The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (Bida) yesterday announced the integration of five new services from the Directorate of Registration into its online One-Stop Service (OSS) platform, raising the total to 142 services across 47 agencies.

Chinese tech giant Tencent has recruited a prominent artificial intelligence researcher from OpenAI, according to a recent report by Bloomberg News. Yao Shunyu, who previously worked at OpenAI and Google, has joined the Shenzhen-based company to work on integrating AI into its services.

Facebook users across the world are currently unable to search for posts and photos in the platform, after what appears to be a widespread outage affecting the platform’s search function, which began earlier this week.

OpenAI is planning to dramatically reduce the percentage of revenue it shares with Microsoft and partners, cutting from 20% to just 8% by the end of the decade, according to a report by The Information.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has laid off at least 500 employees from its data annotation team, according to a recent report by Business Insider. The workers, who help train the company’s Grok chatbot, were notified of the decision by email on Friday.

Robby Walker, one of Apple’s most senior artificial intelligence (AI) executives, is preparing to leave the company next month, according to a recent report by Bloomberg News.

Nepal’s political crisis took an unusual turn this week when thousands of young protesters turned to Discord, a social media platform more commonly associated with online gaming, to rally behind the country’s next leader. 

Mitsubishi Motors Bangladesh has officially launched the Xpander Black Series in Bangladesh with the first variant the Xpander Matte Black.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may have uncovered evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars, according to research published on September 10 in Nature, the scientific journal.

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, briefly lost his position as the world’s richest person to Larry Ellison, co-founder and CTO at Oracle this week, before reclaiming the title by the end of the trading day.

The Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with and the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) to establish the Institute of Frontier Technology (IFT) on the Buet campus..The agreement is part of the project, titled “Bangladesh

Apple unveiled its slimmest smartphone to date, the iPhone Air, during its annual September event in California. 

Every September, Apple asks us to upgrade. And every September, we wonder whether the shiny new iPhone is worth stretching our wallets again, or if last year’s model is still good enough. How much better is the iPhone 17 compared to last year’s iPhone 16? And if you are already thinking of spending big, how does it hold up against Android’s superpowers?

Team Crack Platoon from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) is representing Bangladesh in Formula SAE Japan 2025, one of the world’s most prestigious engineering design competitions, where students build and race formula-style electric vehicles.

Apple’s September 2025 event titled “Awe Dropping”, delivered a range of new devices and software, including the iPhone 17 series, updates to earbuds and watches, and a new version of its Final Cut Camera app.

Apple has introduced the iPhone 17 Air, the thinnest iPhone it has ever made, describing it as a combination of lightweight design and professional-level performance. The device was unveiled on September 9 at the company’s headquarters in California.

Apple has unveiled the iPhone 17, introducing a series of hardware upgrades and design refinements while keeping the familiar look of its predecessor. The new device was announced on September 9 at the company’s headquarters in California.

Apple’s next big product launching event is set to begin at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, at 11 p.m. Bangladesh time on September 9.

Uber has recently introduced its first-ever membership programme in Bangladesh called Uber One.

An employee at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) experienced the stark realities of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace when a chatbot she had helped train ultimately replaced her role.