Jio Platforms and NSE Prepare Landmark IPOs for India’s Stock Market
Jio Platforms and the National Stock Exchange of India are preparing for initial public offerings that could rank among the country’s largest listings. Both companies filed draft prospectuses with India’s…
Australian Watchdog Sues Amazon Over Prime Video Advertising Terms
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has sued Amazon over claims that it used unfair contract terms to introduce advertising to Prime Video. The regulator alleges that more than one…
India Records Fifth-Driest June Since 1901 as Crop Planting Falls
India recorded its driest June in 12 years and its fifth-driest since nationwide rainfall records began in 1901, according to the India Meteorological Department. Rainfall during the month was 39.8%…
Threads Expands Live Chats With Translations and New Host Controls
Threads is expanding access to Live Chats while adding translations, co-hosting and moderation tools. The updates are designed to make real-time conversations easier to manage and accessible to users who…
Riverside Adds AI-Powered Newsletters to Its Video and Podcast Platform
Riverside has added built-in newsletter publishing, allowing users to turn recorded videos and podcasts into written newsletters with AI. Creators and businesses can generate, edit and send newsletters without leaving…
Google Expands Personalized Gemini Image Generation to Free U.S. Users
Google is making Gemini’s personalized image generation available for free to all eligible users in the United States. The feature combines Personal Intelligence with Google’s Nano Banana 2 model to…
Kobo Adds Automatic StoryGraph Sync for E-Books and Audiobooks
Rakuten Kobo has activated its integration with StoryGraph, allowing readers to automatically update their book progress without logging it manually. Kobo is the first e-reader provider to offer native syncing…
Waymo Robotaxis Leave Uber’s Phoenix App as Three-Year Partnership Ends
Waymo robotaxis are no longer available through Uber in Phoenix, ending the companies’ nearly three-year deployment in the city. The vehicles assigned to the program have returned to Waymo’s Phoenix…
California Secures 50% Claude Discount for State and Local Government Agencies
California has entered into an agreement with Anthropic that gives state agencies, cities and counties access to Claude at a 50% discount. The arrangement also includes free workforce training, technical…
Samsung and SK Hynix Plan $518 Billion Memory Chip Expansion in South Korea
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plan to invest about 800 trillion won, or $518 billion, to build four memory chip fabrication plants in southwestern South Korea. The projects form part…
Arena Reaches $100 Million Annualized Revenue Eight Months After Commercial Launch
Arena has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching its commercial AI evaluation service. The company grew from a UC Berkeley research project into a business…
Cursor Launches iOS App for Managing Coding Agents From a Phone
Cursor has released a mobile app that lets developers launch, monitor and direct AI coding agents from an iPhone. The public beta arrives shortly after SpaceX agreed to acquire Cursor’s…
U.S. Permitting Delays Put 92 GW of Clean Energy Projects at Risk
Federal permitting delays and funding withdrawals could disrupt 92 gigawatts of planned U.S. clean energy capacity as electricity demand rises, according to Wood Mackenzie. The affected wind, solar and storage…
