SoftBank has cut its stake in Ola Electric to 13.53% after selling shares over recent months. The offloading comes as major investors trim stake amid regulatory pressure, rising competition and operational challenges. Ola’s market share and valuation also dropped sharply…
Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI surged over 12% in its Hong Kong debut, raising $558 million ahead of rival MiniMax’s listing. But analysts said profits were unlikely any time soon from either company, the first two IPOs among China’s so-called…
AI is transforming online search, with startups like OpenAI innovating faster than legacy firms, said Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. AI-powered browsers and tools are reshaping how users access information. While cloud giants compete, Snowflake remains confident in its specialised analytics…
Artificial intelligence has captured headlines recently for its rapidly growing energy demands, and particularly the surging electricity usage of data centers that enable the training and deployment of the latest generative AI models. But it’s not all bad news — some AI…
India is stepping up plans to build its own graphics processors after talks between minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Nvidia executives. The discussions covered sovereign GPUs and local manufacturing of advanced AI devices. The government is also expanding subsidised access to…
Every autumn, as the Northern Hemisphere moves toward winter, Judah Cohen starts to piece together a complex atmospheric puzzle. Cohen, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), has spent decades studying how conditions in the…
The new year has barely begun, but the first days of 2026 have brought big news for health. On Monday, the US’s federal health agency upended its recommendations for routine childhood vaccinations—a move that health associations worry puts children at…
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. Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos At first glance, it looks like the start of a…
Enterprises are sitting on vast quantities of unstructured data, from call records and video footage to customer complaint histories and supply chain signals. Yet this invaluable business intelligence, estimated to make up as much as 90% of the data generated…
For offshore wind power in the US, the new year is bringing new legal battles. On December 22, the Trump administration announced it would pause the leases of five wind farms currently under construction off the US East Coast. Developers…