Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, has become the richest person in China, with a personal wealth of $49.3 billion, according to the Hurun China Rich List 2024, an annual ranking of China's richest individuals. 

Toyota Motor Corp. and the Japanese telecom company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) are investing 500 billion yen ($3.26 billion) in artificial intelligence research and development to create advanced software aimed at making autonomous driving safer.

A hybrid workplace paradigm offers employees freedom and support by combining in-person and remote work. More autonomy and a better work-life balance increase employee engagement in a mixed workplace. Employers gain from developing a more dependable, productive, and healthier workforce.

Sierra, a Silicon Valley-based AI startup co-founded by Bret Taylor, former Salesforce co-CEO and current OpenAI Chairman of the Board, has secured $175 million in a new funding round, giving the startup a $4.5 billion valuation. 

Apple today announced the release of its latest iMac, featuring the advanced M4 chip and Apple Intelligence.

Apple has released a new suite of features under its 'Apple Intelligence' initiative, now available through its software updates iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1.

Google is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, codenamed 'Project Jarvis,' designed to automate online tasks.

Runway, a US-based AI research company specialising in creative software, has launched Act-One, a tool for generating character animations based on simple video and voice inputs.

Indonesia has officially banned the sale and use of Apple’s iPhone 16 and other recent releases, including the Apple Watch Series 10, after the tech giant failed to fulfil its previously agreed investment commitments in the country.

Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Google's parent Alphabet, has recently raised $5.6 billion in its latest funding round. The round included major investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price.

A wave of recent social media posts has raised concerns over alleged unauthorised withdrawals impacting customers of Eastern Bank PLC and BRAC Bank PLC.

Meta Platforms has formed a new partnership with international news platform Reuters, enabling its AI chatbot to utilise Reuters' content for real-time responses to user questions about news and current events.

To encourage security experts to test the platform's privacy and security protections, Apple will now pay researchers who uncover serious vulnerabilities in Private Cloud Compute (PCC), the system which supports Apple Intelligence in handling complex tasks, up to $1 million.

Infinix has unveiled its latest smartphone, the Infinix HOT 50 Pro, in Bangladesh. The phone comes with a MediaTek Helio G100 processor, a 7.4 mm premium-slim design, a 6.78-inch AMOLED display, and a 120 Hz refresh rate.

Here are five lesser-known TikTok features that may surprise even regular users.

Google is reportedly set to release Gemini 2.0 in December 2024, marking a year since the launch of its first Gemini model.

Iceland has emerged as a pioneer in work-life balance and economic innovation, outshining most of its European peers thanks to a bold experiment in reducing working hours to four days a week, without cutting pay.

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Canva has recently launched Dream Lab, an AI-driven image generation tool that provides users with advanced image generation options directly on the Canva platform on both the web and mobile versions.

Ifad Autos Ltd. has begun exporting buses from Bangladesh for the first time, with an initial shipment of 11 air-conditioned buses sent to Bhutan.