As tech chiefs woo Trump, Silicon Valley seethes over Minneapolis shootingsHours after immigration agents in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, a growing chorus of tech exe...
27 Jan, 2026, 09.46 AM IST
Mark Zuckerberg drops another $1.5 billion pay package for top AI researcher - who is he and what's his fame?Meta Platforms Inc. has secured Andrew Tulloch, a co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab. Tulloch joins Meta with a compensation...
17 Oct, 2025, 12.48 AM IST
Elon Musk, who's suing Microsoft, is also software giant's special guest in new Grok AI partnershipMusk last year sued Microsoft and its close business partner OpenAI in a dispute over Musk's foundational contributions to OpenAI, which Mu...
20 May, 2025, 10.15 AM IST
Microsoft AI CEO's remarks interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesterDuring Microsoft's 50th anniversary event, employee Ibtihal Aboussad interrupted AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, protesting the company's ties to ...
05 Apr, 2025, 07.30 AM IST
Microsoft's premature release of GPT-4 test in India contributed to Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI: WSJ reportIn November 2023, Sam Altman was ousted as OpenAI CEO for lack of candor, with controversies surrounding GPT-4’s premature release, fund mi...
30 Mar, 2025, 08.34 AM IST
Meta permits its AI models to be used for US military purposesMeta said that it would make its AI models, called Llama, available to federal agencies and that it was working with defense contractors su...
07 Nov, 2024, 04.11 PM IST
OpenAI dissolves high-profile safety team after chief scientist Ilya Sutskever’s exitOpenAI dissolves safety team led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, integrating efforts for AI system safety goals. The team was formed less ...
18 May, 2024, 09.11 AM IST
Five days of chaos: How Sam Altman returned to OpenAIAltman's reinstatement capped a corporate drama that mixed piles of money, a pressure campaign from allies, intense media attention and a s...
23 Nov, 2023, 11.49 AM IST
What does Sam Altman's firing and quick reinstatement mean for the future of AI?Altman, who helped start OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab back in 2015, was removed as CEO Friday in a sudden and mostly unexplained exit...
23 Nov, 2023, 08.33 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: ChatGPT extends voice feature to free users; here’s how to use itThe company collaborated with professional voice actors to create each voice and used Whisper, its open-source speech recognition system, t...
22 Nov, 2023, 04.11 PM IST
OpenAI says Sam Altman will return as CEO, new board announcedPutting an end to the days-long power tussle at OpenAI, the company on Wednesday announced that Sam Altman will return to the high-flying A...
22 Nov, 2023, 01.31 PM IST
OpenAI's unusual nonprofit structure led to dramatic ouster of sought-after CEO Sam AltmanThe abrupt removal of one of the world's most sought-after AI experts led to an employee revolt that has put the entire organization's futu...
22 Nov, 2023, 12.37 PM IST
Sam Altman, OpenAI board open talks to negotiate his possible returnDiscussions are happening between Altman and at least one board member, Adam D’Angelo, said the people, who asked not to be identified beca...
21 Nov, 2023, 11.29 PM IST
Microsoft ends weekend of OpenAI drama with coup of its ownThe tech giant has hired Altman and Greg Brockman, another OpenAI cofounder who had quit in protest, to lead a newly formed in-house AI res...
20 Nov, 2023, 06.28 PM IST
OpenAI leaders' efforts to bring back Sam Altman reach impasse over board roleAltman, who was fired Friday, is open to returning but wants to see governance changes, including the removal of existing board members, sa...
20 Nov, 2023, 08.00 AM IST
The fear and tension that led to Sam Altman's ouster at OpenAIThat conflict between fast growth and AI safety came into focus Friday afternoon, when Altman was pushed out of his job by four of OpenAI's...
19 Nov, 2023, 08.51 AM IST
Meesho cuts 15% workforce to prune costs; Tim Cook sees India at a ‘tipping point’After firing 150 employees nearly a year ago, ecommerce startup Meesho has announced layoffs again that will affect 251 employees as it aim...
05 May, 2023, 07.46 PM IST