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.

SoftBank completes $40bn investment in OpenAI, acquiring 11% stake in the process

SoftBank is ending the year with the completion of its long-anticipated investment…
Meta acquires Manus to scale AI agents

Meta deepens AI Agent play with $2Bn acquisition of Manus

Social media parent Meta has now scooped up Manus, a developer of…
Nvidia deepens Intel partnership with investment

Nvidia completes $5Bn investment in Intel that will result in co-developed AI chips

Intel has completed the sale of 214.78 million common shares to chipmaking…
Landspace, Chinese space startup's office

Chinese Space startup LandSpace starts testing reusable rockets

China is now making a bid into the reusable rocket sector, and…
Gmail

Google is testing username change in Gmail

For a long time, once users decided on their Gmail username —…
China’s private space sector accelerates

Beijing shifts state venture capital focus towards semicon and deep tech with large new VC funds

China has launched three state-backed venture capital funds with a combined size…
Nvidia deepens Intel partnership with investment

Nvidia gears up to resume AI chip sales to China from 2026

Nvidia is preparing to start the upcoming year with a resumption in…
A Waymo Jaguar self driving car in San Francisco

Waymo resumes service after citywide power outage causes suspensions in SF

A widespread power outage in San Francisco on Saturday exposed a dependency…

Apple to add more ads to App Store search results from 2026

Apple is bringing in more ads when you search within the App…
Amazon explores major OpenAI investment

Amazon to cut 370 Jobs at Luxembourg headquarters

E-commerce behemoth Amazon is reportedly looking to cut short workforce at its…
Lightspeed Venture Partners team

Lightspeed raises record $9Bn across funds to double down on AI bets

Global venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised more than $9…
Google upgrades Gemini into autonomous researcher

Google advances deep research with Gemini 3 Pro launch, on the heels of OpenAI’s GPT 5.2 launch

Google is now amping up the AI competition against its rivals –…

OpenAI and Adobe partner to integrate Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express into ChatGPT

Adobe has begun natively integrating key capabilities from Photoshop, Acrobat, and Adobe…
Nexus launches new $700 million fund

Nexus Venture Partners raises $700 million Fund VIII with focus on AI, consumer-tech

India VC veteran Nexus Venture Partners has closed Fund VIII, a new…
AWS pivots to fully AI-driven cloud

Amazon unveils Tranium3 chip, agentic tools and more at AWS re:Invent 2025

Amazon has taken big strides when it comes to AI, and AI…
Accenture expands enterprise AI partnership with Anthropic

Anthropic lays the groundwork for $300Bn IPO as it looks to beat OpenAI

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant and one of the…

It is ‘code red’ at OpenAI as Google, others threaten its lead

A few days after ChatGPT turned three years old, OpenAI chief Sam…
Vietnam shifts toward Chinese 5G suppliers.

Chinese telecom firms make fresh gains after Huawei, VTE secure contracts in Vietnam’s 5G market

China’s Huawei and ZTE have secured multiple 5G supply contracts in Vietnam…
OpenAI explores private funding of upto $100Bn

OpenAI warns of limited API information leak through Mixpanel breach

OpenAI, in an official statement, announced that a security incident at third-party…
Microsoft raises MS 365 subscription prices

Microsoft to pull Copilot from WhatsApp following Meta policy shift

WhatsApp is now set to lose Copilot on WhatsApp, according to an…