Reliance unveils $110B AI investment plan as India ramps up tech ambitions
Reliance has begun building multi-gigawatt AI data centers in Jamnagar, with more than 120 MW of capacity expected to come online in 2026.
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The biggest app in the whole wide world
Last summer, Bria Sullivan was getting ready to launch her app, an adorable companion called Focus Friend meant to help people manage their screen time. Her outlandish dream was to get 100,000 downloads. She’d been building the app with Hank Green, a creator with a huge audience, so she thought maybe, maybe, Focus Friend could […]
OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW
OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.
Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered a downtown Los Angeles courthouse in largely the same way as all the attorneys, reporters, and advocates who’d come to watch his landmark trial testimony, but with one notable difference: he was flanked by an entourage that appeared to be wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. To get to the courtroom, […]
OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.
The RAM crunch could kill products and even entire companies, memory exec admits
Phison is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices – and CEO Pua Khein-Seng has now become a leading voice for just how bad the RAM shortage might get. Companies may need to cut back their product lines in the second half of 2026, and some companies […]
Dyson turned its skinny PencilVac into a lightweight wet floor cleaner
Dyson has announced an alternate version of its skinny PencilVac that’s designed to clean spills and stains on hard floors instead of sucking up dirt and debris. Like the PencilVac, which Dyson called “world’s slimmest vacuum cleaner” when it was announced nine months ago, the new PencilWash squeezes a battery, motor, and other electronics into […]
Etsy sells secondhand clothing marketplace Depop to eBay for $1.2B
The deal comes nearly five years after Etsy purchased Depop for $1.62 billion, at a time when secondhand clothing apps were gaining traction during the pandemic.
Meta is reportedly planning to launch a smartwatch this year
Meta is planning to launch a smartwatch with health tracking and AI features later this year, along with an updated version of its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, The Information reports. The smartwatch would arrive ahead of a pair of mixed reality glasses, code-named Phoenix, that Meta has reportedly delayed until 2027 amidst efforts to […]
Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein
The Def Con hacking conference banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from attending the annual conference after their reported connections with Jeffrey Epstein.