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Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has secured $1 billion from private equity firm TPG as part of a multi-year, $2 billion project to build a network of gigawatt-scale data centers in the country. The project, dubbed “HyperVault,” comes as demand for AI compute is rising faster than companies can build the power-hungry infrastructure needed to support it. The demand-supply gap for AI compute in India is particularly stark: The country generates nearly 20% of the world’s data, but accounts for only about 3% of global data center capacity. Big tech companies and cloud providers have been investing billions…

Voice AI company Wispr’s dictation app, Wispr Flow, is seeing great traction. The startup said that, after three months of usage, an average user writes more than 50% of their characters through the app. The company has also reached 270 of the Fortune 500 companies and has signed 125 companies as enterprise customers. That’s why, after just raising a $30 million round led by Menlo Ventures in June, the company has now raised an additional $25 million led by Notable Capital with participation from Steven Bartlett’s Flight Fund, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. With this influx of capital, the company has…

Google is upgrading its image generation model with new editing chops, higher resolutions, more accurate text rendering, and the ability to search the web. Dubbed Nano Banana Pro, the new model is built on Google’s latest large language model, Gemini 3, released earlier this week. The company claims Nano Banana Pro improves on its predecessor, Nano Banana, with the ability to create more detailed images and accurate text, and generate text in different styles, fonts and languages. Image Credits: Google The model also has web searching capabilities, so you can do things like ask it to look up a recipe…

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that once stated unequivocally that vaccines do not cause autism has been rewritten, now suggesting without evidence that health authorities “ignored” possible links between the shots and autism.“The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism,” the new language states. The change was posted Wednesday and was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.The webpage also notes that the Department of Health and Human Services has launched “a comprehensive assessment” to examine the causes of autism.…

A tech company has ambitious goals and tells its employees they should be ready for some hardcore work.No, I’m not talking about Amazon. Or Nvidia. Or Tesla.This time around, it’s Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman’s $2.5 billion eye-scanning startup that wants to help prove people’s humanity in the age of AI.”We will neither fail, nor will we be an average outcome, and that’s what we want and that’s all I care about every day and all you should care about every day, and nothing else should matter,” CEO Alex Blania told employees at the start of the year, according to…

On the Thursday, November 20, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: A USA TODAY exclusive investigation uncovered roughly 49,000 deaths in jails and prisons over eight years, including at least 1,800 tied to sepsis, a condition often survivable with basic treatment. USA TODAY Investigative Data Reporter Austin Fast walks through what he found in unredacted federal death reports, the stories of inmates denied care and the families still fighting for answers.Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript beneath it. This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form.…

Many high school seniors across the country are in the throes of college applications – often a high-stakes, anxiety-ridden process.But the stress doesn’t necessarily stop once students are admitted.Emotional stress, mental health and tuition cost are the top three reasons that college students drop out, according to a 2023 Gallup poll of 14,032 students.By most standards, there is a mental health crisis among college students. But the University of Michigan’s healthy minds survey, the country’s largest student mental health study to date, recently found that college students are reporting lower rates of depressive symptoms, anxiety and suicidal thoughts for the…

As artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT become an increasingly popular avenue for people seeking personal therapy and emotional support, the dangers that this can present – especially for young people – have made plenty of headlines. What hasn’t received as much attention is employers using generative AI to assess workers’ psychological well-being and provide emotional support in the workplace.Since the pandemic-induced global shift to remote work, industries ranging from health care to human resources and customer service have seen a spike in employers using AI-powered systems designed to analyze the emotional state of employees, identify emotionally distressed individuals, and provide…

Mariah Caezza and Dominic Modugno found love in a familiar place – online.But their love story is different from many of the ones you often hear about. The couple met on a social media app called Hiki, designed specifically for people living with autism. They got engaged in November 2024.”It’s pure happiness,” Caezza told “CBS Mornings” about their relationship.Caezza said it’s not easy living with autism, and that many can feel misunderstood at times.”Sometimes you feel like you don’t fit in and other times you feel amazing and unique, like you have a gift,” she explained.Hiki CEO Jamil Karriem, who…

When it comes to recycling, few materials can match aluminum. It can be reused an infinite number of times, and it’s often cheaper to recycle than to produce new aluminum because it requires so much less energy. Yet only about a third of the aluminum used in the U.S. gets recycled. The problem lies in sorting mixed aluminum scrap — a challenge that has long stumped the recycling industry. Michael Siemer, CEO of Sortera, thinks his company has found the key, though. Sortera says it has developed a system that can separate aluminum grades with over 95% accuracy — a…