Sachin Tendulkar Joins Reddit: Fans to Get Exclusive Cricket Insights.

Sachin Tendulkar Joins Reddit: Fans to Get Exclusive Cricket Insights from the Master Blaster . The Master Blaster joins Reddit as brand ambassador! Fans will get exclusive insights, match reflections, and community interactions directly from Sachin. He’ll also feature in Reddit’s upcoming India and global campaigns.

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Zuckerberg’s $100M AI Hiring Push Isn’t Working—Says Sam Altman

Meta is trying to lure top AI talent with compensation offers reportedly over $100 million, aiming to build a superintelligence team led by Alexandr Wang. But according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, those efforts aren’t paying off. “They’ve made huge offers to our team,” Altman said on a recent podcast. “None of our best people have left.” He argued Meta’s focus on money over mission weakens its innovation culture. While Meta has hired a few key names and invested in Scale AI, OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic are still leading the race. Altman even teased OpenAI’s plans for an AI-powered social media app—possibly a direct challenge to Meta.

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Apple Faces Pressure to WOW at WWDC 2025

Apple’s bold AI promises from last year’s WWDC have yet to fully land. Delays in launching personalized Siri and tools like Swift Assist have left both users and developers underwhelmed. With rising pressure from rivals and new App Store fee rulings, Apple must now prove it can deliver real, useful AI—fast—or risk falling behind.

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Meta in Talks to Invest Over $10B in Scale AI: Biggest Private AI Bet Yet

Meta is reportedly eyeing a massive $10B+ investment in Scale AI—making it one of the largest private tech deals ever. Scale, which powers Microsoft and OpenAI with clean training data, could soon hit a $25B valuation. The deal reflects Meta’s growing AI ambition, especially in defense, as it partners with Scale on military AI tools like “Defense Llama.”

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Superblocks CEO: How AI System Prompts Can Reveal Billion-Dollar Startup Ideas

Brad Menezes, CEO of Superblocks, believes studying system prompts—those long, specific instructions used by AI startups—can inspire the next unicorn. As part of a new product launch, he shared 19 such prompts, showing how role, context, and tool instructions shape AI behavior. His insight? The real magic is in the infrastructure built around the prompt.

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Omada Health Pops 21% in Nasdaq Debut, Hits $1B+ Valuation

Omada Health Soars 21% on Nasdaq Debut, Opening at $23 Following $19 IPO Pricing. The virtual chronic care startup raised $150M by selling 7.9M shares, now trading under “OMDA.” With revenue up 57% YoY, Omada joins a small wave of healthtech IPOs, following Hinge Health. Backed by a16z and Fidelity, the company is now valued over $1B.

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Anthropic Names National Security Expert to Its Governing Trust

Just after unveiling new AI models for U.S. defense use, Anthropic named Richard Fontaine—ex-adviser to Sen. McCain—to its long-term benefit trust. The trust helps steer the company’s ethical path, prioritizing safety over profits. CEO Dario Amodei says Fontaine’s security expertise comes at a key moment as AI and defense increasingly overlap. Anthropic, like OpenAI and Google, is eyeing deeper national security ties.

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QNu Labs Is Building India’s Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity Future

When digital payments soared post-demonetisation, Sunil Gupta saw the missing link—digital trust. In 2016, he co-founded QNu Labs, betting on quantum cryptography instead of AI to build India’s own secure cyber platform. The IIT-Madras-incubated startup now builds quantum-safe chips, encryption hardware, and cloud security tools for India’s defence and critical sectors, recently raising ₹60 crore to scale globally.

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AI Coding Startup Anysphere Raises $900M, Hits $9.9B Valuation

Anysphere, maker of the AI coding tool Cursor, has raised $900M at a $9.9B valuation. Led by Thrive Capital, the round marks its third funding in under a year. Cursor’s ARR now tops $500M, doubling every two months. With new enterprise plans, the company’s revenue model is shifting beyond individual users. Anysphere recently declined acquisition offers, including from OpenAI.

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