Salesforce Said to Cut 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI

Salesforce Said to Cut 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI

Salesforce Inc. is cutting jobs as its latest fiscal year gets underway, according to a person familiar with the matter, even as the company simultaneously hires workers to sell new Artificial Intelligence (AI) products. More than 1,000 roles will be affected, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the information is … Read more

Alphabet Faces Scrutiny on AI Spending as Google Cloud Growth Slows

Alphabet Faces Scrutiny on AI Spending as Google Cloud Growth Slows

Alphabet will face investor scrutiny over its massive spending on AI when it reports earnings on Tuesday, as revenue growth at the Google parent likely slowed in the holiday quarter due to a slowdown in its advertising and cloud businesses. Like other US technology heavyweights, Alphabet faces new scrutiny on its capital expenditure after Chinese … Read more

OpenAI Cites US Roots to Dodge Copyright Lawsuit in India, but Lawyers Say Case Can Be Heard

OpenAI Cites US Roots to Dodge Copyright Lawsuit in India, but Lawyers Say Case Can Be Heard

OpenAI faces an uphill climb as it argues that Indian courts cannot hear lawsuits about its US-based business in the country, where Telegram has failed with similar defences and US technology firms have faced government heat on compliance. OpenAI, which counts India as its second biggest market with millions of users, is locked in an intense court battle triggered by domestic news … Read more

Budget 2025: Tech in Focus With Framework for GCCs, New ‘Fund of Funds’ for startups, CoE for AI

Budget 2025: Tech in Focus With Framework for GCCs, New

New and emerging technologies were in focus in the Union Budget, as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a national framework for Global Capability Centres (GCCs), Rs 500-crore Centre of Excellence in AI for education, and said a deep tech ‘Fund of Funds’ will be explored to catalyse the next generation startups. A new Fund of … Read more

Mistral Small 3 Open-Source AI Model Introduced, Outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini

Mistral Small 3 Open-Source AI Model Introduced, Outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini

Mistral, the Paris-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released the Mistral Small 3 AI model on Thursday. The company, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on Hugging Face as well as several other platforms. Mistral claimed that the latest model was built with processing speed, efficiency, … Read more

Samsung’s One UI 7 Now Bar Feature Tipped to Be Integrated With Google Maps

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Samsung’s One UI 7 operating system, which was launched at the Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event, is tipped to be adding Google Maps integration into the Now Bar. The South Korean tech giant introduced Now Bar and Now Brief at the event as new artificial intelligence (AI) features within the Galaxy AI suite. Now Bar shows a … Read more

Gemini in Google Sheets Gets Updated With Data Analysis and Visualising Tools

Gemini in Google Sheets Gets Updated With Data Analysis and Visualising Tools

Gemini in Google Sheets is getting a major upgrade that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) tool to analyse and visualise user data. Announced on Wednesday, the new features are currently being rolled out to the Google Workspace subscribers and those subscribed to the Google One AI Premium plan. Interestingly, the update also lets Gemini … Read more

OpenAI Alleges Its AI Models Were Used to Build DeepSeek-R1: Report

OpenAI Alleges Its AI Models Were Used to Build DeepSeek-R1: Report

OpenAI has reportedly claimed that DeepSeek might have distilled its artificial intelligence (AI) models to build the R1 model. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm stated that it has evidence that some users were using its AI models’ outputs for a competitor, which is suspected to be DeepSeek. Notably, the Chinese company … Read more

OpenAI to Release o3-Mini AI Model to ChatGPT Free Tier, Plus Subscribers to Get Higher Rate Limits

OpenAI to Release o3-Mini AI Model to ChatGPT Free Tier, Plus Subscribers to Get Higher Rate Limits

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made several announcements for ChatGPT users on Sunday. The o3 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models, which were unveiled in December 2024 as a research preview, will now witness its first global release. Altman stated that the o3-mini AI model will be rolling out to both the paid subscribers as well … Read more

DeepSeek Hit by Cyberattack as Users Flock to Chinese AI Startup

DeepSeek Hit by Cyberattack as Users Flock to Chinese AI Startup

Chinese startup DeepSeek said on Monday it will temporarily limit registrations due to a cyberattack after the company’s AI assistant amassed sudden popularity. The startup earlier in the day was also hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free application available on Apple’s App Store in the United States. … Read more