Silicon Valley

It's India’s Moment: Fierce hunt for AI talent reaches India, salaries being doubled 

International AI startups and even big tech firms like Google, Baidu and Microsoft are turning to India for AI engineers. India has one of the highest numbers of data scientists and AI engineers, who are being hired for double the regular salaries.

A discriminatory affair: How Dalit advocacy group Equality Labs portrays Hindu religion as irredeemable in US

There is a concern that Hindu and Indian employees will now be looked at with suspicion because employers simply won’t want to deal with frivolous lawsuits, such as Cisco

SVB itself was main cause of bank’s failure, says Fed official

Silicon Valley was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on March 10 in the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history

Regret and blame in Silicon Valley after overnight collapse of SVB

Silicon Valley Bank, like many other niche banks around the world, was a highly specialized lender with specific idiosyncrasies -- and its one-track focus could have been its undoing

Silicon Valley Bank Failure: Fears for tech startups rise as fallout spreads

The company previously boasted that 'nearly half' of technology and life science companies had US funding banked with them, leading many to worry about the possible ripple effects of its collapse

Explained: How ChatGPT is sparking AI 'gold rush' in Silicon Valley

ChatGPT has become one of the fastest growing apps ever since its secret release in late November, prompting Microsoft and Google to rush out projects that had previously been kept under wraps due to concerns that the technology was not yet ready for public consumption

Amid labour crunch, Germany taps skilled workforce laid off in Silicon Valley

The US West Coast has always been the main destination for ambitious software engineers looking to work in the most elite corner of their profession, but the mass layoffs have created an abundance of jobseekers that Germany is eager to cash in on

Explained: Who is George Hotz, the iPhone hacker, hired by Elon Musk to fix Twitter search?

Elon Musk has hired George Hotz for 12 weeks to fix Twitter’s search feature. The choice is quite surprising as the 33-year-old, who gained recognition for being the first to hack into an iPhone, has shared frosty ties with the billionaire over Tesla and its auto-pilot feature

It's the season of layoffs in Silicon Valley: 45,000 employees gone and it's not over yet

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc is the latest to join the list of companies that have laid off employees in the recent months in Silicon Valley. Here are some of the major firms that have opted for the downsizing route in anticipation of recession

Explained: Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Indian connection

Rishi Sunak has some firsts to his credit. He is not only the youngest British prime minister at 42, but also the first Indian-origin politician to claim the top spot. The former finance minister is proud of his Indian roots and has ties to Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy