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TREND | 22 May 2025, 08:48AM

OpenAI recruits Jony Ive to design AI hardware in $6.5 billion deal

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OpenAI has recruited Jony Ive, the designer behind Apple's iPhone, to lead a new hardware project for the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT. OpenAI said it is acquiring io, a product and engineering company co-founded by Ive, in a deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion. OpenAI said its CEO Sam Altman had been quietly collaborating since 2023 with Ive and his design firm, LoveFrom. Ive worked at Apple for over two decades and is known for his work on iconic iPhone, iMac and iPad designs. Ive was Apple's chief design officer before leaving the company in 2019 to start his own design firm. In a joint letter posted on OpenAI's website Wednesday, Ive and Altman said it became clear that our ambitions to develop, engineer and manufacture a new family of products demanded an entirely new company. That's when Ive co-founded io with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan. OpenAI said Ive will not become an OpenAI employee and his design collective, LoveFrom, will remain...

OpenAI to acquire Jony Ive's AI device startup in landmark $6.5 billion deal

Business Line | 21 May 2025, 11:28PM 9 more

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TREND | 22 May 2025, 06:52AM

Google co-founder Sergey Brin gives away shares worth $700 million as gift

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Brin and co-founder Larry Page, who stepped down from top management roles in 2019, saw their fortunes rise by a combined $7 billion on Wednesday

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TREND | 21 May 2025, 09:33PM

Google resets search, signalling the end of traditional querying

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The new search experience, called AI Mode,' is designed to answer longer queries and generate full responses

Google to roll out agentic AI across Gemini, Search and Chrome: Pichai

Business Standard | 21 May 2025, 05:57PM 1 more

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TREND | 21 May 2025, 08:17PM

42% WhatsApp users got job scam messages asking for payment, finds survey

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A LocalCircles survey reveals 42% of WhatsApp users in India received fake job offers demanding payment. The report highlights rising impersonation and fraud cases across the messaging platform

WhatsApp had no plans to compete with Facebook: Co-founder Brian Acton

Business Standard | 21 May 2025, 07:40AM

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TREND | 21 May 2025, 06:01PM

Mistaken Identity In Bali: Singapore Woman Thinks She Met Ex-DBS Bank CEO Piyush Gupta, Gets This Reply

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A woman's LinkedIn post claiming that she met ex-DBS Bank CEO Piyush Gupta in Bali was debunked after Gupta clarified that he was not the man in the photo as shared in the LinkedIn post.

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TREND | 21 May 2025, 05:38PM

Meet Tesla's Indian-origin CFO who earns more than Satya Nadella, Pichai

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Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja earned $139 million in 2024, surpassing the pay of Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai

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TREND | 21 May 2025, 04:58PM

Earth braces for major solar storm; NASA warns of GPS outages, blackouts

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NASA and NOAA issue global alerts after the year's most powerful solar flare triggers radio blackouts; satellite and power grid disruptions may follow as solar activity intensifies

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TREND | 21 May 2025, 04:46PM

Two-thirds of job seekers open to new roles but unsure of sectors: Report

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Even though 67 per cent of professionals interviewed are open to new opportunities, they do not know what job titles or industries to search for, a report said on Wednesday. According to research by professional network LinkedIn, 65 per cent of professionals stated they can explain their career goals to a friend but don't know how to search for that role, and 64 per cent find job filters confusing. "Two-thirds (67 per cent) of professionals in India say they're open to new opportunities, however, they don't know what job titles or industries to search for," the report said. Another 74 per cent wished they could discover relevant roles they hadn't thought to search for, it said. As job titles evolve and skills become central to hiring decisions, there is increasing demand among job seekers for easier ways to find opportunities based on their skills and goals, rather than predefined titles or keywords, it added. The report by LinkedIn is based on inputs from over 2,001 employed and

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TREND | 21 May 2025, 04:38PM

UST, T-Works To Accelerate Industry 4.0 Solutions For Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Automotives

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UST's partnership with the prototyping centre to deliver turnkey solutions in automotive AI, industrial IoT and semiconductor testing.

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TREND | 21 May 2025, 04:32PM

Computex 2025: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Threatens Nvidia RTX 5060; Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, Intel GPUs And More

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Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, its next-generation mobile chipset, in a bid to enhance performance and efficiency of smartphones and tablets and boost AI processing.