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After meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week, Amazon said it would more than double its investment in India over the next seven years. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Friday that the company has invested $11 billion in India and plans to invest $15 billion more by 2030. Most …

Rocket Lab’s next Electron mission will attempt marine booster recovery, the latest step in its reusability program. “Baby Come Back” will launch from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. Launch begins July 14. The Electron rocket will launch four NASA CubeSats, two Spire Global radio frequency …

On Monday, South Korean prosecutors accused a former Samsung Electronics executive of stealing semiconductor data to build a Chinese copycat chip facility. The 65-year-old former SK Hynix employee was arrested. From 2018 to 2019, he violated industrial technology protection laws and stole trade secrets to build a copy of Samsung’s …

LinkedIn launched its own ad suggestion tool weeks after Meta launched a suite of generative AI-based tools to help advertisers create different campaigns. The company suggests ad introductory text based on a marketer’s LinkedIn page and Campaign Manager settings like objective, targeting criteria, and audience. Microsoft-owned LinkedIn uses OpenAI models …

On Tuesday, Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the main contributor to open-source WordPress, launched an AI assistant for the popular content management system. The assistant integrates seamlessly with WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites, according to the company. Add an “AI Assistant” block to your post or page. After typing a …

Never met. Never spoke. The Vision Pro isn’t for you, I’m sure. It’s a gamble. It’s not for most people, like you. The headset costs $3,500. Most people know a product’s price, so it’s probably too expensive. Vision Pro is The media, including us, reported it. Apple sells consumer goods. …

On Wednesday, Byju’s unveiled three transformer models to improve service quality and streamline student learning and personalization as the edtech giant bets big on AI to transform its business. Badri, a predictive AI model, predicts when students may struggle with certain concepts. This model proactively suggests ways to fill knowledge …

According to a tweet, Linda Yaccarino became Twitter CEO on Monday. “It happened—first day in the books!” she wrote. Stay tuned. Twitter owner Elon Musk announced a new CEO in mid-May. Musk announced Yaccarino’s appointment as CEO days after she resigned as NBCUniversal’s advertising and partnerships group chairman. Yaccarino may …

Boeing and NASA announced Thursday that new technical issues with the Starliner capsule would delay its first crewed flight test. After being delayed from April, the first crewed mission flew two NASA astronauts on July 21. In a media briefing, Boeing’s VP of commercial crew, Mark Nappi, said leadership would …

Today, the Linux Foundation Europe launched the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) project. RISE brings together many software and hardware vendors to accelerate “the availability of software for high-performance and power-efficient RISC-V cores running high-level operating systems for a variety of market segments.” Google, Intel, MediaTek, Nvidia, Qualcomm Technologies, Red Hat, …