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Amazon says it plans to expand its Amazon Now quick commerce service to 100 Indian cities; the service is currently live in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times:
Amazon says it plans to expand its Amazon Now quick commerce service to 100 Indian cities; the service is currently live in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru  —  Amazon Now is rapidly expanding its quick commerce services to 100 Indian cities, boosting its micro-fulfillment centers to over 1,000.

Jury selection in Musk v. Altman: ‘People don’t like him’

On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors already have an opinion about Elon Musk, and it's not a good one. The Verge reporter Elizabeth Lopatto, who was there at […]

Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its $2.5B Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its $2.5B Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns  —  The ban sends a message that China is intent on keeping its AI knowledge within the country  —  Meta Platforms is preparing …

Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photonics chips, surges by nearly 400% in its trading debut in Hong Kong after raising ~$310M in its IPO (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post:
Shanghai-based Lightelligence, which makes photonics chips, surges by nearly 400% in its trading debut in Hong Kong after raising ~$310M in its IPO  —  Shanghai-based firm's IPO reflects mainland China's push for photonics chips as a fast-growing alternative to conventional semiconductors

OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents (OpenAI)

OpenAI:
OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents  —  Six months ago, while working on an internal productivity tool, our team made a controversial (at the time) decision: we'd build our repo with no human-written code.