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Major Chinese e-commerce platforms have launched a sweeping round of discounts ahead of Singles Day, the country’s largest online shopping festival. JD.com held a limited-quantity flash sale offering the iPhone 16 Pro, Dell laptops and Sony cameras for 1 yuan, or about 200 won.

Divergent paths for tech firms and categories like CPG and beauty and cosmetics underpin what WARC calls a “two-speed marketplace.”

At a recent gathering of major retailers in Nashville, Tennessee, the question on everyone’s minds was, of course, AI.

A safety engineer who recently quit ChatGPTcreator OpenAI warned Saturday that artificial intelligence (AI) firms were “not being nearly careful enough.”

King Charles III will urge tech giants to ensure that artificial intelligence is geared to serve humanity and that mankind does “not lose control”, during a conference in Scotland on Thursday.

At present, international beauty giants are scrambling to enter the Indian market, with L’Oréal and Estée Lauder making successive layouts, and another acquisition has now been finalized.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Prototyping and Experimentation Alexander Lovett, left, shows a drone to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, center, and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, right, at a display of multi-domain autonomous systems in the Pentagon courtyard, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Washington.Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

A two-year-old startup is now worth more than a billion dollars, and it’s betting the entire CRM industry is ripe for disruption. Rox, an AI-native sales automation platform founded by former New Relic chief growth officer, just hit a $1.2 billion valuation with backing from Sequoia and General Catalyst, according to sources familiar with the…

The global battle for artificial intelligence dominance is moving deeper into Africa, with Egypt emerging as a new front in the technology rivalry between the United States and China.

OpenAI, IBM, Google, and dozens of cybersecurity leaders sign an open letter calling to fortify defenses against AI-driven threats.