Bangladeshi scientist receives UK exploration award for Nepal Indigenous knowledge project
18 August 2026
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Abdullah Rubaet Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi social scientist, has received the SES Elodie Sandford Award from the UK-based Scientific Exploration Society (SES) for a planned research expedition documenting Indigenous ecological knowledge in Nepal’s Himalayan Mustang region.
Nvidia invests $1.5 billion in SoftBank data centre developer to secure OpenAI project
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Nvidia has announced a $1.5 billion investment in SB Energy, a data centre developer backed by SoftBank and OpenAI, cementing its position as the sole supplier of computing infrastructure at a major new OpenAI facility being built in Ohio.
Chip startup Velaura AI hits $1 billion valuation in $110 million round
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Bangladeshi companies look beyond chatbots with agentic AI
15 August 2026
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OpenAI appoints new CRO
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Unitree shares surge sixfold in Shanghai debut, valuing robot maker at $50 billion
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Meet the AI chatbots replacing India's call-center workers
That would spell near-term job losses in India, which accounts for 52% of the global outsourcing market.
15 October 2025
AUST students’ dream of launching a nano satellite steadily inches toward reality
The project is being jointly operated by AUST students from four academic departments.
14 October 2025
Microsoft launches its first in-house AI image generator
Microsoft has recently announced MAI-Image-1, its first internally developed AI model for generating images from text descriptions.
14 October 2025
Google to build $15 billion AI data centre hub in India
Google has announced it will invest $15 billion over five years to establish a major AI data centre hub in Andhra Pradesh, India. The 1-gigawatt facility in the port city of Visakhapatnam will represent Google's largest AI infrastructure investment outside the United States.
14 October 2025
The Gen Z guide to smarter learning
For Gen Z students who have grown up navigating both online classes and algorithmic chaos, learning smarter isn’t about working harder or longer. It is about using the right tools with the right mindset.
14 October 2025
xAI hires Nvidia researchers for 'world model' AI development: report
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has hired two former Nvidia researchers, Zeeshan Patel and Ethan He, to accelerate work on advanced 'world models', according to a recent report by The Financial Times. These AI systems aim to understand and navigate physical environments, going beyond the text-based models that power tools such as ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok.
13 October 2025
Amazon unveils Quick Suite for workplace automation
Amazon has introduced Quick Suite, an AI-powered workspace that retrieves information across company systems and the public internet, and can take actions in connected business apps.
13 October 2025
How just 250 documents can corrupt any AI
Researchers have recently discovered a critical flaw in large language models, the ones powering chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude: it takes far less work to sabotage these AIs than experts had previously believed.
12 October 2025
Jobs of the week
Here are our picks for jobs of the week. Check out the article for more details.
12 October 2025
Neuroscientists sue Apple for using copyrighted books to train AI
Apple is facing a new lawsuit in the United States over claims that it used copyrighted material without permission to train Apple Intelligence, its artificial intelligence system, according to a recent report by Reuters.
11 October 2025
Bangladesh wins big at World Invention Competition and Exhibition 2025
17 Bangladeshi teams have won medals at the World Invention Competition and Exhibition (WICE) 2025, an international science and innovation contest, featuring projects across various categories. Among them, 14 teams won gold medals and 3 secured silver.
10 October 2025
How students can get Google Gemini Pro free in 2025
Google has recently launched a one-year free offer of its Gemini Pro plan exclusively for students, including those in Bangladesh.
9 October 2025
The uncomfortable AI resurrection of dead celebrities
A new, and deeply unsettling, trend is flooding social media feeds. It is not a dance challenge or a recipe video. It is the digital resurrection of deceased celebrities, all generated by artificial intelligence.
8 October 2025
AI firm Anthropic to open India office in 2026
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) company backed by Google’s parent Alphabet and Amazon, announced plans to open its first office in India in early 2026.
8 October 2025
New 'Standard' Tesla cars start from $36,990
Tesla has launched new 'Standard' lower-priced versions of its Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV, with starting prices of $36,990 and $39,990, respectively.
8 October 2025
Samsung launches Galaxy A07 in Bangladesh
Samsung Bangladesh has officially launched the Galaxy A07 in Bangladesh.
8 October 2025
AMD and OpenAI enter multi-billion dollar AI chip deal
AMD has secured a multi-year agreement to supply AI chips to OpenAI in a deal expected to generate tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue for the chipmaker. The partnership includes an option for OpenAI to purchase up to approximately 10% of AMD's shares.
7 October 2025
High-performance computing: a path forward for Bangladesh
In this conversation, Professor Torsten Hoefler, a globally recognised expert in supercomputing, Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, and recipient of the 2024 ACM Prize in Computing, shares his insights on the potential of HPC to catalyse development in Bangladesh.
7 October 2025
The career jungle gym: thriving when there's no ladder to climb
Unlike a ladder, a jungle gym career isn't about a single, predetermined path to the top. It’s a multi-dimensional structure where progress isn't just upward: it's lateral, diagonal, and sometimes even a strategic step down to a new platform to access a better route forward.
7 October 2025
TikTok launches STEM content feed in Bangladesh
TikTok launched a dedicated in-app science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) content feed in Bangladesh on September 6.
6 October 2025
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