Soumyadeep Sarkar

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Soumyadeep Sarkar is a part of The Tech Portal's editorial team, with focus on authoring news stories around A.I., business of tech and startups.

Malaysia’s social media law comes into effect, X and Google yet to obtain licenses

Malaysia’s newest social media licensing law came into effect yesterday, on January…

Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, 1 killed, several injured

A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas…

US FTC sues fintech Dave and its CEO for deceptive practices

2025’s beginning is far from an auspicious one for fintech company Dave…

U.S. Treasury says Chinese hackers access unclassified documents in major cyberattack

The US Treasury Department has now officially confirmed that it had suffered…

AT&T and Verizon hit by cyberattack, confirm their networks are now clear

AT&T and Verizon, two of the biggest telecommunications companies globally, recently suffered…

OpenAI lays out transition plan for switching to a public benefit corporation

OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, may change its corporate structure – a…

ChatGPT and Sora go down for hours before being restored

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora were briefly down for users on Thursday, December…
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s xAI secures $6Bn in Series C fundraise  

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI venture, has now secured $6 billion in a…

OpenAI reportedly considered a return to robotics with humanoid robots

OpenAI – with ChatGPT and its various AI models (including the o3…
Telegram

Telegram becomes profitable as revenue rises to $1Bn in 2024

Despite the pressure that Messaging platform Telegram has faced for some time…
Alphabet Google

Google likely to be found guilty by Japan antitrust regulator: Report

Google is in the anti-trust legal waters in yet another geography.  This…

North Korean hackers stole over $1Bn in cryptocurrency this year

Cybercrime attributed to North Korean-linked groups has reached unprecedented levels this year.…

OpenAI makes ChatGPT accessible through phone calls for users in the US

OpenAI is now bringing ChatGPT to landlines. As surprising as this sounds,…

OpenAI releases o1 reasoning AI model to developers

OpenAI is now bringing its “reasoning” model, o1, to select developers through…

Shein’s India re-entry subject to data and operations control being handed over to Reliance Retail

Shein’s comeback to the Indian market (with a partnership with Reliance Retail)…

Google takes on OpenAI’s Sora with its ‘Veo 2’ AI video generation model

Google is now taking on OpenAI’s Sora with Veo 2, a next-gen…

xAI’s latest version of the Grok chatbot is free for all X users

Grok – the AI chatbot by Elon Musk’s xAI – is now…

MobiKwik IPO oversubscribed by 119 times on Day 3

India’s tech IPO season is here to stay, as yet another tech…

Microsoft announces Phi-4, a small yet powerful new generative AI model, in research preview

Microsoft has today officially unveiled Phi-4, the latest iteration in its Phi…