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Thomas Fuller | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesThe private tech market has never been hotter, with companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic and Stripe climbing to astronomical valuations. PitchBook, one of the top providers of data on startups, wants to make it easier for users to quickly access information on those companies and many others. On Monday, Pitchbook introduced an artificial intelligence-powered tool that provides market insights based on user prompts. Rather than having to find a company’s profile page and search for specific information, subscribers will be able to ask questions to the AI assistant, dubbed PitchBook Navigator,…

LONDON: The director general of the BBC announced his resignation Sunday following a row over the editing of a documentary about US President Donald Trump. Tim Davie and the broadcaster’s head of news, Deborah Turness, resigned after accusations that a documentary by its flagship Panorama programme had edited a speech by Trump in a misleading way. “Like all public organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable,” Davie said in a statement posted on the BBC website. “While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to…

Former Donald Trump lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani arrives at U.S. Federal court in his case to surrender valuables to Georgia election workers he was found to have defamed, in New York City, U.S., November 26, 2024. Brendan McDermid | ReutersPresident Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, a Justice Department official says.Ed Martin, the government’s pardon attorney, posted on social media a signed proclamation of the “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon, which also…

A staff member promotes shoes via live streaming at a network technology company in Ouhai District of Wenzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Nov. 10, 2025. E-commerce and logistics companies across China are busy selling, packaging and delivering goods in the run-up to the annual “Double Eleven” shopping festival which falls on Nov. 11. (Photo by Liu Jili/Xinhua)A staff member promotes shoes via live streaming at a network technology company in Ouhai District of Wenzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Nov. 10, 2025. E-commerce and logistics companies across China are busy selling, packaging and delivering goods in the run-up to the annual…

Pervaiz Rashid. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Sunday witnessed heated debates on the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill, with the treasury benches hailing it as a historic step toward strengthening the constitutional framework, enhancing judicial transparency, and ensuring inclusive representation. However, opposition members rejected the proposed amendment, arguing that it would shake the foundations of the Constitution and undermine the independence of the judiciary. Taking part in the debate, senior PML-N leader Senator Pervaiz Rashid said the struggle for judicial independence in Pakistan had always been led by political workers and democratic forces rather than the judiciary itself. He…

Huge swathes of cash are flowing from Japan to European tech startups as risk-averse investors favor a more mature entrepreneurial ecosystem, helping to scale the continent’s booming deep tech cluster.While the European startup and venture capital ecosystem has long operated in the shadow of Silicon Valley, it has become fertile ground for Japanese corporates, whose domestic market is younger.  Japanese investors or venture capital funds who themselves have Japanese investors, known as limited partners, participated in European financing rounds worth more than 33 billion euros ($38 billion) since 2019 when a trade deal between the European Union and Japan came into…

A Long March-12 carrier rocket carrying the 13th group of low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province, Nov. 10, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)WENCHANG, Hainan, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) — China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan on Monday.The satellite group, the 13th of its kind that will constitute an internet constellation, was launched at 10:41 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-12 carrier rocket. The satellites entered the preset orbit successfully. ■A Long…

‘Ensuring the delivery of urgently needed supplies to Gaza is of utmost importance’ ISTANBUL: Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defense Minister Yasar Guler, and intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin will visit Islamabad next week to discuss tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Turkish president said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters on his flight returning from Azerbaijan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said preparations are underway to send containers from Türkiye’s earthquake zone to Gaza, adding that they will provide maximum support. Ensuring the delivery of urgently needed supplies to Gaza is of utmost importance, Erdogan stated, calling it “not merely a matter of aid,…

Achakzai calls for immediate mobilisation announced beginning of mass movement from Sunday night ISLAMABAD: The Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP) on Sunday denounced the 27th Amendment as an “assault on the Constitution” and “Pakistan’s 9/11”, as the opposition alliance announced the launch of a nationwide protest campaign to resist “the direct attack on the state’s foundations”. At a joint press conference in Islamabad, the alliance’s leaders, including nominated opposition leader in the National Assembly Mahmood Khan Achakzai, nominated opposition leader in the Senate Allama Nasir Abbas, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar and others, also declared that they would not allow Parliament to function…

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi. SCREENGRAB PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Sohail Afridi has described the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment as an attempt to trample the Constitution. According to the K-P CM, a government allegedly formed on the basis of a rigged election cannot be allowed to tamper with a unanimous national document. “The current government sitting in power has only 17 [genuinely acquired] seats [in the National Assembly] in total — they neither have a public mandate nor the authority to amend the Constitution,” Afridi, who belongs to the PTI, said on Sunday. The CM was responding to a…