The next premium feature in tech might be the absence of AI
Shimul Sood / Android Authority You must remember that meme video of Sundar Pichai where he can be heard repeatedly uttering the word AI for what felt like a full…
Meituan, Baidu, Xiaomi, and other Chinese tech giants have been trimming their workforces, fueling Chinese workers’ concerns of being replaced by AI (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
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Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark’s open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
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Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product
Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open source data room software, accused Corgi of stealing its software…
Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an $81M Series B at a $1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin (David Politis/Utah Money Watch)
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Prime Day travel tech deals: 10 gadgets worth packing now
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld highlights essential travel tech deals during Amazon Prime Day, featuring gadgets that enhance productivity and security for business travelers. Key recommendations…
A profile of incoming WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah, who studied philosophy in Mumbai, advised Sequoia India, and joins a growing pool of Indian-born tech executives (Financial Times)
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Coval, which develops simulation and evaluation tech for testing, launching, and monitoring AI voice and chat agents, raised a $28M Series A led by Norwest (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in 2025 (Reuters)
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Micron and Sandisk led a tech selloff on Tuesday, falling more than 13%; Western Digital fell 8%, Marvell 9%, Seagate 5%, Qualcomm 8%, and Applied Materials 8% (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch)
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