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Pakistan Single Window (PSW) and Alibaba.com have signed an agreement to introduce a digital Trade Data Confirmation Service, combining PSW’s digital trade infrastructure with Alibaba.com’s global B2B marketplace to strengthen trust and…
Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
Pakistan’s two state-owned gas utilities, Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL), have requested increases in their prescribed gas prices for FY2026-27, potentially making gas more expensive…
This week, the European Commission announced five new actions to support business angels under its EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy . The measures aim to improve access to early-stage investment opportunities, strengthen angel investor…
Given Nvidia’s stronghold on AI and its importance in Israel, many in the country's startup ecosystem are worried about the impact of his departure.
The federal government has set December 31, 2026, as the deadline to make Islamabad Pakistan’s first fully cashless city, with authorities accelerating efforts to shift businesses and government departments towards digital payments. The…
Huang described Kress as a "deer in the headlights" during a meeting in summer.
The federal government has extended the deadline for civil servants to digitally submit their declarations of assets for the financial year 2025-26 to November 30, 2026. According to an Office Memorandum issued by the Establishment…
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has increased the special electricity rate for additional consumption by industrial and agricultural consumers to Rs. 25.30 per unit from Rs. 22.98, marking an increase of Rs. 2.32…
LF Energy , a Linux Foundation initiative that brings the energy sector together to develop the digital foundation for energy through open source software, standards, and data, received $2.5 million in funding from Google.org this week to…
Apple Pay could arrive in Pakistan as early as late December, with initial beta testing reportedly approaching. The development suggests that Apple is moving closer to introducing its payment service in the country. According to…
CodeNinja in October released multiple open reference architectures through CodeNinja Atoms for deploying sovereign physical AI. The industry blueprints provide complete system designs for real operations in energy, oil and gas, ports…
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has transferred Rs. 1.932 trillion in profits to the federal government during the first two months of FY27, exceeding the full-year budget target of Rs. 1.435 trillion by nearly Rs. 500 billion. According…
Mari Energies Limited recently shared some massive news with the market, officially announcing a significant copper-gold discovery. Specifically, they found this mineralisation at the East Siah Diq (ESD-1) target in Chagai, Balochistan.…
Huawei could launch its next foldable smartphone, the Mate X8, on November 24, according to a new report from China. The upcoming device is expected to be thinner and lighter than its predecessors. These include the Mate X5, Mate X6, and…
Islamabad will become the first fully cashless city in Pakistan, with all businesses and shopkeepers required to connect to digital payment systems by December 31, 2026, the government has announced. State Minister for Interior Talal…
Vivo has started rolling out a new OriginOS 7 update for the X300 Ultra. The update is based on Android 17 and brings several camera improvements. It is currently available for the Chinese model of the smartphone. The update introduces a…
The Government of Japan has announced a new US$ 4.3 million grant to procure essential oral polio vaccines as part of its continued support to Pakistan’s polio eradication efforts. The Pakistan Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) will use…
The vivo X500s is expected to join the company’s X500 lineup as its fourth model. More details about the upcoming flagship have now surfaced online. The latest leak reveals key specifications, including its chipset, battery, and camera.…
Anthropic launched Claude Meetings, a feature that adds Claude to video calls as a visible participant. While the team talks, Claude drafts plans, builds timelines on whiteboards, answers questions in the chat, and pulls data from…
The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has decided to launch a reward scheme under which customers who pay through QR codes at hotels and restaurants will have a chance to win prizes. The authority said businesses in the sector that refuse QR…
The last Linux MMX optimisations are set to be removed from the kernel, ending nearly three decades of specialised support for Intel’s original multimedia instruction set. A three-patch series submitted by Google engineer Eric Biggers…
PostScriptum , the founder’s office of AI entrepreneur Peter Sarlin, has acquired a majority stake in Brillian , with Brillian’s founders, employees and other existing shareholders retaining the remaining substantial minority. PostScriptum…
The provincial government of Sindh has decided to gradually transition vehicles used by government departments to electric vehicles (EVs) to reduce public expenditure, save fuel and promote environmentally friendly transportation. The…
Oppo has confirmed more details about its upcoming Reno17 series ahead of its November 16 launch in China. The lineup will include the Reno17 and Reno17 Pro, with both phones receiving notable camera and performance upgrades. The company…
JazzCash users across Pakistan are currently noticing unexpected deposits in their mobile wallets. These random JazzCash payments range from PKR 5 to PKR 1,500. Consequently, many customers are reporting multiple credits, steadily…
Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart , a TechNode Group publication. Alibaba says more than 60% of T-Head’s computing capacity serves customers outside the group. Some of them are carmakers that use its Zhenwu chips to…
DJI said Friday it will change suggested retail prices for some products starting November 18, citing sustained increases in the cost of semiconductors, memory and other key components. The changes take effect at midnight, according to a…
BYD’s premium brand Denza has launched the N8 in China, with prices ranging from RMB 269,900 to RMB 329,900. The five-seat SUV comes in four battery-electric and two plug-in hybrid versions. Its longest-range electric variant pairs…
Xilect, a robotics chip startup jointly founded by Chinese GPU maker MetaX and humanoid robot maker UBTech Robotics, has raised RMB 500 million in an angel round. The company will use the funding to develop its first chip and supporting…
Xiaohongshu, the Chinese social platform also known as RedNote, is testing a standalone app called Dada that lets users turn their expertise into AI agents others can use. Ebrun found dozens of agents in the app, covering tasks such as…
Shi Yunfeng, who leads ByteDance’s AI chip and data processing unit teams, has submitted his resignation and is handing over his responsibilities, LatePost reported. Shi joined ByteDance in 2018 and reports to Yang Zhenyuan, who heads the…
Incision , an Amsterdam-based healthcare software company that helps operating room and sterile processing teams prepare for every procedure, has secured a €4 million investment from HERAN Partners via its HERAN HealthTech Fund II. The…
Naughty Dog just delivered some highly anticipated news. Creative Director Neil Druckmann officially confirmed a major update for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet. Next year, the studio will finally drop the very first gameplay reveal.…
The number of third-party motor insurance policies issued in Sindh has increased from 11,200 in March 2026 to 452,515 by November, a rise of about 3,940 percent in eight months, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission of…
Meta updated its Edits video editing app with three new features for creators. The update adds speed curves for variable playback, automatic audio balancing across video elements, and text animation duration controls. Meta announced the…
Xiaomi could launch its Redmi Note 18 series sooner than expected. A new smartphone, believed to belong to the upcoming lineup, has appeared on China’s 3C certification website. The source shared a screenshot of the listing on Weibo. It…
Around 35,000 families across Rawalpindi division have received no Zakat assistance for 26 months, as a funding suspension has pushed the Rawalpindi Zakat Department close to collapse. The affected include roughly 10,000 beneficiaries in…
Dexterous hands are becoming a new focus of competition in the humanoid robotics industry. Companies are working to improve robots’ hand capabilities in terms of degrees of freedom, gripping force and movement precision. But as robots move…
ADA Space rolled out five computing satellites for batch 03 of its Star-Compute program at its base in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on November 13, the company said. All five were developed in-house and will launch in the near future. Once…
A team led by Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) has reported high-performance p-type transistors built from a single atomic layer of tungsten diselenide (WSe2), using controlled oxygen doping to tackle two long-standing…
Researchers at Zhejiang University have released SpaceCast-Bench, a benchmark that tests whether vision-language models (VLMs) can predict how spatial relationships in a scene change after an object is moved, rotated or removed, without…
In 2019, Ubisoft invited me to Paris. As I strolled through Station F, the sprawling startup campus that French billionaire Xavier Niel opened in 2017, I ran into a name I never expected to see nearly 8,000 km from home: Kerala Ventures. A…
VectorY Therapeutics , an Amsterdam-based BioTech developing vectorised antibody therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, has raised €74.5 million ($83.5 million) in new financing. This new financing round saw participation from a number…
Huawei has formally announced its first continuous glucose monitor (CGM), the G1 continuous glucose monitoring system, in a teaser posted on its consumer business's official Weibo account on November 13. The company says the product will…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has moved its DDR5 memory dies from 24Gb to 32Gb and now offers server memory modules in both RDIMM and MRDIMM formats, according to an update the company gave Lanjing Tech that IT Home reported on…
Shenzhen-based embodied AI company Astribot has published CoMind, also called Be My Eye, a framework that lets two robots working on the same job share what each can see and the other cannot. The company released a technical report and…
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has made it mandatory for all registered tea manufacturers, blenders and packers to install electronic production monitoring systems by Dec 10. Every retail pack must be recorded before it leaves the…
Editor’s note: Denglin Technology, a Chinese maker of general-purpose GPUs for AI computing, went public in Hong Kong on November 10, raising HK$1.41 billion. Revenue reached RMB 200.4 million in the first four months of 2026, already…
Mobilink Bank, one of the largest microfinance Banks in Pakistan, has signed a Sale Purchase Agreement (SPA) to acquire 82.51% shareholding in Apna Microfinance Bank Limited (Apna Bank), subject to applicable legal and regulatory…
Rawalpindi electric bus fleet has grown to 80 after 35 new buses arrived in the city. The buses will operate on different routes from Friday (today). Of the 10 routes, two have been suspended for the past two months because of construction…
Yesterday, the 44th Annual Golden Joystick Awards announced a massive victory for Capcom. Resident Evil Requiem officially took home the Ultimate Game of the Year award for 2026. Consequently, the legendary survival horror franchise just…
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has fixed the price of tax stamps for cement manufacturers at Rs1,140.64 per 1,000 Unique Identification Marks (UIMs). The price includes an additional charge of Rs165.64 to recover the annual maintenance…
Jensen Huang has stepped down as president and chief executive of Nvidia. In a regulatory filing, the chipmaker said its board accepted his resignation on Wednesday, days after Huang admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, a former…
A judicial magistrate in Karachi has remanded Malir Development Authority (MDA) finance and accounts director Waqas Ali Soomro and his alleged accomplice, Muhammad Yamin Soomro, in Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) custody for five days.…
There is no spreadsheet for this. You cannot plug in a dozen parameters, hit enter and receive a verdict on whether a startup matters. That was the opening salvo at a Huddle Global 2026 panel provocatively titled “The VC Truth: Build What…
When Singapore arranged exclusive Southeast Asian dates for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in March 2024, six shows, only stop in the region, the diplomatic and economic discussion that followed was one of the more publicly visible moments of…
Ask a Singapore founder who might buy their company and you usually get three names: the biggest local competitor, a supplier, maybe a customer. It is a sensible guess. On the data, it is also usually the wrong pond. At Ayebot we keep a…
What happens when your team needs a designer, a salesperson and a researcher, but you don’t have the resources to hire all three? For many small businesses, this is a familiar challenge. I lead Stories of Asia (SOA), where our work spans…
Picture a claims officer in Makati pasting a customer’s medical file into a free chatbot to draft a rejection letter before lunch. Upstairs, her CEO signs off on a market-entry plan stitched together by the same kind of tool. Nobody has…
Southeast Asia has roughly 350 million women, and they make most of the household’s health decisions. That alone makes women’s health a large consumer market rather than a vertical. But market size tells you little about behaviour, and…
South Korea and Southeast Asia are becoming more relevant to discussion around the next phase of AI and blockchain adoption. South Korea offers established technology companies, advanced hardware capabilities, an active venture ecosystem…
My point of view is straightforward. The recent Bitcoin drop looks like a macro-led repricing with a leverage amplifier, not a Bitcoin-only failure. Bitcoin fell 3.45 per cent to US$71,425.63 in 24 hours and traded near a reported 12-week…
CAS Space said on November 12 that its Liqing-1 and Liqing-2 engines, both pintle-injector liquid oxygen and kerosene designs developed in-house, have completed a new round of key hot-fire tests. The engines are meant to power the…
Embodied AI robots from Quantum Dynamics, a Hangzhou startup founded this year by former Cainiao CTO Li Qiang, worked in Cainiao supply-chain warehouses during this year's Double 11 shopping festival, according to a company statement…
ACE Robotics has put its Mundo world model to work on a hotel laundry job, QbitAI reported. In the workflow, a robot collects laundry baskets from guest rooms, carries them to the laundry room, runs the washers and dryers and returns the…
Turing Award winner Andrew Chi-Chih Yao and Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin are among the authors of TCSExam, a benchmark that tests whether AI agents can do research in theoretical computer science rather than solve textbook problems.…
Shanghai HiSilicon has introduced the CS6286, an 8-megapixel image sensor with a small AI engine built into the sensor itself, and says the chip is already in mass production. The company announced it on November 12 and describes the…
Huawei Cloud will unveil CloudRobo-WM1.2, an embodied world model for robots, at an online launch on November 16, the company announced on November 12. The event runs from 14:00 to 15:30 Beijing time. Huawei Cloud's poster bills the model…
Add Claude to your call and get work started as you talk Discussion | Link
The grey ring of condensation on the laminate table had almost dried by the time he finished explaining his pipeline. Outside the glass wall of the coffee shop at the edge of the financial district, the midday rush was beginning to churn…
Supabase dashboard & SQL editor for Android Discussion | Link
WHOOP's social network built around real health data Discussion | Link
For 33 years, Nvidia had one face, one voice and one leather jacket. On Thursday, it lost all three. Jensen Huang, who co-founded the chipmaker in 1993 and built it into one of the world’s most valuable companies, has resigned as president…
This Congressional investigation into Nvidia's China sales and its dealings with Trump is the second one, so far, since news of the alleged spy affair broke.
Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses — but it's not free.
Nebius plans to fund its $40 billion AI infrastructure expansion through customer prepayments and loans, even as delays at a Microsoft data center raise questions about its financing model.
Reuters is withholding the name of the new employee linked to Huang, but says she is an employee of Nvidia.
Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.
Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.
Jensen Huang’s resignation raises questions about Nvidia’s commitment to open source AI, including its Hugging Face acquisition, open-weight models, and advocacy against restrictions, as the company navigates a leadership transition.
Fast agentic development for coders Discussion | Link
Cloud simulators built for agents Discussion | Link
The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.
SoftBank lost over $3 billion preordering natural gas turbines to power AI data centers. Here's what the loss means to power markets.
Rather than giving consumers yet another photo-editing tool, Phota Labs aims to use advances in AI to automate the editing process so it’s easier for anyone to turn everyday moments into better photos.
Huang, who was ousted as CEO following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China, agreed to testify Wednesday after several senior lawmakers threatened to subpoena him.
Nvidia's ousted CEO Jensen Huang's downfall isn’t just your run-of-the-mill salacious billionaire sex scandal. He was using his influence to push the AI industry in some very specific ways.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump says only one man can take Jensen Huang's place as head of Nvidia: Tim Cook.
Whoop is launching a social network that lets members share their sleep, recovery, and workout data, but the bigger bet is on becoming more of a personal health brand, with CEO Will Ahmed hinting at acquisitions to come.
European AI infrastructure company Nebius today reported a surge in quarterly revenues to $981m but said some of its co-location data centre sites powering AI had been hit by delays. The so-called neocloud also said it had seen a rise in…
Europe’s startup ecosystem has been busy with more than funding rounds today. A fresh wave of acquisitions has brought together companies across travel, Ai, mobility and logistics, with European startups and scale-ups appearing on both…
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is taking over as an interim replacement for longtime CEO Jensen Huang, who is embroiled in scandal.
Traveltech company WeRoad has acquired the Swiss travel brand and community TravelTribe . Founded in 2017, WeRoad has helped more than 300,000 travellers explore over 1,000 itineraries through its network of 4,000+ Coordinators. Around 60…
This is the investment firm's largest fund to date.
This is Fireworks' second data breach in as many months.
European deeptech scaleups have raised more than €4 billion since joining the EIC Scaling Club , an EIC-funded initiative supporting promising European deeptech companies. According to a new report, their funding has grown 2.3 times faster…
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
The sea at Kovalam has not changed. The conversation on the stage beside it has. I was last here in September 2019, for what was then called Huddle Kerala, only its second edition. I filed a couple of stories from that beach. One was about…
Nvidia gets a new chief executive, days after former CEO Jensen Huang admitted to a romantic affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
The startups work across the deep tech sector, including healthcare, fintech, energy, semiconductors, and AI. All nine are looking to enter the U.S.
The INMerge Innovation Summit is set to return to Baku on 30 November – 1 December, 2026, bringing together some of the world’s most influential figures in technology, business, entrepreneurship and innovation. Hosted at the Baku…
SoftBank has led a $500m funding round in German humanoid robotics startup Agile Robots that automates industrial work. The Japanese multinational led the Series F funding round, which also features Nvidia, Hitachi, and T Capital and…
European tech funding slowed considerably in October following a strong September. Companies raised €6 billion across 288 funding deals, compared with €15.8 billion across 300 deals in September. This represents a decline of around 62 per…
Orakl Oncology , a French TechBio company using AI and real patient biology to predict how cancer drugs will perform in clinical trials, today announced a €30 million ($34 million) Series A. The round was co-led by Norrsken VC and…
Opdo , an AI-native optical engineering company, has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate its ambition of automating optical engineering, from initial design to finished components. The Los Angeles and Berlin startup is…
AI-powered B2B pricing platform Mondrio has raised a $3.75 million funding round led by Heartcore Capital , with participation from Pretiosum VC, Hersir Ventures, Cambrena Capital and Momo VC, alongside angel investors with experience in…
Stripe , the Dublin- and San Francisco-headquartered FinTech company, has published new research highlighting the regulatory challenges facing European startups, calling on EU policymakers to ensure that the proposed EU Inc. framework…
UK banking infrastructure fintech Griffin has raised $20m in new funding, it said today, and is now valued at over $100m. The $20m Series B funding round was led by Octagon Partners with participation from Notion Capital, A+ Ventures…
SE3 , a Munich-based spatial intelligence provider for autonomous systems, today announced that it has raised €27.04 million ($30 million) in Series A funding. The round was led by Accel, with participation from Keen, Lakestar, and…
European spacetech companies attracted approximately €2.8 billion in funding during H1 2026 , reflecting continued investor interest in satellite infrastructure, space intelligence, launch services and advanced propulsion technologies.…
UFORCE , a defencetech company founded in Ukraine and headquartered in London, with major hubs in Kyiv and Washington, DC, today announced a $700 million Series A financing round at a $6 billion valuation. UFORCE builds autonomous uncrewed…
Delft-based quantum chip testing specialist Orange Quantum Systems (OrangeQS) today announce the appointment of semiconductor industry veteran Raj Badoni as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), strengthening its leadership team as it looks to…
Gama , the French company building ultra-light deployable solar arrays for satellites, today announced €15 million in Seed funding from Transition , Planet A , Draper Associates , and Manta Ray . Power is becoming the bottleneck in orbit.…
Key Points How Fraser’s transition into the CEO role came about, and what his first conversations with the outgoing co-founder looked like What’s different about leading a startup you didn’t found, and how to respect the original vision…
Griffin , the London-based bank built for FinTechs and platforms, has closed a €18.02 million ($20 million) Series B funding round, pushing its valuation above €90.13 million ($100 million). The round was led by Octagon Partners, a…
Diamond Foundry has grown a 200 mm diamond wafer that it describes as the first continuous single-crystal diamond of this diameter. Announced on 5 November 2026, the specimen is still in its as-grown, unpolished state. The achievement is a…
Philippine venture capital in 2026 looks like a barbell: heavy plates at both ends and a thin steel bar in the middle. At one end sit grant-funded prototypes and university incubators. At the other are Series B and later rounds for…
Biomatter , a company specialising in custom enzyme design, has raised $18 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round led by Astanor , with participation from existing investors UVC Partners , Inventure and Metaplanet . Biomatter…
XuanTie, the RISC-V processor brand of Alibaba's DAMO Academy, has released XL-300, a high-throughput cache-coherent interconnect IP for multicore chips. Chip designers license it to connect processor cores so that they share memory…