Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI

While OpenAI has cemented its lead in the U.S., Perplexity is taking a different route — quietly expanding into India to compete in the next phase of AI adoption. The search-focused AI startup is rapidly adding millions of users in the world’s second-largest internet and smartphone market, positioning itself for mass-market scale. This week, Perplexity … Read more

County Championship: Professional Cricketers’ Association calls for cut to schedule to protect players’ wellbeing | Cricket News

A reduction in County Championship matches from 14 to 12 is “the only reasonable option” to try to protect the physical and mental wellbeing of domestic cricketers, according to the players’ union. A Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) survey showed 83 per cent of its members held concerns about the physical impact of the schedule and two-thirds had … Read more

‘Utopian’ city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park 

California Forever announced on Thursday plans to build a massive manufacturing park called Solano Foundry, the newest addition to its master-planned “utopian” city backed by a group of Silicon Valley billionaires. Solano Foundry is 2,100 acres that can host 40 million square feet of advanced tech manufacturing space. The manufacturing park will be built as … Read more

Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts

Investors are continuing to rally behind the call to reindustrialize American industry, this time by building out a $260 million war chest for automated manufacturing startup Hadrian to scale its factory footprint and make even more machine parts. Hadrian’s aim is to modernize American manufacturing by leveraging advance automation to deliver mass-produced parts for aerospace … Read more

British and Irish Lions: Andy Farrell defends no Welshmen making Test XV for first time since 1896: ‘Jac Morgan as close as it gets’ | Rugby Union News

Andy Farrell has defended his decision to name a British and Irish Lions Test side without a Welsh player for the first time since 1896, saying Jac Morgan was “as close you could imagine” in terms of making the first Test XV vs Australia. Not since the 1896 tour to South Africa have the Lions … Read more

Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media

Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn’t just vibe-coding new social apps, like Bitchat and Sun Day, he has invested $10 million in an effort to fund experimental open source projects and other tools that could ultimately transform the social media landscape. These efforts are funneled through an online collective called “and Other Stuff,” … Read more