AI won’t create India’s jobs crisis, but it could deepen itEducated youth face a challenging job market with fewer middle-skill opportunities. Many new jobs are in low-productivity agriculture or in...
16 Aug, 2026, 10.57 PM IST
AI coding startup Cognition raises $1 billion at $26 billion valueAI startup Cognition has secured over one billion dollars in a new funding round. This brings its valuation to a massive twenty-six billion...
27 May, 2026, 09.15 PM IST
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund raises $6 billion in its largest-ever haulPeter Thiel’s Founders Fund has secured a record $6 billion for its latest growth-stage fund, primarily from external limited partners. Thi...
01 May, 2026, 10.54 PM IST
AI startup Cursor in talks for $50 billion valuationCode-generation startup Cursor is discussing a new funding round with investors that could value the company at about $50 billion, Bloomber...
12 Mar, 2026, 03.45 PM IST
VCs to AI startups: please take our moneyThe lavish VC overtures are part of a larger Silicon Valley frenzy for AI, driven by startups’ astonishing revenue growth and investors’ be...
23 Sep, 2025, 04.59 PM IST
Cognition AI cinches $10 billion valuation with new fundingThe latest round was led by Founders Fund, the venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel, and included existing investors such as Lux Capi...
08 Sep, 2025, 08.58 PM IST
Heartbreak horror: New Jersey man dies chasing flirty Facebook woman who was an AI botA 76-year-old New Jersey man, Thongbue Wongbandue, died after trying to meet someone he thought was a real woman online, but was actually a...
15 Aug, 2025, 09.43 PM IST
DeepMind scientist calls LLMs 'exotic mind-like entities': Why the future of AI needs a new vocabulary?DeepMind Principal Scientist Murray Shanahan describes large language models (LLMs) as "exotic mind-like entities," highlighting our lack o...
27 Apr, 2025, 03.59 PM IST
Motive to hire hundreds as AI unicorns follow Big Tech to IndiaMotive Technologies Inc. plans to double its India headcount, hiring over 300 AI, product, and engineering staff in Bangalore over two year...
11 Mar, 2025, 11.30 AM IST
ET Explainer: Decoding the hype over building an AI brain smarter than humansWhile some, like OpenAI, are striving for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a new frontier in AI is generating debate: Artificial Supe...
26 Jun, 2024, 03.39 PM IST
Sequoia backs AI startup that automates engineering tasksMatan Grinberg, a former physics PhD student, founded Factory, an AI startup valued at over $100 million.
20 Jun, 2024, 09.52 AM IST
Meet Devika, India’s first AI engineer who can do it allDevika, India's AI engineer, competes with US's Devin using LLMs. It assists developers, plans to add multimodal features. Mufeed, a cybers...
05 Apr, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
Elon Musk says AI to outstrip human intelligence, jobs to become obseleteElon Musk has made a striking forecast suggesting that artificial intelligence (AI) could advance to a stage where human jobs are rendered ...
04 Nov, 2023, 07.45 PM IST
The Great Layoffs: Half a million job cuts could just be the tip of icebergThe COVID-19 pandemic led to a shift in demand to digital and remote work and opened up business opportunities for white-collar firms, but ...
05 Apr, 2023, 10.41 AM IST
Proptech startup CareerSocially raises $1 million, acquires HousingmanThe acquisition of Housingman will help Noida-based proptech startup CareerSocially to strengthen and expand its portfolio of AI-driven sal...
24 Jun, 2021, 01.48 PM IST
Indian tech startup 114 AI Innovation bags UK-US space contractThe joint UK-US pitch initiative aims to find, fund and fast-track innovation and technology that would give advantage to military personne...
19 Nov, 2020, 06.04 PM IST
Statistics on job losses due to automation are sensationalist: Anthony Schofield, Deloitte"What we are seeing is the freeing up of resources from boring activities with focus moving up to value-added activities and customer exper...
21 Aug, 2017, 11.32 PM IST