Pritam Bordoloi is a senior technology journalist and founder of The Left Shift, covering AI, enterprise technology, startups, digital transformation, and the business of technology.
Leadership Moves
Briscoe joins Databricks from AWS, where she led the APJ Partner Core organisation, overseeing partner programmes, strategic investments, and go-to-market initiatives.
Developer's Corner
The company said the new practice is designed to help Fortune 100 enterprises move more quickly from identifying business problems to deploying AI solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
GCC
India hosts 2,117 GCCs employing 2.36 million professionals and generating nearly $98.4 billion in revenue.
Policies
India's move against Jack Dorsey's BitChat extended beyond one app. Here's why the government also sought to block Briar and Bridgefy during the CJP protest.
Cybersecurity
Bank of Baroda has not responded publicly to the allegations, and there is currently no confirmation from CERT-In or the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regarding the purported breach
Acquisition
As part of the deal, Ghita Houir Alami, ZeroEntropy's founder and CEO, will join Notion to lead its newly formed Model Research team.
Opinion
Once BitChat is installed on a device, it can continue operating offline, relaying messages from phone to phone without relying on any central infrastructure.
Acquisition
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
AI Models
Anthropic has priced the model at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, matching the pricing of Opus 4.8.
Policies
BitChat is an open-source, decentralised messaging application that enables users to communicate without relying on mobile data, Wi-Fi, cellular networks, or even phone numbers.
Research
Kimi K3 performed significantly below leading frontier models when tasked with developing software exploits and conducting autonomous attacks on simulated enterprise networks.
Acquisition
The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2026.