South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co on Tuesday indicated it has no plan to cut investment in chips this year, even as a weak global economy condemns the industry to its worst downturn in over a decade. The guidance bucks a broader industry trend to scale back spending and output, fanning concern that the world’s biggest … Read more
Now consumers and businesses are holding off on big purchases as they cope with inflation and rising interest rates. This time was supposed to be different. The memory-chip sector, famous for its boom-and-bust cycles, had changed its ways. A combination of more disciplined management and new markets for its products — including 5G technology and … Read more
As per the newspaper reports, Reliance Retail is planning to aggressively expand into offline pharmacy stores under it’s subsidiary brand Netmeds. Reliance had acquired a majority stake in online pharmacy start-up Nedmeds in August 2020. Along with online, Reliance is currently running offline pharmacies under shop in shop format within it’s retail store network; Reliance … Read more
Baidu Inc. is planning to roll out an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the matter, potentially China’s most prominent entry in a race touched off by the tech phenomenon. China’s largest search engine company plans to debut a ChatGPT-style application in March, initially embedding it into … Read more
Dehumanizing. Gut-wrenching. Slap in the face. Betrayed. Tech workers are using all sorts of emotional phrases to describe the layoff wave that has gripped the industry and become the talk of the business world. “I’m shocked and hurt and still processing,” Katie Olaskiewicz, a former human-truths strategist at Google, wrote on LinkedIn last week shortly … Read more
WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, has just released a new feature that’s sure to make video calls even more convenient. The new “Switch Camera” mode allows users to easily switch between the front and back cameras while on a video call. This feature is now available for both iOS and Android devices and … Read more
Goldman Sachs expects oil prices to jump to $100 a barrel by the third quarter of 2023. The bank said China’s reopening was likely to add 1.6 million barrels a day in demand to the market. Goldman’s Nikhil Bhandari said supply was unlikely to keep up after underinvestment in recent years. Goldman Sachs sees oil … Read more
With OpenAI’s ChatGPT passing the Wharton MBA exam, and the US law and medical licensing exams, colleges in Bengaluru are getting worried. Sanjay Chitnis, dean of the school of computer science and engineering at RV University, has issued an advisory to students and faculty saying that artificial intelligence (AI) agents such as ChatGPT, Github Copilot, … Read more
US inflation has steadily cooled since mid-2022, thanks to large interest-rate increases by the Federal Reserve. However, a four-month drop in the dollar is threatening to derail that trend by raising the cost of imported goods. The dollar index has fallen by more than 11% from a peak reached in late September. US consumers are … Read more