🧭 DeepMind plants a new lab in Singapore
Google’s AI arm is opening a research lab to work closely with governments, businesses, and universities across Asia. Hiring’s already underway.
Focus areas aren’t locked, but leaders flagged education, healthcare, and science-riding the wave of rapid AI adoption in Southeast Asia.
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🛒 Target brings shopping into ChatGPT
Target says you’ll be able to discover and buy products directly inside ChatGPT-full baskets, one checkout, even fresh food. A neat twist on retail chat.
Pickup, drive up, or shipping are in the mix, with curated recommendations promised… which could be brilliant, or a little uncanny, depending on your vibe.
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💼 Microsoft trims Copilot price for small businesses
Copilot for Business drops to $21 per user per month-and yes, that’s aimed at orgs with 300 or fewer seats. Not nothing, especially at scale.
Same features as before, plus a nudge to try Copilot Chat if you’re already on Microsoft 365. Practical, a bit strategic, slightly cheeky.
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💹 Nvidia beats and shrugs off bubble chatter
Jensen Huang told investors Nvidia excels at every phase of AI-from training to inference-while results topped expectations and guidance ran hot.
Markets sighed in relief, for now. Bubble talk fades when numbers roar… or so it seems.
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🤝 Anthropic lands up to $15B from Microsoft and Nvidia
New tie-up: up to $10B from Nvidia and up to $5B from Microsoft, with Anthropic committing $30B of compute to Azure-plus 1GW of Nvidia systems. Big chess move.
Claude models expand on Azure AI Foundry, making Claude the rare frontier model available across all three major clouds. That’s a distribution flex.
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🚀 xAI reportedly eyes $15B raise at a $230B valuation
WSJ says Elon Musk’s xAI is in advanced talks to bring in $15B at a heady valuation. Reuters couldn’t immediately verify-healthy pinch of salt advised.
Either way, the cash hunt underscores how aggressively model labs are scaling compute… and hype, occasionally in the same breath.
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