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Y Combinator Partners with Emergent and Polaris School of Technology to Foster Early-Stage Talent in India
This collaboration introduces the Vibecon Student Track, a hackathon where participants can pitch their innovative ideas and connect with YC.
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Amazon Ramps AI Investments with $200 Bn Capex Plan, Says Andy Jassy
The chips division has reached an annual revenue run rate of over $20 billion, growing at triple-digit rates.
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OpenAI’s New $100 Plan Brings 5x More Codex Usage
OpenAI also reset rate limits for current $200 tier members to ensure uninterrupted service during the transition.
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Govt Has Introduced a New Portal for Tech MSMEs to Access US Market
The India–US Trade Facilitation Portal aims to simplify compliance, link exporters to US buyers, boost services and SME access.
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India’s IT Layoff Wave Revives Debate Over Taxing Severance Pay
Layoffs and AI shocks revive calls to exempt severance pay from tax as worker protection gaps widen.
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The 2.4% Revenue Fall at TCS Signals Indian IT's AI Nightmare
Strong deal wins mask a deeper shift as AI-led efficiency begins to compress traditional IT services revenue.
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Intel and Google Bet on CPUs Again for AI Infrastructure
The companies said Intel Xeon CPUs will continue to power Google Cloud systems across AI, inference, and general-purpose workloads.
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Alibaba Quietly Tops Global AI Video Charts as OpenAI's Sora Fades
Alibaba has launched its new model, HappyHorse-1.0, quietly topping global video charts just as OpenAI’s Sora project shuts down.
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Meet Harshita Arora, Y Combinator’s Youngest General Partner at 25
A self-taught dropout, from Saharanpur, Arora built, scaled, and now backs startups, rewriting Silicon Valley’s playbook.
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TCS Eyes Deeper Ties with OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral Beyond Traditional GTM
COO Aarthi Subramanian said TCS is looking to embed AI across infrastructure, platforms and industry solutions.
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ChatGPT finally offers $100/month Pro plan
OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for forever: a $100/month plan. Until now, plans were priced at: free (which now includes ads), an $8/month Go plan (that also includes ads), a $20/month Plus plan (ad free), and then all the way up to a $200 Pro plan (also ad free). OpenAI’spricing plan pagecurrently does not list a $200/month plan at all. However,that highest tieris still available, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch. The model maker says Plus (which remains at $20/month) and the new $100 Pro tier are geared to support daily usage of ChatGPT’s coding tool Codex. The $100 Pro plan will offer 5x more Codex than the Plus plan. OpenAI makes no bones that this new pricing tier is to challenge Anthropic, which has long had a $100/month option for Claude. “The new $100 Pro Tier is designed to give developers more practical coding capacity for the money, especially during high-intensity work sessions where limits matter most. Compared with Claude Code, Codex delivers more coding capacity per dollar across paid tiers, with the difference showing up most clearly during active coding use,” an OpenAI spokesperson tells TechCrunch. One thing to know: OpenAI is offering even higher limits of Codex on the $100 plan through May 31. So anyone who tries the new tier, goes relatively mad with coding and never gets a rate warning: Be advised that such a situation likely won’t last. None of the plans offer unlimited usage. The $200 plan, however, offers 20× higher limits than Plus. The model maker promises on its FAQ that this is enough to support “your most demanding workflows continuously, even across parallel projects.” Both Pro plans offer the same core features. The main difference is the rate limits, the company says. The spokesperson also says that more than 3 million people globally are using Codex every week, “up 5x in the past three months, with usage growing more than 70% month over month.”
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Sierra’s Bret Taylor says the era of clicking buttons is over
Bret Taylor, co-founder and CEO ofSierra, a startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, is convinced that the way humans interact with software will change in the near future. Last month, Sierra launchedGhostwriter, an agent designed to build other agents. With this “agent as a service” tool, the startup intends to replace traditional click-based web applications with natural language. Users simply describe what they need, prompting Ghostwriter to autonomously create and deploy a specialized agent to execute the task. The idea of replacing software with language-driven prompts is intriguing in large part because many of the tools currently used in enterprises are not used regularly, contends Taylor, who was formerly co-CEO of Salesforce. “You sign into Workday when you onboard as a new employee, and maybe for open enrollment,” Taylor told the audience at theHumanXconference taking place this week in San Francisco. Instead of learning to navigate complex systems, he argued that users will soon use natural language to complete tasks without ever interacting with the software interface. “I truly think that’s where the world is going,” Taylor said. He added that Sierra is already leveraging Ghostwriter to deploy agents at “unparalleled speeds.” Taylor offered, as an example, that his startup implemented an agent for Nordstrom in just four weeks. Sierra announced last fall that it reached$100 millionin annual revenue run rate (ARR), less than 21 months after its founding. The company was last valued at$10 billionwhen it raised a $350 million round led by Greenoaks Capital in September. “Most companies don’t want to make software,” Taylor said. “They want solutions to their problems.” While a fundamental shift in software may be coming as Taylor predicts, several technologists and investors tell TechCrunch that, for now, AI agent implementation is far from autonomous. Many companies claiming to offer AI agents, including Sierra and legal AI startup Harvey, employ “forward-deployed” engineers who must constantly update and fine-tune customer agents to ensure they work as intended.
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