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TOI Correspondent from Washington: A new doctrine is quietly reshaping America’s technology-industrial complex, recasting Silicon Valley from a playground of consumer apps into an arsenal of strategic hardware. Dubbed “patriotic tech,” the movement argues that technology firms have a moral and national duty to align with the state – particularly in its intensifying rivalry with…
Google AI CEO Demis Hassabi has revealed why he chose to stay in London instead of moving to Silicon Valley after Google acquired DeepMind in 2014. Speaking at an event in London hosted by Intelligence Squared, Hassabis said that he chose to stay because wanted to prove that world-class AI work could happen outside the…
Allbirds—the San Francisco startup that once put merino wool sneakers on the feet of half of Silicon Valley workers who cared about earth—is no longer a shoe company. On Wednesday, it announced a full pivot to AI compute infrastructure, a plan to rebrand as NewBird AI, and a $50 million deal to start buying GPUs….
Bengaluru: Infosys has set its new AI strategy, “silicon to application,” in motion. The playbook aims to span the full AI ecosystem-from hardware to end-user applications-through targeted investments and partnerships across each layer.At the silicon layer, Infosys has partnered with Nvidia and Intel. “These partnerships matter most when clients need AI to run on their…
CEO of home improvement giant Lowe Marvin Ellison has a stark warning for Americans about artificial intelligence (AI). CEO Marvin Ellison has sounded a wake-up call about his take on AI tools and billions and billions of investment in AI. Google-parent Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are alone projected to spend almost $700 billion combined…
Democrat Ethan Agarwal urged president Donald Trump to review ban on Iranian students. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Ethan Agarwal, who is running for Congress in California-17 as a challenger to Ro Khanna in Dem primary, urged President Donald Trump to reconsider his immigration ban on Iran as that would force thousands of Iranian students who will…
Every C-suite executive at FedEx reportedly took two days off to travel to Silicon Valley as part of the company’s AI push, where they held what one executive described as a “speed dating round of sorts” to select the right partners. The move was part of a broader effort by the logistics company to roll…
AI-generated photo for representational purpose President Donald Trump‘s second term started with a carefully maintained truce between the administration and Silicon Valley. Tech giants donated to Trump’s inauguration, their CEOs made visits to Mar-a-Lago and the White House. But a report by The Financial Times suggests that the truce appears to be shaking because of…
Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey. Palmer Luckey, the founder of defense technology company Anduril has now shared his thoughts on the question of who should control the use of artificial intelligence. According to a report by Fortune, Luckey made his stance clear and said that the governments, not corporations should decide how AI is deployed in…
File photo: Palantir CEO Alex Karp with a sword. (Image: X/@MollySOShea) Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a warning for CEOs in Silicon Valley. Speaking at a16z’s American Dynamism Summit, Karp said that Silicon Valley’s pursuit of AI-driven job disruption without supporting US military needs risks government nationalization of technology companies. Using a strong language to…
