Nykaa raises stake in personal care brand Earth Rhythm
The company confirmed it has raised its stake in Earth Rhythm by about 25%. The new shares have now been officially transferred to the company.
Elon Musk clashes with Chess.com online over whether AI will ‘solve’ chess
On Thursday, Musk wrote that the number of chess moves that aren’t “utterly stupid” is small and that “chess will be fully solved one day.”
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs…
Rentomojo to go public at Rs 4,246 crore valuation; up 5x from last private round
Through its public offering, Rentomojo is raising Rs 150 crore in fresh capital, while investors including Accel, Chiratae Ventures and ValueQuest are selling shares worth Rs 1,106 crore.
The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot Digital harms have become the defining fear of American parents.…
OpenAI is building ‘automated shutdown’ capabilities for AI tools, letter to lawmakers says
The company’s safety practices have come under scrutiny since OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, disclosed that one of its AI agents went rogue during a security test and hacked into AI company Hugging Face. AI agents are programs that run…
From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers. However, for two former MIT graduate students and a former postdoc, all now at IBM, working with the MIT-IBM Computing…
System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes

Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle. A human driver or passenger may need to react…
Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale
As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate…