dollar race to build the world’s…

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Based on indicative grey market prices of at least  ₹2,000, the IPO is expected to value NSE at approximately  ₹29,780 crore (over $3 billion), with a valuation of over  ₹5 trillion. (REUTERS)
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Biggest public offering in India: NSE to file for IPO at nearly ₹30,000 crore; LIC to stay put

The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) on Wednesday night filed its draft red herring prospectus with the market regulator for what could be…

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