How Saudi’s Hexagon is Ending Paperwork Forever

By Aditi Gupta | January 4, 2026

Key Highlights: On January 1, 2026, Saudi Arabia officially laid the foundation stone for the Hexagon Data Centre in Riyadh. While it’s easy to get lost in the massive numbers, a 480-megawatt capacity, a 30-million-square-foot site, and a Tier IV global rating, the real story isn’t about the architecture. It’s about the death of the waiting room. In practical terms, that means fewer forms, fewer applications and fewer moments where citizens are required to prove information the state already holds. The Structural Shift: From Reactive to Proactive To understand the Hexagon’s role, it is helpful to contrast the current “e-government” […]

Everything AI at CES 2026 So Far

By Aditi Gupta | January 4, 2026

Key Highlights: What Is CES and Why It Matters CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is one of the world’s most influential technology events, held annually in Las Vegas. Taking place from January 6–9, 2026. The show is widely seen as a barometer for where consumer and enterprise technology is headed. Over the decades, CES has served as the launchpad for technologies that later entered mainstream use, from home video systems to electric vehicles. CES 2026 is shaping up to be another milestone, with artificial intelligence moving beyond software and into physical products and systems. The 2026 Theme: Opening the Gates for […]

Reddit Wins by Answering Questions TikTok Can’t

By Aditi Gupta | January 4, 2026

Key Highlights: Reddit has overtaken TikTok to become the UK’s fourth most visited social media platform, as changes in search algorithms and shifting Gen Z behaviour push users toward discussion-based content over short-form video. Reddit Overtakes TikTok in the UK as Search Algorithms and Gen Z Habits Drive Growth The online forum platform has experienced rapid growth over the past two years, with the share of UK internet users who encounter Reddit increasing by 88%, according to data from the media regulator Ofcom. Around three in five people online in Britain now use or visit Reddit, up from just one […]

Poland formally asks EU to probe TikTok over AI-generated “Polexit” videos

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 31, 2025

Key Highlights: These days, the internet is full of AI Slop, thanks to easily accessible AI audio/image/video generation tools. For those unfamiliar with the term, AI Slop is an internet slang used for low-quality, mass-produced AI content. Most social media platforms, including TikTok and others are filled with numerous nonsensical AI content. If you use TikTok and live in the EU, you may have come across a bunch of AI-generated videos promoting Poland’s exit from the European Union. The videos in question were posted by a Polish-language TikTok profile called “Prawilne_Polki,” which featured young and attractive women promoting Poland’s EU […]

SoftBank reportedly completes $40 billion investment in OpenAI

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 30, 2025

Key Highlights: As Bill Gates recently said, we all are living inside an AI bubble right now, which I believe is somehow reshaping the global tech landscape. SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate, appears to have made sure that it is in the front row of this AI boom, all thanks to its massive alliance with OpenAI. As artificial intelligence continues to drive big investments and strategic bets across industrie, SoftBank Group has been doubling down on its commitment to AI infrastructure. Here I’m talking about the Stargate project. For the uninitiated, it is a multi-year data center project designed to support […]

Meta acquires viral AI startup, Manus, in a deal exceeding $2 billion

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 30, 2025

In one of our reports from yesterday, we mentioned about the growing trend of big AI companies acquiring AI startups to boost their portfolio and to innovate even more with fresh talents. Meta, being one of the contenders in the ongoing AI race, is reportedly betting big on Manus, which is an AI startup from Singapore that entered the AI space in early 2025. All thanks to a demo video that has Silicon Valley talking about it ever since it went viral. The video showed an AI agent capable of screening job candidates, planning trips, and analyzing stock portfolios. Manus […]

SoftBank to Acquire DigitalBridge in $4 Billion AI Infrastructure Push

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 29, 2025

Ever since the AI race picked up the pace, we have been witnessing some landmark investments within the industry. SoftBank, a major Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, has been among the most popular names involved in such investments. Earlier this month, there were reports hinting that Soft Bank is coming together with NVIDIA to invest at least $15 billion into Skild AI, which is already a well-funded startup that makes foundation models for robots. SoftBank boosts its AI Strategy with DigitalBridge acquisition Well, SoftBank Group is yet again in the spotlight. This time, the Japanese multinational conglomerate has made […]

China Moves to Regulate Emotional AI Chatbots Over Mental Health & Suicide Risks

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 29, 2025

Key Highlights: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has immense potential and some AI companies are doing their best to make the most of it. However, when we talk about that in the context of an emotionally intelligent AI, the impact can be different and worrisome, to say the least. If you ever felt that there should be some boundaries on how much is too much when it comes to AI, China may have just given a solid answer to that question. The Chinese government has started to draw the line with emotionally intelligent AI. China proposes new regulations to restrict AI chatbots […]

AI boom reportedly made tech billionaires like Elon Musk even richer in 2025

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 26, 2025

Key Highlights: The artificial intelligence boom is helping billionaires get even richer, and 2025 has been one if the most profitable years for most of them. According to latest market data, America’s richest tech figures have added more than half a trillion dollars to the combined wealth, thanks to ever-soaring AI-related stick prices. The Guardian, citing Bloomberg figures, reports that the top 10 U.S. tech founders and executives now control close to $2.5 trillion in wealth. Previous year, around same time, that figure stood at around $1.9 trillion. The jump is enough to tell just how aggressively investors are betting […]

Report says ChatGPT loses web traffic as Google Gemini gains

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 26, 2025

Key Highlights: AI assistants have become a staple of many these days; be it taking help for summarizing emails, to streamlining workflow, to getting recommendations on TVs, there are a lot AI assistants can do right now. And, when we talk of AI assistants, ChatGPT comes to everyone’s mind without any doubt, and rightly so. OpenAI’s AI assistant currently has 700 million weekly active users. ChatGPT’s grip in the market is slipping away; Gemini is the one benefitting However, it seems ChatGPT’s grip on the generative AI market is no longer as it used to be. That’s according to the […]

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