All articles by Vishnu Priya N

Vishnu Priya N

US FTC begins antitrust probe on Microsoft cloud business

The investigation focuses on the firm’s software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI products.

NTT DATA to boost Google Cloud services with Niveus acquisition

The company will add Niveus Solutions’ 1000 GCP engineering professionals to its Google Cloud Business Unit.

US awards $7.86bn in funding to Intel for semiconductor projects

The funding will support the development of Intel’s semiconductor manufacturing projects in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon.

Wherobots raises $21.5m to advance geospatial and climate intelligence solutions

The Felicis-led funding round received contributions from Clear Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, JetBlue Ventures, and P7 Ventures.

South Korea plans $10bn in loans to support semiconductor industry-report

The country is constructing what it expects to be the world’s largest high-tech chipmaking cluster in Yongin and Pyeongtaek.

Orange partners with Meta and OpenAI to develop African AI language models

The project will initially focus on adding West African regional languages to OpenAI’s Whisper and Meta’s Llama models.

UK competition tribunal approves $8.8bn lawsuit to proceed against Google

The tribunal dismissed Google’s arguments to have the claim struck out.

Meta to face antitrust lawsuit trial in US in April

The FTC claimed that Meta overpaid for Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 to eliminate potential threats.

IBM and AWS expand partnership to enhance generative AI use

IBM is introducing its Granite models, designed for business applications, on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart.

Neuralink to trial brain implant and robotic arm technology

The feasibility study will assess the brain implant and robotic arm technology in quadriplegia patients.