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After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV
India's smartphone manufacturing ambitions are gaining fresh momentum as Vivo moves to establish a joint venture that could redefine how Chinese brands operate in the country. The deal signals a shift from simple assembly operations toward deeper local partnerships, following the trail blazed by Apple's supply chain expansion. If successful, the Vivo model could become the blueprint other Chinese manufacturers use to navigate India's regulatory landscape while capitalizing on its booming consumer market.
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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise
Lyzr, an enterprise AI agent startup, put its own technology to the test by deploying its AI agent to manage its $100 million fundraising round. The move serves as a live demonstration of the product's capabilities at the highest stakes level. It's a bold proof-of-concept that doubles as marketing — and apparently, it worked.
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Ars Technica
OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you
OpenAI has rebranded Codex as an agentic tool designed to handle complex, multi-step tasks autonomously — running workflows for hours without human hand-holding. The move signals a clear shift from AI as assistant to AI as independent operator. For businesses and developers, the implications are significant: this isn't autocomplete, it's delegation.
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OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5.6, its newest family of models touting broad performance gains across multiple domains. Among the headline improvements is enhanced capability in cybersecurity, signaling the company's push into high-stakes enterprise applications. The release reinforces OpenAI's drive to stay ahead in an increasingly crowded frontier model race.
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The Verge
Nvidia’s biggest RAM supplier just had a trillion-dollar debut on Wall Street
SK Hynix, the South Korean memory chipmaker that supplies Nvidia with high-bandwidth RAM, made history on Wall Street with a $26.5 billion debut — the largest-ever listing by a foreign company, eclipsing Alibaba's previous record. The company opened at $170 per share, riding surging demand for AI-driven memory chips. The listing underscores how deeply the AI infrastructure boom is reshaping global capital markets.
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