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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. (Reuters)
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SoftBank offloads entire Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion in surprise move| Business News

SoftBank Group Corp. sold its entire stake in Nvidia Corp., pocketing $5.8 billion ahead of a rash of planned investments by founder Masayoshi Son to…

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Google, in partnership with satellite maker Planet Labs, plans to launch two prototype satellites by early 2027 to test the harware in orbit. (AI Image)
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Google wants to build AI data centres in space, powered by the sun| Business News

Google has launched a new research moonshot, called ‘Project Suncatcher’, to build AI data centres in space powered by the sun. Google, in partnership with…

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Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas says he is "happy to work together with Amazon to figure out a win-win outcome for both us and them". (Reuters)
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‘Bullying is not innovation,’ — Perplexity CEO pushes back against Amazon attempt to block AI shopping via Comet| Business News

Perplexity AI Inc. has pushed back against attempts by Amazon.com Inc. to block AI shopping via its Comet AI browser, in what it says is…

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. (AFP)
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‘You stole a non-profit,’ Elon Musk says on OpenAI’s for-profit status. Sam Altman responds.| Business News

Techbros Sam Altman and Elon Musk traded jibes online over the status of OpenAI Inc., after the AI company they co-founded turned into for-profit enterprise…

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Data laundering is “cleaning up dirty data to make it look legal and trustworthy” (Representative Image/Unsplash)
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Reddit vs Perplexity, and the scourge of ‘data laundering’ in an AI slop world| Business News

Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for “industrial-scale data laundering”, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites—often without permission—for original content to train their large…

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