Microsoft has introduced a new AI-powered function in Excel, designed to make it easier for users to analyse data, summarise text, and generate content directly within spreadsheets.

Grammarly, the AI-based writing assistance tool, has announced eight new specialised AI agents designed to support students and professionals with different aspects of writing, including research, feedback, and originality checks.

India is OpenAI’s second-largest market by user base after the United States

The idea of taking a break from work may feel radical. Yet strategic pauses, whether they are micro-breaks during the workday or complete disconnection on holiday, are increasingly recognised not as indulgences, but as essential investments in productivity, creativity, and well-being.

For students and recent graduates, networking can provide access to internships, mentorship, industry insights, referrals, and even long-term career opportunities. But how do you begin building a network when you are just starting out?

Oppo has officially launched the Oppo A5 in Bangladesh. 

Dhaka witnessed a royal spectacle on Saturday, August 16, 2025, as Royal Enfield owners from across the city gathered for the first-ever Royal Enfield Rideout 2025. 

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games was recently held in Beijing, where more than 500 humanoid robots from around the globe went head-to-head in a mix of sporting clashes and practical challenges.

Cybersecurity, for many organisations, has become a checklist. Buy this, subscribe to that, tick all the compliance boxes. There's a sort of psychological outsourcing of responsibility.

Robo Life Technology has won the Bangladesh regional final of the Startup World Cup 2025, receiving a BDT 50,000 in investment funding and securing a place to represent Bangladesh at the Global Startup World Cup competition to be held in San Francisco, USA to compete for a USD 1 million investment prize.

Honor has officially launched Pad X7 in Bangladesh. 

Google has introduced a new Temporary Chat feature to its Gemini app, allowing users to have private conversations that won’t be saved or used to personalise future responses. These chats will not appear in recent chats or Gemini Apps Activity, and Google says they also won’t be used to train its AI models.

Asus has recently introduced the Vivobook S14 in Bangladesh.

Meta’s microblogging app Threads now has more than 400 million monthly active users, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday. The figure is up from over 350 million in late April, when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg last shared user numbers.

Amazon-backed AI startup Anthropic will make its Claude AI models available to all three branches of the US government for just $1, the company announced on Tuesday.

AI search startup Perplexity has made an unexpected $34.5 billion all-cash bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser - a price much higher than its own estimated valuation of $18 billion.

Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, Musk says

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced that he will leave the company at the end of 2025 to launch a new venture.

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AOL has announced it will officially end its dial-up internet service on September 30, 2025, marking the close of a 34-year chapter in internet history. The US-based online service company shared the news in a brief statement on its website, describing the move as part of a routine evaluation of its products and services.