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Starbucks is opening its first corporate technology office in India as part of a major $2B cost-cutting strategy. Here's what roles they're hiring for, where the office will be, and what this means for India's growing tech economy.
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Elon Musk's xAI just dropped Grok Build — a brand-new AI coding agent that runs 8 parallel agents at once, features a local-first privacy model, and takes direct aim at Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex CLI. Here's everything you need to know.
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SkyWater Technology stock surged 80% in 2026 as the only US-owned pure-play semiconductor foundry wins massive DoD and AI contracts. Here is why analysts are finally paying attention — and whether the rally has more room to run.
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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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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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JPMorgan Chase has formally reclassified artificial intelligence from experimental R&D to core infrastructure, backing that shift with a jaw-dropping $19.8 billion technology budget in 2026. With 2,000 dedicated AI staff and plans spanning trading to compliance, JPMorgan's all-in AI bet could define the future of global banking for decades to come.
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Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude, is in talks to raise a staggering $50 billion in fresh capital at a near $900 billion valuation — surpassing OpenAI. With annualized revenue set to exceed $45 billion and a potential IPO as early as October 2026, this could be the biggest private AI fundraise in history.
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Anthropic has two flagship AI models in 2026 — Opus 4.7 at $25/million tokens and Sonnet 4.6 at $15/million. The benchmarks are close but the price gap is real. Here is the honest comparison that tells you exactly which one to pay for — and when to switch.
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AI infrastructure is creating a global semiconductor boom in 2026. From Nvidia and Micron in the US to Kaynes and Netweb in India, investors are racing toward AI hardware, chips, servers, and data center companies powering the future economy.
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Anthropic has launched a $1.5 billion joint venture with Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman — and the target is not just enterprise software. It is the entire consulting industry. Here is what this Wall Street deal means for AI, business, and the future of work in 2026.
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Anu Sharma interned at Twitter and Google, joined Google full-time in 2024 — then walked away 19 months later for Palantir. Her career story went viral across LinkedIn, Instagram and X. Here is who she is, why she left, and what her move says about where the smartest engineers are going in 2026.
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82% of small businesses now use AI — but most are paying for tools they barely touch. I tested 12 AI tools over 30 days and found 7 that actually save money. Here are the ones worth paying for, ranked by real return on investment — not marketing claims
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