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Siri voice assistant and a possible tie-up with ChatGPT owner OpenAI.

Mark Cuban, the renowned entrepreneur and investor from Shark Tank, has made headlines for his unique approach to business sales, where he shares profits with employees. In a recent post on X, Cuban revealed that 300 of the 330 employees at Broadcast.com became millionaires when the audio streaming service was sold to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999.

“Belcan’s deep engineering capabilities and domain expertise across the aerospace & defence market will be complemented by Cognizant’s scale and own multi-decade digital engineering expertise, providing Belcan’s blue-chip client roster access to our advanced AI, cloud and data technologies," said Kumar.Cognizant ended with $19.35 billion in revenue last year. It expects its full-year revenue to be between $18.9 billion and $19.7 billion.

Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference on Monday is expected to herald the company’s move into generative artificial intelligence, marking its late arrival to a technological frontier that’s expected to be as revolutionary as the invention of ...

Software giant Oracle reports quarterly results Tuesday

Zyfi, a gas abstraction layer on zkSync, said Monday that it raised $2m in a private funding round, with investors including Everstake Capital, Tenzor Capital, and Apvc.capital.

Kissflow on Monday said it has let go of about 45, or 11%, of its employees as part of an organisation-wide restructuring.

Apple WWDC Event 2024 Live Updates: Tim Cook led Apple is all set to introduce the latest version of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, VisionOS and WatchOS at the companies' Worldwide Developer conference 2024 event in California today.While WWDC is a software focused event for years, Apple has often used occassion to also unveil some of its premium offerings like Macbooks or iPads. However, rumors suggest that Cupertino based tech giant is no mood to give attention to its hardware offerings this time around.

Apple enthusiasts worldwide. Known for unveiling significant updates and innovations, this year's event is expected to focus primarily on software advancements rather than hardware releases.

More companies are tapping a reservoir of talent the tech industry has used to develop better artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and other products: the autistic. Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce and other tech giants have long had programs to recruit and retain employees whose brains process information in ways that aren’t typical. Now banks, retailers and others are recognizing the special skills of those with autism and other types of neurodivergence.

stocks involved with artificial intelligence (AI). From its ability to craft professional headshots to generating captivating content, AI's potential seems limitless. While some trends fizzle out over time, others, like AI, possess the power to transcend fleeting fancies.

India has achieved an impressive milestone, securing the third position globally in the number of self-made billionaires, with a remarkable total of 105 billionaires. Within this illustrious group, the top 10 richest individuals in India feature only one woman, Savitri Jindal. This notable presence underscores the broader gender disparity in wealth but also highlights the exceptional achievements of a few remarkable women in a male-dominated arena.

Divya Varma A Vienna-based privacy campaign group filed complaints in 11 European countries against Meta, saying the global tech giant’s planned privacy policy change would allow “unlawful” use of personal data for artificial intelligence technology.

data centres — where digital data is stored — are experiencing a sharp spike in operational costs as they endeavour to stay cool amid soaring temperatures across most of western and northern India.

Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang has steadily climbed the ranks of the world’s wealthiest as the market value of his computer-chip maker touches $3 trillion. Huang hit another milestone on Friday, passing personal computer pioneer Michael Dell to become the world’s 13th-richest person with a net worth of $106.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His wealth has surged more than $62 billion this year as demand for Nvidia chips used to power artificial intelligence tasks remains insatiable.

AI, with many reports confirming that the company has already signed a deal with OpenAI to power generative AI features in its latest software release.However, a recent report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman suggests that the tech giant may be calling its AI features on the iPhone, iPad and Mac O 'Apple Intelligence'. Notably, these AI features are only likely to run on the latest generation of iPhones at first, and even last year's vanilla iPhone variant may not get support for iOS 18's AI features at launch.Gurman also provided more clarity on what could be the outcome of Apple's partnership with OpenAI, suggesting that the company is planning to bring a ChatGPT syte AI chatbot to iOS, VisionOS, WatchOS and iPadOS.As per previous reports, Apple's new AI capabilities are likely to be opt-in, meaning they won't be enabled by default and users will have to manually enable them.

Elon Musk has congratulated caretaker Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his party and alliance winning the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections in India,“Congratulations Narendra Modi on your victory in the world’s largest democratic elections!" Musk, the chief of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of social media site X (formerly known as Twitter) wrote.He added that he looks forward to doing “exciting work" in the country, stating: “Looking forward to my companies doing exciting work in India."Track | Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE Updates hereAlso Read | Elon Musk puts off India visit to ‘later’, Internet says, ‘No rush! We’ll hold off on chai-samosa plans’Earlier in April this year, Musk had delayed his much anticipated visit to India due to “very heavy Tesla obligations". In an April 20 post on X, the billionaire wrote: “Unfortunately, very heavy Tesla obligations require that the visit to India be delayed, but I do very much look forward to visiting later this year."At the time it was speculated that Musk was likely to announce nearly ₹3 billion worth of investment in the Indian market, primarily earmarked for the establishment of a new Tesla manufacturing facility in the country.Also Read | ‘Biggest loser’: US entrepreneur slams Elon Musk’s choice of China over India for Tesla manufacturing unitThe next week however, Musk was in China on April 28, Reuters reported.

Apple reportedly aims to do the same with AI, planning to integrate the technology deeply into its core apps and features while maintaining a strong emphasis on privacy and security, reported Bloomberg.As per the wire, the highlight of the keynote, which kicks off at 10 a.m. Pacific time and typically spans about two hours, will be Apple's new AI system called Apple Intelligence.

British tech magnate Mike Lynch has been cleared of charges alleging he orchestrated a fraud and conspiracy leading up to an $11 billion deal that turned into a costly albatross for Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard

It is too early to determine winners of the artificial intelligence boom, but so far, those companies haven’t been cloud software vendors like Salesforce and Workday. Salesforce’s recent earnings miss, which disappointed investors looking for software-as-a-service companies to benefit from the generative AI hype, may be tied to the fact that the AI investment cycle is still unfolding.

LONDON — Enterprise tech giant Salesforce is opening an artificial intelligence center in London, making a bullish bet on the U.K. as a global technology hub.