VideoCardz reports that Paralympics Productions is shutting down after receiving a cease-and-desist related to its unofficial GTA V ports.
TFNBreakingNews says Partech Partners led the round, with support from Northzone VC, Foundamental and Seedcamp.
Tech in Asia profiles Superbench, a startup led by Jingjing Zhong and Yan Kai Ng that automates booking for mid-market and large service businesses across Singapore, Australia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
HiringCafe has raised $6.8 million in pre-seed funding led by Spark Capital. The company says it will use the money to scale its platform and further develop its AI Talent Agent for job seekers.
Digit has rounded up Jio recharge plans under Rs 500, highlighting data-only options at Rs 103, Rs 149 and Rs 200, plus fuller 28-day bundles at Rs 349, Rs 399 and Rs 459 with 5G, calls, SMS and streaming extras.
Tech Funding News says Isogen Ventures and 2150 jointly led the financing, with continued support from Luminar Ventures, RunwayFBU, J12 and AI.FUND.
San Francisco-based Mona has raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners to grow its AI platform for small-business capital access and financial coaching.
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 (the second in the 5.5 family) as a faster, more efficient mid-tier model for coding, document work, and agentic workflows, claiming ~30% faster performance and lower token usage/cost at $2/$10 per million tokens.
AMD has agreed to buy World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion. The chipmaker says Fei-Fei Li will join as executive vice president and chief scientist after the deal closes.
