OpenAI’s Plans for All-Knowing ChatGPT Super Assistant Revealed in Internal Document
OpenAI plans to build ChatGPT into a super-assistant that truly understands its user and their needs. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm’s vision for the first half of this year was recently revealed in an internal strategy document. The…
Google Says It Will Appeal Online Search Antitrust Decision
Alphabet’s Google on Saturday said it will appeal an antitrust decision under which a federal judge proposed less aggressive ways to restore online search competition than the 10-year regime suggested by antitrust enforcers “We will wait for the Court’s opinion….
Perplexity Labs Launched With Ability to Generate Spreadsheets, Reports and Create Web Apps
Perplexity Labs, a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature within the Perplexity platform, was introduced on Thursday. The company says the new mode can turn text prompts into full-fledged projects such as reports, spreadsheets, and even simple web apps. Perplexity Labs…
Google, DOJ to Make Final Push in US Search Antitrust Case
Alphabet’s Google and US antitrust enforcers will make their final arguments on whether the tech giant should be forced to sell its Chrome browser or adopt other measures to restore competition in online search, as the blockbuster antitrust trial concludes…
Kedarnath Yatra Helicopter Booking Online Scam: Uttarakhand Police STF Reportedly Cracks Down on Cybercriminals
The Uttarakhand government has cracked down on fake websites involved in helicopter ticket booking scams. Cybercriminals are targeting people during the Kedarnath Yatra, a pilgrimage to the Kedarnath Temple that is part of the Chota Char Dham Yatra. According to…
Tencent Launches HunyuanPortrait, an Open-Source AI Model for Animating Portraits
Tencent released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday that can animate still portrait images. Dubbed HunyuanPortrait, the large language model (LLM) is based on the diffusion architecture, and can generate videos with realistic animation based on a reference…
OpenAI’s Viral Ghibli Trend Might Be a Privacy Minefield, Experts Say
Unless you live under a rock or abstain from social media and Internet pop culture entirely, you must have at least heard of the Ghibli trend, if not seen the thousands of images flooding popular social platforms. In the last…
Qualcomm Releases Study Showing That Its Modems Beat Apple’s C1
A study commissioned by Qualcomm found that its modem chips worked better than a rival component developed by Apple, especially for cellular customers in dense urban areas. The iPhone 16e, the first smartphone to use Apple’s in-house C1 modem, was…
OpenAI o3 AI Model Bypasses Shutdown Commands in Experiment, Say Researchers
OpenAI’s o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model is said to have bypassed instructions to shut down during an experiment. As per researchers, the AI model made sabotage attempts to refuse being shut down despite being specifically instructed to do so. The…
ByteDance Unveils Bagel Open Source Multimodal AI Model With Support for Generating, Editing Images
ByteDance released a new multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. Dubbed Bagel, it is a visual language model (VLM), which is capable of understanding, generating, and editing images. The Beijing-based tech giant has open-sourced the AI model, and it…
OpenAI’s o3 Model Helps Researcher Uncover Zero-Day Vulnerability in Linux Kernel’s SMB Stack
OpenAI’s o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model recently helped a cybersecurity researcher in uncovering a zero-day vulnerability in Linux. As per the researcher, the flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Server Message Block (SMB) implementation, also known as ksmbd. The…
Elon Musk’s Starlink to Launch in India With Plans Priced Under Rs. 850 Per Month: Report
Starlink is said to be gearing up to introduce its satellite communication services in India after clearing most of the regulatory hurdles. With the launch allegedly getting closer, a report suggests that its plans could be priced as low as…
Microsoft NLWeb Open Project for AI-Powered Natural Language Interface for Websites Unveiled
Microsoft introduced a new open project dubbed NLWeb at its Build 2025 conference on Monday. Short for Natural Language Web, the NLWeb project aims to build an interface to websites that support artificial intelligence (AI) models. With AI capabilities, these…
Anthropic Releases Claude 4 Series AI Models With Improved Coding Capability and Tool Use
Anthropic introduced Claude 4 artificial intelligence (AI) models at its inaugural developer conference on Thursday. The San Francisco-based AI firm unveiled Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 models, and announced new capabilities including Extended Thinking with tool use. Opus…
Mozilla’s Pocket Bookmarking Service to Shut Down in July: Top Four Pocket Alternatives in 2025
Mozilla’s Pocket is shutting down, the company said in an announcement earlier this week. The read-it-later web bookmarking service owned by Mozilla will be discontinued in July, and users will have a few months to export their data before it…
X Restores Access After Thousands of Users Report X Website and App Not Working
X, the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter, was down in several regions on Saturday, including India. The X website and apps on iOS and Android smartphones were displaying an error when attempting to load posts or videos on Saturday….
Vercel Releases v0 AI Model for Web Application Development, Compatible with OpenAI API
Vercel, the company behind the vibe coding platform for web application development, v0, is now releasing an artificial intelligence (AI) model. Announced on Thursday, the v0 AI model is available via an application programming interface (API), as well as other…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Models Hallucinate Less Than Humans: Report
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reportedly said that artificial intelligence (AI) models hallucinate less than humans. As per the report, the statement was made by the CEO at the company’s inaugural Code With Claude event on Thursday. During the event, the…
DoT to Share Financial Fraud Risk Indicator Data With Banks, UPI Service Providers and Financial Institutions
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Wednesday announced that it would begin sharing Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) data with financial institutions, including banks, NBFCs and UPI service providers. This metric classifies mobile numbers based on three risk levels connected…
Mistral Releases Devstral, an Open-Source Agentic Coding AI Model That Outperforms GPT-4.1 Mini
Mistral released a new coding-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday. Dubbed Devstral, it is an open-source coding agent that can perform software development tasks. The Paris-based AI firm says that, unlike other open software engineering (SWE) agents, this model…
Amazon’s Drones Can Now Deliver New Categories of Devices Like iPhone, AirPods and More
Amazon Prime Air service, which drops packages by drone within 60 minutes or less of being ordered, took flight a few years back. Today, the tech giant announced that it will start delivering a new range of devices through drones in…
WhatsApp Had No Plans to Compete With Facebook, Co-Founder Says
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that his messaging company had no plans to build social networking features to compete with Facebook before he sold the company to Mark Zuckerberg, a claim that bolsters Meta’s defense as it faces federal antitrust…
Google I/O 2025: Gemini 2.5 AI Models Upgraded With Deep Think Mode, Native Audio Output
Google showcased several new features for the Gemini 2.5 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models at the Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant introduced an enhanced reasoning mode dubbed Deep Think, which is powered by the…
MediaTek Showcases AI Strategy At Computex 2025, Unveils Hybrid Computing Solution
MediaTek showcased several artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for a wide range of devices and platforms at Computex 2025 on Tuesday. The Taiwan-based chipmaker unveiled its first hybrid computing solution to offer AI capabilities on the edge, a new chipset to…
Google I/O 2025 LIVE: Google Expected to Announce New AI Features Today
Google I/O 2025 is right around the corner, and the company is expected to make notable announcements related to artificial intelligence (AI) features and new capabilities coming to Android XR, is new operating system for extended reality(XR) devices. While Google…
Microsoft Hosts Developer Conference as Focus Grows on AI Profits
Microsoft hosts its annual software developer conference in Seattle on Monday, drawing thousands of coders looking to turn the past years of investments into artificial intelligence into profitable products and services for consumers and businesses. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant,…
Stability AI and Arm Release Lightweight Tex-to-Audio Model Optimised for Fast On-Device Generation
Stability AI developed a new text-to-audio generation artificial intelligence (AI) model in partnership with Arm. Announced on Wednesday, the new model is dubbed Stable Audio Open Small, and it is said to generate short audio samples using text prompts. The…
OpenAI Expands GPT-4.1 AI Models With Advanced Coding Capabilities to ChatGPT
OpenAI announced the expansion of the recently released GPT-4.1 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models to ChatGPT. These models were so far exclusive to the company’s application programming interface (API), but on Thursday, the San Francisco-based AI firm said that…
Amazon Trims Jobs in Devices and Services Unit
Amazon on Wednesday cut about 100 jobs in its devices and services unit, the group overseeing development of such diverse products as the Kindle, Echo speakers, Alexa voice assistant and Zoox self-driving cars. Amazon confirmed the cuts following an inquiry from Reuters on Wednesday. The company said the jobs represented a small…
Meta Asks Judge to Rule that FTC Failed to Prove its Monopoly Case
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms asked a federal judge on Thursday to throw out the US Federal Trade Commission’s case accusing it of an illegal social media monopoly, saying the agency failed to prove its case at a high-stakes antitrust…
Google One Hits 150 Million Subscribers With Help of AI
Alphabet’s Google One subscription service, which charges consumers for cloud storage and artificial intelligence features, recently crossed 150 million subscribers, the company told Reuters. That represents a 50 percent increase since February 2024, when Google One crossed 100 million subscriptions…
Netflix Unveils AI-Powered Feature That Will Blend Ads With Shows and Movies
Netflix unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) for its advertisers at its Upfront event on Wednesday. The streaming platform is heavily investing in its new in-house ad platform dubbed Netflix Ads Suite, and it showcased some of the features and…
Google DeepMind Unveils AlphaEvolve, a Coding Agent Designed to Reduce AI Hallucinations
Google DeepMind announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) coding agent on Wednesday that can enhance the capabilities of AI models. Dubbed AlphaEvolve, it is designed to discover and optimise algorithms across complex computing and mathematical tasks. The powerful AI system…
Google Gemini Advanced Users Can Now Connect the Chatbot With GitHub
Google is adding a new feature to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Gemini. Announced on Wednesday, Gemini can now connect to GitHub repositories and perform several coding tasks. These include generating and modifying functions, explaining code, answering queries about the…
Honor 400 Series to Feature an AI-powered Image-to-Video Generator, Reportedly Powered by Google
Honor 400 series is set to be launched globally on May 22. Ahead of the launch, the Chinese consumer tech brand has teased a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature of the upcoming smartphone series. It will get a new AI-powered image-to-video…
Microsoft to Lay Off Around Three Percent of Workforce in Organisation-Wide Cuts
Microsoft said on Tuesday it was laying off less than three percent of its workforce, or around 6,000 employees, as the technology giant looks to rein in costs while funneling billions of dollars into its ambitious bet on artificial intelligence. The cuts will be across all levels and geographies…
Google Facing at Least EUR 12 Billion in Civil Claims Across Europe
Alphabet’s Google is facing at least EUR 12 billion (roughly Rs. 1,13,259 crore) in damage claims from dozens of price comparison websites across the European Union which allege that the search and advertising giant stole their customers, according to a Bloomberg News…
Google Updates Its ‘G’ Logo Icon With New Gradient Design Replacing Solid Colour Sections
Google has silently updated its iconic ‘G’ logo with a new design, nearly 10 years after it was refreshed with the modern Product Sans typeface. The previously visible icon comprised sections featuring solid colours in line with the Mountain View-based tech…
Microsoft Expands Copilot Pages to All Users, to Offer a Collaborative Space for Creative Projects
Microsoft is expanding Copilot Pages to all users globally. Announced last week, the new artificial intelligence space is a multiplayer collaborative space where the chatbot and humans can work together to edit and create content and documents. Copilot Pages was…
Amazon’s New Vulcan Robots for Fulfilment Centres Have a ‘Sense of Touch’
Amazon introduced a new warehouse-focused robot last week that can carefully manipulate a wide range of objects. Dubbed Vulcan, the new class of robots feature force feedback sensors that allow it to understand the amount of force it is applying…
Operation Sindoor: Important Dos and Don’ts Shared by IT Ministry to Prevent Misinformation
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Friday published a set of dos and don’ts for users in a post on X (formerly Twitter) following Operation Sindoor. The ministry’s latest advisory seeks to inform citizens of the risks…
Baidu Looks to Patent AI System to Decipher Animal Sounds
Ever wished you could understand what your cat is trying to tell you? A Chinese tech company is exploring whether it’s possible to translate those mysterious meows into human language using artificial intelligence. Baidu, owner of China’s largest search engine,…
US FTC Backs DOJ Proposal in Google Search Antitrust Case
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the de-facto federal privacy regulator, said on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice’s proposal to make Alphabet’s Google share search data with competitors includes adequate safeguards to protect users’ privacy. The proposal is part…
LockBit Ransomware Group Reportedly Suffers Data Breach, Extortion Tactics Revealed
LockBit, the notorious ransomware group, reportedly suffered a massive data breach on Wednesday. As per the report, the group’s dark web platform’s admin and affiliate panels were compromised to show a message and link to a MySQL database dump. The…
OpenAI Said to Be Working on Weekly and Lifetime ChatGPT Subscription Plans
OpenAI might be working on introducing more duration-based subscription plans. A tipster shared strings of code from the ChatGPT app and found mentions of weekly and lifetime subscriptions for the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. These tiers could be part of…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 Ends Tonight: Top Deals You Shouldn’t Miss
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 will end at midnight on Thursday, bringing the company’s mid-year sale to a close. There are still a few more hours to shop on the e-commerce platform, which is currently offering noteworthy deals on smartphones,…
OpenAI for Countries Initiative to Build AI Infrastructure for More Countries Announced
OpenAI announced a new initiative on Wednesday aimed at helping countries outside of the US build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Dubbed OpenAI for Countries, the initiative is part of the Stargate Project that it announced in January. While Stargate Project…
Amazon Web Services Is Reportedly Working On an AI-Powered Coding Agent
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reportedly working on an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can generate code in real-time. As per the report, the project is internally being called Kiro, and it can tap into AI agents to complete complex…
YouTube Testing Two-Person Premium Subscription Plans in India
YouTube is testing a two-person subscription plan for its Premium service. The company said that they are piloting the new tier in four countries, including India. The new plan is expected to roll out to all users eventually. The two-person…
Google Gemini Now Accepts Multiple File Uploads With a Single Prompt
Google is adding a new quality-of-life improvement to Gemini. On Monday, the company rolled out an update which now allows users to upload up to 10 images or files in one go. Earlier, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot capped the…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on Earbuds and Headphones During the Sale
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is live and all customers, including Amazon Prime members, can take advantage of offers and discounts for products across different categories, including mobile phones, accessories, laptops, wearables, TVs, and other electronic appliances. If you’re shopping…
AI-Driven Automation Could Threaten 40 Percent of Jobs Globally, UN Experts Claim
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation driven by AI technology could soon impact 40 percent of the global workforce, according to a new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The report highlights that by 2033, AI…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on TWS Earbuds
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is here and it brings a joy for customers to get great discounts, exchange offers, bank benefits, and more on a wide range of consumer electronics. One can get lucrative deals on smartphones, earbuds, wearables,…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Offers on Budget Smartphones
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is here, bringing price cuts and other offers on a wide range of consumer electronics. From smartphones, laptops to TVs and refrigerators, buyers can take advantage of hefty discounts on products across various categories. If…
Spotify Submits App Update to Apple with External Link for Purchases in US
Spotify said on Thursday it has submitted an app update to Apple with an external link to buy subscriptions, after a US judge ruled that the iPhone maker violated the order that required it to allow greater competition for app downloads. The Swedish audio streaming giant said in a letter…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on Smartwatches
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is currently live for all users in India. It offers a wide range of products, including consumer electronics, at a discounted rate. Personal gadgets like smartphones, tablets, earphones, and smartwatches from leading brands like Samsung,…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Top Deals on Headphones
Looking for a good pair of headphones? The Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is a great avenue for grabbing the product you desire at a highly discounted rate. The sale began yesterday, and prices of several products across various categories…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on Smart TVs Under Rs 50,000
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 kicked off on Thursday for all customers in the country. During the ongoing sale, shoppers can enjoy lucrative discounts on a wide range of essential items like fashion items, stationery, furniture, large appliances and personal…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Laptop Deals for Students
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 started for all users on Thursday, May 1, at noon. The e-commerce giant opened the sale exclusively for Prime members at midnight of the same day, providing early access to deals and discounts. The platform-wide…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Offers on Gaming Laptops
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is the e-commerce giant’s summer-focused sale event, which commenced on Thursday at noon for all users of the platform. During the ongoing sale, buyers can find several offers on consumer electronics devices, smart home devices,…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 Goes Live for Prime Members: Best Offers on Mobile Phones, Electronics
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is now live exclusively for Prime members, offering 12 hours of early access before it is available to all customers in India. It promises discounts across a wide range of categories including smartphones, tablets, laptops,…
Xiaomi MiMo AI Models Launched With Efficient Reasoning, Small Size
Xiaomi on Tuesday released an open-source reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model. Dubbed MiMo, the family of reasoning models innovate the optimisation of reasoning capability in a relatively smaller parameter size. This is also the first open-source reasoning model by the…
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Top Deals Revealed Ahead of the Sale
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is all set to begin on May 1 at 12pm (noon) for all users in India. Prime members will have 12 hours of early access to the sale, starting at midnight. During the upcoming sale,…
Reddit Expands AI-Powered Translation Feature for Posts and Comments in Hindi
Reddit, is expanding its automatic translation feature on Monday. The discussion forum-style social media platform introduced a machine learning (ML) feature in September 2024 that automatically translates posts and comments on the platform to users’ preferred language. At the time,…
Amazon Great Summer Sale Starts May 1: Here Are the Top Smartphone Deals
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 was announced last week and it kicks off May 1 for users in India. As usual, Prime members get a 12-hour early access to all the deals. The e-commerce platform offers discounts across a variety…
Supreme Court Seeks Response From Government on Sexually Explicit Content on Social Media, OTT Platforms
सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने इसे एक ‘महत्वपूर्ण चिंता’ बताया और इस पर बैन लगाने से जुड़ी याचिका को लेकर केंद्र सरकार और अन्यों से जवाब मांगा है। जस्टिस B R Gava…
Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut Over 20 Percent of Staff
Intel is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20 percent of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The move is part of a…
WhatsApp Adds Advanced Chat Privacy Feature to Block Chat Exports, Disable Automatic Media Downloads
WhatsApp has announced the rollout of a new ‘Advanced Chat Privacy’ feature that adds an extra layer of protection to one-on-one and group conversations. The new privacy and security feature is designed to prevent attempts to save media and export…
Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says
Google’s Chrome web browser could be sold for as much as $50 billion (roughly Rs. 4,26,756 crore), the chief executive officer of rival search engine DuckDuckGo testified Wednesday at the Justice Department’s antitrust trial against the internet giant. “I think…
Reddit’s AI-Powered Answers Chatbot Is Now Available to Users in India
Reddit is rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbot to more users. Dubbed Reddit Answers, the chatbot is now available to users in India, and it can be accessed via the Reddit website, mobile web, as well as iOS…
Google Says Deep AI Investments Powering Ad Sales, Soothing Anxious Investors
Google parent Alphabet reassured jittery tech investors that its AI investments were powering returns at its crucial ad business on Thursday, downplaying any impact from global economic uncertainty, for now. The search giant’s first-quarter profit and revenue beat expectations, and…
Amazon Great Summer Sale Date Announced: Discounts on Samsung Phones, More Teased
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is set to kick off in India soon. The e-commerce site has confirmed the Great Summer Sale date, and as usual, Amazon Prime members will get early access. A wide range of items will be…
Google Upgrades Gemini 2.0 Flash With a Collaborative, Natural-Sounding Conversation Style
Google updated the Gemini 2.0 Flash artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. The new update refines the model’s conversational capability and makes it better suited for creative tasks, according to the Mountain View-based tech giant. The company claims that users…
Adobe Releases Firefly Image Model 4 Ultra, Integrates Third-Party Models from Google, OpenAI
Adobe announced a slew of new features and improvements at its annual Adobe Max conference on Thursday. The software giant announced new Firefly artificial intelligence (AI) models, support for third-party models, new Adobe Express features, and a new Firefly mobile…
Instagram Co-Founder Says Mark Zuckerberg Saw App’s Growth as ‘Threat’
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testified that his fledgling photo-sharing app could have succeeded without being acquired by Meta Platforms Inc., and that eventually Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg treated Instagram’s growth as a “threat” and starved it of resources. The…
Apple, Meta Fined as EU Presses Ahead with Tech Probes
Apple was fined EUR 500 million ($570 million or roughly Rs. 4,869 crore) on Wednesday and Meta EUR 200 million (roughly Rs. 1,708 crore), as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the…
Uber Sued by FTC Over ‘Deceptive’ Subscription Sign-Ups
Uber Technologies was sued by the US Federal Trade Commission, which claims the rideshare and delivery company hurt consumers through “deceptive billing and cancellation practices” as part of its flagship subscription service. In a complaint filed Monday, the FTC alleges…
ElevenLabs Unveils Agent Transfer Feature to Share Data Between AI Agents
ElevenLabs introduced a new enterprise-focused feature on Monday that will allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to communicate with each other. Dubbed Agent Transfer, the feature transfers a conversation from one agent to another when specific conditions are met. The first…
Google Settles India’s Antitrust Probe in Android TV Case
India’s competition regulator said on Monday it has approved the settlement proposal of Alphabet’s Google in the Android TV case, under which it had charged the company over anticompetitive practices. The Competition Commission of India had said the US tech…
Google Teases AI Glasses in a Live Demo, Hints at Future Gemini Features
Google has recently released several new Gemini features, including the Gemini 2.5 models. But that’s not all the Mountain View-based tech giant has in its roadmap. Recently, in a live demonstration given at a TedTalk, the company teased its artificial…
Google Is Rolling Out Veo 2 Video Generation AI Model to Gemini Advanced Users
Google announced the rollout of the Veo 2 artificial intelligence (AI) model to Gemini chatbot on Tuesday. Currently, the AI model will only be accessible to the paid subscribers of Gemini. With this AI model, eligible users can generate eight-second-long…
Anthropic Is Reportedly Working on a Voice Mode Feature for Claude
Anthropic is reportedly working on a voice chat feature for its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Claude. According to the report, the AI firm is planning to launch the feature, dubbed ‘voice mode’, as soon as this month. While rivals…
Google Holds Illegal Monopolies in Ad Tech, US Judge Finds
Alphabet’s Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for US antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its ad products. US District…
Grok Gets New Memory Feature to Offer Personalised Replies Based on Past Chats
xAI has begun rolling out a new memory feature for its Grok artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, the company announced on Thursday. Similar to features available on ChatGPT and Gemini, it allows Grok to retain specific user details in order to…
OpenAI Introduces Flex Processing in API to Help Developers Cut AI Usage Costs
OpenAI introduced a new service tier for developers on Thursday via its application programming interface (API). Dubbed Flex processing, it reduces the AI usage costs by half for developers, compared to standard pricing. However, the lowered prices come with the…
Google to Appeal Against Part of US Court’s Decision in Monopoly Case
Alphabet’s Google plans to appeal against the “adverse” portion of the court decision in the US Department of Justice’s monopoly case against the technology giant. On Thursday US District Judge Leonie Brinkema found Google liable for “willfully acquiring and maintaining…
OpenAI Adds a Library Feature in ChatGPT to Let Users Find Their AI-Generated Images in One Place
OpenAI is rolling out a new library feature in ChatGPT that will allow users to check all their images generated using artificial intelligence (AI) in a single view. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature is available to all registered ChatGPT…
OpenAI o3 and o4-Mini AI Models With Visual Reasoning Capabilities Released
OpenAI released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Dubbed o3 and o4-mini, these are the company’s latest reasoning-focused models with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The San Francisco-based AI firm stated that these models come with visual reasoning capability, which…
Google Faces GBP 5 Billion UK Lawsuit for Abusing Dominance in Online Search
Alphabet’s Google is being sued in Britain for potential damages of up to GBP 5 billion ($6.6 billion or roughly Rs. 56,536 crore) in a class action alleging the company abused its dominant market position in the online search industry. The class action, filed at the Competition…
Appy Pie Launches PixelForge, Vibeo AI Models for Image and Video Generation
Appy Pie, an Indian artificial intelligence (AI) no-code platform, launched two new AI models on Tuesday. Dubbed PixelForge and Vibeo, these are multimodal large language models that can generate images. and videos. The former is a text-to-image model, whereas the…
OpenAI Releases GPT-4.1 Family of AI Models in API, Said to Outperform GPT-4o
OpenAI released three new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Monday. Staying true to its unusual naming convention, the company called this the GPT-4.1 family of AI models. There are three variants — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano. The San…
NPCI Targets 300 Million New Users for UPI Payments Platform
India plans to bring hundreds of millions of new users onto Unified Payments Interface, its real-time payments system, while pitching the platform for wider adoption overseas. National Payments Corporation of India aims to draw an additional 200 million to 300…
Google Introduces Ironwood, Its Seventh Generation TPU Designed to Handle AI Inference
Google introduced the seventh generation of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Ironwood, last week. Unveiled at Google Cloud Next 25, it is said to be the company’s most powerful and scalable custom artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator. The Mountain View-based tech…
Google Chrome Fixes 23-Year-Old Bug That Let Sites See Your Previously Visited Links
Google Chrome will soon receive a patch for a privacy bug that existed for over two decades, allowing a malicious website to identify sites that were previously visited by a user. Over the years, some web browsers previously introduced some…
Amazon Nova Sonic Audio Generation AI Model Released, Can Process Speech in Real-Time
Amazon introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in its flagship Nova family of models on Tuesday. Dubbed Amazon Nova Sonic, it is a voice generation model capable of generating human-like speech. However, it is not a text-to-speech (TTS) tool;…
Instagram is Finally Developing a Dedicated iPad App to Boost App Usage: Report
Instagram is working on a dedicated iPad app, after years of users requesting support for devices with larger screens, according to a report. The development comes 15 years after the platform was launched. The Meta-owned photo and video sharing platform…
Google Releases Cost-Efficient and Low-Latency Gemini 2.5 Flash AI Model
Google released its second artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Gemini 2.5 family on Thursday. Dubbed Gemini 2.5 Flash, it is a cost-efficient low-latency model which is designed for tasks requiring real-time inference, conversations at scale, and those which are…
Elon Musk’s xAI Releases Grok 3 in API for Developers, Introduces a ‘Fast’ Model
Elon Musk’s xAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm behind the Grok chatbot, released a new application programming interface (API) on Thursday. The new API is for the Grok 3 AI model, which the company introduced in February. So far, the…
OpenAI Upgrades Memory in ChatGPT, Can Reference to Users’ Previous Chats
OpenAI announced an update to the Memory feature in ChatGPT on Thursday. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is now improving the memory function so that it can not only remember certain information about users’ preferences and interests, but…
Adobe Previews Agentic AI Tools Across Acrobat, Photoshop and Premiere Pro
Adobe shared a sneak peek of several under-development artificial intelligence (AI) agents across its platforms on Wednesday. The San Jose-based software giant is currently looking at how agentic tools can complete manual tasks to free up users to focus on…
Canva Unveils Visual Suite 2.0 With Canva AI, Canva Sheets and Canva Code
Canva unveiled Visual Suite 2.0, a redesigned platform with new features and AI-powered tools, on Thursday. The Sydney-based visual communications platform showcased several new features under the Visual Suite 2.0 umbrella, such as Canva AI, Canva Sheets, Canva Code, Magic…
Meta Faces FTC Trial With Instagram, WhatsApp Breakup at Risk
Mark Zuckerberg’s well-timed acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, in 2012 and 2014 respectively, helped his social media empire reach billions of people. More than a decade later, the US Federal Trade Commission is targeting those deals in a landmark antitrust…
Aadhaar App With Facial Recognition-Based Authentication Unveiled by UIDAI
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has unveiled a redesigned Aadhaar app for smartphones that scans a user’s face to confirm their identity. According to the UIDAI the new app is designed to enable digital verification via a QR code…
Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental Will Now Power the Agentic Deep Research Feature
Google is expanding its Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental artificial intelligence (AI) model to other tools. On Tuesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced that its latest Gemini model will now power the agentic Deep Research tool. This feature is currently…
Runway Introduces Gen-4 Turbo Video AI Model With Faster Generation Speeds
Runway on Monday introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model in the recently released Gen-4 family. Dubbed Gen-4 Turbo, the latest AI model prioritises generation speed while optimising efficiency. The AI firm says this AI model will help…
Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 AI Model Released; Can Generate Up to Two-Minute-Long Videos
Amazon introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model that can create up to two minutes of video content with a single prompt. Announced on Monday, the Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 AI model is the successor to the Nova…
OpenAI Reportedly Wants to Acquire Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s Startup That’s Building a New AI Device
OpenAI is reportedly discussing the possibility of buying CEO Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup. The unnamed startup was reportedly founded last year and is building AI-powered devices. One of the designs was rumoured to be inspired…
Google Moves Gemini 2.5 Pro to Public Preview, Offers Higher Rate Limits in AI Studio
Google moved the Gemini 2.5 Pro artificial intelligence (AI) model to public preview last week. The Mountain View-based tech giant released its latest flagship tier AI model last month as an experimental preview with limited rate limits. But now, those…
Google Updating Gmail to Allow Enterprise Users to Send End-to-End Encrypted Emails Across Platforms
Google is enabling its enterprise users to easily send end-to-end encrypted emails via Gmail. Announced on Wednesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant said that it has made progress in implementing the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) protocol in an easier…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Donald Trump to Avoid Antitrust Trial: Report
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is lobbying US President Donald Trump to agree to a settlement that would prevent the company from facing an antitrust trial later this month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Meta and its representatives met with the president and…
Adobe Adds New Features to Premiere Pro and After Effects, Makes Generative Extend Generally Available
Adobe is rolling out several new features for Premiere Pro and After Effects. Announced on Wednesday, these features will be showcased at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show 2025 in Las Vegas. The company says it took feedback from…
Amazon Submits Bid to Buy TikTok, Adding 11th Hour Intrigue to Acquisition Drama
Days before an April 5 deadline for TikTok to find a buyer or get shut out of its biggest market, the list of potential outcomes for the video app got a lot longer. Amazon.com became the latest big name to jump…
Midjourney Releases V7 Image Generation Model in Alpha, Comes With a Faster and Cheaper Draft Mode
Midjourney released its latest image-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, V7, on Friday. The V7 AI model is currently available in an alpha version, and the company is currently letting its user base test the model’s capability. Arriving nearly a year…
YouTube Shorts to Get Revamped Video Editor, AI Stickers and More Creator Tools
YouTube Shorts is set to introduce a redesigned video editor alongside new tools aimed at improving the process of creating content on the platform. Users will soon able to create videos with edits synced to the beat of the music…
Spotify Unveils New Ad Manager Platform, AI-Powered Tools for Advertisers
Spotify introduced a suite of new ad solutions on Wednesday at its Spotify Advance event in New York. The biggest highlight is the upgrades to the programmatic advertising platform dubbed Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX), which will offer advertisers access to…
Google NotebookLM Is Getting a New Discover Sources Feature That Can Search the Web
Google NotebookLM is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will make it easier for users to add sources for a particular topic. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature is dubbed Discover Sources, and it can scour the Internet…
OpenAI Trained AI Models on Copyrighted O’Reilly Media Books, Researchers Claim
OpenAI might have trained its artificial intelligence (AI) models on copyrighted content, according to a research paper. A recently published paper from the non-profit organisation AI Disclosures Project, the San Francisco-based AI firm’s recent large language models (LLMs) showed a…
OpenAI Is Planning to Release an Open-Source Reasoning-Focused AI Model
OpenAI is planning to release an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. This would be the San Francisco-based AI firm’s first open-source reasoning-focused AI model, and it is expected to be released in the next few months. This will be the…
Amazon Introduces Nova Act AI Agent as Research Preview, Expands Access to Its Frontier AI Models
Amazon introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) agent on Monday that can perform various browser-based tasks. Dubbed the Amazon Nova Act, the AI agent is powered by the tech giant’s foundation Nova family of AI models. These are first-party models the…
Runway Gen-4 AI Video Generation Model With Improved Character Consistency and Real-World Physics Released
Runway, the video-focused artificial intelligence (AI) firm, introduced a new video generation model on Monday. Dubbed Gen-4, it is an image-to-video generation model which succeeds the company’s Gen-3 Alpha AI model. It comes with several improvements, including consistency in characters,…
OpenAI Adds Image Generation Capability to GPT-4o, Can Render Text and Offers Prompt-Based Editing
OpenAI added image generation capability to its existing GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based AI firm released the 4o Image Generation model and integrated it into the GPT-4o. The company said that the focus of this…
Microsoft Introduces Two New Reasoning Agents in 365 Copilot, Launches Autonomous Agents in Copilot Studio
Microsoft introduced two new artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its 365 Copilot suite of features on Tuesday. These new AI agents are aimed at its enterprise users and can perform complex research and data analysis-related tasks. Dubbed Researcher and Analyst,…
Google Workspace March Feature Drop to Upgrade Google Meet and Vids With New Capabilities
Google Workspace’s March feature drop was announced on Thursday, and it is bringing several new artificial intelligence (AI) features to users. Most of these features have already been rolled out to eligible users, and others will get it in the…
OpenAI to Add Support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to Connect ChatGPT With External Data Hubs
OpenAI is adding support for Anthropic’s open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its products. Company CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday that the Agents software development kit (SDK) is now offering MCP support, and several other of its products will…
Facebook Introduces Friends Tab Without Recommended Content as Part of ‘OG’ Revamp
Facebook will introduce a new ‘Friends’ tab that is designed to show you a feed of posts, stories, reels, birthdays, and friend requests from your Facebook connections, the company said on Thursday. The new feed will is similar to the…
Anthropic Researchers Make Major Breakthrough In Understanding How an AI Model Thinks
Anthropic researchers shared two new papers on Thursday, sharing the methodology and findings on how an artificial intelligence (AI) model thinks. The San Francisco-based AI firm developed techniques to monitor the decision-making process of a large language model (LLM) to…
Google NotebookLM Upgraded With Mind Maps Feature and Output Language Selector
Google NotebookLM is getting a couple of extra features to offer newer ways of interacting with the artificial intelligence (AI) platform. The most notable feature is Mind Maps, which creates a flow chart of the concepts discussed in the content…
Google Rolling Out New Features Across Its Platforms to Help Users Plan Vacations
Google announced the rollout of several new features across its platforms on Thursday. Some of these features are powered by artificial intelligence (AI), while others are regular updates and language expansions. The Mountain View-based tech giant said that all of…
Nvidia Releases Project G-Assist AI Gaming Assistant That Runs on GeForce RTX GPUs
Nvidia announced the release of Project G-Assist on Tuesday. The new feature is an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that runs locally on GeForce RTX GPU-powered desktop PCs. The current release is an experimental version of the chatbot, and it does…
Alibaba Qwen 2.5 Omni AI Model With Real-Time Speech Generation Released
Alibaba’s Qwen team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Qwen 2.5 family on Wednesday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5 Omni, it is a flagship-tier end-to-end multimodal model. The company claims it can process a wide range of inputs, including…
Character AI Introduces Parental Insights Feature, Provides Information About Teenagers’ In-App Activities
Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, introduced a new safety feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Parental Insights, the feature is aimed at the platform’s users under the age of 18. These users can add a parent or guardian’s email…
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro AI Model Launched; Tops Leaderboard, Outperforms OpenAI’s o3 Mini
Google released the successor to its Gemini 2.0 series artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Dubbed Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, it is the first model the company is releasing from the 2.5 family. The Mountain View-based tech giant says that…
Swiggy Instamart Launches 10-Minute Smartphone Delivery Service in Select Indian Cities
Swiggy Instamart has announced a fast delivery service for smartphones in India. The quick delivery platform will sell smartphones from brands like Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, and Redmi to customers in select locations. The service will likely be rolled out to more…
Adobe Previews Multiple New AI Agents-Driven Enterprise Tools for Complex Data Analysis
Adobe previewed several new enterprise-focused artificial intelligence (AI) tools last week at its Adobe Summit 2025 conference in Las Vegas. The showcases were part of the company’s “Adobe Sneaks” programme, where it shares potential tools that can become part of…
Nvidia Releases Cosmos-Transfer1 AI Model That Can Be Used for Simulation-Based Training for Robots
Nvidia released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model last week that can be used to train robots on simulation. Dubbed Cosmos-Transfer 1, the new world generation large language model (LLM) is aimed at AI-powered robotics hardware, also known as physical…
OpenAI and Meta Eye AI to Reportedly Form Partnership With Reliance Industries
OpenAI and Meta are reportedly discussing an artificial intelligence (AI) partnership with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm and the Menlo Park-based social media giant are aiming to expand their AI footprint in…
Gemini Is Getting Upgraded With Audio Overview and Canvas Features
Gemini is getting two new artificial intelligence (AI) features, Google announced on Tuesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant is adding Canvas, an interactive space that lets human users and AI collaborate on projects involving documents and coding-related tasks. Another feature…
Google Rolling Out AI-Powered ‘Most Relevant’ Search Results Feature for Gmail
Google began rolling out a new improvement for Gmail on Thursday that will help users find relevant emails easier than before. Dubbed ‘Most Relevant’, this new search result sorting feature uses artificial intelligence (AI) to bring those emails that might…
Amazon, Flipkart Found to Have Violated Indian Quality Control Rules During Warehouse Raids
Retail giants Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart violated Indian quality control rules by stocking products that did not have the required standards certificate, India’s top government-run product certification agency said on Thursday. Raids on warehouses operated by both firms, conducted on…
Aardvark Weather AI-Powered Weather Forecasting System Unveiled, Does Not Require Supercomputers
Aardvark Weather, an artificial intelligence (AI) system for weather forecasting that offers several advantages over traditional methods, was unveiled on Thursday. The fully AI-driven system is said to be capable enough to replace the existing systems that require custom supercomputers…
OpenAI Introduces New Audio Models in API, Can Be Used for Agentic Workflows
OpenAI, on Thursday, introduced new audio models in application programming interface (API) that offer improved performance in accuracy and reliability. The San Francisco-based AI firm released three new artificial intelligence (AI) models for both speech-to-text transcription and text-to-speech (TTS) functions….
Anthropic Upgrades Claude AI Chatbot With Web Search Capability
Anthropic announced the rollout of the web search functionality for Claude on Thursday. The San Francisco-based AI firm released the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in March 2023, but so far, it could not access the Internet to find real-time information,…
xAI Launches New Grok API for Developers With Image Generation Capability
xAI, the Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence (AI) firm behind Grok, released a new application programming interface (API) on Wednesday. The new API is unique as it is the first developer tool that supports image generation. The company has lately been…
Google, Apple Hit by Twin EU Rebuke Amid Big Tech Crackdown
Alphabet’s Google was warned to step in line with the European Union’s Big Tech rules or risk hefty fines as part of a two-pronged escalation against Silicon Valley that risks further inflaming tensions with US President Donald Trump. The European…
India’s Vodafone Idea Explores Partnership with Elon Musk’s Starlink
Vodafone Idea is in exploratory talks with various satellite communication providers, including Starlink, the company said on Wednesday, a week after the Indian telecom firm’s rivals signed deals with Elon Musk’s company. The mobile operator made the disclosure after Indian…
India Needs Satellite Internet, Telecom Minister Says in Boost to Elon Musk’s Starlink
India needs satellite internet especially in its rural areas, its telecom minister said, a positive regulatory sign for Elon Musk’s Starlink which has aspirations to operate in the world’s most-populous nation. “There are many remote corners of the country where you cannot…
OpenAI to Reportedly Begin Testing ChatGPT Connectors for Slack and Google Drive
OpenAI will reportedly soon begin the testing phase of a new ChatGPT feature that will allow the chatbot to connect with other platforms. As per the report, the feature is dubbed ChatGPT Connectors and will be available to the platform’s…
Apple Releases iOS 18.3.2, macOS 15.3.2 Updates to Fix Security Flaw That Enabled ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’
Apple on Tuesday rolled out important security patches for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. The company says that the latest software releases include a fix for a security vulnerability that was used by hackers to target some individuals….
Meta Reportedly Testing First In-House Chipsets Designed for AI Training
Meta has reportedly begun testing its first in-house chipsets that will be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. As per the report, the company has deployed a limited number of processors to test the performance and sustainability of the…
Baidu Releases Ernie 4.5 Foundation Model and Ernie X1 Reasoning Model With Multimodal Capabilities
Baidu released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Sunday. First, the Ernie 4.5 is a foundation model that succeeds the company’s previous generation, while the second, Ernie X1, is a reasoning-focused model. The latter is also the Chinese tech…
I4C Blocked Over 83,668 WhatsApp Accounts and 3,962 Skype IDs Used in Digital Arrest Scams, Government Says
Cyber fraud is on the rise in India and other regions, with over 11 lakh cases reported in the country in 2024. Digital arrest scams, which involve scammers posing as police or other law enforcement agencies, are also growing rapidly….
UK’s CMA Raises Concerns About Apple and Google’s Mobile Browsers
Britain’s antitrust regulator said its inquiry group had found the mobile browser market, dominated by Apple and Google, was not working well for consumers and businesses, supporting its decision to launch an investigation into the sector in January. A final…
Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics AI Models That Can Control Robots in the Real World
Google DeepMind unveiled two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Thursday, which can control robots to make them perform a wide range of tasks in real-world environments. Dubbed Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER (embodied reasoning), these are advanced vision language…
UK, US Said to Hold Talks in Bid to Resolve Apple Encryption Feud
British officials have held private talks with their US counterparts in an attempt to resolve concerns that the UK is trying to force Apple Inc. to build a backdoor into Americans’ encrypted data, according to people familiar with the matter….
Moonvalley Launches AI Video Model Marey for Filmmaking, Said to Be Fully Trained on Licensed Data
Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, launched a new generative video model on Wednesday. Dubbed Marey after Étienne Jules Marey, who was considered to be a pioneer of cinematography, the AI video model is said to be trained…
Google Updates Chrome Extensions Policy to Tighten Rules Governing Affiliate Links
Google has updated its Chrome Web Store policies that govern extensions related to affiliate marketing links, codes, and cookies. Affiliate links are one of the forms of revenue that content creators rely on to generate income, and the firm’s latest…
SpaceX’s Starlink to Reportedly Secure Faster Regulatory Approvals in India After Deals With Airtel, Jio
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite Internet services could reportedly secure faster regulatory approvals in India. As per the report, the expedited approvals could be due to the Elon Musk-owned space technology company entering partnerships with Bharti Airtel and Jio Platforms. Notably, both…
Hugging Face Expands LeRobot Platform With Multimodal Dataset for AI-Powered Cars
Hugging Face announced the expansion of its LeRobot platform on Wednesday with a large dataset aimed at automotive automation. The online artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) repository said that the dataset was created in collaboration with the AI…
Google Releases Gemma 3 Family of Open-Source AI Models, Can Run on a Single GPU
Google released the Gemma 3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Successor to the Gemma 2 series, which was introduced in August 2024, the new open-source models arrive with text and visual reasoning capabilities. The Mountain View-based tech giant…
Jio Partners With SpaceX to Offer Starlink Broadband Internet Services in India
Jio Platforms Limited announced a strategic partnership with SpaceX on Wednesday, a move which will introduce Starlink broadband services in India. The Reliance Industries subsidiary says it will leverage the Elon Musk-owned company’s constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites to provide…
Luma AI Releases Ray2 Flash AI Video Model With Faster Generation Time
Luma AI, a Palo Alto-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released a new video generation AI model last week. Dubbed Ray2 Flash, the model is a distilled version of the recently introduced Ray 2 frontier video generation model. The company stated…
Google Renaming Gemini Extensions to ‘Apps’, Powers It With Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
Google is making a couple of changes to Gemini. Announced on Friday, one of the changes is focused on the lexicon of Gemini tools, while the other improves the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot’s capability of connecting with different apps. The…
DuckDuckGo Introduces AI-Assisted Answers On Its Search Engine, Upgrades Duck.ai Chatbot
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused web browser, announced the rollout of AI-assisted answers on its search engine last week. The feature was so far available in beta, but now the company is releasing it to all users. With this, users will be…
Google Updates Messages With Scam Message Detection, Adds Live Location Sharing to Find My on Android
Google is introducing four new features on Android that are designed to protect users from scam messages, help them share their location securely, track prices while browsing the web, and stay entertained while their vehicle is parked. The company says…
Google Launches Gemini-Powered AI Mode for Search, Expands AI Overviews to More Users
Google Search received a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature dubbed AI Mode on Wednesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant was reportedly internally testing this feature last month, and has now rolled it out to a limited number of users. The…
Amazon Prime Video Begins Testing AI-Aided Dubbing for Some Movies and Shows
Amazon Prime Video is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users watch AI-generated dubbed content. Announced on Wednesday, the streaming platform said the pilot programme will allow viewers to watch titles that previously did not have…
1Password Update Adds Ability to Add Locations to Items With Corresponding Map View
1Password is rolling out a new feature that will make it easier to access specific passwords and codes based on your location. The latest version of 1Password for iOS and Android now includes support for adding location information to items….
Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases QwQ-32B Open-Source Reasoning Model, Said to Perform Similar to DeepSeek-R1
Alibaba’s Qwen Team, a division tasked with developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, released the QwQ-32B AI model on Wednesday. It is a reasoning model based on extended test time compute with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The developers claim that despite being…
Mistral Introduces New OCR API That Can Convert PDF Documents Into AI-Ready Format
Mistral introduced the Mistral Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application programming interface (API) on Thursday. The artificial intelligence (AI) model is capable of analysing and processing PDF documents and converting it into an AI-ready text format such as Markdown or raw…
Google Shopping Gets Upgraded With AI-Powered Features, Will Help Users Find the Right Clothes
Google Shopping, the company’s product discovery platform, is getting upgraded with several new artificial intelligence (AI) features. Announced on Wednesday, these new features will enable them to find and experience new products before making purchases. The new AI tools are…
CloudSEK Identifies Large-Scale ‘PrintSteal’ Fake KYC Document Generation Scam in India
Cybersecurity firm CloudSEK has identified a large-scale fraud operation in India that involves the generation of fake Know Your Customer (KYC) documents. Dubbed ‘PrintSteal’, the operation involved the use of several fake domains that impersonated government websites. The scammers reportedly…
Google Urges DOJ to Reverse Course on Breaking Up Company
Google is urging officials at President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to back away from a push to break up the search engine company, citing national security concerns, according to people familiar with the discussions. Representatives for the Alphabet unit asked the…
Cohere for AI Releases Open-Source Aya Vision Models for Computer Vision-Based Tasks
Cohere For AI, the firm’s open research division, released new state-of-the-art (SOTA) vision models on Tuesday. Dubbed Aya Vision, the artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in two parameter sizes. The company’s latest frontier models address the inconsistent performance of…
Lenovo ThinkEdge SE100 AI Inferencing Server for SMBs and Enterprises Unveiled
Lenovo unveiled its entry-level artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing server on Sunday. Dubbed ThinkEdge SE100, the device offers edge computing capabilities and is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprises. Showcased ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025…
Microsoft Dragon Copilot AI Unveiled, Can Help Medical Professionals Automate Documentation
Microsoft unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on Monday that can help medical professionals reduce their documentation workload. Dubbed Dragon Copilot, the new AI assistant can record conversations, write clinical notes, draft referral letters and even create post-visit summaries….
ED Says Paytm Violated Foreign Exchange Rules
India’s financial crime fighting agency said on Monday its investigation revealed that payment services provider Paytm and its units had violated the country’s Foreign Exchange Management Act to the tune of Rs. 6.11 billion ($70 million). The Enforcement Directorate (ED)…
Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Joins Frank McCourt’s Bid for TikTok
Frank McCourt announced on Monday that Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and a venture capitalist, has joined his bid to acquire TikTok’s US operations as a strategic adviser specializing in social media. Ohanian was an internet pioneer who founded…
Amazon Appstore for Android to Shut Down in August; Amazon Coins to Be Discontinued
Amazon Appstore — the company’s third party app store for Android smartphones — will be discontinued later this year, 14 years after it was launched. The e-commerce giant has also announced that it will wind down its digital currency programme…
WhatsApp Faces EU Tech Rules After Reaching Very Large Platform Status
WhatsApp has hit a user criterion set out in landmark EU tech rules, the unit owned by Meta Platforms said, meaning it is required to do more to tackle online illegal and harmful content. Messaging platform WhatsApp in a February…
OpenAI Introduces GPT-4.5 AI Model in Research Preview, Its ‘Best Model for Chat Yet’
OpenAI released a research preview of GPT-4.5 artificial intelligence (AI) model on Thursday. The successor to the GPT-4o model arrives with improvements in natural conversations, reasoning, and coding. Calling it “our largest and best model for chat yet,” the AI…
Canada Regulator to Impose Fee on Google For Online News Law’s Operating Costs
A Canadian regulator said on Wednesday it will impose a fee on Google to recover the cost of enforcing a law that requires large internet platforms to pay for news content on their websites. The imposition of the levy on…
Apple Adds Age Assurance Features for Improved Privacy, Revamps Child Account Setup Process
Apple has announced several improvements aimed at streamlining the process of setting up Child Accounts while revamping the parental control features offered by the company. The company is also working to minimise the amount of data collected by developers while…
Cybercrimes Could Cost India Rs. 20,000 Crore Due to Brand Abuse and Fake Domains in 2025: CloudSEK
India could potentially suffer financial losses reaching roughly Rs. 20,000 crore due to cybercrimes in 2025, as per a recent report by a cybersecurity firm. The report predicted that brand abuse, phishing scams, and fake domains would be the leading…
US Examining Whether UK’s Encryption Demand on Apple Broke Data Treaty
US officials are examining whether the UK broke a bilateral agreement by reportedly demanding that Apple build a “backdoor” allowing the British government to access backups of data in the company’s encrypted cloud storage systems. Apple last week withdrew an…
Alibaba Releases Open-Source Wan 2.1 Suite of AI Video Generation Models, Claimed to Outperform OpenAI’s Sora
Alibaba released a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation models on Wednesday. Dubbed Wan 2.1, these are open-source models that can be used for both academic and commercial purposes. The Chinese e-commerce giant released the models in several parameter-based…
India’s Tata Play, Airtel Digital TV Reportedly Near Merger
India’s Tata Group and Bharti Group are close to merging their satellite TV businesses, creating a nearly $1.6 billion (roughly Rs. 13,918 crore) entity with the aim of tiding over the sustained migration of subscribers to digital streaming, Economic Times reported…
Perplexity Teases Comet Web Browser With Agentic Search, Opens Waitlist
Perplexity teased a new web browser with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on Monday. Dubbed Comet, the browser is teased to include a feature dubbed agentic search. While the AI firm has not revealed any potential launch date for its new…
Gmail to Replace SMS Authentication With QR Codes for Two-Factor Authentication
Google will drop support for SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) for Gmail, according to a report. The company will reportedly introduce support for quick response (QR) codes to replace SMS codes that are currently sent to Gmail users. The move is…
Google’s AI Overviews Erode the Internet, US EdTech Firm Chegg Says in Lawsuit
Alphabet’s Google internet search engine is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers’ ability to compete with its artificial intelligence-generated overviews, a US educational technology company said in a lawsuit filed on Monday. Chegg, an online education company that…
Google Said to be Facing EU Charges of Breaching Big Tech Rules
Alphabet unit Google is set to be charged with breaching EU rules aimed at checking the power of Big Tech after proposed changes to its search results failed to address the EU antitrust regulator’s concerns and those of its rivals,…
Google Reveals Its Veo 2 Video Generation AI Model’s Pricing on Vertex AI Platform
Google has revealed the pricing to generate videos using its latest Veo 2 artificial intelligence (AI) model. The Mountain View-based tech giant will charge users generating video via its Vertex AI platform $0.50 (roughly Rs. 43) per second. This will…
YouTube Premium Lite Plan With Limited Ads Said to Launch Soon in Four Countries
YouTube is preparing to launch a cheaper version of its ad-free YouTube Premium subscription that could offer users access to video streaming with advertisements on some types of content, according to a report. The new plan could be called YouTube…
India vs Pakistan ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Live Streaming for Free: How to Watch IND vs PAK Match on Mobile and Smart TV
The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is finally here after an eight-year hiatus. The ‘mini’ Cricket World Cup tournament starts from February 19, 2025 and will end on March 09, 2025. This time, all the Champions Trophy matches take place in…
Apple Removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order
Apple Inc. is removing its most advanced encrypted security feature for cloud data in the UK, a stunning development that follows the government ordering the company to build a backdoor for accessing user data. The company said Friday that Advanced…
DMRC Signs Agreement to Improve Internet Connectivity Across All Corridors
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Friday signed an agreement with a telecommunication company to improve internet connectivity across all its corridors, according to an official statement. As part of this initiative, Beckhaul Digital Technologies private limited will lay…
Sakana AI Announces AI CUDA Engineer That Can Speed Up Model Development and Deployment
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) agentic framework that can improve the development and deployment speeds of large language models (LLMs). Announced on Thursday, the company unveiled the AI CUDA Engineer that…
OpenAI Begins Rolling Out Its Operator AI Agent in Several Regions
OpenAI began rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Operator in several countries on Friday. The agentic tool was so far available in preview to ChatGPT Pro users residing in the US, after the company introduced it in January. Equipped…
Microsoft Muse AI Model Unveiled; Can Generate Game Visuals and Controller Actions
Microsoft researchers introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday that can generate 3D gameplay environments. Dubbed the World and Human Action Model (WHAM) or Muse, the new AI model was developed by the tech giant’s Research Game Intelligence…
Google Unveils AI Co-Scientist, a Gemini 2.0-Powered Multi-Agent System to Speed Up Scientific Discovery
Google unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) system on Wednesday that can assist scientists in the scientific discovery process. Dubbed AI co-scientist, the tool is powered by the Gemini 2.0 AI model and includes a multi-agent system that specialises in…
Fiverr Go Platform Launched, Lets Freelancers Train AI on Their Work and Earn From Generated Creations
Fiverr, the online marketplace for freelancers, launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform on Tuesday. Dubbed Fiverr Go, the new platform was introduced as a space where gig workers can create an AI model in their own resemblance and trained…