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This has got to be the IT services deal of the year! India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise. Read more
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This has got to be the IT services deal of the year! India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise. Read more
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What did Satya Nadella, one of the world's most successful tech CEOs, do over Thanksgiving? Built a Deep Research app combining his two passions: coding & cricket Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
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What did Satya Nadella, one of the world's most successful tech CEOs, do over Thanksgiving? Built a Deep Research app combining his two passions: coding & cricket Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
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Microsoft Corp pledged to invest $17.5 Bn in AI and cloud computing in India over the next four years to fuel growth in the world's most populous nation. Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion. Read more
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Microsoft Corp pledged to invest $17.5 Bn in AI and cloud computing in India over the next four years to fuel growth in the world's most populous nation. Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion. Read more
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A tiny AI lab cofounded by Ashish Vasmani & Niki Parmar, two of the authors of the seminal Transformer "Attention is All You Need" paper, has released their first AI model The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM Gift link (free to read until Dec 15)
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A tiny AI lab cofounded by Ashish Vasmani & Niki Parmar, two of the authors of the seminal Transformer "Attention is All You Need" paper, has released their first AI model The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM Gift link (free to read until Dec 15)
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How Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani of India's Reliance conglomerate, and his Jio platform are becoming pivotal to the plans of global AI giants Read more
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How Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani of India's Reliance conglomerate, and his Jio platform are becoming pivotal to the plans of global AI giants Read more
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DeepSeek debuts new models that combine reasoning with agentic capabilities to execute certain actions autonomously. The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance
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DeepSeek debuts new models that combine reasoning with agentic capabilities to execute certain actions autonomously. The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance
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Guess which university files more AI patents than Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Univ of California, Princeton combined? Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom Gift link: Free to read till Nov 26
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Guess which university files more AI patents than Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Univ of California, Princeton combined? Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom Gift link: Free to read till Nov 26
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Your readymade reading list! Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
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Your readymade reading list! Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Warburg Pincus-backed PDG, prominent operator of data centers in Asia, is entering Korea with $700M investment to build 48MW capacity in Seoul. Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
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Warburg-Backed Princeton Enters Korea With First Data Center
Princeton Digital Group, a data center operator in Asia backed by Warburg Pincus, plans to invest $700 million in its first South Korean campus to power artificial intelligence development in the coun...
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Warburg Pincus-backed PDG, prominent operator of data centers in Asia, is entering Korea with $700M investment to build 48MW capacity in Seoul. Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
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Warburg-Backed Princeton Enters Korea With First Data Center
Princeton Digital Group, a data center operator in Asia backed by Warburg Pincus, plans to invest $700 million in its first South Korean campus to power artificial intelligence development in the coun...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-16/warburg-backed-princeton-enters-korea-with-first-data-center?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzM1MDM1NCwiZXhwIjoxNzYzOTU1MTU0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNVBJU1hHUEwzWUgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.M04j9b9V4UqwsCWEEpYzmA3EUCVi41yN12tG5MIrh6M
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Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
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Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
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A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa! Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power (gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
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A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa! Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power (gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
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Emirates AI influential, billionaire Sheikh Tahnoon, designed his new seaside, Japanese-style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 by my Dubai colleague and I
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Emirates AI influential, billionaire Sheikh Tahnoon, designed his new seaside, Japanese-style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 by my Dubai colleague and I
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📢 📢 📢 A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues -- on AI data centers devastating energy grids around the world -- is a Gerald Loeb Awards winner! Woohooo! Dont miss this read ! (Gift link: free to read until Oct 17)
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AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems
New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.
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📢 📢 📢 A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues -- on AI data centers devastating energy grids around the world -- is a Gerald Loeb Awards winner! Woohooo! Dont miss this read ! (Gift link: free to read until Oct 17)
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems
New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MDA4NzE4OSwiZXhwIjoxNzYwNjkxOTg5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTRkZWRFNEV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.FFqQi3vXmupq2Ue8MI0maUxOvf1ZsQkiM_ty4MKwGI4
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Anthropic Lands in Bangalore! Founder-CEO Dario Amodei in India this week The maker of Claude models sets sights on India’s tech frontier to boost talent & users; will open office, hire engineers by early 2026 (Gift link: free to read until Oct 15)
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Anthropic Lands in Bangalore! Founder-CEO Dario Amodei in India this week The maker of Claude models sets sights on India’s tech frontier to boost talent & users; will open office, hire engineers by early 2026 (Gift link: free to read until Oct 15)
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DeepSeek debuts "DeepSeek Sparse Attention" next-gen architecture in experimental version of model DeepSeek-V3.1-Exp (Native Sparse Attention paper by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng & others won the ACL 2025 Best Paper award) Gift link (Free to read until Oct 7)
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DeepSeek debuts "DeepSeek Sparse Attention" next-gen architecture in experimental version of model DeepSeek-V3.1-Exp (Native Sparse Attention paper by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng & others won the ACL 2025 Best Paper award) Gift link (Free to read until Oct 7)
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A staggering $800 billion global shortfall in AI infrastructure spend is foreseen by 2030, according to a new report by Bain, and that could hamper AI's progress
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A staggering $800 billion global shortfall in AI infrastructure spend is foreseen by 2030, according to a new report by Bain, and that could hamper AI's progress
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A rash of Chinese startups is challenging Musk's Neuralink in new, cutting-edge field in US-China AI wars: brain computer interfaces. Backed by Beijing, they've unleashed a wave of clinical trials this year
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A rash of Chinese startups is challenging Musk's Neuralink in new, cutting-edge field in US-China AI wars: brain computer interfaces. Backed by Beijing, they've unleashed a wave of clinical trials this year
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Anthropic, creator of Claude models, blocks its AI services to Chinese-owned entities abroad, citing competitive risks and threat to US national security. It's the latest sign of an intensifying US-China AI race (Gift link: free to read until Sept 12)
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Anthropic, creator of Claude models, blocks its AI services to Chinese-owned entities abroad, citing competitive risks and threat to US national security. It's the latest sign of an intensifying US-China AI race (Gift link: free to read until Sept 12)
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New! DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology - via
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New! DeepSeek is developing an artificial intelligence model with more advanced AI agent features to compete with US rivals like OpenAI in a newer frontier of the technology - via
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My newsletter from Hangzhou! Just 50 min by high-speed train from glitzy Shanghai is a city of 13M, home to DeepSeek, Unitree, Alibaba. I was there to see the metropolis emerge a nerve center for China’s AI ambitions (Gift link -- free to read until Sept 05)
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My newsletter from Hangzhou! Just 50 min by high-speed train from glitzy Shanghai is a city of 13M, home to DeepSeek, Unitree, Alibaba. I was there to see the metropolis emerge a nerve center for China’s AI ambitions (Gift link -- free to read until Sept 05)
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India's first AI unicorn Fractal files for $560 million IPO, could get valued at over $3.5 billion Fractal builds AI products and services for global customers including Citigroup, Nestle, Philips
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India's first AI unicorn Fractal files for $560 million IPO, could get valued at over $3.5 billion Fractal builds AI products and services for global customers including Citigroup, Nestle, Philips
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DeepSeek's knowhow fuels AI model called NurAI for the Muslim world To build its AI system, Zetrix relied on DeepSeek's approaches like Mixture of Experts & Multi-head Latent Attention, popularized by DeepSeek V3 model. Gift link: free to read till Aug 19
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Zetrix Unveils an AI Chatbot for Muslims With DeepSeek Knowhow
A Malaysian company has designed an AI large language model for Muslims based on open-source AI knowhow from China’s DeepSeek, one of the latest efforts to target a market of some 2 billion people.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/zetrix-unveils-an-ai-chatbot-for-muslims-with-deepseek-knowhow?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NDk4NTM3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzU1NTkwMTcyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMFJXM0FHUTFZUTEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.DQINJEntM36qjDmKfKxxb1iKpUF-NldGFEwHxKiXO9g
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DeepSeek's knowhow fuels AI model called NurAI for the Muslim world To build its AI system, Zetrix relied on DeepSeek's approaches like Mixture of Experts & Multi-head Latent Attention, popularized by DeepSeek V3 model. Gift link: free to read till Aug 19
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Zetrix Unveils an AI Chatbot for Muslims With DeepSeek Knowhow
A Malaysian company has designed an AI large language model for Muslims based on open-source AI knowhow from China’s DeepSeek, one of the latest efforts to target a market of some 2 billion people.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/zetrix-unveils-an-ai-chatbot-for-muslims-with-deepseek-knowhow?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NDk4NTM3MiwiZXhwIjoxNzU1NTkwMTcyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMFJXM0FHUTFZUTEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.DQINJEntM36qjDmKfKxxb1iKpUF-NldGFEwHxKiXO9g
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Who's winning the AI war - US or China? Here's how the technology, the state, the strategy and the money stack up as the two economic superpowers vie for AI domination via
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Who's winning the AI war - US or China? Here's how the technology, the state, the strategy and the money stack up as the two economic superpowers vie for AI domination via
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China Vies to Unseat US in Fight for $4.8 Trillion AI Market China is proposing a World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), convening countries to set new rules for the AI age My story from Shanghai with our China team Gift link (free to read until Aug 7)
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China Vies to Unseat US in Fight for $4.8 Trillion AI Market China is proposing a World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), convening countries to set new rules for the AI age My story from Shanghai with our China team Gift link (free to read until Aug 7)
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In Shanghai, the march of China's humanoid robots. Hundreds of rock guitar strumming, mahjong playing, popcorn & soda dispensing humanoids ruled at China's largest AI show, WAIC 2025 Shanghai.
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In Shanghai, the march of China's humanoid robots. Hundreds of rock guitar strumming, mahjong playing, popcorn & soda dispensing humanoids ruled at China's largest AI show, WAIC 2025 Shanghai.
tinyurl.com/4j2uuaej
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