Author: Munish Gupta

By launching Google AI Plus subscription service to 40 more countries, with an emphasis on areas usually ignored by massive tech rollouts, it makes premium artificial intelligence solutions more accessible. Sitting between Google’s free AI services and its costly Pro and Ultra subscriptions is the AI Plus plan.  Access to the company’s Gemini 2.5 Pro model, improved artificial intelligence integration across Gmail, Docs, and Sheets, and creative uses for photo and video are provided generational types like Flow, Whisk, and Veo 3 Fast. 200 GB of cloud storage distributed over Google Drive, Gmail, and Photos also distinguishes the plan as more than an artificial intelligence portal. But Google is providing promotional pricing, including a 50% discount for the first six months in cert...

With a seed round intended to grow its AI-powered platform that simplifies cybersecurity and compliance for fast-growing tech firms, Mycroft, a Toronto-based business, has raised $3.5 million USD. Luge Capital steered the round with help from Brightspark Ventures, Graphite Ventures, and several returning investors. Adding a prior pre-seed raise, Mycroft’s total funding becomes $4.7 million. Founded in 2024 by Mike Kim, Jonathan Mendes, and Jan Jedrasik, all ex-leaders at PartnerStack, the business is approaching digital security somewhat differently. Mycroft is positioning itself as an AI-powered security and compliance officer rather than presenting yet another complicated dashboard or collection of specialized tools. Built to automate and control formerly manually performed jobs like ...

Emerging as a new company in the U.K. two years ago, Nscale had not yet acquired any outside capital or established its public presence. The London-based company emerged from the shadows last year, and in December, it announced that it had closed its Series A fundraising round. accumulating a total of $155 million. At the leading edge of the most vibrant market in the world, artificial intelligence, Nscale is currently located with almost $700 million in fresh funding from Nvidia, the most valuable firm in the world. Nscale was named as an artificial intelligence infrastructure collaborator for Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI in a press release released on Tuesday, as these businesses expand their activities in the U.K. Following that, Nscale revealed a five-year, $6.2 billion deal with M...

Today’s displays incorporate LEDs either by way of self-emitting pixels like OLED or through backlight techniques like LCD, QLED, and Mini-LED. Still, brightness has always been a constraint, especially in open environments or when a transparent screen is needed.  With profitable Meta’s Q2 earnings, engineers at Meta have created an extremely thin laser-powered panel that raises brightness and color performance to previously unheard-of levels in order to address this problem. Published in Nature, their study details a device only two millimeters thick. Fundamentally, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC), a chip that uses lasers and incorporates thousands of optical elements, is at its core. Providing Full HD resolution (1920 x 1080), this PIC is coupled with a small 5 x 5 mm LCoS (l...

Proudly positioned as OpenAI’s first official Services Partner in the APAC area, Thinking Machines is a leading company focusing on AI consulting and services. This collaboration will help businesses go from simple artificial intelligence research to actual business value. Many companies have trouble expanding their use of artificial intelligence as it sees gains throughout the Asia-Pacific (APAC) markets after the US-Ukraine talks, as seen by surveys showing that 61% of companies are now using AI, pilot programs or turning them into tangible output. Thinking Machines and OpenAI hope to close this gulf by their cooperation. This cooperation will offer executive training in ChatGPT Enterprise, personalized artificial intelligence application development, training with the new mental heal...

By increasing its secondary share sale, OpenAI has made a major move and is now inviting qualified present and former employees to sell around $10.3 billion in value of stock, a rise from the previously set $6 billion. This decision shows the company’s remarkable private valuation of $500 billion. This greater secondary share sale marks a big shift in OpenAI’s employee equity plan. Particularly for those who have owned their shares for more than two years, the sale is being presented as a chance for personnel to gain from their longtime investments. These workers have until the end of September to decide on involvement; final closing is expected in October. Among the well-known investors interested in this transaction are SoftBank Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, MGX f...