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Manual finance operations may soon become obsolete, thanks to a new AI-native platform designed to automate tasks ranging from invoices to audits. Hyperbots, a US-headquartered startup with roots in India, is tackling key inefficiencies in finance departments through its end-to-end automation tools.

“There’s a lot of manual work, a lot of analytical work, and we believe that AI—and the finance & accounting platform we’ve built—can significantly automate several of these processes end-to-end,” said Niyati Chhaya, Co-Founder of Hyperbots, in…

We’ve all seen the films – AI takes over, humanity fights back, chaos follows. But here’s the twist: in reality, AI isn’t coming to destroy your job – it’s coming to save it. While you’re stuck in back-to-back meetings and drowning in emails, AI could be doing the grunt work for you. The only thing standing in your way? Your hesitation to adopt it.

Jabra surveyed 4,200 knowledge workers and 1,800 decision-makers, asking how they believe AI will reshape their work in 2025. According to the Jabra Great ExpectAItions Report 2024, while 90%…

Apple has reportedly finalised a lease agreement for its third retail store in India, with plans to open the outlet in Bengaluru’s Phoenix Mall of Asia. The move follows the company’s entry into physical retail in India last year with stores in Mumbai and Delhi.

A Business Standard report said that Apple has taken up 7,997.80 sq ft of retail space on the first floor of the upcoming mall located in Hebbal. The store is said to be roughly the same size as its Delhi counterpart in Select Citywalk Mall but smaller than the flagship store in Mumbai’s…

Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday announced a significant expansion of the India AI Mission, with the addition of 16,000 GPUs to the national computing infrastructure. The move takes total GPU availability under the mission to over 34,000, confirming CNBC-TV18’s exclusive report from April 25 .

The announcement comes amid growing global competition for advanced AI hardware. Notably, the United States has imposed an annual import cap of 50,000 GPUs on India, making domestic capacity-building increasingly critical.

Vaishnaw also revealed…

WhatsApp is introducing four new features to enhance its Status updates, giving users more ways to share moments and emotions with their contacts through collages, music, stickers, and interactive prompts.

The messaging platform announced that these updates are designed to make Status — WhatsApp’s ephemeral sharing feature — more expressive and dynamic, while keeping the same privacy protections in place. Status updates remain end-to-end encrypted and are visible only to users’ saved contacts.

Here’s what’s new:

• Layout: Users can now turn…

Ever watched a YouTube Short, spotted something intriguing—a pair of shoes, a famous landmark, a cool gadget—and wished you could just tap it to find out more? Now, you can.

Google is bringing the power of Lens to YouTube Shorts, allowing viewers to search what they see in a video using visual cues. Rolling out in beta over the coming weeks, the feature turns Shorts into a gateway for discovery—no need to leave the app or type out vague search terms.

To use it, open the YouTube mobile app, tap into Shorts, and pause the video. A Lens icon will…

Ever since Nothing burst onto the smartphone scene, it’s been less about specs and more about spectacle. The London-based tech brand, founded by Carl Pei, carved its niche with futuristic, transparent designs and the now-iconic Glyph Interface — a constellation of LED lights that transformed the back of your phone into more than just glass and metal. It blinked, pulsed, and glowed with purpose: from calls and notifications to Uber ETAs and timer countdowns. It was Nothing’s signature, both literally and symbolically.

So when the company posted…

Alphabet’s Google and US antitrust enforcers will make their final arguments on whether the tech giant should be forced to sell its Chrome browser or adopt other measures to restore competition in online search, as the blockbuster antitrust trial concludes on Friday.

The US Department of Justice and a coalition of states are pressing to make Google not only sell Chrome, but also share search data and cease multibillion-dollar payments to Apple and other smartphone makers and wireless carriers that set Google as the default search engine on new…

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus is gearing up to launch its latest device, the OnePlus 13s in India on June 5. With leaked renders already offering a full look at its design, tipsters are now speculating on its expected price — where the phone is likely to be priced below ₹60,000.

According to tipster Yogesh Brar, the OnePlus 13s could carry a price tag of around ₹55,000. However, pricing details are yet to be officially confirmed and may vary based on market dynamics.

Sources tell me OnePlus 13s will be priced in the Rs 55k…

Apple’s investment in India is still not on par with the scale seen in China, according to Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China. Speaking to CNBC-TV18, McGee said that while Apple has been making iPhones in India since 2017, the initial motivation was to avoid tariffs imposed by the Indian government on smartphones imported from China.

He said, “Apple has been making iPhones in India since 2017, but that was just about tariffs. PM Narendra Modi had put tariffs on smartphones coming from China, about 20%. When Apple looked at India and saw the…