The capital raise will value the start-up at US$180 million and comes just months after Phia completed its first US$8 million funding round.
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision has not taken off despite his conviction that people will one day work and play in virtual worlds.
The Mexican president, along with Canada’s PM Mark Carney, is expected to discuss trade tariffs with Trump at the football tournament draw.
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China is Brazil’s top trading partner and is seeking to expand economic and political ties across the region amid tensions with the US.
He, who has children together with founder Zhao Changpeng, will share the title with Richard Teng.
He says he and the US president discussed export controls before he met lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee.
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The call comes after Google released its Gemini 3 AI model last month that gained praise for its capacity to reason and code.
Philippines delays US$124 million infrastructure project after a maritime group raised concerns against China Harbour Engineering Company.
Tony Fernandes urged planemakers to test software properly and not to ‘rush’ amid the pressure to meet delivery and revenue targets.
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White metal doubles in value this year to reach record high, outshining gold’s 60 per cent rise.
Foreign governments have raised a record 13 billion yuan (US$1.8 billion) via yuan bonds this year, Bloomberg-compiled data shows.
Chairman Chen Jinghe, 68, will become honorary chairman and senior consultant; he says it is the best time to transition to a new leadership.
Modi has maintained India’s long-standing ties to Moscow, while reducing its reliance on Russian weapons by acquiring more arms from the US and Europe.
Floods in Thailand have killed 145 people and displaced millions, with relief efforts accelerating as the waters recede, revealing the damage.
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Through Shanghai Guomao, the city aims to build a ‘new, internationalised commodity trading and investment platform’.
Investors quickly turn against EV makers as earnings fall short, and next year looks even more difficult, analysts say.
Imee Marcos said they ‘kind of boxed me out’ when she raised her brother’s alleged cocaine addiction with the family.
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Hong Kong-listed Anta has been working with an adviser to evaluate a bid for Puma and could team up with a private equity firm, sources said.
FoloToy’s Teddy Kumma was involved in inappropriate chats with its users, including telling them where to find knives and pills.
Meta is reportedly in talks to use Google’s TPUs in data centres, as the search giant challenges Nvidia’s market dominance.
Trump responds after a report said the White House was concerned by unflattering headlines Patel has generated.
Dishes at Woohoo are created by ‘Chef Aiman’, a large language model trained on thousands of recipes, flavour pairings and food data.
The US treasury secretary says simplifying the Fed is key, as he conducts interviews with the five candidates to succeed Chair Jerome Powell.
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The risk reversal as the yuan has fared better than expected this year and as investors brace for a weaker dollar on Fed rate cut prospects.
Claude Opus 4.5 is the first to score higher than the company’s human candidates on a take-home engineering assignment, firm says.
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Home prices in mainland China are expected to fall for at least another two years as more people prefer renting over buying, John Lam says.
BHP made the approach just weeks before shareholders from Anglo and Teck vote on a merger deal.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world can make progress on a range of issues without the US, following consensus reached at a G20 leaders’ meeting.
Meloni has been durable as prime minister, despite occasional clashes within her coalition on bank taxes and aid to Ukraine.
The city state’s police raided a car loan company that borrowed from a firm linked to the tycoon’s Prince Holding Group.
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