Good morning, tech fam; here are some quick tech updates for you to catch up on!
What’s New Today: NVIDIA has unveiled its Rubin CPX AI chip, capable of handling a million video tokens every hour, promising $5 billion in revenue by 2026.
Fast-Track Insights: Venture capital firm AJVC has raised ₹165 crore in its debut fund, surpassing the ₹100 crore target, with 40% of investments in AI.
Here’s a quick rundown of the biggest tech headlines making waves today. Let's dive into the day’s top tech stories, from NVIDIA’s powerful AI chip to AJVC’s impressive fundraising.
NVIDIA has introduced a new AI chip called Rubin CPX that can handle large video and coding tasks. It can process up to one million tokens of video every hour by combining decoding, inference, and encoding in one system. Expected by late 2026, the chip could turn a $100 million investment into $5 billion in revenue.
AJVC, founded by Aviral Bhatnagar, has raised ₹165 crore for its debut fund - surpassing the ₹100 crore goal. Launched in August 2024, it has already made 25 investments across AI, B2B, consumer brands, and consumer tech, with 40% in AI. Backed by domestic investors, AJVC plans to back another 60–70 startups by early 2028.
Infosys is restarting fresher hiring after a two-year break, aiming to onboard 20,000 graduates in 2025. The renewed campus recruitment push coincides with efforts to enhance AI and cybersecurity capabilities through expansion at its Hubballi center. This strategic move signals the company’s confidence in investing in early-career talent during a technology-driven growth phase.
In India, scammers exploit AI to generate fake IDs, clone voices, create deepfake videos, and mimic personalized chatbots, luring victims via convincing job offers, romantic profiles, investment schemes, phishing emails, and bogus loan apps. To stay protected, verify callers, check news sources, avoid unrealistic offers, use trusted platforms, watermark sensitive documents, enable two-factor authentication, and maintain healthy skepticism.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko urged both central and commercial banks to expand the use of cryptocurrencies, pointing to sanctions that have severely strained the economy. He highlighted that crypto-based external payments have reached $1.7 billion in the first seven months and could rise to $3 billion by year-end, emphasizing the need for urgent action to diversify payment systems.