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What’s New Today: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia’s latest artificial intelligence chips and looking for alternatives since 2025.
Fast-Track Insights: Refute raised £5M in seed funding, led by Amadeus Capital Partners along with Playfair, Episode 1, Osney Capital, and the UK’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund.
Here’s a quick rundown of the biggest tech headlines making waves today. Let's dive into the top tech stories, from OpenAI chip dissatisfaction to the crypto market update today.
OpenAI expresses dissatisfaction with specific Nvidia AI chips which fail to meet their requirements for inference tasks. The company has been searching for new chip suppliers since 2025. The primary reason is to update its hardware plans to adapt to changing market conditions. Reports indicate OpenAI’s interest in chips from emerging firms to boost inference performance.
The London-based AI startup Refute received £5 million in seed funding from the round led by Amadeus Capital Partners. Additionally, Playfair, Episode 1, Osney Capital and the UK National Security Strategic Investment Fund also provided funding to develop its platform for detecting and countering sophisticated disinformation and hybrid threats targeting governments and organizations.
India Post has opened its recruitment process for the 2026 Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) program which will fill 28,740 positions across 23 postal circles for Branch Post Master (BPM), Assistant BPM (ABPM) and Dak Sevak positions. The GDS portal allows online applications until February 14, 2026 for candidates who are 18 to 40 years old with a Class 10 degree and knowledge of local languages.
The use of AI tools such as deepfakes, voice cloning and chatbots has increased the number of fraudulent attempts to conduct remote interviews which create recruitment dangers through impersonation and security breaches. HR teams should implement layered identity verification together with live challenge interactions, structured competency assessments and AI detection technologies that require human oversight.
The cryptocurrency market experienced a severe downturn which resulted in the liquidation of approximately $2.56 billion worth of Bitcoin positions. The crypto market experienced major sellouts because traders who used leverage were forced to exit their positions which demonstrated that investors sell their holdings during risk-off periods. Bitcoin experienced a major price decline from its recent peak, and analysts observed that the ongoing market fluctuations led to changes in risk assessment methods.
