AI hiring outpaces overall IT recruitment in India: reportIndia's IT sector is prioritising artificial intelligence (AI) hiring, with AI roles seeing a 16% year-on-year surge in June, contrasting w...
03 Jul, 2026, 05.46 PM IST
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expectedZuckerberg and other Meta executives have been seeking to moderate some of the organizational changes introduced earlier this year, witho...
03 Jul, 2026, 07.36 AM IST
Microsoft, AWS deploy engineer armies to help crack AIAWS and Microsoft want to embed thousands of their own engineers at client companies to help them capitalize on artificial intelligence, wh...
02 Jul, 2026, 09.16 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: OpenAI is halving inference cost and what this meansOpenAI has reportedly halved its AI inference costs through significant optimizations, a crucial development amid rising AI development exp...
02 Jul, 2026, 12.25 PM IST
Sam Altman wants to give a 5% OpenAI stake to the US government: ReportOpenAI is reportedly exploring a 5% equity stake for the U.S. government, a move aimed at easing political concerns and fostering ties with...
02 Jul, 2026, 11.10 AM IST
Mythos and the fight over America's most powerful AIAfter a US government greenlight, global access to Anthropic's powerful AI model Fable 5 -- along with restricted access to the even more p...
02 Jul, 2026, 09.38 AM IST
Days after Meta sent 4 AM layoff emails to 8,000 employees, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says fears of AI job losses are overstated and more jobs could be created if...Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes artificial intelligence won't necessarily lead to mass job losses. He has argued that companies can choos...
02 Jul, 2026, 12.43 AM IST
Fear and anger brew inside Meta amid AI frenzyA frenzied push for artificial intelligence dominance comes with a different kind of cost for Meta, where massive layoffs, employee surveil...
01 Jul, 2026, 08.15 AM IST
Microsoft to cut under 2.5% of workforce in latest layoffs: reportU.S. companies have continued to trim headcount in recent months, with a fresh wave of layoffs across the technology, media and finance s...
01 Jul, 2026, 07.41 AM IST
ET Graphics: Code takes over the cubicles as tech companies toss staff for AI growthSince the beginning of 2026, over 120,000 tech employees have been laid off across more than 200 companies including Meta, Amazon and Oracl...
01 Jul, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Amazon's AWS commits $1 billion toward new unit for embedded AI engineersThe company is committing an initial $1 billion to the initiative with the goal of sending five to six pods of engineers to customers for 4...
30 Jun, 2026, 09.59 PM IST
Weak hiring is hurting young workers more than AI, study saysA new Federal Reserve study reveals that a scarcity of job openings, not a lack of AI skills, is the primary driver of unemployment among y...
30 Jun, 2026, 04.37 PM IST
BAT to cut 9,000 jobs globally as the world lights fewer cigarettesBritish American Tobacco is slashing approximately 9,000 jobs globally as part of a major restructuring. This significant workforce reducti...
29 Jun, 2026, 01.13 PM IST
AI is plowing through the workplace. This new group wants to help people adapt and have jobsA newly formed bipartisan nonprofit named RAISE US is set to launch with over $500 million aimed at tackling job losses anticipated from ar...
26 Jun, 2026, 10.23 AM IST
Korea's AI crackdown may trigger healthy correction, India could benefit: Rahul ChadhaSouth Korean regulatory actions are prompting a reassessment of AI semiconductor valuations, though experts see this as a healthy correctio...
24 Jun, 2026, 11.08 AM IST
Workday must face California lawsuit over AI bias in job screening toolsUS District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco rejected California-based Workday's claim that the state's anti-discrimination laws do not appl...
23 Jun, 2026, 01.30 PM IST
Oracle layoffs 2026: Tech giant's headcount shrinks by 21,000 amid rapid AI adoptionAI adoption has led to a 13% decline in Oracle's total workforce. The company said in its filing that the workforce adjustments were in res...
23 Jun, 2026, 08.53 AM IST