As the earnings season in the US progresses, tech’s internet giants have made it clear to the Wall Street the Artificial Intelligence (AI) investments will be the next big things. Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet and Amazon will now collectively spend $380 billion this year, the tech giants said as they got through the earnings. The companies … Read more
TOI correspondent from Washington: In a stunning testament to the boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI), three 22-year-old high school friends from Silicon Valley, including two Indian-Americans, have become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires.Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, co-founders of the San Francisco-based AI recruiting platform Mercor, achieved the staggering feat after their company … Read more
Nvidia Corp has become the world’s first $5 trillion company, marking another milestone in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution reshaping global markets. The Silicon Valley chipmaker crossed the landmark just three months after breaching the $4 trillion mark, as its stock soared on the back of surging demand for AI chips and new strategic tie-ups, … Read more
AI startups are growing rapidly and attracting a growing share of market investment. With the AI hype reaching new heights, investors are putting large bets on its transformative abilities. The emergence of agentic AIs has further reinforced these hopes. While it is undeniable that large language models (LLMs) have become staple to many workplaces, the … Read more
A consortium led by global asset manager BlackRock, along with chipmaker Nvidia and tech giant Microsoft, is set to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Australian financial services major Macquarie in a deal valued at around $40 billion.The acquisition underscores the tech sector’s escalating race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure — from chips and servers to … Read more
Lingering doubts about the economic promise of artificial intelligence technology are starting to get the attention of financial institutions that raised warning flags this week about an AI investment bubble. Officials at the Bank of England on Wednesday flagged the growing risk that tech stock prices pumped up by the AI boom could burst. “The … Read more
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reached a valuation of $500 billion, following a deal in which current and former employees sold roughly $6.6 billion worth of shares, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday (October 2, 2025). This represents a bump-up from its current valuation of $300 billion, underscoring OpenAI’s rapid … Read more
Promoters of Hyderabad-based ValueLabs, a technology services and AI solutions firm, are looking to sell the entire business at a valuation of $1 billion (about ₹8,880 crore).The Donakanti family, which owns the company, has engaged Goldman Sachs to identify potential buyers, said multiple people familiar with the matter. Several global private equity buyout funds have … Read more
The European Union has cleared the proposed joint venture between Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and Meta Platforms to build enterprise-focused artificial intelligence solutions, ET Now reported Friday. The joint venture, announced last month at RIL’s Annual General Meet (AGM), will invest about ₹855 crore (US$100 million), with Reliance holding a 70% stake and Meta 30%. … Read more