Uber promotes Balaji Krishnamurthy, its former VP of strategic finance and investor relations, to be its CFO, replacing Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah
Thank you for standing by. My name is Greg and I will be your conference operator today.The Economic Times:Uber appoints Indian-origin Balaji Krishnamurthy as CFOConnor Hart /Dow Jones Newswires:Uber...
OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
a Spotify Wrapped-style recap that analyzes your most intrusive thoughts and chat habits from 2025 OpenAI : ChatGPT — Release Notes Emma Roth / The Verge : ChatGPT's yearly recap sums up your conversa...
Uber launches its B2B logistics service Uber Direct in India with ONDC integration, starting in Bengaluru with grocery deliveries for Zepto and KPN Farm Fresh
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OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini
it found all of the best Black Friday deals in minutes John-Anthony Disotto / TechRadar : ChatGPT's new shopping tool is the AI personal shopper I've always wanted - but for now, humans are still bett...
OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI
Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules The Economic Times : OpenAI fixes ChatGPT's em dash problem; ‘small-but-happy-win’ says Sam Altman Kahekashan / The Hans India ...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to “culture” and “removing layers” from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors
And It's Not Because of AI or Cost Cutting Surbhi Jain / Benzinga : Andy Jassy Is Turning Amazon Into The 'World's Largest Startup' — One Layer At A Time Eugene Kim / Business Insider : Amazon's CEO s...
Walmart's PhonePe raised $600M from General Atlantic at a $14.5B valuation, as the Indian digital payments and financial services company prepares for an IPO
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OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions”
OpenAI responded, but is it enough? Mary Cunningham / CBS News : OpenAI blocks Sora 2 users from using MLK Jr.'s likeness after “disrespectful depictions” Katrina Morgan / WUSA : OpenAI takes away abi...
Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch on September 30, which is even faster than ChatGPT did
and ringing alarm bells Jason Aten / Inc : Mark Cuban Just Invited Everyone to Deepfake Him on Sora and It's Really Quite Brilliant Chris McKay / Maginative : OpenAI's New Video App Tops 1M Downloads—...
Google Pay and PhonePe accounted for 80% of India's UPI transactions in Aug. 2025, down from 85% a year ago, as smaller players like Navi and BHIM gained ground
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