All articles by Archana Rani

Archana Rani

SoftBank in advanced talks to acquire Ampere Computing

Founded by former Intel president Renee James, Ampere designs processors for data centre operations using Arm’s technology.

SKY Perfect JSAT, Planet Labs form $230m satellite partnership

The partnership marks SKY Perfect JSAT’s full entry into the Earth observation sector.

Boston Dynamics, RAII collaborate on humanoid robotics

This collaboration aims to develop generalisable mobile manipulation capabilities for Boston’s electric Atlas robot.

Okta plans workforce reduction

The company expects to incur about $11m in restructuring costs in Q4 of fiscal 2025, mainly for severance and benefits.

Australia bans DeepSeek on all government devices

The ban, which does not affect private citizens’ devices, is aimed at protecting the country’s national security.

StackAdapt raises $235m to advance programmatic advertising

Intrepid Growth Partners, along with four additional investors, also participated in this funding round.

Databricks acquires BladeBridge

Databricks will leverage BladeBridge’s AI-driven solution to automate code analysis and conversion across several enterprise data warehouses.

Alphabet plans to invest $75bn in AI

The investment also includes plans for headcount growth, particularly in areas such as AI and cloud.

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal plans $229m investment

Krutrim also released Chitrarth 1, a vision-language model designed to understand images and documents.

Alibaba Cloud integrates DeepSeek’s AI models

This development follows similar initiatives by major technology companies to offer DeepSeek’s AI models to their customers.