Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit

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Cities near Mumbai likely to raise funds via bonds for first time | Markets News

Cities that surround India’s financial capital Mumbai are planning to raise funds through bonds for the first time over the next few weeks, three merchant bankers said on Wednesday, signalling a further pick-up in the local municipal debt market. Navi Mumbai and Panvel, both located on the mainland to the east of Mumbai, […]
Google Cloud surpasses $20B but says growth was capacity-constrained

Google Cloud, the business under parent company Alphabet that provides enterprise AI solutions, had a blowout first quarter, with revenues topping $20 billion for the time, a 63% increase from the same period last year. However, investors were concerned about the constraints surrounding the business and how Google decides to allocate cloud capacity. In the […]
Dhan rolls out ‘Gold Vault’ with MCX-linked pricing; MMT eyes India listing | Markets News

Trading platform Dhan on Wednesday launched ‘Gold Vault’, a new offering that allows retail investors to buy physical gold and silver at live exchange-linked prices. The product enables users to participate in bullion futures contracts on Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) and opt for physical delivery, with transactions backed by market infrastructure including […]
Improving support with every interaction at OpenAI
Learn how OpenAI uses AI to enhance support, cutting response times, improving quality, and scaling to meet hypergrowth. Source link
Splatoon Raiders preorders for the Switch 2 are nearly 20 percent off

Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2. Splatoon Raiders, for instance, is available for preorder ahead of its July 23rd release for $49.99 digitally or $59.99 for the physical edition. However, Walmart is the exception in […]
Gold slips as oil prices fuel inflation fears ahead of Fed chair remarks | Commodity News

Gold prices slipped on Wednesday, as rising oil prices fuelled concerns of persistent inflation, with markets watching closely for remarks from US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on the future path of interest rates. Spot gold was down 0.3% at $4,579.34 per ounce, as of 0919 GMT, after falling to its lowest level […]
Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One

Google has added another 25 million paid subscriptions to its services over the past quarter, parent company Alphabet announced during its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday. The company said it now has 350 million paid subscriptions across its services, up from 325 million in Q4 2025, with YouTube and Google One — its cloud storage and […]
Fusion power startup Zap Energy pulls a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

Nobody said building a fusion power plant would be easy. Physicists and engineers have been working for decades to crack the problem. But over the last year or so, fusion startup Zap Energy took a deeper look at its pathway to a working power plant and decided that it would be quicker to build a fission […]
Sora 2 System Card
Sora 2 is our new state of the art video and audio generation model. Building on the foundation of Sora, this new model introduces capabilities that have been difficult for prior video models to achieve– such as more accurate physics, sharper realism, synchronized audio, enhanced steerability, and an expanded stylistic range. Source link