Matt Deitke rejected Meta’s $125 million AI offer, but Mark Zuckerberg personally stepped in with a staggering $250 million package to bring the 24-year-old researcher to Meta’s Superintelligence LabAI prodigy Matt Deitke, 24, reportedly rejected Meta’s $125 million offer before CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally stepped in. Meta then raise...
27 Aug, 2026, 10.22 PM IST
Six Indian healthtech startups selected for UK-India accelerator programmeLaunched in 2023, the programme seeks to strengthen collaboration between India and the UK in health innovation and help Indian companies p...
27 Aug, 2026, 09.09 PM IST
SK Hynix holds groundbreaking ceremony for $4 billion Indiana AI chip packaging facilityThe facility, at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, is scheduled to begin cleanroom operations in the second half of 2028, accordi...
27 Aug, 2026, 07.41 PM IST
OpenAI-Hugging Face incident exposes cybersecurity’s ‘human-speed’ problemAI agents exploited familiar system weaknesses with surprising speed and persistence. These agents communicated extensively, forming a swar...
27 Aug, 2026, 05.49 PM IST
Gates Foundation, India to develop AI tools for farmers, explore Asia-Africa expansionThe Gates Foundation will collaborate with India to enhance AI-powered digital tools for farmers. Discussions focused on India's advanced u...
27 Aug, 2026, 05.19 PM IST
Huawei plans for more AI pharma tie-ups, says healthcare presidentThe move highlights Huawei's ambitions to gain a foothold in the fast-growing AI drug discovery market, where pharmaceutical companies are ...
27 Aug, 2026, 02.03 PM IST
If AI can write the code, what is left for senior engineers? Meesho’s Kiran Katreddi answersAI and automation are compressing engineering career timelines significantly. Junior developers now tackle complex tasks much earlier in th...
26 Aug, 2026, 07.17 PM IST
AI adoption surges in Asia as companies set up new hubs in Singapore, IndiaAI and generative AI investment in Asia is projected to reach $175 billion by 2028. Many employees across Asia-Pacific already use AI at wo...
26 Aug, 2026, 03.47 PM IST
Billionaire Jeff Bezos came calling. These researchers walked away to build physics AI, leaving a $2 mn salary behindTwo AI researchers declined a lucrative offer from Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus. They instead chose to develop their own artificial intel...
26 Aug, 2026, 01.31 PM IST
AI skills beyond coding: How non-tech professionals are joining the AI raceAI is becoming a mainstream workplace skill beyond coding and technical roles. Professionals in marketing, finance, HR, sales and operation...
26 Aug, 2026, 12.17 PM IST
India AI policy: Pragmatism before sovereigntyNavigating the road to AI sovereignty, India confronts numerous hurdles amid fierce global rivalry. A pragmatic approach suggests that some...
26 Aug, 2026, 10.46 AM IST
Google expands Gemini AI platform for law firms, lawyersThe new plug-in for Gemini Enterprise includes integration with legal software and data platforms and a stable of AI agents that Google sa...
25 Aug, 2026, 05.37 PM IST
Who let the bots out? AI’s coding chaosAs more companies rely on AI to write software, developers are increasingly finding themselves maintaining code that no human fully underst...
25 Aug, 2026, 05.10 PM IST
This Mysore-born scientist, whose great-grandfather was a mathematician and grandfather a Sanskrit scholar, helped make AI faster at weather forecasting & drug discoveryAnima Anandkumar, a prominent AI researcher, applies machine learning to complex problems in physics and science. Her work at Caltech focus...
25 Aug, 2026, 03.53 PM IST
Alabama launches probe into OpenAI after Hugging Face breachLast week, IPO-bound OpenAI said it would slow the pace of model development while overhauling its research and training systems after co...
25 Aug, 2026, 08.34 AM IST
ET World Leaders Forum: Software prowess puts India in a pole position for AI, says Nigel Vaz, CEO, Publicis SapientIndia’s near-term AI advantage lies in using AI to transform businesses rather than competing immediately with the US and China on computin...
24 Aug, 2026, 11.55 PM IST
Mark Zuckerberg's wife Priscilla Chan’s parents escaped Vietnam by boat with no hope of reuniting with their family; decades later, their daughter became a Harvard graduate & philanthropistPriscilla Chan's journey is rooted in her family's escape from war-torn Vietnam in search of safety and a better life. She became the first...
23 Aug, 2026, 11.12 AM IST