Two Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) engineers, Srinivasan Venkata chary and Anand Shukla. According to reports, the two tech giants were competing to hire and retain the engineers, who co-founded the machine learning startup Laser like with another Google engineer, Steven Baker. The startup was later acquired by Apple. Venkatachary holds a BTech degree from …
Swiggy, the Indian food delivery giant, has disbursed Rs. 31 crore in claim amounts to its delivery partners in the fiscal year 2022-23, according to a company statement. The figure represents a 10% increase compared to the previous fiscal year. The food delivery company, which has approximately 3 lakh delivery partners across India, began offering …
Inflection AI, a startup co-founded by Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn’s Co-founder, and Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind’s Co-founder, has launched its first AI chatbot product. The chatbot, called Pi, is powered by generative AI technology that can converse with users across platforms like Instagram and the startup’s website. Pi’s interactions are intended to be more conversational than transactional, …
Nathaniel Chastain, a former manager at OpenSea, the world’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has been convicted of fraud and money laundering. Chastain used his insider knowledge of which NFTs would be featured on OpenSea’s home page to make personal trades and profit over $50,000. According to reports, Chastain’s actions violated the company’s policies …
Nithin Kamath, CEO of Indian brokerage firm Zerodha, has issued a warning about a scam after someone he knows lost ₹5 lakh. Kamath shared the details of the scam on Twitter, urging people to be cautious and stay alert. According to Kamath’s tweet, the scam began with a response to a part-time job offer on …