Weekly Tech Recap: Galaxy S24 series launch to Sundar Pichai's layoff warning; checkout the top tech news of the week
Sundar Pichai hinting at more layoffs in a memo to employees, while Microsoft CEO Sundar Pichai was deeply impressed by the launch of its new Rabbit R1 AI assistant. Here's a round-up of the week's top tech news stories. Samsung unveiled its flagship Galaxy S24 series at the Galaxy Unpacked event on January 17.
The latest generation of flagship smartphones are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset and come with support for up to 7 years of software updates. The company has now also confirmed the official pricing of these smartphones in India, with the base variant of the Galaxy S24 starting at ₹79,999. Click here to read the full report Much like the rest of the tech community, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was smitten with the idea of Rabbit R1, the AI assistant unveiled at CES 2024 in Las Vegas last week.
In fact, Nadella was so impressed with Rabbit R1 that he compared the AI assistant's launch presentation to Steve Jobs' highly acclaimed presentation of the original iPhone in 2007. Speaking about the Rabbit R1 in an interaction with Bloomberg, Nadella said, “I think CES this year was very interesting. I thought I thought the demo of the Rabbit OS and the device was fantastic.
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