Google, Walmart ask Bengaluru staff to work from home amid state water dispute

Internal memos seen by Reuters showed multinational firms such as Google, Walmart, IBM and Accenture have advised employees to work from home and avoid any non-essential commuting during Tuesday's strike.

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ETSA 2023 stars to be feted on Oct 7; Dream11, others stare at Rs 55,000 crore tax demand

The eight winners of The Economic Times Startup Awards 2023 will be felicitated on October 7 in a grand ceremony in Bengaluru. Seema Prem of Fia Global, which won top honours for Social Enterprise, spoke to us about her startup’s journey, and its next aim. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

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Yelp wants Google's lawyers tossed from US antitrust case

Yelp and News/Media Alliance, which are not defendants in the litigation but are targets of Google's subpoenas, argue that law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison should be disqualified.

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Elon Musk showcases Tesla humanoid robot performing Yoga, Namaste

Elon Musk showcased the Tesla humanoid robot named 'Optimus' in a video where it performed yoga postures and greeted followers with a 'Namaste'. Optimus has the ability to self-calibrate its arms and legs and can locate its limbs in space using vision and joint position encoders.

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The threat of wildfires is rising. So is new artificial intelligence solutions to fight them

Firefighters and startups are using AI-enabled cameras to scan the horizon for signs of smoke. A German company is building a constellation of satellites to detect fires from space. And Microsoft is using AI models to predict where the next blaze could be sparked.

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Meta gears up to launch dozens of AI chatbots for younger users

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the company has tested a "sassy robot" persona inspired by Bender from Futurama and an overly curious "Alvin the Alien" that one employee worried could imply the bot was made to gather personal information.

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Groww may pip Zerodha in active user count; ETSA 2023 winner Gameberry Labs on its bootstrap journey

Talk about a growth story! Online stock broking platform Groww is all set to pip market leader Zerodha in terms of active investors next month. While Zerodha took almost a decade to achieve leadership status, Groww did it in just three years, having started in 2020. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

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