Sandstone raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to build AI workflow tools for in-house legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses.

#ai #science tech #legal AI

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SpaceX Fixed-Price IPO Turns Retail Allocation Into The Main Market Test

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SpaceX Fixed-Price IPO Turns Retail Allocation Into The Main Market Test

SpaceX is offering IPO shares at a fixed $135 price, leaving allocation of roughly $75 billion in shares, especially retail access, as the main test before Thursday offering and Friday trading.

#science tech #startups #IPO

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UAE Salary Deadline Turns WPS Payroll Into A First-Of-Month Payments Test

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UAE Salary Deadline Turns WPS Payroll Into A First-Of-Month Payments Test

UAE private-sector salary rules triggered a sharp WPS payroll surge on June 1, with Al Ansari Exchange up more than 151 per cent and Al Fardan Exchange up 136 per cent, turning wage compliance into a first-of-month payments and cash-flow test.

#uae economy #UAE #Wage Protection System

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Sabertooth's $500 Million SPV Push Turns AI Startup Access Into A Product

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Sabertooth's $500 Million SPV Push Turns AI Startup Access Into A Product

Sabertooth Capital has invested nearly $500 million into 10 late-stage AI and deep-tech companies through single-deal SPVs, showing how access to scarce private technology rounds is becoming a product of its own.

#ai #venture capital #SPV

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Google's $4.99 AI Plus Cut Turns Consumer AI Into A Bundle Fight

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AI SHIFT:

Google's $4.99 AI Plus Cut Turns Consumer AI Into A Bundle Fight

Google cut AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 per month and doubled included storage to 400 gigabytes, pushing U.S. consumer AI subscriptions toward lower-priced platform bundles.

#ai #Google AI Plus #Gemini

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GM Sodium-Ion Storage Push Turns AI Data Center Power Into A Battery Market Test

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CAPACITY TEST:

GM Sodium-Ion Storage Push Turns AI Data Center Power Into A Battery Market Test

General Motors is expanding into grid-scale energy storage through Peak Energy, LG Energy Solution and Redwood Materials, making AI data center demand a battery commercialization test.

#cloud data centers #AI infrastructure #energy storage

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NAVER’s 55-Megawatt NVIDIA Buildout Tests Sovereign AI Cloud Demand

Cloud & Data CentersAnalysis

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NAVER’s 55-Megawatt NVIDIA Buildout Tests Sovereign AI Cloud Demand

NAVER and NVIDIA are expanding sovereign AI infrastructure from a 55-megawatt starting point toward gigawatt scale, tying Korea’s AI factory ambitions to DSX software, GAK Sejong capacity and localized model services.

#cloud data centers #NAVER #NVIDIA

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Perplexity’s 2028 IPO Plan Puts AI Search On The Mega-Listing Watchlist

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AI SHIFT:

Perplexity’s 2028 IPO Plan Puts AI Search On The Mega-Listing Watchlist

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said the AI search company is still planning a 2028 IPO as Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX prepare large listings that could reset AI valuation expectations.

#ai #Perplexity #AI search

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Samsung 5G Uplink Test Puts Fixed Wireless On A Late-2027 Upgrade Clock

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Samsung 5G Uplink Test Puts Fixed Wireless On A Late-2027 Upgrade Clock

Samsung expects advanced 5G uplink technology similar to its MediaTek test to commercialize around late 2027, with 670 Mbps trial throughput pointing to fixed-wireless and AI workload gains that still need live-network proof.

#science tech #telecom #5G

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Zepto IPO Filing Tests Quick-Commerce Growth Against Losses And Valuation Gap

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Zepto IPO Filing Tests Quick-Commerce Growth Against Losses And Valuation Gap

Zepto IPO filing shows rapid fiscal 2026 revenue, order and advertising growth, but widening losses, valuation pressure and a disclosed Enforcement Directorate inquiry create the main tests for its India listing.

#science tech #Zepto #quick commerce

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Nvidia 6G Radio Chip Plan Moves AI-RAN Into Telecom Edge

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Nvidia 6G Radio Chip Plan Moves AI-RAN Into Telecom Edge

Nvidia is working on a GPU-based chip for 6G radio units, extending AI-RAN into low-PHY radio processing while power, supplier integration and RAN spending remain the key tests.

#chips semiconductors #nvidia #ai ran

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Apple AI Architecture Puts Google And Nvidia Inside Its Privacy Test

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Apple AI Architecture Puts Google And Nvidia Inside Its Privacy Test

Apple is using Google and Nvidia to support its most advanced cloud AI model while trying to keep Apple Intelligence centered on private orchestration, proprietary models and on-device context.

#ai #Apple Intelligence #Siri

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