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OpenAI has hired its first employee in India, a government relations head, to push for favorable rules and regulations circling AI in anticipation of massive growth opportunities within the country.

The U.S. government, as part of the CHIPS and Science Act, has pledged to provide TSMC up to $6.6 billion for expanding its under-construction Arizona semiconductor fabrication units.

Meta has added new video controls, unifying all forms of videos, long, short, vertical, or horizontal, to a singular vertical format by default with new video controls, such as fast-forward.

TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturing company, has resumed work on its factories with limited disruption to its operations after Taiwan was struck by a powerful earthquake.

Opera will allow users using Opera One to run LLMs locally on their computers. The browser supports more than 150 models from 50 families including LLMs from Meta, Google, and more.

Intel has reported significant losses of $7 billion in its foundry business attributed to its poor decisions in the past, slow adoption of chip-making technologies, and increased competitiveness.

The Indian government has resolved one of the most significant breaches of its citizens' sensitive information which included Aadhar information, COVID-19 vaccination records, and even addresses.

Microsoft has expanded its Priva family of products to help organizations adapt complex privacy requirements related to personal data in an ever-changing world of compliance and regulations.

Yahoo has acquired Artifact, the news aggregating app that was created by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger. Artifact was known for its AI-driven personalized news feed.

AWS is giving startups up to $500,000 in credits for using different AI models by Anthropic, Meta, and more to be used on its own AI platform, Amazon Bedrock in partnership with Y Combinator.

After months of advocating the Copilot on its devices and even launching a dedicated Copilot button, Microsoft has solid plans for OEMs to make AI PC-branded devices, as revealed by Intel.

Around 33% fewer iPhones were sold in February 2024 as compared to last year in China as part of the continuing trend in the slowdown of iPhone sales as competition toughens and the market slumps.

Canva has made its biggest acquisition till date and acquired Affinity suite of creative software products, providing stiff competition to market leader Adobe for its creative suite.

After planning to bake Google's Gemini features on the iPhone, Apple is also in talks with China's Baidu to bring similar features to iPhones in China amid stringent AI compliance requirements.

It looks like Apple hasn't forgotten about its folding iPhone project and it's still working in the background to prepare for a potential launch in 2026, as per the latest rumors.

In the case of United States v. Xiaolang Zhang which is ongoing since 2018, the California District Court has sentenced Zhang for imprisonment for stealing numerous documents about the Apple Car.

SAP is planning to restructure more than 8,000 jobs internally and is focusing to invest heavily on AI tools and technology in an attempt to automate its processes and prioritize AI-driven growth.

Foxconn and HCL are setting up a chip packaging and testing center in India backed by a $37.2 million investment following Foxconn's withdrawal from a $20 billion venture with Vedanta last year.

Apple could be planning an international launch of Vision Pro, even before WWDC 2024 in an attempt to boost global development of visionOS. However, supply chain challenges and regulations remain.

Vodafone is joining hands with Microsoft to harness the power of AI, Cloud and other digital services in an attempt to "transform the customer experience" across Europe, the UK, and Africa.

Europe's consumer organization, the BEUC, has filed a complaint against Meta for breaching EU consumer laws claiming that Meta is forcing users to pay a fee to ensure privacy.

Spotify is cracking down on white noise podcasters as they will no longer be eligible for its Ambassador Ads program where it used to pay creators for talking about its podcasting platform.

TSMC, the world's leading foundry, is planning to charge up to 30% more for chips made in the U.S. than those made in Taiwan due to higher building costs of fabrications outside of Taiwan.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a private version of ChatGPT that will run on dedicated Azure servers intended to keep data from customers safe, secure, and isolated from others.

Box is partnering up with OpenAI to bring generative AI capabilities into its products. Users can ask Box AI to summarize or answer questions about their documents or other data over the cloud.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, in an interview with Bloomberg, said that the company is no longer planning to hire jobs that can be automated using artificial intelligence tools, impacting around 7,800 jobs.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents companies like Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, and Oracle, is urging Congress to establish guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence.

Samsung and Xbox have launched dedicated gaming zones in London and New York City offering visitors a chance to play their favorite Xbox games on Samsung screens, via the "Samsung Gaming Hub".

The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has imposed a $300 million penalty against Seagate for shipping $1.1 billion worth of hard disk drives to Huawei against the export rules set in 2019.

Sega Sammy, the Japanese video game company, has announced its acquisition of Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the popular mobile game, Angry Birds, in a €706 million takeover deal.

Apple will open its first retail store at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai while its second store will open a few days later in Saket, Delhi. Tim Cook will inaugurate the stores during his visit.

TSMC has reassured with a commitment to its expansion and investment plans in Taiwan despite reports of a slowdown in expansion in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung set to manufacture 28nm chips.

China's cyberspace regulator is going to review Micron's products amid tensions between the U.S. and China over the semiconductor industry. The move is meant to safeguard China's national security.

TikTok has refreshed its community guidelines and added a few new sections in an attempt to better address the concerns with AI-generated content, age restrictions and misinformation.

China is changing its strategy to support its semiconductor industry by providing easier access to subsidies to some companies. This comes amidst tight U.S. controls over chip-making equipment.

Meta is developing a decentralised text-based social media platform that will run on the same protocol as that of Twitter rival Mastodon and aims to create a more transparent and secure social media.

Apple and Foxconn have successfully lobbied for new labour laws in the Indian state of Karnataka, allowing for two-shift production in the region, amid India's plans to become a manufacturing hub.

The second Developer Preview of Android 14 is here that includes several enhancements to privacy and security, such as selected photos access, credential manager, safer implicit intents, and more.