Tag: China
Sarvam AI Startup Programme Fuels Indic AI Builders
Sarvam AI has introduced the Sarvam Startup Programme, providing early-stage companies with up to 12 months of API credits, priority engineering support and production-ready infrastructure to build multilingual AI applications without backend complexities. Founders Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar positioned the initiative to empower India’s developer ecosystem with high-quality models fluent in 22+ Indian languages and English, enabling full agency in creating voice agents,...
Oracle Layoffs Fund AI Data Centre Push Amid Cash Squeeze
Oracle is planning thousands of job cuts across divisions as it grapples with a cash crunch from aggressive AI data centre buildout to support major clients including a $300 billion OpenAI agreement, xAI and Meta, as Bloomberg News first reported. The reductions, potentially broader than typical rolling cuts, may begin this month and target roles expected to diminish under AI automation, coinciding with an...
CrowdStrike Warns of AI-Driven Cybercrime Surge Across APJ
A new report by CrowdStrike has revealed a rapidly expanding underground cybercrime economy across the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, driven by Chinese-language marketplaces...
Meta Faces Whistleblower Heat Over AI Ethics
Former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams has accused the tech giant of undermining U.S. national security and compromising AI ethics by covertly aiding China’s artificial...
