Sridhar Vembu explains why phones and laptops are getting expensive in 2026Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has warned that the massive AI investment boom is pushing up the cost of memory and other technology components,...
At Beijing AI-themed bar, DeepSeek tokens come with the pintsAs AI enthusiasm sweeps across China, Song De opened AGI Bar, named after the concept of artificial general intelligence where AI systems s...
US Stock Market: Citadel Securities warns SEC rule change could hurt retail investors, market liquidityCitadel Securities has urged the SEC to reconsider its proposal to eliminate the order protection rule, warning it could weaken market liqu...
IT leans on model FinOps workstreams as scaling AI costs strain enterprise budgetsThe shift comes as enterprises turn AI usage into a recurring business expense and make cost and value management a larger part of AI trans...
Stripe clinches over $7 billion deal to buy AI firm OpenRouterThe deal, just months after OpenRouter raised money at a reported $1.3 billion valuation, underscores the demand from businesses to find th...
Mutual funds raise IT exposure to 6.6% in July after record low. Is sentiment towards tech improving?In July, mutual funds increased their allocation to the IT sector to 6.6 per cent, marking a positive shift after an extended period of min...
Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash AI model for coding, agent workflowsInvestors have been closely watching for Gemini 3.5 Pro, Google's premium model, as a test of whether its DeepMind AI unit can keep pace wi...
Accel’s $550 million India fund; South Park Commons bets on deeptechHappy Wednesday! Venture capital firm Accel has raised its ninth India fund. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
India Inc leans on hybrid AI strategy: A string of models for cost and controlIndian enterprises are moving towards hybrid AI to balance cost, performance & data sensitivity as frontier open-weight models narrow the g...
Chinese AI drives price competition among US labsA new generation of cost-efficient, high-performance Chinese AI is putting pressure on Silicon Valley's leading labs to lower prices to gra...
Startups turn to lower-tier AI models to cut costs as frontier pricing risesThis is a departure from the early days, when companies trusted only the most powerful models regardless of cost. Now, founders are buildin...
Enterprise AI startup Wonderful plans to hire up to 1,000 forward-deployed engineers in IndiaLalazar said the company is approaching $100 million in annualised revenue, with headcount spread across more than 35 countries and set to ...
Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI modelLike last month's blockbuster model release from Chinese AI startup Moonshot, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max model is an open-source, open-weight mo...
M2P raises Rs 100 crore debt from Alteria to fund AI expansionThe three-year facility — M2P’s second debt raise — will largely finance AI product development and computing capacity, cofounder and chief...
Meta introduces Muse Code. It offers a 21x discount if you let it train on your dataMeta has introduced Muse Code, an advanced AI coding assistant aimed at software engineers. This innovative tool offers significant discoun...
Qwen 3.8-Max launches with 2.4 trillion parameters. Don't trust the benchmarks just yetAlibaba launched its large AI model Qwen3.8-Max with many parameters. This model supports extensive context windows and multimodal inputs f...
DeepSeek's new AI model is by far the cheapest of well-known models to run, research firm saysA version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among well-known models g...