ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation, reports The New York Times. The deal is part of OpenAI’s broader strategy to secure $40 billion this year. The oversubscribed round came months ahead of schedule, per the NYT. OpenAI initially raised $2.5 billion from VC firms in March when it announced its…
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is set to cut around 12,000 jobs globally, approximately 2% of its workforce, in what is being termed one of the company’s biggest-ever layoffs. However, the IT major has clarified that the decision has nothing to do with artificial intelligence replacing jobs. In an interview with Moneycontrol, TCS CEO K Krithivasan…
With news coming in throughout the week, it can be difficult to sift out the important updates from the noise. To keep readers up to date, we’ve compiled the Weekly Tech Recap, where we take a look at the top news that shook up the world of technology. This week, Apple released the first public…
Hyderabad: Google rolls out an on-device version of the Gemini Robotics AI model, which can operate without an internet connection. The new Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model comes with general-purpose dexterous capabilities and task generalisation, similar to the one released in March this year. For those who do not know what a VLA model is, it’s a…
Google’s Gemini AI has taken center stage on Samsung’s phones over the past couple of years. Recent reports have suggested that Samsung is now interested in bring Perplexity AI to its devices, but that plan could run into an Apple-sized problem. A new report has claimed that Apple is thinking about acquiring Perplexity. It has…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on stage at Build 2025 Microsoft A year after Microsoft launched the Copilot+ PC, we’ve finally started to get an idea of what’s possible with an on-device NPU and Microsoft’s fully featured, AI-enhanced OS. Microsoft suffered a major false start with its Recall function, but now that we’re a year past…
Amazon said Wednesday (June 4) that its latest artificial intelligence (AI) projects are related to robots, last-mile delivery and supply chain optimization. The company highlighted these efforts in a Wednesday post on LinkedIn. In the case of robots, Amazon said its agentic AI team is developing an AI foundation model framework that will allow robots…
Apple to host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, 2025, which is next week. As we wait to hear Apple’s innovation and upcoming plans for the year, rumours surrounding the next generation of software have been circulating all over the internet. For starters, Apple is expected to change the names of the software…
Microsoft is now testing a new feature in Notepad that can generate text for you using AI. It’s part of a Windows 11 update being released to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels with Copilot Plus PCs. The update also includes new AI-powered features for Paint like a sticker generator, and improvements to…
The trade association backing some of the biggest news publishers in the US slammed Google’s newly expanded AI Mode, which trades traditional search results for an AI chatbot-like interface. In a statement on Wednesday, the News/Media Alliance said the new feature is “depriving” publishers of both traffic and revenue. During Google I/O on Tuesday, the…
