Bill Gates called it 'burning a billion dollars,' but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella still invested it anyway. Guess who was right?In 2019, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ignored Bill Gates’ warning that investing $1 billion in OpenAI would be like “burning money.” Five ye...
31 Oct, 2025, 04.31 PM IST
Amazon's massive layoffs; Founders cash in IPOAmazon will cut tens of thousands of corporate roles in a major workforce reshuffle. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
28 Oct, 2025, 09.05 PM IST
Inside AI’s child-safety debate: Where OpenAI, Meta, Google, Character.AI standOpenAI, Google, Meta, Character.AI, and others face scrutiny over AI’s impact on minors. OpenAI added teen-specific safeguards, including a...
22 Sep, 2025, 11.32 AM IST
Want to work for Elon Musk's xAI? It is hiring engineers to work on Grok app amid fake news scandalDo you want to work for Elon Musk's xAI? It is hiring engineers to work on Grok app. Grok is an AI assistant and chatbot developed by xAI, ...
10 Jun, 2025, 05.40 PM IST
Why AI can't take over creative writingChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) learned from a huge corpus of text from the internet. It predicts the probability of the next word ...
06 Apr, 2025, 06.08 PM IST
OpenAI's Sam Altman shares PM Modi's Ghibli AI art as ChatGPT hits over one million users in 24 hoursChatGPT Ghibli Art: A series of AI-generated Studio Ghibli-style images featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken social media by st...
01 Apr, 2025, 09.11 AM IST
IIT Madras graduates can't even code with ChatGPT? Recruiter's shocking claim after campus interviews sparks alumni outrageA recruiter expressed disappointment over the inability of IIT Madras BS in Data Science graduates to code efficiently, with none of the in...
05 Mar, 2025, 10.54 AM IST
xAI blames former OpenAI employee after Grok’s censorship of Elon Musk and Donald TrumpxAI recently revealed that a prompt modification made by a former OpenAI employee resulted in Grok censoring responses related to Elon Musk...
24 Feb, 2025, 08.41 PM IST
Newsmakers of 2024: Sam Altman's OpenAI leadership turmoil, tragedy, and continued dominance in AIAmong key events, the death of OpenAI’s former researcher Suchir Balaji, who had raised concerns about the company’s potential copyright vi...
28 Dec, 2024, 11.29 AM IST
OpenAI expands ChatGPT-powered search to all users, challenging Google's dominanceThe rollout marks a strategic shift for OpenAI, as it integrates search capabilities directly into ChatGPT rather than launching a standalo...
17 Dec, 2024, 01.06 PM IST
Meta unveils star-studded AI assistantsMeta launched AI chatbots voiced by Hollywood celebrities like John Cena and Judi Dench on Wednesday, betting that its billions of users ar...
26 Sep, 2024, 08.28 AM IST
Trump launches into 360-word monologue about nothing when asked about childcare policiesFormer President Donald Trump's response to a question on making childcare more affordable has drawn criticism for its incoherence. During ...
08 Sep, 2024, 11.33 AM IST
Big slump in pay hikes for techies switching jobs; financial report card for Nykaa, Dunzo, PB FintechEmployees at Indian IT firms are not getting the salary hikes they were used to on switching jobs anymore, data from staffing companies sug...
07 Nov, 2023, 07.59 AM IST
Baidu among first to win China approval for AI modelsThe approvals, which are coming just weeks after the government implemented sweeping new regulations governing AI, will officially bring Ch...
30 Aug, 2023, 10.53 PM IST
ChatGPT marks Elon Musk “Controversial”, Twitter boss reactsChatGPT also stated that these notable figures should be handled “specially”.
20 Feb, 2023, 12.09 PM IST
Byju’s cuts another 1,000 jobs; ‘year of efficiency’ at Meta, says Mark ZuckerbergTroubled edtech firm Byju’s, in a fresh round of layoffs, has fired another 1,000 employees. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5
02 Feb, 2023, 08.24 PM IST
India set to be a major iPhone maker; journey should be the destination for founders, investorsIndia is set for an iPhone manufacturing windfall thanks to Apple’s ongoing troubles in China, industry executives and analysts told us. In...
06 Dec, 2022, 06.52 PM IST