A controversial artificial intelligence (AI) startup that began as a tool for cheating in job interviews has secured $5.3 million in seed funding, despite its founders being suspended from Columbia University over its creation.

Microsoft has rolled out stricter performance management policies that could make it harder for low-scoring employees to remain with or return to the company, according to a recent report by Business Insider. In an internal email, Chief People Officer Amy Coleman outlined new measures designed to streamline accountability, including a two-year rehire ban for employees who exit due to poor performance.

WhatsApp has announced that it is introducing a new in-app translation feature that enables users to translate messages and channel updates directly within the app, using entirely on-device processing to maintain privacy and preserve end-to-end encryption. 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has suggested that users’ politeness toward AI may be having a tangible financial impact, revealing that simple expressions such as "please" and "thank you" could be contributing to electricity costs amounting to tens of millions of dollars.

Google is set to face a historic antitrust trial in Washington this week, as the US Department of Justice (DOJ) moves to compel the tech giant to divest its Chrome browser in order to reintroduce competition into the online search market.

Taptap Send, an international money transfer platform, has introduced a new feature called the Taptap Send Wallet on April 21.

Governments around the world are struggling to contain the rapid spread of a multibillion‑dollar cyber scam industry that emerged in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar, has now taken root in South America, Africa and Eastern Europe, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) recently said, according to a recent Reuters report.

Open Bionics, a UK-based startup, has revealed a wireless bionic hand that is capable of operating even when detached from the wearer’s body. Called the Hero Pro model, the company says this prosthetic hand will provide amputees with interchangeable attachments and real-time muscle control.

Krafton’s Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile has announced plans to launch a dedicated local server for Bangladesh on April 20. The local server is expected to go live in the coming months.

Global smartphone shipments rose modestly by 1.5 percent year-over-year (YoY) in the first quarter of 2025, reaching 304.9 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker published on April 14.

Huawei has officially announced the registration opening for the 2025 edition of ‘Seeds for the Future’, the company’s flagship ICT talent development initiative, at a launching event held at the Huawei Bangladesh Academy on April, 19.

Google has recently unveiled DolphinGemma, an artificial intelligence model designed to analyse and mimic dolphin vocalisations. Developed in collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP) and Georgia Tech, the AI processes decades of recorded dolphin sounds to identify patterns and predict communication sequences—much like how AI models anticipate text in human language.

Vivo has officially launched the V50 Lite smartphone in Bangladesh.

Realme has officially launched the realme C75x in Bangladesh. 

Xbox has recently announced that it is introducing the feature to purchase games and downloadable content (DLC) directly from its mobile app. The update, currently available to beta testers on iOS and Android, is expected to roll out more broadly in the near future.

Huawei has recently conducted a campus recruitment programme at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), offering employment opportunities to graduating students in the fields of information and communication technology. 

Want to get paid big bucks for hacking satellites? Elon Musk's Starlink is offering security researchers and ethical hackers up to $100,000 if they can crack its global satellite internet network - legally. As of February 11, 2025, the company's bug bounty program on Bugcrowd has already paid out for 118 vulnerabilities, with an average reward of $1,466.66 per bug over the last three months.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is developing its own social media platform, according to sources familiar with internal discussions reported by The Verge. While still in the early prototyping stages, the experimental project reportedly features a social feed integrated with ChatGPT's image generation capabilities—potentially positioning OpenAI against rivals like Elon Musk's X and Meta.

A California high school student has made an extraordinary contribution to astronomy by developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that uncovered 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. Seventeen-year-old Matteo Paz's work, conducted through Caltech's Planet Finder Academy, has now been published in 'The Astronomical Journal' – a remarkable achievement for a single-author paper by a teenage scientist.

Team Adamantine from Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) has recently secured first place in the ‘Business Case Competition 2025’ and will represent Bangladesh at the HSBC/HKU Asia Pacific Business Case Competition in Hong Kong this June.