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Roblox appoints former AWS senior executive Sunil Rao as MD for India

Gaming company Roblox has appointed former Amazon Web Services senior executive Sunil Rao as Managing Director for its India arm, the company said on Thursday. Rao will serve as Roblox's senior representative and market lead in the country, overseeing day-to-day execution of Roblox India's strategy working with local teams and partners, the company said in a statement. "Roblox announces the appointment of Sunil Rao as Managing Director, Roblox India. Rao will join Roblox India this May to help strengthen the company's local presence in the country, foster partnerships, support the creator ecosystem and align local market needs with global product and business priorities," the statement said. Rao was previously part of the leadership team at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he led strategy and corporate business development across the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Prior to AWS, Rao was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he worked closely with founders and emergin

Amazon touts 'major expansion' with OpenAI as ties with Microsoft loosen

Amazon announced what it called a "major expansion" of its partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Tuesday, a day after the artificial intelligence company said it was loosening its ties to longtime backer Microsoft. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the collaboration with Amazon's cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, would involve co-developing a new platform for AI agents that can do computer-based work on people's behalf. Altman spoke via prerecorded video message to an Amazon event in San Francisco at the same time as he was appearing in federal court across San Francisco Bay in Oakland for a civil trial brought by rival OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk. Microsoft had said Monday it will no longer pay a share of its revenue to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the latest move to untether a close partnership that helped unleash an artificial intelligence boom. OpenAI relied exclusively on Microsoft's investments in cloud computing services to build the technology that helped make ChatGPT a .

AI can compress drug discovery timelines, unlock real-world health gains

Health data remains in silos across hospitals, insurers, and geographies, often locked behind incompatible systems

Amazon nears deal to acquire Globalstar in push to rival Musk's Starlink

Globalstar's shares have almost quadrupled in the past year, giving the company a market value of about $9.4 billion

Amazon Web Services' data centres in UAE, Bahrain damaged by drone strikes

According to company's latest update, the facilities suffered 'physical impacts to infrastructure' as a result of drone strikes, causing structural damage, power disruption

Amazon cloud suffers outage after unidentified objects hit UAE data centre

While it is unclear if the incident is related to the conflict between the US and Iran, the fire broke out on the same day Iranian projectiles struck the UAE in retaliation for US and Israeli strikes

AI regulations enough for innovations to thrive: MoS Jitin Prasada

The regulations for artificial intelligence are not to over regulate but enough for innovations to thrive in the country, Union Minister Jitin Prasada said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) New Delhi Symposium 2026, the minister emphasised that everyone should be able to reap the benefits of technology transformation. India is a fast-growing market that offers opportunities for various technological innovations, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. "Scale, speed, innovation and inclusion," are the strengths of India, Prasada said. He is the Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology as well as Commerce & Industry. Talking about AI, he said as far as the policy for regulations go, they are not aimed at over regulating and that the regulations are enough for innovations to thrive. "India will not call itself successful until all (those in) bottom up (segment) reap benefits of the technology transformation that is happening," ...

Amazon deepens ties with STMicro to secure semiconductors for data centres

Under the agreement, AWS received warrants to acquire as many as 24.8 million ordinary STMicro shares

Microsoft signs $750 million Azure cloud deal with AI firm Perplexity

For Microsoft, the Perplexity deal boosts its efforts to position Azure as the place to build AI applications and deploy models from a variety of vendors

Amazon's global layoffs likely to impact nearly 500-700 jobs in India

Amazon has announced yet another round of layoffs. This time, the company is gearing up to lay off around 16,000 employees globally

Infosys ties up with AWS to scale enterprise use of generative AI

The move focuses on combining Infosys Topaz, an AI-first set of services and platforms using GenAI technologies, and Amazon Q Developer, AWS's generative AI-powered assistant

AWS denies global outage report, says services functioning normally

The outage left many users in the US unable to access gaming platforms such as Fortnite, Rocket League and other Epic Games titles

Amazon plans to use Nvidia tech in AI chips, roll out new servers

The companies made the announcement as part of AWS's annual week-long cloud computing conference in Las Vegas, which draws about 60,000 people

Amazon to invest $50 bn in AI infra for US govt after Meta, Anthropic

As part of the investment, the federal agencies will have access to AWS' AI tools, Anthropic's Claude family of models, and Nvidia chips, as well as Amazon's custom Trainium AI chips

Explained: How Cloudflare functions and why its outage affected websites

Users reported broken pages and slow loading for websites after many of the world's largest online services, including ChatGPT and X, that depend on Cloudflare for security, were disrupted on November

Statsguru: Indian Cloud infrastructure firms face bottomline haziness

The annual trend in Cloud company formation reveals notable growth over the years. However, in 2024, the number dipped, both globally and in India

The Family Man 3 trailer: Srikant aka Manoj Bajpayee is now 'Wanted'

The trailer of "The Family Man Season 3" was released today in Mumbai ahead of its Nov 21 premiere. The drama intensifies in this new season as Srikant runs from both his own agency and enemies

AWS marketplace comes to India, enabling rupee transactions for services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday announced the expansion of AWS Marketplace - a platform to discover and transact software solutions - in India, enabling customers to purchase cloud software and services in Indian Rupees. India-based sellers, including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Consulting Partners, can now list and sell their software and services with simplified tax compliance, the company said in a statement. The expansion allows Indian software providers, including Cisco, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, eMudhra, Freshworks, Sarvam, Salesforce, and IBM, among others, to transact in INR on AWS Marketplace. Globally, AWS Marketplace features over 30,000 listings across more than 70 software categories, including security, AI, DevOps, and data analytics. The service offers customers significant cost and time savings, with a reported 377 per cent return on investment and faster procurement cycles. "AWS Marketplace in India eliminates traditional procurement friction by ...

OpenAI signs $38-bn multi-year cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services

The deal marks the first major announcement since OpenAI's restructuring last week, which freed the ChatGPT maker from its non-profit framework

Infra breakdown: AWS' global outage creates a moment of vulnerability

AWS suffers major global outage on October 20, affecting millions of users and services including Canva, Duolingo, and Snapchat amid its dominant cloud market presence