Sources: Quince, a DTC luxury brand that is viral on Instagram and TikTok, raised ~$200M led by Iconiq at a $4.5B valuation, after raising $120M in January 2025 — Investment firm Iconiq is leading a roughly $200 million investment in the direct-to-consumer fashion startup.
An analysis of ~200 Shein items between April and July: prices spiked in April, settled at 12.5% above pre-tariff levels by late May, and jumped again in July — Evidence for the impact of Trump's trade war has shown up at the popular China-founded online retailer.
At Shanghai's World AI Conference, ByteDance, Unitree, UBTech, Agibot, and other Chinese companies demoed a wide range of robots, including boxing droids — From lumbering six-foot machines to nimble back-flipping dogs, robots lorded over China's most important annual AI conference in Shanghai this week.
Indian software services provider Tata Consultancy Services plans to cut 2% of its global workforce, or about 12,000 employees, by March 31, 2026 — In an interview with Moneycontrol, TCS CEO K Krithivasan described the decision as one of the toughest he has faced, calling it a necessary step to build a stronger, future-ready company.
The English Premier League recently signed deals with Adobe and Microsoft to offer AI-powered tools to fans, including those playing the Fantasy Premier League — Football body's turn to Big Tech aims to cement dominance after it made €2.1bn in overseas broadcast deals last season
Alibaba releases its Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 reasoning LLM on Hugging Face, topping several benchmarks, as Alibaba moves away from hybrid reasoning models — If the AI industry had an equivalent to the recording industry's “song of the summer” — a hit that catches on in the warmer months …
New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...
