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.
Mistral AI launches enterprise coding assistant

Mistral AI releases enterprise coding tool

Mistral AI, the French AI rival to the likes of OpenAI, DeepSeek…
Reddit suffers outage, then recovers

Reddit services back up after brief outage

Reddit, the “front page of the internet” and a central hub for…
NomuPay gains $40M SoftBank investment, targets Asia

Irish fintech NomuPay lands $40mn from SoftBank unit to push for Asia growth

NomuPay, an Ireland-based fintech company, has now secured a fresh investment of…
xAI raises debt to challenge AI giants

Musk’s xAI seeks $5Bn in debt for data centers to power AI ambitions

xAI Corp., the AI firm founded by Elon Musk, is arranging a…
Microsoft Russia subsidiary plans bankruptcy

Microsoft lays off over 300 in latest round of job cuts

Tech giant Microsoft has now brought forth yet another round of job…

Chime files for IPO at reduced valuation, aims to raise up to $832 million

San Francisco headquartered fintech ‘Chime’ is set to undertake an IPO, seeking…
Google appeals search monopoly ruling

Google to contest Search monopoly antitrust ruling

Tech titan Google now intends to appeal a federal antitrust ruling which…
Perplexity launches Labs for Pro subscribers

Perplexity Labs will turn Pro subscribers’ ideas into spreadsheets and web apps

Perplexity has now rolled out “Perplexity Labs,” a new tool for its…
X pauses encrypted DMs for fixes

X puts its encrypted DMs feature on hold

X has announced a temporary halt to its encrypted direct messaging (DM)…
NYT licenses content to Amazon AI

New York Times inks AI content licensing deal with Amazon

The New York Times Company has reached a multi-year licensing agreement with…
Xbox AI assistant enters beta

Copilot for Gaming beta comes to iOS and Android for early testing

Microsoft has initiated the beta rollout of Copilot for Gaming, an AI-powered…

Apple could unveil iOS 26 and not iOS 19 at this year’s WWDC

Apple is reportedly planning a major rebranding of its operating system names,…
Snabbit Quick home services app

Snabbit secures $19Mn in Series B for its quick home services platform

There’s more money pouring into the Quick commerce space. On-demand home services…
Telegram, xAI partner for Grok integration

Telegram integrates Grok chatbot from xAI in $300Mn deal

So far, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook have benefitted from the integration of…
SpaceX Starship test flight on May 28, 2025

SpaceX Starship explodes during re-entry in its farthest flight yet

SpaceX’s Starship rocket system experienced an in-flight breakup of its upper stage…
WhatsApp iPad app finally arrives

WhatsApp finally gets a standalone app on iPad

iPad users are finally getting some recognition from Meta – the social…
Slikk Club Quick Commerce

Nexus VP backs Slikk’s 60-minute fashion delivery in latest $10Mn Series A

With quick commerce adoption booming across the country (even though startup financials…
Zepto Cafe closes 44 Indian outlets

Costs, supply issues force Zepto Cafe shutdowns in multiple cites

Zepto Cafe, the quick-service food division of fast-growing quick-commerce firm Zepto, has…
AI blackmails, whistleblows; raises major alarms

Claude Opus 4 blackmails developers in tests, shows propensity to be a whistleblower

ChatGPT paved the way for integrating AI (especially AI chatbots) into multiple…
Google appeals search monopoly ruling

DOJ probes Google’s Character.AI Deal for antitrust concerns

The US Department of Justice has now initiated a civil antitrust investigation…
OpenAI acquires design team for AI

Jony Ive joins Sam Altman as OpenAI acquires ‘io’ in largest acquisition till date

In its largest acquisition to date, OpenAI has announced a $6.5 billion…