Gemini in Google Meet Can Now Suggest ‘Next Steps’ After Meetings
Google Meet is getting a couple of new features, the company announced on Tuesday. The first feature is exclusive to the Google Workspace enterprise and business accounts, and it upgrades the existing note-taking capability in Gemini. Users will now be…
Grok 3 Family of AI Models With DeepSearch, Voice Mode Unveiled by Elon Musk’s xAI
Grok 3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models were announced on Monday. The successor to the Grok 2 models was announced in a live event hosted by xAI engineers and the company owner Elon Musk. The new series contains several…
Honor Will Unveil Its AI-Focused Strategic Initiative ‘Alpha Plan’ at MWC 2025
Honor announced its plans to share a new strategic initiative focused on artificial intelligence (AI) at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 on Monday. The smartphone brand will showcase its “Alpha Plan” in a keynote session in Barcelona. While the…
Instagram Exploring Dislike Button for Comments, with Potential Impact on Ranking Algorithms
Instagram has finally confirmed that it is testing a new ‘dislike’ button that lets users downvote a distasteful or irrelevant comment on the platform. The dislike button will appear across both Feed posts and Reels. The Meta-owned photo and video-sharing…
Researchers Using AI to Scan Animals’ Faces to Decipher Signs of Pain and Emotions: Report
Researchers are now reportedly experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) to decipher the facial expressions of animals to understand their emotions. As per the report, several research groups are now using AI models with computer vision to analyse emotions and signs…
Researchers Create a Low-Cost Open-Source AI Model to Analyse How OpenAI’s o1 Reasons
Researchers from Stanford University and Washington University have developed an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model that is comparable in performance to OpenAI’s o1 model. The main objective of the researchers was not to create a powerful reasoning-focused model but to…
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Manufacture Its First In-House AI Chipset
OpenAI is reportedly planning to manufacture its first custom artificial intelligence (AI) chipset this year. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm has begun the design process internally and is on track to complete the design of the…
Adobe Releases AI-Powered Generate Video in Public Beta, Redesigns Firefly Web App
Adobe released its Generate Video tool in public beta on Wednesday, which is now available to all users. The artificial intelligence (AI) video generation tool is powered by the company’s Firefly Video Model, and was first teased in September 2024….
PM Modi Said to Meet Elon Musk for Possible Starlink Talks During US Trip
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet Elon Musk during his trip this week to the United States, and Starlink’s entry in the South Asian market could come up for discussion, two people familiar with the plans told…
SEBI Said to be Seeking Greater Access to Social Media Records
India’s markets regulator is seeking broader powers from the government to remove unauthorised financial advice from social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram, and to access their call records for investigations into market violations, a government source and a…
Meta to Allow Rival Ads Providers to List on Facebook Marketplace After EU Antitrust Fine
Meta Platforms will allow rival classified ads service providers to post listings of their ads on Facebook Marketplace, the company said on Thursday, three months after it was hit with a 797-million euro ($828 million or roughly Rs. 7,185 crore)…
JioHotstar Streaming Platform Launched, Combines JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar
JioHotstar, the new streaming platform created by bringing together JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar, was launched by JioStar on Friday. The newly created platform will host the entire content library of both the over-the-top (OTT) platforms. Apart from shows and movies…
JioHotstar May Launch Soon; JioStar Reportedly Shares Teaser for Viacom18, Star India’s Joint Venture Platform
JioHotstar, the speculated new platform emerging from the joint venture between Reliance and Disney Star, could reportedly launch soon. As per a report, the social media page of JioStar made a cryptic post hinting at the launch of the new…
Google Expands NotebookLM Plus to Google One AI Premium Subscribers
Google announced the expansion of NotebookLM Plus to individual users on Monday. The upgraded version of the platform that offers higher usage and more security tools has been only available to enterprises and education accounts so far. However, the Mountain…
Anthropic’s Economic Index Reveals Software Engineering Is Most Impacted by AI
Anthropic introduced the Anthropic Economic Index on Monday to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the labour market and the economy. The initial report of the research reveals that software engineering fields are the most impacted by this new…
Microsoft Hit by French Antitrust Probe Over Rivals’ Bing Access
Microsoft is under investigation from the French antitrust authority amid concerns the US tech giant is degrading the quality of results when smaller rivals pay to use Bing technology in their own search-engine products. Officials are weighing if Microsoft…
Meta Starts Eliminating Jobs in Shift to Find AI Talent
Meta Platforms began notifying staff of job cuts on Monday, kick-starting a process that will terminate thousands of people as the company cracks down on “low-performers” and scours for new talent to dominate the AI race. Meta workers who were…
Malicious Machine Learning Models Discovered on Hugging Face: Report
Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hub, is said to contain malicious ML models. A cybersecurity research firm discovered two such models that contain code that can be used to package and distribute malware to those…
Meta Prepares for Layoffs on Monday, Circulates Internal Memo
Facebook owner Meta Platforms plans to carry out its expected company-wide layoffs next week while pushing ahead with the expedited hiring of machine learning engineers, it told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters on Friday. Notices will go out…
WhatsApp Reportedly Testing Feature to Allow Users to Make Bill Payments in India
WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature for users in India. This feature is expected to allow users to make bill payments via the messaging platform. In November 2020, WhatsApp introduced the option to send and receive money using the Unified…
Qualcomm Says Arm Has Withdrawn License Breach Notice
Qualcomm Chief Executive Officer Cristiano Amon said on Wednesday that Arm Holdings has withdrawn a threat to terminate Qualcomm’s license agreement with the chip technology provider. Arm in October threatened to terminate Qualcomm’s license agreement amid a dispute over technology…
UK Reportedly Orders Apple to Give it Access to Users’ Encrypted Accounts
Britain’s security officials have ordered that Apple create a so-called ‘back door’ allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, The Washington Post reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter….
About 500 Samsung India Factory Workers Said to be Holding Protest in Latest Dispute
About 500 workers at Samsung’s plant in south India are holding a sit-in to protest against the suspension of three employees, and the company has deployed contract workers to fill the gap, two sources said. It was the second significant…
GitHub Copilot Upgraded With Agent Mode and Gemini 2.0 Flash, Project Padawan Unveiled
GitHub Copilot, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for the coding platform, is getting several new features. Announced on Thursday, the company is adding a new agent mode to the chatbot that can automatically iterate on code generated by it and…
ByteDance Develops OmniHuman, an AI Framework That Can Generate Realistic Videos of Humans
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, recently shared its research on a new artificial intelligence (AI) framework. Dubbed OmniHuman, it is a video-generation framework that can create realistic human videos with full-body movement and lip-syncing. The researchers stated that it requires…
Researchers Discover DeepSeek Has Links to Chinese Telecom Firm Banned in US: Report
DeepSeek source code reportedly contains evidence that links the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with a Chinese telecommunication provider that was banned in the US. According to a report, a cybersecurity firm has uncovered code that could be used to…
Google Reportedly Internally Testing an AI Mode Feature for Search
Google has reportedly started internally testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its Search platform. Dubbed AI Mode, the feature was first rumoured in December 2024. It is said to open a full-screen interface where users can ask complex…
Google Updates AI Principles, Ditches Commitment to Not Use AI for Weapons and Surveillance
Google updated its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Principles, a document highlighting the company’s vision around the technology, on Tuesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant earlier mentioned four application areas where it would not design or deploy AI. These included weapons and…
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant Being Upgraded With a Contract Intelligence Feature
Adobe Acrobat’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant is getting a new capability that will make it easier for users to get a quick breakdown of complex contracts. Announced on Tuesday, the new feature is called Contract Intelligence, and it adds a…
Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal Announces Krutrim AI Lab, Releases Open-Source Krutrim-2 Model
Ola founder and chairman Bhavish Aggarwal announced the Krutrim AI lab on Tuesday. The AI-focused research lab will be the central hub for all the future model releases of Ola Krutrim (commonly referred to as Krutrim). Alongside, several new India-focused…
Anthropic Developing Constitutional Classifiers to Safeguard AI Models From Jailbreak Attempts
Anthropic announced the development of a new system on Monday that can protect artificial intelligence (AI) models from jailbreaking attempts. Dubbed Constitutional Classifiers, it is a safeguarding technique that can detect when a jailbreaking attempt is made at the input…
Indian Government Expands Aadhaar Authentication Service to Public and Private Entities
The Indian government expanded the Aadhaar authentication service to both public and private entities across multiple sectors on Friday. The expansion was part of a recent amendment introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The ministry said…
OpenAI Introduces Deep Research in ChatGPT, an AI Agent That Can Conduct Multi-Step Research
OpenAI introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent in ChatGPT on Sunday that can independently research on the Internet. Dubbed Deep Research (not to be confused with Google’s Gemini-powered AI agent with the same name), it can conduct multi-step research…
WhatsApp Says Spyware Company Paragon Targeted Users in Two Dozen Countries
An official with Meta Platforms’ popular WhatsApp chat service said Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions had targeted scores of its users, including journalists and members of civil society. The official said on Friday that WhatsApp had sent Paragon a cease-and-desist…
5 Things to Know About Key Technology-Related Announcements From the Union Budget 2025
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced several new measures and schemes as part of the Union Budget 2025. The second budget of the NDA government’s third term will expand broadband connectivity to government schools, and take efforts to boost…
Budget 2025: Tech in Focus With Framework for GCCs, New ‘Fund of Funds’ for startups, CoE for AI
New and emerging technologies were in focus in the Union Budget, as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a national framework for Global Capability Centres (GCCs), Rs 500-crore Centre of Excellence in AI for education, and said a deep tech ‘Fund…
Finance Minister Proposes ID Cards for Gig Workers, UPI-Linked Credit Cards for Street Vendors
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech today, announced that her government will provide ID cards to gig workers. Gig workers will also be provided access to healthcare via a social security scheme. She said her government will invest…
Threads Update Adds Media Tab for Photos, Videos and Photo Tagging Feature
Threads has finally updated its apps for iPhone and Android smartphones with a dedicated media tab. The Meta-owned microblogging platform finally supports a dedicated tab that shows photos and videos uploaded by a user on their profile. Meanwhile, users will…
Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash AI Model Now Rolling Out to All Users
Google is rolling out the stable version of the Gemini 2.0 Flash to all users. Announced on Thursday, the artificial intelligence (AI) model will replace the experimental preview of 2.0 Flash which was first released in December 2024. The new…
NordVPN Announces NordWhisper Protocol Designed to Browse on Restricted Networks
NordVPN has unveiled a new VPN protocol on Thursday. Dubbed NordWhisper, the new tool is designed to avoid advanced network filters and make the VPN traffic look like regular web traffic. The latest protocol is based on web tunnel technology…
Microsoft Adds DeepSeek-R1 AI Model to Its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
Microsoft added support for the recently released DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model to its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub on Wednesday. The reasoning-focused AI model can now be accessed via these platforms. The Redmond-based tech giant also highlighted that it…
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Gov, a Self-Hosting Platform for US Government Agencies
OpenAI introduced a new version of ChatGPT for US Government agencies on Tuesday. Dubbed ChatGPT Gov, this is a self-hosting platform that agencies can deploy within their internal cloud environment. The San Francisco-based AI firm stated that this version of…
Recent iPhone, Mac Models Susceptible to Side Channel Exploitation, Putting Sensitive Information at Risk: Report
Security researchers have discovered new vulnerabilities in Apple’s in-house Silicon chipsets which may leave it exposed to exploitation, according to a report. The Cupertino-based technology company’s A and M-series chipsets, which power the iPhone/iPad and Mac, respectively, are said to…
Signal to Allow Synchronisation Across Multiple Devices Like Desktop, iPad Soon for iOS, Android Users
Signal, the popular messaging app, allows users to link additional devices like desktops or iPads to their primary Android or iOS smartphone. The company now says that users will soon be able to transfer and synchronise messages and media of one account…
OpenAI to Release o3-Mini AI Model to ChatGPT Free Tier, Plus Subscribers to Get Higher Rate Limits
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made several announcements for ChatGPT users on Sunday. The o3 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models, which were unveiled in December 2024 as a research preview, will now witness its first global release. Altman stated that…
Hugging Face Introduces Compact Versions of SmolVLM Vision Language Model That Can Run on Consumer Laptops
Hugging Face introduced two new variants to its SmolVLM vision language models last week. The new artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in 256 million and 500 million parameter sizes, with the former being claimed as the world’s smallest vision…
OpenAI Updates Canvas With o1 AI Model Support, Expands to ChatGPT App for macOS
OpenAI announced several upgrades for its Canvas feature on Saturday. The sandbox-styled pop-up window that allows users to work alongside the chatbot to make inline edits, formatting, and coding was first released in October 2024 in early beta. It was…
Microsoft Unveils Open-Source MatterGen AI Model That Can Generate Inorganic Material Designs
Microsoft researchers unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model last week that can design new inorganic materials with desired properties. Dubbed MatterGen, the open-source large language model (LLM) is currently available in the public domain. The researchers have also published…
Jio, Airtel and BSNL Subscribers Can Now Use DBN-Funded Mobile Towers to Make Calls With Intra Circle Roaming
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) recently announced the launch of its Intra Circle Roaming (ICR) facility that uses Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN) funded 4G mobile sites. The ICR facility was inaugurated alongside the Sanchar Saathi App by Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia….
Meta to Begin Testing Ads on Threads in the US and Japan
Meta Platforms will begin test launching ads on its social media platform Threads with a few brands in the U.S. and Japan, it said on Friday, as the app hits over 300 million monthly active users. During early testing starting…
Uber Denies Implementing Phone Model-Based Pricing in India
Uber said it does not set ride prices based on a user’s phone model, shortly after an Indian government body alleged that the ride-hailing giant and its domestic rival Ola use differential pricing for Android and Apple phones. India’s consumer…
Anthropic Introduces a Citations Feature to Make Claude’s Responses More Reliable
Anthropic introduced a new application programming interface (API) feature on Thursday to let developers ground the responses generated by artificial intelligence (AI) models. Dubbed Citations, the feature allows developers to restrict the output generation of the Claude family of AI…
OpenAI Releases Operator AI Agent in Preview, Can Independently Perform Tasks on the Web
OpenAI released its first artificial intelligence (AI) agent, Operator, on Thursday. Currently available as a research preview, the agent comes with a dedicated web browser. It is a general-purpose AI agent that can autonomously perform tasks online based on prompts…
Character AI Reportedly Testing a New Games Feature, Adds Two Word-Based Games
Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, is said to be testing a new ‘games’ feature. As per a new report, the company has released two word-based games to paid users of the platform. While users can create game-focused…
OpenAI Partners Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank and Others for New ‘Stargate Project’ to Build AI Infrastructure
OpenAI announced the formation of a new company, dubbed The Stargate Project, on Tuesday. The new venture of the firm will focus on building artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in the US. The company announced that it would spend a total…
Airtel Satellite Telecom Services Ready for Rollout, Awaiting Centre’s Go Ahead: Rajan Bharti Mittal
Rajan Bharti Mittal, Vice Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, said on Tuesday that its satellite telecom service was ready for rollout in India, and they were now waiting for the centre’s greenlight. “In India, we are waiting for, as you know,…
DeepSeek Says Its New Reasoning-Focused DeepSeek-R1 AI Model Can Outperform OpenAI’s o1
DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model by the Chinese firm DeepSeek, was released on Monday. This is the full version of the open source AI model, which arrives two months after its preview version was released. The open-source AI…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Crawler Can Be Used to Trigger DDoS Attack on Websites, Researcher Claims
OpenAI’s ChatGPT application programming interface (API) has a vulnerability that can be exploited to initiate a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on websites, according to details shared by a cybersecurity researcher. The chatbot can reportedly be used to send…
Government Says Satellite Spectrum Policy Can Attract Many Companies After Elon Musk-Mukesh Ambani Tussle
India’s decision to allocate satellite spectrum, rather than auction it, will give consumers more choice, the telecoms minister said on Monday, playing down concern by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio that it could lose out to Elon Musk’s Starlink. Starlink has long wanted to launch…
X and Bluesky Roll Out Vertical Video Feeds as TikTok Restores Service in the US
X (formerly Twitter) has announced a new feature for its users. It has introduced a dedicated vertical video feed, similar to Instagram’s Reels or YouTube’s Shorts feeds. Another social media site, Bluesky, founded by Jack Dorsey, who was incidentally one of the…
TikTok Restores Service After US Ban, Thanks Incoming President Donald Trump
TikTok began restoring its services on Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said he would revive the app’s access in the US when he returns to power on Monday. “Frankly, we have no choice. We have to save it,” Trump said…
Top Discounts on Smartphones You Can Buy During Amazon Great Republic Day 2025 Sale
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 currently offers several discounts for customers looking to upgrade their smartphones. The sale event will end on January 19, which means buyers only have a couple of days to maximise their savings. We have…
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025: Get Up to 50 Percent Off on Printers from Canon, HP and More
The Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 has entered its fifth day in India and it ends on January 19. It offers buyers a chance to get their hands on a wide range of products across consumer electronics categories such…
Best Deals on AI PCs During the Amazon Great Republic Day Sale
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale will conclude in two days on January 19. The e-commerce giant’s first sale of the year began on January 13 and before it ends, individuals can get discounts on a wide range of products. During…
Best Deals on Monitor Deals to Consider During Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 started for all users in India on January 13. A wide range of products including home appliances, personal gadgets and other electronic items are being offered at discounted rates during the sale. We have…
Best Discounts on Home Audio Equipment for Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 began on Monday, and the week-long sale is set to end soon. Before the sale winds up, you can access some of the top deals on home appliances, personal gadgets and other electronic items,…
Best Offers on Premium Wireless Headphones During Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 is the right time to purchase a new premium wireless headphones, if you are looking for a new pair in the market. The e-commerce giant started its first sale of the year on January…
Top Deals on Gaming Laptops Under Rs 1 Lakh to Consider During Amazon Great Republic Day Sale
Amazon Great Republic Day 2025 is the e-commerce platform’s first sale event of the year, and there are several offers on consumer electronics devices, smart home devices, computers, and smartphones to be availed of before the sale ends on January…
Top Deals on Smartwatches, Fitness Trackers During Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 kicked off earlier this week, bringing several discounts on consumer tech devices and other electronics. During the sale, customers can take advantage of several deals on wearables, including both smartwatches and fitness trackers, from…
Asus Partners With Zepto to Offer Quick Deliveries in Four Cities
Asus announced on Wednesday that some of its accessories will be available for quick deliveries in India via Zepto, the quick commerce company headquartered in Bengaluru that delivers items including groceries and electronics in about 10 minutes. Asus confirmed that…
Best Offers on Wireless Routers During Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025
Amazon’s Great Republic Day Sale started on January 13 with deals on a wide range of electronic products. If you are planning to upgrade your Wi-Fi router, this sale offers products from popular brands like TP-Link, D-Link, and Netgear with discounts….
Meta Reportedly Testing X-Inspired Community Notes Feature on Threads
Threads is working on a community notes feature inspired by X (formerly Twitter) that could be rolled out soon. The functionality was recently announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for Meta-owned Facebook, Instagram and Threads platforms, and it will replace traditional…
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale: Best Deals on Bluetooth Speakers
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 is currently live for all users. The e-commerce giant’s first sale of the year started on Monday and will conclude on January 19. During the sale, individuals can find discounts on a wide range…
Google Cloud Unveils Generative AI Search and Agentic Tools for Retailers
Google announced new artificial intelligence (AI) search and agentic tools for retail-focused enterprises on Sunday. These announcements were made at the ongoing National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2025 event. The Mountain View-based tech giant introduced its Agentspace platform that enables enterprises…
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 Goes Live for Prime Members: Best Deals on Mobiles, Electronics
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 is now live for Prime members. The Republic Day special sale will open up for everyone else from 12pm on January 13, 2025. Amazon Great Republic Day Sale promises excited discounts on a large…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Allegedly Permitted Llama AI Models’ Training on Copyrighted Materials
Meta is facing a copyright lawsuit over allegedly using copyrighted works to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The lawsuit was filed by multiple complainants that also include several bestselling authors. The primary allegation against the tech giant is that…
OpenAI Might Have Briefly Added New Custom Instruction Options to ChatGPT
OpenAI might have added several new options to its Custom Instructions feature for ChatGPT on Thursday. Several users shared screenshots of these new options in custom instructions that allow users to further personalise the responses generated by ChatGPT. These new…
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Could Soon Get an ‘Inappropriate and Offensive’ Unhinged Mode
Elon Musk-owned xAI could soon add a new ‘Unhinged’ mode to Grok, its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. The AI firm recently updated its frequently asked questions (FAQ) page and added mentions of this new mode, which is designed to be…
Meta Offers to Publish EBay Ads on Facebook Marketplace to Comply With EU Antitrust Order
Meta Platforms Inc. offered to publish listings from classified ads rival eBay Inc. on Facebook Marketplace in an effort to comply with a landmark European Union antitrust order that was accompanied by a EUR 798 million ($822 million or roughly…
Internet-Connected Devices Can Now Have a Label that Rates Their Security
The White House on Tuesday unveiled a new label for smart thermostats, baby monitors, app-controlled lights and other internet-connected devices that will allow consumers to see how the increasingly popular items rate on cybersafety criteria. The Cyber Trust Mark –…
Nvidia Cosmos AI Platform to Train and Develop Autonomous Vehicles and Robots Launched at CES 2025
Nvidia launched Cosmos, a new artificial intelligence platform that contains multiple generative world foundation models (WFMs), on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025. The platform does not only contain these AI models but also include advanced tokenisers, accelerated…
US President-Elect Donald Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law That Could Ban TikTok
President-elect Donald Trump has urged the US Supreme Court to pause implementation of a law that would ban popular social media app TikTok or force its sale, arguing he should have time after taking office to pursue a “political resolution”…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says the Company Is Now Focusing on Superintelligence
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that the company now has a fundamental understanding of how to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) and is shifting its focus towards superintelligence. Altman highlighted that superintelligence could reshape the world and accelerate scientific discovery…
Google Play Store, Apple’s App Store Remove Multiple VPN Applications in India: Report
Multiple virtual private network (VPN) apps have been removed from the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store in India, according to a TechCrunch report. These apps have been pulled in what appears to be the first crackdown against these…
Draft Data Protection Rules Mandate Due Diligence, Explicit Consent for Processing Children’s Data
The government on Friday released the long-awaited draft of Digital Personal Data Protection Rules which specify that parent’s verifiable consent will have to be obtained by social media or online platforms before children can create any account. Further, parents’ identity…
AI Tools Could Sell User Data About Opinions and Preferences, Create an ‘Intention Economy’: Study
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools could soon start predicting and manipulating users with the large pool of “intent data” they have, a study has claimed. Conducted by the University of Cambridge, the research paper also highlights that in the future, an…
Jio Platforms Reportedly Partnering With Nvidia to Develop Affordable and Personalised AI Solutions
Jio Platforms is reportedly partnering with tech giants such as Nvidia intending to disrupt the Indian artificial intelligence (AI) space similar to how it disrupted the telecom sector with competitive pricing and access to unlimited mobile data. As per the…
OpenAI’s AI Training Opt-Out Tool for Creators Not Releasing Anytime Soon: Report
OpenAI, in May, announced a new machine learning (ML) tool that could enable creators to specify whether they wanted OpenAI to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models on their content or not. Dubbed Media Manager, the tool was said to…
China Proposes Further Export Curbs on Battery, Critical Minerals Tech
China’s commerce ministry has proposed export restrictions on some technology used to make battery components and process critical minerals lithium and gallium, a document issued on Thursday showed. If implemented, they would be the latest in a series of export…
Hugging Face Introduces Smolagents Library to Build AI Agents With Open-Source LLMs
Hugging Face introduced a new code library last week to enable developers to easily build artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Dubbed smolagents, the tool defines the basic logic for general purpose simple AI agents that can perform actions by executing them…
OpenAI’s o3 Model Claims Human-Level Intelligence on Benchmark, But It Might Not Be That Smart
OpenAI unveiled the reasoning-focused o3 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models last month. During a live stream, the company shared the benchmark scores of the model based on internal testing. While all of the shared scores were impressive and highlighted…
eBay and Beazley Reportedly Being Targeted by Advanced AI-Generated Phishing Scams
eBay, the ecommerce giant and several other companies are reportedly witnessing an increased volume of personalised phishing attacks aimed towards high-level employees. As per the report, these phishing scams are being carried out using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to make…
AI Agents in 2025: What Are They and How Can They Revolutionise Industries Across the Globe
After the novelty of generative artificial intelligence (AI) wore off, many raised an important question — Yes it is cool, but how can it make an impact in the real world? It was a valid question. While AI chatbots can…
AgiBot Robotics Firm Open Sources Massive Dataset to Train Humanoid Robots
AgiBot, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics firm open-sourced a massive dataset containing high-quality data on training humanoid robots on Monday. Dubbed AgiBot World Alpha, the dataset is said to be collected from more than 100 robots in real-life…
ISRO Successfully Launches Two SpaDeX Satellites, Completes Space Docking Test Flight
Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) inaugural space docking mission has been launched aboard an indigenous PSLV-C60 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh. The mission, termed the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), is designed to establish India as…
India Delays UPI Payments Market Share Cap in Relief for PhonePe, Google Pay
India on Tuesday delayed the implementation of market share caps for a popular digital payments method by two years, a move that will benefit Google Pay and Walmart-backed PhonePe. According to the proposal, first made in November 2020, digital payment…
Top AI Highlights of 2024: From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini and More
If 2023 was all about the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its entry into mainstream tech conversations, 2024 became the year when AI began displaying its transformative capabilities. What started as a text-based chatbot fad that could respond…
Nvidia Is Reportedly Focusing on Embodied AI and Robotics Amid Rising Competition in AI Chips Market
Nvidia is reportedly shifting its focus from artificial intelligence (AI) chipsets to robotics and embodied AI. The Santa Clara-based tech giant is said to be looking to provide processing capabilities and training for robots due to the rising competition in…
Aitomatic and AI Alliance Unveil SemiKong Open Source AI Model Focused on Semiconductors
Aitomatic and the other collaborators under the Foundation Models workgroup of the AI Alliance unveiled a new semiconductor-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model earlier this month. Dubbed SemiKong, the large language model (LLM) is built on the domain-expert agents (DXA) architecture…
Microsoft Releases AIOpsLab, an Open-Source Standardised AI Framework for AIOps Agents
Microsoft researchers released an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) framework for agents that operate in cloud environments. Dubbed AIOpsLab, it is a principled research framework that enables developers to build, test, compare, and improve AIOps agents. The framework is supported by…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora Services Now Fully Operational After Suffering a Major Outage
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT services suffered a major outage on Thursday in the US and some other regions. As per reports registered on an online outage monitor, the outage began roughly around 1:30pm ET on December 26 (12:00am…
Microsoft Reportedly Bundling Copilot AI With Microsoft 365 Subscription and Hiking Prices
Microsoft is reportedly making changes to its Microsoft 365 subscription in some regions to bring Copilot to more users. As per the report, the Redmond-based tech giant has started bundling the Copilot AI assistant, which is available across multiple apps…
DeepSeek-V3 Open-Source AI Model With Mixture-of-Experts Architecture Released
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released the DeepSeek-V3 AI model on Thursday. The new open-source large language model (LLM) features a massive 671 billion parameters, surpassing the Meta Llama 3.1 model which has 405 billion parameters. Despite its…
ChatGPT Search Feature Reportedly Vulnerable to Prompt Injection and Hidden Text Manipulation
ChatGPT Search, a feature that lets the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot look for information on the web, is reportedly vulnerable to manipulation by website developers and owners. As per the report, OpenAI’s search engine’s behaviour can be altered using hidden…
OpenAI and Microsoft Reportedly Have a Strange Commercial Indicator for AGI
OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly have a unique definition of what constitutes artificial general intelligence or AGI. As per the report, the two entities added a commercial indicator of AGI in last year’s extension of their partnership. The new definition claims…
Nvidia Executive Claims AI-Powered Robots in the Future Will Be Trained on Simulation, Share a Hive Mind
Nvidia’s Senior Research Manager and Lead of the Embodied AI division Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) Lab, Jim Fan, highlighted how artificial intelligence (AI) robots in the future could be trained and function. The executive claimed that soon embodied AI…
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Development Has Reportedly Suffered a Data Shortage Setback
OpenAI is reportedly behind schedule with its GPT-5 development. As per the report, the AI firm has hit several roadblocks in taking the successor to GPT-4 to the desired level of capability, including training data shortage and the requirement of…
Amazon Offering Big Discounts on Smart TVs From Leading Brands in Year End Sale: See Prices, Deals
Amazon is currently offering huge discounts on smart TVs in India as part of its year-end bonanza. A wide selection of smart televisions from leading brands like Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense and more can be bought at a significantly lower…
Instagram Reportedly Testing Feature to Allow Users to View Story Highlights From a Week Ago
Instagram may soon allow users to view older stories from people they follow that they have missed in the first 24 hours. A recent report suggested that the Meta-owned social media site is testing a feature allowing users to view Story…
Amazon and Universal Music Group Expand Partnership to Address ‘Unlawful AI-Generated Content’
Amazon and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced the expansion of their partnership on Monday. Among other topics, the two entities highlighted that the collaboration will focus on the advancement of artist-centric principles including increased fraud protection. While both the companies…
Amazon and Universal Music Group Expand Partnership to Address ‘Unlawful AI-Generated Content’
Amazon and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced the expansion of their partnership on Monday. Among other topics, the two entities highlighted that the collaboration will focus on the advancement of artist-centric principles including increased fraud protection. While both the companies…
Tetsuwan Scientific Is Building AI-Powered Robotic Scientists That Can Carry Out Experiments
Tetsuwan Scientific, a San Francisco-based startup, is building artificial intelligence (AI) robotics that can perform the tasks of a scientist. The co-founders, CEO Cristian Ponce and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Théo Schäfer, brought the startup out of stealth in…
OpenAI Shares Benchmark Scores of o3 Series AI Models, Offers Unlimited Access of Sora to Paid Subscribers
OpenAI shared the benchmark scores of the o3 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models on Friday. As successor to the recently released o1 series of AI models, the company claimed that o3 significantly surpasses the capabilities of the older version. The…
Google Reportedly Planning to Add an ‘AI Mode’ Option to Google Search
Google is reportedly planning to add a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature to its Search. As per the report, the Mountain View, California-based tech giant is working on an AI Mode on Google Search that will allow users to access…
Apple Partners With Nvidia to Improve Performance Speed of Its AI Models
Apple is partnering with Nvidia in an effort to improve the performance speed of artificial intelligence (AI) models. On Wednesday, the Cupertino-based tech giant announced that it has been researching inference acceleration on Nvidia’s platform to see whether both the…
Amazon Prime Video to Limit Streaming to 5 Devices Per Account Starting January 2025
Amazon Prime Video is revising the number of devices which can be connected to one account in India, the video streaming platform has announced. It previously allowed Prime users to connect up to 10 devices to a single account but…
Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking AI Model With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities Launched
Google released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Gemini 2.0 family on Thursday which is focused on advanced reasoning. Dubbed Gemini 2.0 Thinking, the new large language model (LLM) increases the inference time to allow the model to…
Google Blasts Chrome Sale as ‘Extreme’ Remedy at Odds With Law
Alphabet Inc.’s Google called a US Justice Department plan to force it to sell its web browser “extreme” and at odds with the law, urging a federal court judge to take caution lest he stifle innovation and future investment. In…
Rapido Reportedly Fixes Security Flaw That Exposed User and Driver Information
Rapido recently fixed a security flaw that exposed personal information related to users and drivers on the ride-hailing platform, according to a report. A feedback form designed for Rapido users and drivers reportedly revealed their full names, email addresses, and…
Genesis Open-Source AI Physics Engine Introduced, Can Generate 4D Dynamic Worlds to Train Robots
Genesis, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) physics model that can simulate four-dimensional (4D) worlds, was unveiled on Thursday. This is a unique AI model, as it combines several different capabilities to simulate scenarios for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications….
Anthropic Study Highlights AI Models Can ‘Pretend’ to Have Different Views During Training
Anthropic published a new study where it found that artificial intelligence (AI) models can pretend to hold different views during training while holding onto their original preferences. On Wednesday, the AI firm highlighted that such inclinations raise serious concerns as…
McDonald’s India Delivery System Reportedly Exposed Personal Information of Customers Due to API Bug
McDonald’s India reportedly left the personal data of its customers and drivers exposed due to a security flaw. As per the report, the vulnerabilities arose due to bugs in the application programming interface (API) of the restaurant franchise’s delivery system….
Google Rolling Out Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced Model to Paid Subscribers
Google is rolling out a new artificial intelligence (AI) model from the Gemini 2.0 family. Dubbed Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced, the large language model (LLM) will only be available to the paid subscribers of Gemini. The new model release comes…
Elon Musk Says Starlink Inactive in India After Second Device Seized
Elon Musk said Starlink satellite internet is inactive in India, his first comments since authorities seized two of the company’s devices in recent weeks, one in an armed conflict zone and another in a drug smuggling bust. Starlink is seeking…
Cricket Scores to Recipes, Here Is What Indian Users Asked Alexa in 2024
Amazon has revealed the most popular Alexa questions Indian users asked the voice assistant this year. In 2024, the tech giant said cricket queries took the number one spot followed by details about celebrities and public figures from various fields. On…
Congo Files Criminal Complaints Against Apple in Europe Over Alleged Use of Conflict Minerals
The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain, lawyers for the Congolese government told Reuters. Congo is a major source…
OpenAI Rolling Out Projects in ChatGPT, a New Feature That Takes on Google’s NotebookLM
OpenAI rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for ChatGPT on Friday. The new feature, dubbed Projects in ChatGPT or just Projects, allows users to create specific chat folders where they can ask questions about the same topic or…
UK’s Ofcom to Tweak Social Media Rules in Response to Summer Riots
The UK plans to extend its rules against illegal material online to cover how social media companies respond to crises like the recent riots in the country, according to a statement from British regulator Ofcom on Monday. The agency released…
Apple Working With Broadcom to Develop First AI Server Chip: Report
Apple is developing a new server chip that is designed to enable support for features powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in partnership with semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom, according to a report. The company previously announced that it would offload processing for…
Google Gemini 2.0 Family Unveiled, Gemini 2.0 Flash Added to the Chatbot on Web and Mobile Apps
Google introduced the successor of the Gemini 1.5 family of AI models, dubbed Gemini 2.0, on Wednesday. The new AI models come with improved capabilities including native support for image generation and audio generation, the company highlighted. Currently, the Gemini…
Amazon Paused Rollout of Microsoft Office for a Year After Hacks
Amazon.com Inc. has delayed the deployment of Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-based Office suite for a year as the two companies work to resolve Amazon concerns about the security of the bundle of email and productivity software. The tech giants signed a…
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku AI Model Released to All Users on the Web and Mobile Apps
Anthropic has silently released the Claude 3.5 Haiku artificial intelligence (AI) model to users. On Thursday, several netizens began posting about the model’s availability in Claude’s web interface and mobile apps. Anthropic stated that the new generation of Haiku is…
Microsoft Phi-4 Open-Source Small Language Model Introduced; Claimed to Outperform Gemini 1.5 Pro
Microsoft on Friday released its Phi-4 artificial intelligence (AI) model. The company’s latest small language model (SLM) joins its open-source Phi family of foundational models. The AI model comes eight months after the release of Phi-3 and four months after…
Meta Announces ‘Video Seal’ Open-Source Tool to Watermark AI-Generated Videos
Meta is releasing a new tool that can add an invisible watermark to videos generated using artificial intelligence (AI). Dubbed Video Seal, the new tool joins the company’s existing watermarking tools, Audio Seal and Watermark Anything. The company suggested that…
Rivals Criticise Google’s Search Result Changes, Call for EU Antitrust Charges
More than 20 price comparison websites across Europe on Wednesday criticised Google’s proposed changes to its search results, saying they still fail to comply with EU tech rules and urged regulators to impose charges against the Alphabet unit. Google has…
Google DeepMind Showcases Upgraded Capabilities in Project Astra With Gemini 2.0
Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research wing, first unveiled Project Astra at I/O this year. Now, more than six months later, the tech giant announced new capabilities and improvements in the artificial intelligence (AI) agent. Drawing upon Gemini 2.0 AI…
Cognition Labs’ AI Software Engineer Devin Launched for Subscribers
Cognition Labs released its artificial intelligence (AI) platform Devin on Tuesday. Unveiled in March, the AI tool can function as a software engineer and perform complex coding tasks such as writing code in different languages, building and deploying websites and…
Google Updates Gemini AI Design on Web Interface and Android App
Google has made several minor adjustments to Gemini’s design on both the web interface and the Android app. While minor, these changes to the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot will make it easier to use and display more relevant information. On…
Amazon AGI SF Lab Focused on Developing New Capabilities of AI Agents Established
Amazon announced setting up a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory on Monday. Dubbed Amazon AGI SF Lab, the new research lab will be based in San Francisco and focus on developing AI agents with real-world applications. The Seattle-based tech recently…
Amazon Enters Quick Commerce Market in India With 15-Minute Delivery Pilot
Amazon India is piloting a quick commerce service in India. Following this move, the Indian arm of the US-based retail giant is said to offer quick deliveries of groceries and other daily essential items in 15 minutes or less. Notably,…
Hume Introduces Interpretability-Based Voice Control Feature for AI Voice Customisation
Hume, a New York-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, unveiled a new tool on Monday that will allow users to customise AI voices. Dubbed Voice Control, the new feature is aimed at helping developers integrate these voices into their chatbots and…
CCI Seeks Supreme Court Hearing to Expedite Amazon, Flipkart Cases
India’s antitrust body has asked the Supreme Court to hear legal challenges to an investigation of Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart e-commerce platforms, saying those challenges, filed by Samsung, Vivo and others at Indian high courts, were aiming to scuttle the…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Announces Nova Family of Multimodal AI Models
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of the tech giant, introduced the Nova family of artificial intelligence (AI) models on Tuesday at its ongoing re:Invent conference. There are five different large language models (LLMs) under the Nova branding,…
Google Launches AI Image Generation Model Imagen 3 and Video Model Veo
Google finally launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) image and video generation models on Wednesday. Both of these AI models were unveiled at Google I/O as the tech giant’s latest advancement in generative AI. Now, more than six months later,…
OpenAI Launches Full Version of Reasoning-Focused o1 AI Model, Introduces ChatGPT Pro Subscription
OpenAI brought the o1 artificial intelligence (AI) model out of preview on Thursday and released the full version. The AI firm claims that the new model can now perform tasks that the o1-preview could not. It is also said to…
TikTok Ban: US Appeals Court Upholds Law Forcing Its Sale Ahead of Deadline
A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or face a ban. The decision is a major win for…
Google Introduces PaliGemma 2 Family of Open Source AI Vision-Language Models
Google introduced the successor to its PaliGemma artificial intelligence (AI) vision-language model on Thursday. Dubbed PaliGemma 2, the family of AI models improve upon the capabilities of the older generation. The Mountain View-based tech giant said the vision-language model can…
Netflix Suspended Account Scam Being Used By Hackers to Steal User Information in Several Countries
Hackers are reportedly using a phishing campaign that tells users that their Netflix account has been suspended, in order to prompt them to visit a maliciously crafted website that is used to steal their Netflix password and banking information. According…
Google’s AI-Powered Weather Prediction Model GenCast Outperforms Top Forecasting Systems, Says Study
Google introduced its weather predicting artificial intelligence (AI) model GenCast on Wednesday. The AI model was developed by the Mountain View-based tech giant’s AI research division Google DeepMind. The company’s researchers have also published a paper on the technology highlighting…
Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 2 AI Model, Can Generate Playable 3D Worlds to Train AI Agents
Google DeepMind unveiled the successor to the Genie artificial intelligence (AI) model, which could generate endless 2D game worlds, on Wednesday. Dubbed Genie 2, the new AI model is capable of generating unique action-controllable, playable 3D environments based on a…
OpenAI Reportedly Considering Showing Ads on ChatGPT in a Bid to Boost Revenue
OpenAI is reportedly looking at ads as a way to create a new revenue source. As per a report, the AI firm is considering showing ads on ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform. However, it is said that there is…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Launches Automated Reasoning Checks in Preview to Combat AI Hallucinations
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new service at its ongoing re:Invent conference that will help enterprises reduce instances of artificial intelligence (AI) hallucination. Launched on Monday, the Automated Reasoning checks tool is available in preview and can be found…
Apple Accused of Silencing Workers, Spying on Personal Devices
Apple has been accused in a new lawsuit of illegally monitoring its workers’ personal devices and iCloud accounts while also barring them from discussing their pay and working conditions. The complaint filed in California state court on Sunday by Amar…
Bitcoin’s Push Toward $100,000 Runs Into a Wall of Resistance
Bitcoin bulls are starting to express some doubts after what seemed like an inevitable march toward a record high price of $100,000 loses momentum. “While we’re seeing strong institutional buying pressure, particularly from entities like MicroStrategy’s continued accumulation strategy, the…
Nvidia Research Introduces DiffUHaul, an AI Tool That Allows Object Relocation in Images
Nvidia researchers introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model Monday that can relocate objects in an image. Dubbed DiffUHaul, the tool can spatially understand the context of an image to move an object from one place to another without impacting…
Chameleon AI Model That Can Add Digital Mask to Protect Images From Facial Recognition Tools Unveiled
A group of researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can protect users from undesired facial scanning by bad actors. Dubbed Chameleon, the AI model uses a special masking technology to generate a mask that hides faces in…
Australia Passes Social Media Ban for Children Under 16
Australia approved on Thursday a social media ban for children aged under 16 after an emotive debate that has gripped the nation, setting a benchmark for jurisdictions around the world with one of the toughest regulations targeting Big Tech. The…
Canada’s Antitrust Watchdog Sues Google Over Alleged Anti-Competitive Conduct in Advertising
Canada’s Competition Bureau is suing Alphabet’s Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, the antitrust watchdog said on Thursday. The Competition Bureau, in a statement, said it had filed an application with the Competition Tribunal seeking an order that,…
Competition Commission of India to Investigate Google’s Strict Real-Money Gaming App Policy
India’s competition watchdog on Thursday ordered a probe into Google’s restrictive policies for real-money games on its platform, following a complaint by online gaming platform WinZO that called it discriminatory. The move compounds Google’s regulatory headaches in India, where it…
WhatsApp Starts Testing Feature to View, Share Channels Using QR Codes
WhatsApp Channels have come a long way since they were introduced on the messaging platform last year, and the Meta-owned service continues to add new functionality on a regular basis. The latest feature for WhatsApp Channels is now in beta…
WhatsApp Begins Testing Sticker Pack Sharing Feature on iOS, Android
WhatsApp recently began rolling out a new feature to beta testers that allows users to share a sticker pack installed on their device. A month after it was spotted, users who have downloaded the latest beta versions of WhatsApp on…
Alibaba Releases QwQ-32B Reasoning-Focused AI Model in Preview to Take on OpenAI’s GPT-o1
Alibaba released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Thursday, which is said to rival OpenAI’s GPT-o1 series models in reasoning capability. Launched in preview, the QwQ-32B large language model (LLM) is said to outperform GPT-o1-preview in several mathematical and…
Anthropic Introduces Custom Styles in Claude AI That Can Match Users’ Writing Style
Anthropic introduced a new feature in Claude on Tuesday that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to generate responses in users’ preferred writing style. Dubbed Custom Style, the new feature is aimed at the chatbot’s responses more in tune…
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Completes 400th Successful Mission, Deploys 24 Starlink Satellites
A major milestone in spaceflight was reached by SpaceX on Wednesday (November 27) with the successful launch of 24 Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, conducted from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, began at 11:41 pm…
Increasing Global Heatwave Hotspots Defy Climate Model Predictions
A recent study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has identified regions globally experiencing extreme heatwaves surpassing climate model predictions. These anomalies, spanning every continent except Antarctica, have been linked to thousands of deaths, agricultural failures, and…
SpyLoan Apps Installed on Over 8 Million Android Phones Amidst Rise in Predatory Loan Apps
Predatory loan apps can bring a lot of trouble for unsuspecting users, and malicious actors continue to release new malware versions, despite efforts taken by platforms like Google to clamp down on these nefarious apps. A security firm has now…
Anthropic Open-Sources Model Context Protocol to Offer a New Way to Connect AI Chatbots to Data
Anthropic open-sourced a new protocol to connect data hubs to artificial intelligence (AI) systems on Monday. Dubbed Model Context Protocol (MCP), the company claimed it can overcome the limitations of traditional data integration methods and solve the problem of data…
Distant Galaxies Crash to Produce Massive Sonic Boom, Could Reveal Secrets About the Universe: Report
One of the most intense cosmic shockwaves has been observed in Stephan’s Quintet, a group of galaxies located approximately 290 million light-years from Earth. The event was triggered by the galaxy NGC 7318b colliding with four neighbouring galaxies at an…
OpenAI Updates GPT-4o With Improved Creative Writing Ability, Reveals New Automated Red Teaming Method
OpenAI announced two ways it is improving its artificial intelligence (AI) models last week. The first includes releasing a new update for the GPT-4o (also known as the GPT-4 Turbo), the company’s latest AI model powering ChatGPT for paid subscribers….
Brave Search Gets AI-Powered Chat Feature With Support for Follow-Up Queries
Brave rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Brave Search on Thursday. Earlier this year, the San Francisco-based software company introduced ‘Answer with AI’ to its search engine, a feature that shows AI-generated summaries for searched queries. Now, it…
Google Must Sell Chrome to Restore Competition in Online Search, DOJ Argues
Alphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with rivals and take other measures – including possibly selling Android – to end its monopoly on online search, prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesday. The measures…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says ‘The Age of AI Has Started’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Saturday that global collaboration and cooperation in technology will continue, even if the incoming U.S. administration imposes stricter export controls on advanced computing products. President-elect Donald Trump, in his first term in office, imposed…
Amazon Doubles Down on AI Startup Anthropic With Another $4 Billion
Amazon.com pumped another $4 billion into OpenAI competitor Anthropic, as the e-commerce giant goes up against Big Tech rivals in a race to capitalize on generative artificial intelligence technology. This doubles Amazon’s investment in the firm known for its GenAI…
OpenAI Planning AI-Powered Web Browser, Could Rival Google Chrome: Report
OpenAI is reportedly planning to build a native web browser powered by artificial intelligence (AI). As per a report, the AI firm is planning to take on Google Chrome with its browser platform and has started discussing its plans with…
Samsung Gauss2 Multimodal AI Model With Support for Up to 14 Languages Unveiled at SDC24
Samsung unveiled the second generation of its Gauss artificial intelligence (AI) model on Thursday. Dubbed Gauss2, the new multimodal AI model is said to feature improved performance, efficiency, and enhanced use cases for application integration. The new large language model…
Chinese DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities Released, Can Rival OpenAI o1
A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model was released on Wednesday which claims to take on OpenAI’s o1 AI model in terms of advanced reasoning. Dubbed DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, the large language model (LLM) is said to have outperformed the o1 model on…
Google AI-Powered Air View+ Announced With Real-Time Hyperlocal Air Quality Information Across India
Google announced Air View+, an ecosystem-based solution to address the gaps in air quality data across India, on Wednesday. The system uses the Mountain View-based tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) models to process a large volume of air quality data…
Google Reportedly Working on AI-Powered ‘Help Me Draw’ Feature for Google Keep
Google is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Google Keep. The company’s note-taking app might soon offer AI-powered feature that can turn hand-drawn text and sketches into images. Dubbed Help Me Draw, the evidence of the…
Valiance Solutions Launches CivicEye, an AI-Powered Surveillance System to Detect Traffic Violations, Encroachment
Valiance Solutions on Tuesday launched CivicEye, an AI-powered surveillance system. The artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics solution provider says that its system is capable of monitoring various instances of public disturbances and illegal activities such as traffic violations, theft,…
DOJ Said to Push Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly
Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies. The department will…
Meta Pushes Back Against FTC Effort to Toughen Privacy Order
Meta Platforms rebuffed the Federal Trade Commission’s plans to modify a 2020 privacy settlement with the company, arguing that such a move would need approval from a federal court.A Meta lawyer told the FTC’s five commissioners at a hearing Tuesday…
Netflix Says 70 Million Users Now Watch Shows With Advertising
Netflix said 70 million viewers are watching its shows with advertising every month, nearly double the total from May. More than 50 percent of new subscribers are opting for Netflix’s ad-supported plan in the countries where it is available, Amy…
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Launch AI Agents That Can Control Tasks on Computer
OpenAI is reportedly planning to release artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can operate tasks on computer systems. As per a report, the company has been working on several agent-related research projects, one of which is dubbed “Operator” which can execute…
Gemini in Gmail Gets Integration With Google Calendar App, Lets Users Ask Date-Based Queries
Gemini in Gmail is getting support for more artificial intelligence (AI) functionalities. On Wednesday, Google announced the integration of the Google Calendar app with its native AI model Gemini. This way, eligible users can use Gemini within Gmail to ask…
Google Maps Updated With Product Search, Trailer-Friendly Routes and Weather Disruption Alerts
Google Maps has been updated with support for a couple of new features that are aimed at delivering an improved user experience while shopping and driving ahead of the upcoming holiday season. Users will be able to search for specific…
Meta Fined EUR 798 Million by EU Over Abusing Classified Ads Dominance
Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a €798 million ($841 million or roughly Rs. 7,100 crore) fine by European Union regulators by tying its Facebook Marketplace service to the social network, the US tech giant’s first ever penalty for EU antitrust…
Google Shielded Email Feature Reportedly in Development; Could Help Users Hide Email ID Addresses
Google is working on a new feature that could protect a user’s privacy while using apps that ask for their email address, according to a report. Strings of code spotted in one of the company’s applications reveal that a feature…
Reliance and Disney Complete Merger to Create a Rs. 70,352 Crore Joint Venture
Reliance Industries Limited announced the completion of a merger with the India business of global media house Walt Disney on Thursday. With this, Viacom 18 Media Private Limited, Reliance Industries Limited, and The Walt Disney Company announced the formation of…
Perplexity AI Begins Experimenting With Ads on Its Search Platform
Perplexity AI, the company behind the eponymous artificial intelligence (AI) search platform, announced on Tuesday that it will begin experimenting with ads this week. An earlier report highlighted the company’s plans of incorporating ads by the end of the year to…
Google Expands AI-Based Flood Forecasting Coverage to 100 Countries, Improves Forecasting Model
Google recently announced the expansion of its flood forecasting system that is based on artificial intelligence (AI). The search giant will now cover 100 countries and offer riverine flood forecasting to a global population of 700 million people. The company is also…
Meta to Offer Less Personalised Ads in Europe to Appease Regulators
Meta Platforms plans to offer Instagram and Facebook users in Europe the option to receive “less personalised ads,” the tech giant announced on Tuesday, in an effort to allay regulators’ mounting concerns. The Menlo Park, California-based company said it is implementing…
Elon Musk’s Starlink Working on Indian Security Clearance for Satellite Broadband
Elon Musk’s Starlink is seeking security clearance for a licence to offer satellite broadband services in India and will get a permit if it satisfies all conditions, the telecoms minister said on Tuesday. Starlink has been looking to enter India…
Signal Updated With Call Links Feature, Raise Hand Button, Emoji Reactions and More Improvements
Signal has been updated with support for several new features that are designed to improve the user experience for group calls on the platform. The latest version of Signal or Android, iOS, and the desktop client now support the new…
LG Unveils Stretchable Display With 50 Percent Rate of Elongation
LG Display, a subsidiary of the South Korea-based conglomerate focused on display technology, unveiled a new stretchable display that can expand by 50 percent of its original size. The company introduced the new stretchable display panel last week at LG…
Australia Proposes ‘World-Leading’ Ban on Social Media for Children Under 16
The Australian government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, in what it calls a world-leading package of measures that could become law late next year. Australia is…
Meta Says App Stores Should Police Australia Under-16 Social Media Ban
Australia will push ahead with a ban on social media for people aged under 16 despite calls by Meta Platforms for it to consider shifting responsibility for policing usage to app store operators such as Google and Apple. Prime Minister…
Reliance Lobbies for Satellite Spectrum Auction in New Clash With Starlink
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance pressed India’s telecom watchdog on Friday to reconsider its plan not to auction satellite spectrum but to simply allocate it, in a fresh clash with Elon Musk’s Starlink. India’s telecoms Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia last month said the…
OTT Releases This Week: Vijay 69, Devara, Citadel: Honey Bunny and More
The most anticipated release this week is Varun Dhawan and Samantha Prabhu’s Citadel: Honey Bunny – the Indian leg of the international spy universe franchise. The high-octane drama gives plenty of action sequences, thrill and chases. The next big release…
Competition Commission of India Finds Zomato, Swiggy Breached Antitrust Laws, Documents Show
An investigation by India’s antitrust body found food delivery giants Zomato and SoftBank-backed Swiggy breached competition laws, with their business practices favouring select restaurants listed on their platforms, documents show. Zomato entered into “exclusivity contracts” with partners in return for…
Qualcomm, Arm Climb After Earnings Signal Smartphone Rebound
Shares of Qualcomm and Arm Holdings, two chip companies heavily dependent on the smartphone market, gained on Thursday after delivering earnings reports that signaled a tentative comeback in demand. Both companies pointed in their earnings released Wednesday to a resurgence…