Tech Roundup News 19 August 2025 - 24 August 2025

Arm Holdings hired Amazon AI chip engineer Rami Sinno to lead its plan to design in-house AI chips and chiplets. SoftBank took a $2 billion stake in Intel and also backed a $30 billion OpenAI investment, plus funded the Stargate AI data center project in Ohio with Foxconn. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Go in India at ₹399 ($4.57) per month with 10x higher usage limits than the free tier. Perplexity AI offered a $34.5 billion all-cash bid to acquire Google’s Chrome browser, though Google reportedly rejected the approach. Cohere raised a $500 million Series D valuing the company at $6.8 billion