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Will Google’s Project Jitro Redefine Software Development Workflows?
Google is developing Project Jitro, an autonomous AI system that moves beyond prompt-based coding to independently execute high-level development goals.
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Cognizant Announces Nationwide Hackathon, Mandates 50% Women Participation
The hackathon is targeting 20,000 students from 400+ colleges, and will focus on AI-led enterprise problem-solving.
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OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
OpenAI has acquired personal finance startup Hiro Finance, founder Ethan Blochannouncedon Monday and OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch. The startup was backed by A-list fintech VC firm Ribbit, as well as General Catalyst and Restive. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, nor did Hiro ever disclose how much money it raised. Since Hiro said it will be shutting down its operations on April 20 and deleting all data from its servers on May 13, we’re going to call this an acquihire. Bloch said in his post that Hiro employees are coming with him to OpenAI. He didn’t specify how many employees that entails, but LinkedIn lists about 10 people associated with the company. Bloch did not respond to our request for comment. The company was founded in 2023 and launched its AI tool about five months ago. Hiro offered AI-powered financial planning for consumers. Users entered financial information like salary, debts, and monthly costs, and the app modeled different what-if scenarios to help them make financial decisions. Hiro was specifically trained to nail financial math, including an option that allowed users to verify accuracy,Bloch saidin a demo of the product. Over the past couple of years, state-of-the-art frontier models have gotten significantly better (even good) at math of all kinds. But historically, they haven’t been. This deal stands out for a couple of reasons. Bloch previously founded Digit, a digital-only bank that helped people automatically save money. Digit was sold to Oportun in 2021 for more than$200 million, according to Oportun. Plus, this isn’t the first financial app OpenAI has bought. Given that OpenAI markets ChatGPT as agood tool for business finance teams, we can see why the model maker would be looking to add more talent to this side of the house. Whether OpenAI plans to pursue financial planning as a more specialized app, we’ll have to wait and see. It’s also possible that this acquihire is an effort to make OpenAI more popular with OpenClaw users, who often tend to prefer Claude. OpenClaw is a popular agent for robo stock trading. In fact, Bloch created his own auto-trading OpenClaw agent that he named RoboBuffett, he saidon LinkedIn. Another fun fact: BlochtoldBusiness Insider that Hiro was the 15th project he launched, having started as a tech entrepreneur when he was a 13-year-old. The first 13 failed, he said. He sold No. 14, Flowtown, a social media SaaS tool launched in 2009, for $4.5 million. Bloch said he sold Digit for about $230 million. Now he’s sold his latest startup to OpenAI, a company that has broken records for growth and raising money, and may yet break records with an IPO.
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Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone else
AI experts and the public’s opinion on the technology are increasingly diverging,according toStanford University’sannual reporton the AI industry, which wasreleasedMonday. In particular, the report noted a growing trend of anxiety around AI and, in the U.S., concerns about how the technology will impact key societal areas, such as jobs, medical care, and the economy. The report’s findings follow growing negative sentiment about AI, with Gen Z reportedly leading the way, accordingto a recent Gallup poll. The study found that young people were growing less hopeful and more angry about the technology, even thougharound halfof the demographic was using AI either daily or weekly. For some working in tech, the AI backlash has come as a surprise. AI leaders have focused on managing thepossibility of Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI— a theoretical form of AI superintelligence that could perform any task a human could do and think for itself. But everyday folks are more concerned about AI’s impact on their paycheck and whether or not their power bills will go upas energy-hungry data centers are built. tbh it's weird that parts of the tech industry are still shocked by ongoing anti-AI public narrativeswhen the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are like "if we do nothing this is going to suck for a lot of people", what do you think the sentiment is going to be? Yes, I think a lot of AI leaders are just out of touch with normal people and don’t realize that fears of skynet are *not* what is primarily driving anti-AI sentiment. That exists, obviously, but most people are way more concerned with their paycheck and the cost of utilities. The divide has been most apparent in the online reaction to therecent attackson OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home. Inposts on X, for instance, AI insiders voiced surprise at a series of Instagram comments that seemed to praise the attack on Altman’s home. Some of theonline commentshave a similar vibe tothose that circulated onlineafter the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO in 2024 and the morerecent burning of a Kimberly-Clark warehouseby a worker angry about not receiving a “livable wage” — with some comments even going so far as to suggest that even more action, akin to a revolution, is needed. i didn’t realize how bad it was until i saw this comment section on instagramhttps://t.co/xxlHiM7r4Ppic.twitter.com/j1qMwqWVrl Stanford’s report provides more insight into where all this negativity is coming from, as it summarizes data around public sentiment of AI across various sources. For instance, it pointed to areport from Pew Research publishedlast month, which noted that only 10% of Americans said they were more excited than concerned about the increased use of AI in daily life. Meanwhile, 56% of AI experts said they believed AI would have a positive impact on the U.S. over the next 20 years. Expert opinion and public sentiment also greatly diverged in particular areas where AI could have a societal impact. Indeed, 84% of experts, the report authors noted, said that AI would have a largely positive impact on medical care over the next 20 years, but only 44% of the U.S. general public said the same. Plus, a majority (73%) of experts felt positive about AI’s impact on how people do their jobs, compared with just 23% of the public. And 69% of experts felt that AI would have a positive impact on the economy.Giventhesupposed AI-fueled layoffsanddisruptionsto theworkplace, it’s not surprising that only 21% of the public felt similarly. Other data from Pew Research, cited by the report, noted that AI experts were less pessimistic on AI’s impact on the job market, while nearly two-thirds of Americans (or 64%) said they think AI will lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years. The U.S. also reported the lowest trust in its government to regulate AI responsibly, compared with other nations, at 31%. Singapore ranked highest at 81%, per data pulled from Ipsos found in Stanford’s report. Another source looked at regulation concerns on a state-by-state level and concluded that, nationwide, 41% of respondents said federal AI regulation will not go far enough, while only 27% said it would go “too far.” Despite the fears and concerns, AI did get one accolade: Globally, those who feel like AI products and services offer more benefits than drawbacks slightly rose from 55% in 2024 to 59% in 2025. But at the same time, those respondents who said that AI makes them “nervous” grew from 50% to 52% during the same period, per data cited by the report’s authors.
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Microsoft is working on yet another OpenClaw-like agent
Microsoft is testing ways to integrate OpenClaw-like features into its existing Microsoft 365 Copilot tool. The new features, which the company confirmed toThe Information, would be geared toward enterprise customers, with better security controls than thefamously risky open source OpenClaw agent. OpenClaw is a tool that runs locally on a user’s computer and can create agents to perform tasks on behalf of the person. If Microsoft does come up with its own version of a Claw — meaning an agent that runs locally — the effort would join a number of other agentic tools the company has announced in the past few months. In March, for instance, Microsoft announcedCopilot Cowork, which is designed to take actions in Microsoft 365 apps, not just provide search results or chat in a separate work pane. Cowork is powered by its own“Work IQ” technology, an intelligence layer that tries to personalize Cowork for the user across Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft has also tapped Anthropic’s Claude to power Cowork, after it partnered with the AI lab late last year. Microsoft added Claude as an option available for Cowork. (While OpenClaw can work with multiple models,Claude remains the model of choicefor many users of the open source project.) However, Cowork doesn’t run on the local hardware; it runs in the cloud. In February, Microsoft alsointroduced Copilot Tasks, another agent designed to complete tasks, which was released at the time in preview. The marketing materials made this agent sound like it was geared more toward prosumers than enterprises, with tasks it should be allowed to handle ranging from organizing email (a Microsoft 365-like task) to organizing travel and appointments (tasks outside Microsoft’s Office suite of apps). This, however, also runs in the cloud. It’s not clear yet whether this Claw would be local or if it would simply adopt some of the other features that OpenClaw advocates love. Microsoft did tell The Information that one of the main features of the agent is that it would essentially be a version of 365 Copilot that is always working, able to take actions at any time. The idea is an agent that can complete multistep tasks over long periods. While the open source project OpenClaw can run on Windows machines, the Mac Mini has been the go-to platform for OpenClaw users. So much so that the small, affordable, cube-shaped Mac Mini desktops havesuddenly been selling like hotcakes. So,beyond security, Microsoft may have a number of motivations for wanting its own version. The company is expected to show off this new Claw (or an upgraded version of one of its existing Claw-like tools) at its Microsoft Build conference in June,The Verge reports. We’ve asked Microsoft how the new Claw agent fits in with these other agents and will update the story when we receive comment.
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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch signals IPO readiness as AI agents fuel revenue surge
While many startups founded prior to the emergence of ChatGPT are struggling to position themselves for the AI era, Vercel, a 10-year-old dev tool and website hosting platform, is benefiting from the explosion of AI-generated apps and agents. “When I started this company, only tens of millions of people could deploy,” Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch told the audience at theHumanXconference in San Francisco last week. “Now we’re seeing that everybody in the world can create an app.” The explosion inapp creationby non-developers has been a significant boon to Vercel’s business. The company’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) has skyrocketed from$100 millionat the beginning of 2024, as reported by The Information, to a run rate of $340 million by the end of February 2026, according toForbes. Given that growth, Rauch was asked onstage about his IPO plans. He suggested the company is already operating with the discipline of a public entity. “Vercel is very much a working public company,” Rauch said. As for when the debut will happen, he replied: “There’s no perfect timeline or quarter I can give. The company’s ready and getting more ready for it every day.” 2026 was expected to be a strong year for new listings, but a sharp sell-off in software, fueled by the fear of AI disruption, has effectively frozen the IPO pipeline. Aside from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, most talk of public debuts has largely ceased. Once any of those company’s go public, all expected to be blockbuster hits, the window may open again. Meanwhile most tech CEOs have gone quiet about their IPO plans. But Rauch is telegraphing the company’s public market readiness, suggesting that Vercel is eyeing a listing in the not-too-distant future. When pressed about what Wall Street should know about Vercel, Rauch responded: “The total addressable market of infrastructure has now grown, and it simply has no ceiling.” Vercel is betting that as more apps are created by AI agents instead of humans, the company will become the primary platform for hosting everything agents develop. “Agents are very prolific at deploying,” Rauch said, adding that 30% of the apps running on the company’s platform already came from agents. According to Rauch, agents will accelerate software production by making it easier to generate custom solutions than to purchase existing software. “All of that software… it needs to go somewhere, and we think it’s going to be Vercel,” he said. Vercel was last valued at $9.3 billion when it raised a $300 million Series F led by Accel in September. The company competes with Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services for hosting services, and it also offers v0, a vibe coding tool for creating websites and apps.
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This Startup Wants to Fix India’s GPU Shortage by Turning Chips into Real Estate
Compute Labs is building a model in which investors own GPUs and earn from their use across AI workloads.
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Europeans Do Not Trust China, US Tech Companies With Their Data: Survey
A new survey has found that Europeans do not trust Chinese and US-based tech companies when it comes to handling their data. The findings are important at a time when artificial intelligence (AI) companies based out of these two countries have started gaining a user base from across the globe. With individuals in major European countries taking a generally negative outlook towards foreign technology and products, this also becomes an important moment for the EU to bolster homegrown AI technology and push native tools as an alternative.
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PhysicsWallah, Microsoft to Offer AI Courses Across Tier-2, 3 Cities
The programmes will be delivered through PW Skills and will integrate tools such as Microsoft Copilot, GitHub, and Microsoft Office 365.
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How AI is Forcing Data Centers to Trade Uptime for Raw Power
As AI diversifies into training, inference, and hybrid workloads, operators are abandoning the one-size-fits-all approach for data centre infrastructure.
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The Tech Players Powering India’s Predictive Police Push
Hyderabad Police’s AI deployment comes as city law enforcement agencies increasingly integrate digital intelligence into policing.
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Indian IT Cannot Escape AI Cannibalisation
From TCS to Infosys and HCLTech, firms admit AI is eroding legacy revenues even as new growth builds.
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