Musk’s xAI and Telegram agree to one-year Grok partnership

xAI will pay Telegram $300 million in cash and equity and share 50% of subscription revenue generated through the platform

Xiaomi market value tops $171 billion, surpassing BYD

Shares of Xiaomi jump as much as 3.4% after the company reported record revenue and profit for the first quarter

OpenAI restructuring creates option for potential future IPO, says CFO

Sarah Friar says no final decision has been made and both the company and public markets must be prepared for an IPO

Texas requires Apple and Google to verify app store users’ ages

The law mandates parental consent for users under 18 to download apps or make in-app purchases
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Huawei, education ministry launch ICT training program in schools

The program aims to train more than 300,000 students across Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Islamabad IT Park to open on August 14, aims to boost tech innovation

New hub to provide office spaces, incubation centre, and Pakistan’s first Tier III Data Centre for tech startups and IT companies

Pakistan issues urgent cybersecurity alert after 180 million passwords get exposed in global data breach

Breach stems from InfoStealer malware, a tool designed to silently extract sensitive user data from infected systems; 184 million passwords compromised globally

Putin says services like Microsoft, Zoom should be ‘throttled’ in Russia

Putin says it was important for Russia to develop domestic software solutions

Elon Musk refocuses on business empire after global X outage

According to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com, over 25,800 incident reports were filed at the peak of the disruption

Internet services in Pakistan ‘fully functional’ amid global X outage, PTA clarifies

PTA confirms there are no technical issues at Pakistan’s internet gateways and all other internet services across the country remain fully functional

Zong launches AI-powered cloud platform to support enterprise solutions

The new platform offers over 40 solutions across more than seven business domains

Pakistan launches first power equipment manufacturing dashboard

Leghari urges WAPDA, DISCOs, K-Electric, and state-owned and private power generation plants to adopt indigenisation

Pakistan records second lowest web threat rate in META region

In the META region, ransomware infections rise 0.07 points in the Middle East, 0.06 points in Türkiye, and 0.01 points in Africa

Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns

Musk's xAI says on its website that it may monitor Grok users for “specific business purposes”

PTA raids illegal IMEI tampering operations in Mansehra

Six individuals are arrested and taken into custody for further legal action