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🚨According to Cloudflare CEO @eastdakota, automated bots now generate more web traffic than humans, marking what could be the first time in the internet's history that machines outnumber people online.

#Bots #Traffic #Internet

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🚨Snowflake Summit 2026 introduced six major AI innovations, including CoWork, CoCo, Datastream, Horizon Context, CoCo Desktop, and Cortex Sense, aimed at powering the next generation of enterprise AI agents.

@Snowflake

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🚨Uber has reportedly capped spending on AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor at $1,500 per employee per month after blowing through its annual AI budget in just four months.

#uber #tokenmaxxing #TechNews

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🚨Coralogix, an observability and AI platform provider, has raised $200 million in a Series F funding round co-led by Advent, CPPIB, and Greenfield, with participation from Brighton Park Capital.

#funding #observability #TechNews

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What is tokenmaxxing? Explore the AI productivity metric dividing Silicon Valley, why companies tracked tokens, and how outcome maxxing is replacing it.

#Tokens #Claude #TechNews #GenAI

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🚨Neo4j has announced an agreement to acquire GraphAware, a company specialising in intelligence analysis software for government agencies.

@neo4j

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Indian IT giants Infosys, TCS, and Wipro are collectively expanding Microsoft 365 Copilot deployments to more than 300,000 employees.

#IndianIT #TCS #Infosys #Wipro #Copilot #Microsoft

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🚨Dubai-based gifting platform Zuvees has raised Rs. 15 crore (approximately $1.6 million) from IvyCap Ventures as part of its ongoing Series A round, taking its total funding to Rs. 30 crore (approximately $3.3 million).

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🚨AHEAD, the Chicago-based IT services and digital transformation company, has announced the opening of its Bengaluru office, marking its third location in India.

#bengaluru #India

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🚨Neokred has launched Collectbot 3.0, an AI-powered merchant management platform designed to help banks and enterprises strengthen fraud detection, automate compliance processes, and improve financial operations at scale.

#fintech

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🚨Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Contentful, a leading composable content platform used by more than 4,800 global brands, to enhance its AI-powered customer engagement capabilities.

#Salesforce #SaaS

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🚨 Intel has unveiled a range of new data centre technologies, including the Intel Xeon 6+ processors, Intel Ethernet E835 networking solutions, and updates on its next-generation AI accelerator roadmap.

#Intel #Xeon #semiconductor
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🚨Asana, Inc has completed the acquisition of StackAI, a no-code AI workflow platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy, and govern custom AI agents for business-critical operations.

@asana

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🚨Microsoft and NVIDIA have unveiled a new generation of Windows PCs powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform, promising unprecedented AI performance, graphics capabilities, and energy efficiency in thin-and-light devices.
#nvidiagtc #WindowsPC #Microsoft

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🚨Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.8, the latest version of its flagship AI model, introducing improvements in coding, reasoning, agentic workflows & AI safety while keeping pricing unchanged from its predecessor.

#Claude #opus
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🚨IBM & Red Hat have announced Project Lightwell, a $5 bn initiative to help enterprises secure open-source software using frontier AI & a global engineering workforce of more than 20,000 people.

#opensource

@IBM @RedHat
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🚨AWS becomes the first company to deploy a flat network architecture at scale using principles inspired by random graph theory — a concept long considered impractical for real-world infrastructure.

#aws #datacentre

@awscloud

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TCS has announced a landmark strategic partnership with Mistral to become the first global systems integrator partner for Mistral Forge, Mistral’s advanced system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models.

#TCS #IndianIT

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🚨Indian semiconductor startup Netrasemi has announced the successful silicon bring-up of its flagship Edge AI System-on-Chip (SoC), NETRA A2000.

#CHiPs #Semiconductor #EdgeAI #India

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🚨DXC Technology has launched DXC Engineering, a new global business unit to help enterprises design, deploy and scale AI-powered products and software systems across regulated and mission-critical industries.

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