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AI firms scout for startup buyouts to boost full-stack tech capabilitiesAI firms are actively acquiring startups to build full-stack capabilities as enterprises move towards large-scale AI deployment. This conso...
OpenAI acquires AI personal finance startup HiroHiro Finance, backed by VC firm Ribbit as well as General Catalyst and Restive, was founded in 2023. The startup launched its AI-based fina...
Year 2026 retool, reset or melt?Even as AI funding surges, capital concentration and thinning differentiation among startups signal valuation reset and consolidation, says...
Big Tech’s AI shopping spree in 2025: Who bought whatThis year's AI sector saw a surge in high-profile acquisitions, with companies prioritising talent acquisition through strategic moves like...
AI in 2025: 25 milestones including mega deals, bubble fears, job cuts, talent wars and moreIn a transformative year, AI captured headlines with significant funding and elevated valuations for emerging startups. The existing tech b...
Smaller AI startups echo Indian watchdog’s anti-trust concernsIndian startups warn that Big Tech’s dominance in AI data and cloud services risks monopolies, price discrimination, and restricted competi...
OpenAI acquires AI-led finance app Roi in personalisation pushThis deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, follows OpenAI's acquihiring Context.ai, Crossing Minds, and Alex this year. Roi will end...
Urban Company's Rs 1,900-crore IPO; Google's Chrome winUrban Company is set to ride to Dalal Street, with its Rs 1,900-crore issue next week. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Why is Big Tech dangling millions of dollars for chosen AI engineers?Tech companies are laying off workers, citing AI's efficiency, while simultaneously offering exorbitant sums to acquire top AI talent. This...
Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, researchers to advance AI ambitions; OpenAI acquisition falls apartMohan and the Windsurf team will focus on agentic coding initiatives at Google DeepMind, primarily working on the Gemini project. The devel...
Money isn’t everything: Meta’s Superintelligence Labs roundly rejected by some despite tempting pay offersMeta is trying hard to get top AI experts for its Superintelligence Labs. They are offering big salaries to compete with OpenAI and Google....
Shadowfax files IPO papers; UPI cools in JuneLogistics firm Shadowfax has become the latest new-age company to confidentially file for its IPO. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
AI talent war: OpenAI acquihires the team behind Crossing MindsBacked by the likes of Index Ventures, Shopify, Plug and Play, and Radical Ventures, the AI startup has raised more than $13.5 million acro...
Meta-Scale AI deal raises client conflict risk with Google, MicrosoftGoogle and other big tech companies are rethinking their ties with Scale AI. This follows Meta's significant investment in the data-labelin...
Meta's $14.8 billion Scale AI deal latest test of AI partnershipsUnlike an acquisition or a transaction that would give Meta a controlling stake, the deal does not require a review by US antitrust regulat...
Paytm, Mobikwik shares slip; US onsite visas stallPaytm and Mobikwik stocks slide after MDR rumour sparks selloff. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
'Hard to find high-quality data for complex reasoning'Niki Parmar, a member of Anthropic’s technical staff and co-author of the paper Attention is All You Need, says it has become hard to find ...
US senators call out big tech's new approach to poaching talent, products from smaller AI startupsPresident Joe Biden's administration and lawmakers from both parties have promoted stricter oversight of the tech industry recently. US ant...
AI deals between Microsoft and OpenAI, Google and Samsung, in EU crosshairsEuropean Commission assesses tech partnerships for merger control compliance, focusing on potential market concentration effects. Regulator...