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OpenAI unveils GPT Store for custom AI-powered chatbots Pictures of Altman's wedding began circulating on social media on Thursday, showing the couple surrounded by palm trees in a ceremony apparently attended by only a dozen or so people. According to a report by The Free Press Journal, Altman and Mulherin shared the news of their union via a post on Instagram.

online audiobook and podcast service Audible is laying off about 5% of its workforce, marking the third round of job cuts at the ecommerce giant's businesses this week as the technology industry continues to shed roles in the new year. In a memo sent to employees Thursday, Audible CEO Bob Carrigan said the company is in good shape, but faces an «increasingly challenging landscape.» «We did not take this route without considerable thought,» Carrigan said. «But getting leaner and more efficient is the way we will need to operate now — and in the foreseeable future — in order to continue delivering best-in-class audio storytelling to our customers around the world.»

AP reported. “We did not take this route without considerable thought.

₹2,688.9 crore from ₹2,646.3 crore in the September quarter.Wipro’s IT services revenue in Q3FY24 is expected to fall 2.5% to $2,645 million from $2,713 million in the previous quarter. In rupee terms, revenue is likely to fall 1.4% to ₹22,191.6 crore from ₹22,515.9 crore, QoQ, impacted by seasonal furloughs, weakness in BFSI, and Hitech verticals and weakness in consulting business.

Newgen Software Technologies: The company has declared a bonus issue in the ratio of 1:1 i.e. 1 new fully paid-up bonus equity share of ₹10 each for every 1 existing fully paid-up equity share of ₹10 each held by the members of the company as on the record date. The record date to ascertain the eligibility of shareholders for the bonus issue has been fixed on January 12.

German software giant SAP will pay more than $220 million in fines to resolve U.S. bribery allegations involving payments to foreign government officials

ITeS sector has come through a turbulent 2023 due to challenged growth, squeezed profit margins and fewer people on the payroll than in 2022. Many cite these developments as a symptom of the sector's decline and blame AI for the crisis. Depending upon which source one believes, the headcount in the sector has reduced between 5% and 10%. From a societal perspective, this is terrible news because the industry in the last three decades has:

The latest survey from Morgan Stanley shows that the annual acceleration of IT budgets in 2024 is projected to be underpinned by the robust strength of secular trends, particularly in Generative AI (GenAI) and the Public Cloud.

Reuters has reported. Among the affected workers are those working on the voice-based Google Assistant and at the augmented reality hardware team.

The company is seen reporting a nearly 5% sequential rise in consolidated revenue to Rs 27,959.40 crore, and net profit is expected to increase by nearly 7% to Rs 4,085 crore, according to the average of estimates given by 11 brokerage firms. On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the topline is expected to rise 4.7%, while the bottomline may drop a marginal 0.3%. In constant currency terms, analysts expect HCLTech’s revenue to grow 4.6% sequentially in the quarter gone by. The country’s third largest software service provider is scheduled to release its earnings on Friday, 12th January. The growth in the topline is likely to be led by the products and platform segment, with Nuvama Institutional Equities pegging a 20% sequential growth for this segment. The services vertical is expected to report a 2.5% sequential growth, driven by the Verizon deal and integration of the recently acquired German automotive engineering solutions provider ASAP Holding.

As investors await these results this week, a gauge of Indian tech shares has fallen for three straight weeks after rallying for the most part in 2023. The broader benchmark NSE Nifty 50 Index was also in the red so far this year after gaining 20% in 2023.

PagerDuty (NYSE:PD) shares rose more than 15% following a report from Bloomberg News that the software company is actively exploring options in response to takeover interest from private equity firms.

(Reuters) -SAP, the German software company, agreed to pay about $222 million to resolve two investigations into bribery schemes in seven countries, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.

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Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will introduce measures to overturn the convictions of more than 900 post office branch managers who were wrongly accused of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer system

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Interviewing solutions provider InCruiter has raised Rs 1.1 crore (about $132,351) in revenue-based funding from GetVantage. Founded in 2018, InCruiter provides services to 300 firms from a total of six offerings including interview-as-a-service, interview subscription, interviewing scheduling software, exit process automation software and candidate sourcing services.

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India has emerged as the third most important market from a local sales perspective for French automation and software company Schneider Electric that is looking to capitalise on five mega trends that is shaping global companies, the most important of which is the growing demand for its energy saving systems, said its top executive. It will be investing Rs 3200 crore ( euro 350 million) in expanding industrial footprint with 5 new greenfield factories in energy management and both automation products. “If you take the CO2 footprint that is generated today, 81 per cent of that is related to energy.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has entered the artificial intelligence (AI) race, with reportedly raising $30 million for his startup. Agrawal, who was sacked by Twitter (now called X) owner Elon Musk in late 2022, raised about $30 million in funding for an AI startup, reports The Information.