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Amazon engineer criticises company for $200B AI spending after slashing 30,000 workers

A group of Amazon engineers have stood up against their own employer at a Seattle City Council hearing, criticising tech giants for pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while simultaneously slashing thousands of human staff. According to a report by Fortune, the workers pointed out an ‘irony’: Big Tech companies...

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US bill seeks to end H-1B green card pathway: Will Indians be hit hardest?

AI-generated image A Republican lawmaker has introduced a sweeping bill in the US House of Representatives, seeking to overhaul the H-1B visa programme, proposing tougher hiring requirements, higher wage thresholds and restrictions that could significantly affect Indian technology professionals.This bill stands out from a few others that have been lately introduced to repeal or reform...

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‘Anna’ movement rocks Tamil Nadu BJP: Mass resignations leave party staring at an exodus

File photo NEW DELHI: K Annamalai’s exit from the Bharatiya Janata Party did not remain a standalone development for long. Within hours of his departure, Tamil Nadu BJP vice-president Karu Nagarajan and 15 other party functionaries resigned, raising questions about the party’s ability to contain the fallout.The resignations came despite state BJP president Nainar Nagendran’s...

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Unicorn in the USA: Indians aren’t stealing American jobs, they’re building entire HR depts

TOI correspondent from Washington: For a country currently engaged in a vigorous debate about whether immigrants are stealing jobs, swiping opportunities, overwhelming the system, and generally causing western civilization to collapse, the United States has produced a rather awkward statistic.According to a new policy brief by the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), immigrants have...

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Nepal batter achieves rare T20I milestone, joins Samson, Tilak in elite list

Nepal’s Kushal Bhurtel (PTI Photo/Shashank Parade) Nepal batter Kushal Bhurtel continued his extraordinary run of form at the Asian Games men’s cricket qualifiers, matching a rare world record with back-to-back T20I centuries just days after hammering six sixes in a single over.The explosive opener produced another breathtaking innings on Thursday as Nepal thrashed Malaysia by...

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‘Brics has overtaken G7’: Putin hails ‘key partner India’, growth of Global South

(Photo credit: PTI) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that “Brics has overtaken the G7” in terms of economic size, while also praising India as a “key partner” for its leading role in the IT and software industry.Speaking at the annual St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said that developing countries are playing an...

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