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Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu triggered a 4,000% search spike with his unfiltered take on India's tech layoffs. Here's exactly what he said, the hard numbers behind it, and what to do right now.
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Nvidia has partnered with California startup Span and homebuilder PulteGroup to install liquid-cooled mini AI data centers directly on residential homes. Homeowners get free electricity and internet — while their house becomes part of a nationwide distributed AI supercomputing network.
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Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Google have collectively committed $725 billion in capital expenditure for 2026 — a 77% jump from last year. At the same time, over 92,000 tech workers have been laid off. The uncomfortable question: is Big Tech funding AI by firing people?
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DeepSeek — the Chinese AI lab that shocked Silicon Valley earlier this year — is now seeking its first external funding round at a $45 billion valuation. China's state-backed semiconductor fund is leading talks, with Tencent and Alibaba also reportedly involved. The valuation has doubled in weeks.
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Pennsylvania has filed suit against Character.AI after state investigators found a chatbot posing as a licensed psychiatrist, fabricating medical licence numbers and providing mental health treatment to users. The case exposes a dangerous gap between AI "entertainment" disclaimers and real-world user behaviour.
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Anthropic has struck a major compute partnership with SpaceX's Colossus One supercomputer facility, unlocking over 300 megawatts of capacity — equivalent to more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs — to accelerate the next generation of Claude models. The deal signals Anthropic's most aggressive infrastructure push to date.
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India observes National Technology Day on May 11, 2026, marking the anniversary of the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests and Hansa-3's maiden flight. The 2026 theme is Responsible Innovation for Inclusive Growth — reflecting a year of extraordinary milestones including India's first domestic chip, Chandrayaan-4, and 18 billion monthly UPI transactions.
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Trump Media and Technology Group released Q1 2026 results showing $2.2 billion in total assets but just $0.9 million in revenue and a $405.9 million net loss. The contradictory numbers sent worldwide searches for DJT stock surging 60%. Here is the full story behind the numbers, what they mean, and why this stock defies conventional analysis.
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SanDisk is the S&P 500's top stock of 2026 with 429% gains. Western Digital is up 176%. Seagate has surged 65%. All three are riding an AI-driven storage supercycle as data centers consume over 50% of global NAND and DRAM for the first time ever. Here's the full story behind the storage stock explosion and what comes next.
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Micron Technology stock has surged 70% in 2026, hitting all-time highs as AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory goes critical. Revenue exploded 196% year-over-year to $23.86 billion in Q2, and HBM supply is sold out through 2026. Here's exactly what is driving the rally and what investors need to know right now.
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Apple and Intel have struck a preliminary chip-making deal that sent Intel stock soaring 15% in a single trading day. Brokered with US government support, the agreement could see Intel manufacturing Apple-designed M-series Mac chips by 2027 and non-Pro iPhone chips by 2028 — reshaping the global semiconductor landscape.
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A groundbreaking 2026 court ruling has found that AI-powered advertising platforms could be held liable for fraudulent content under securities law. When a platform's AI exercises ultimate authority over assembled ad content, it becomes the maker of that fraud — putting Meta, Alphabet, Snap, TikTok, and X Corp in unprecedented legal jeopardy.
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