Hugging Face on Tuesday released SmolVLA, an open source vision language action (VLA) artificial intelligence (AI) model. The large language model is aimed at robotics workflows and training-related tasks. The company claims that the AI model is small and efficient enough to run locally on a computer with a single consumer…

OpenAI is now rolling out ChatGPT’s memory improvements to those on the free tier of the platform. Announced on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm announced that now all users of the chatbot will get personalised responses based on their previous conversations with ChatGPT. Notably, the free users…

A group representing Indian telecom giants Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel has said their businesses will suffer if India prices satellite spectrum at “unjustifiably low” rates that benefit satellite internet services such as Elon Musk’s Starlink. India’s telecom regulator in May proposed satellite service providers pay four percent of their…

Microsoft cut hundreds more jobs just weeks after its largest layoff in years, underscoring the tech industry’s efforts to trim costs even as it plows billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. More than 300 employees were told their positions had been eliminated on Monday, according to a Washington state notice…

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 document sheds some light on the company’s larger vision for…

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. And we still strongly believe the Court’s original decision was…

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 uses deep web browsing and code execution, to perform complex…

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 on Friday. The US Department of Justice and a coalition…

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 a report, fraudsters have created fake ticket booking websites and…

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 image and a guiding video. The researchers behind the project…

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 couple of weeks, millions of individuals have used OpenAI’s artificial…

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 slower to download and upload information on T-Mobile’s 5G network…

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 experiment also included OpenAI’s Codex-mini and o4-mini, as well as…

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 is available to download via popular AI repositories such as…

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 previously unknown security flaw is said to be tricky to…

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 $10 (roughly Rs. 850) per month. Under the promotional schemes…

Google I/O 2025 kicked off at 10:30pm on Tuesday, and the company made notable announcements related to artificial intelligence (AI) features and new capabilities coming to Android XR, its new operating system for extended reality (XR) devices. While Google also showed off new Android 16 features and improvements coming to…

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 4 is said to be state-of-the-art (SOTA) in coding, tool…

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 is deleted permanently. Some parts of the Pocket service will…

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. Users also took to a popular downtime tracking website to…

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 formats. It is the first AI model developed by the…

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 San Francisco-based AI firm released two new Claude 4 models,…

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 with financial fraud, and it is based on an analytical…

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 can solve real-world software engineering problems and write contextualised code…

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 select regions. Amazon has received regulatory approval to deliver new…

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 allegations.  “We had no ambition to build Facebook-like functionality like…

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 Gemini 2.5 Pro model. It also unveiled a new, natural…

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 bring AI to in-car infotainment systems, as well as an…

Google I/O 2025 is just hours away, and the tech giant is expected to make several new announcements about new software features coming to the company’s services over the coming months. Last week, the company gave us a peek at a few useful features coming to Android 16 and Wear…

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, which is an investor and deep strategic partner with ChatGPT…

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 London-based AI firm said that the model is lightweight and…

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 they will also be available within the chatbot. In particular,…

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 number of the total for the unit and were part of its regular…

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 trial. At the trial, which began on April 14 in…

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 nearly six years after the service launched. The same month,…

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 tools that advertisers can leverage. The company also unveiled several…

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 codebase, debugging code, and more. Currently, the feature is only…

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 is built on the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Gemini models,…

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 tool that can animate a static image. While not a…

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 and are likely the largest since Microsoft laid off 10,000 employees…

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 review. The civil suits are linked to a 2017 decision by…

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 giant’s colour scheme, with each block having a well-defined boundary.…

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 while picking an object or pushing a cart. These robots…

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 first introduced in September 2024 as part of the Microsoft…

India’s telecom regulator has recommended allotting satellite spectrum for commercial communication services for five years, it said on Friday, at a time when Elon Musk is getting closer to launching his Starlink high-speed internet in the country. The recommendation also includes a possibility to extend an initial five-year spectrum allocation…

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 of misinformation and urges them to stay safe online while…

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, has filed a patent with China National Intellectual Property Administration…

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 of a range of measures the DOJ says are necessary…

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 the ChatGPT Plus plan. Notably, the pricing details of the…

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 database reportedly contains 20 tables that include sensitive information around…

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, laptops, tablets, and other consumer electronics devices. Some of these…

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 is primarily focused on developing AI infrastructure in the US,…

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 coding tasks. The tool is said to be a comprehensive…

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 Premium plan is being seen as a move to push…

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 limit at one image or file per prompt. The new…

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 could become a multi-trillion-dollar market. However, the economic growth could…

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 for a new pair of earphones or headphones, you’ve got…

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, home appliances, laptops, and more. This also makes it the…

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 you’re on the hunt for a new smartphone, then the…

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 to Apple that it planned to make changes to its US…

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, Apple, OnePlus and more are currently available at significantly lower…

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 such as smartphones, tablets, headphones, truly wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds,…

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 gadgets. So far, we have compiled the various lists of…

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 sale brings discounts on a wide range of products across…

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, computers, and smartphones. Those planning to buy a new gaming…

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, TVs, and Amazon devices. The first day of the sale…

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 will begin at 12am (midnight) on Thursday for Amazon Prime members. Deals and discounts will also be available to all customers starting 12pm (noon). The discount sale will bring up to 80 percent off on various products across different categories like electronics, fashion, home decor,…

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, the feature was rolled out in 35 countries across multiple…

OpenAI has announced new capabilities for its ChatGPT Search feature. The San Francisco-based AI firm is adding a new experimental shopping experience to the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, which will showcase products in a more visual manner and share a direct link to buy. Additionally, the company is also adding…

Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today, given its “interdependencies” on other parts of the Alphabet Inc. unit, the head of Chrome testified.  “Chrome today represents 17 years of collaboration between the Chrome people” and…

Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Monday expanded the availability of its 5G services to two more cities in India. Previously limited to the Mumbai circle where a majority of users are said to be enjoying high-speed internet with select prepaid and postpaid plans, the telecom operator has introduced its 5G network…

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 claims could bolster the US government’s monopoly case against the…

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 chat content. WhatsApp already offers end-to-end encryption for messages and…

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 will notice the difference when talking to the AI about…

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 and Android apps. The discussion forum-style media platform first began…

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 available at lower prices during the sale. Products, including electronics,…

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 the company said it would buy back $70 billion (roughly…

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 app. The company also unveiled its Adobe Boards tool for…

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 it’s upwards of $50 billion (roughly Rs. 4,26,756 crore), if it…

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 power of Big Tech. The EU fines could stoke tensions…

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 bid to streamline management and rebuild an engineering-driven culture, according…

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 agent also shares the previous conversation data with the onboarding…

Flipkart will shift its holding company from Singapore to India, the e-commerce company said on Tuesday, as its parent Walmart aims to take the 17-year-old company public. Many Indian startups that once chose to be based abroad for better access to capital and smaller tax bills are now queuing to…

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 intelligence (AI) Glasses and several of its capabilities. Separately, the…

Cohere released Embed 4, an artificial intelligence (AI) embedding tool, last week. The Toronto-based AI firm pitched the new search and retrieval tool to businesses building and deploying AI applications and agents. The company, which builds enterprise-focused AI models and tools, claims that Embed 4 can understand complex, multimodal documents…

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 such as OpenAI and Google have already added a dedicated…

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 Appeal Tribunal on Tuesday, argues that Google’s actions enabled it to…

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 Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for…

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 consequence of slower response times and occasional resource unavailability. The…

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 monopoly power” in markets for publisher ad servers and ad…

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 personalise future conversations. Memories will also enable the chatbot to…

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 means they can analyse and “think” about an image to…

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 users across all its interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI firm…

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 latter can generate videos from a text or image input.…

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 videos with text prompts in natural language. The Mountain View-based…

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 Francisco-based AI firm said that these models outperform the GPT-4o…

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 million Indians to UPI to “break their cash memory” through…

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 measures to deal with the issue, but Google says that…

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 giant said the chipset was specifically designed for AI inference…

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 has yet to announce any plans to launch an app…

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 limited to the paid subscribers of the AI platform, while…

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 AI model has been available to the end consumer via…

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 can also remember and reference past conversations. The company said…

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 creativity and productivity-based tasks. Adobe is building several AI agents…

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 generalistic in nature. The Mountain View-based tech giant will soon…

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 Charts, and Visual Suite in One Design, at its annual…

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 lawsuit set to go to trial Monday, alleging that the…

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 and the camera on a user’s smartphone, without the need…

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; instead, it can process voice input in real time and…

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 users in faster iterations and exploring creative vision for a…

Apple is appealing against a British government order to create a “back door” to its encrypted cloud storage systems, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) confirmed on Monday. The IPT said in a written ruling that it had refused the British government’s application that “the bare details of the case”, including that it was brought by Apple, be kept private.…

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 by the original iPhone, although its functionality could be different.…

Microsoft released an interactive real-time gameplay experience of Quake II in Copilot Labs last week. To build the artificial intelligence (AI) gameplay, the Redmond-based tech giant used its recently released Muse AI models and a new approach dubbed World and Human Action MaskGIT Model (WHAMM). The game demo is currently…

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 way to allow users to send encrypted email to others…

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 his senior advisers ahead of an April 14 Federal Trade…

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 into the fray, submitting a bid to the White House…

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 to find relevant sources for a given topic. The Mountain…

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 after its predecessor V6, the V7 Alpha model is also…

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 track they have selected, or add image stickers from their…

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 the music streaming platform’s engaged and logged-in users. The company…

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 professional editors and motion designers and is now introducing artificial…

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 higher recognition of copyrighted content compared to its older models.…

OpenAI is said to be planning to expand its Deep Research feature to the users on the free tier of ChatGPT. The feature was introduced in February as an agentic tool that can autonomously conduct multi-step research on complex topics by looking for relevant information on the Internet. Powered by…

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 company claims will offer “frontier intelligence and industry leading price…

Bharti Airtel and its unit Bharti Hexacom have prepaid Rs. 5,985 billion to the government, fully clearing “high-cost” liabilities from the 2024 spectrum auctions, the telecom company said on Wednesday. Airtel, the country’s no.2 telecom firm by user base, has been prepaying high-cost spectrum dues that it and other Indian…

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 text, images, audio, and videos, while generating real-time text and…

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, these are built on OpenAI’s models with fine-tuning done by…

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 next few days. The most notable feature is an upgrade…

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 these features are aimed at helping users better plan their…

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 Following and Close Friends feeds on Instagram, and will not…

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 understand what motivates a particular response and structure over another.…

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 source and allows users to visualise connections between different concepts.…

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 soon adopt it as well. The protocol essentially standardises how…

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 not support RTX GPU-powered laptops. Focused on gaming, the AI…

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 image generator is on usefulness instead of decorativeness. It comes…

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 address, and the platform will send them a summary of…

Apple is set to stave off a possible fine and an EU order over its browser options on iPhones after it made changes to comply with landmark EU rules aimed at reining in Big Tech, people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. The European Commission, which launched…

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 areas eventually. Customers can order the latest iPhone 16e on…

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 its enterprise-focused Adobe Experience Platform. This year, the San Jose-based…

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 AI. The company has released the model in open source…

OpenAI released a new application programming interface (API) for the recently introduced o1-pro artificial intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday. The new API will offer developers better responses than any of the existing models by the AI firm by using more compute. However, the company is passing through the higher computational…

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 be more important than others to the top, ditching the…

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, and only had to rely on its internal knowledge database.…

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 Wednesday by the Bureau of Indian Standards in the Tiruvallur…

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 and a team of experts to deliver predictions. It is…

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. The company claimed that these models will enable developers to…

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 making its way to Gemini is Audio Overview, which was…

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 focused on developers and has released as many as five…

Apple released a dedicated Passwords app last year, as part of the iOS 18 software update. Instead of a menu inside the Settings app, users can access their passwords and other details via a standalone app. However, the Passwords app had a serious security flaw that exposed users to potential…

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 stock exchanges sought a clarification on its stock move and…

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 take fiber or mobile connectivity. How do you do 100…

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 Teams subscribers. It is said that at launch, the tool…

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. This is the third time this year that Apple has…

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 custom chipsets, and based on how well the tests go,…

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 giant’s first attempt at a “deep-thinking” AI model, and Baidu…

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. Fraudsters typically target vulnerable users, which include elderly users. The…

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 report by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) independent inquiry…

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 models capable of displaying spatial intelligence and performing actions. The…

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. The high-level discussions took place after Apple removed its most…

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 only on ethically sourced licensed data. The startup says that…

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 policy is designed to prevent Chrome extensions from injecting affiliate…

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 the telecom service providers will make Starlink equipment available in…

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 startup Yaak. Dubbed Learning to Drive (L2D), the dataset was…

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 said these models offer support for more than 35 languages…

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 its customers with high-speed broadband services even in the country’s…

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 that the Flash model is both faster and cheaper than…

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 company is currently rolling out this update to all Google…

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 able to see an artificial intelligence (AI) generated summary of…

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 that its new scam detection feature on Google Messages uses…

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 AI Mode will offer responses on complex topics, and search…

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 dubbing available in select countries and regions. During the pilot…

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. The app will show relevant items when a user is…

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 smaller in size compared to the DeepSeek-R1, the model can…

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 text file. The tool is capable of extracting data from…

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 aimed at the apparel and makeup categories, and the company…

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 generated over 1.67 lakh fake documents, generating more than Rs.…

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 government in a meeting last week to take a less…

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 existing large language models (LLMs) across different languages, especially for…

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 in Barcelona, it is part of the company’s new ThinkSystem…

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. The Redmond-based tech giant’s latest tool for clinicians is based…

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) said that Paytm had made a foreign investment in Singapore…

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 Reddit with his roommate from the University of Virginia. He…

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 that can be used to purchase apps, alongside the Amazon…

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 14 filing said it had about 46.8 million average monthly…

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 firm highlighted that the company scaled up both pre-training and…

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 the Mountain View, California-based search engine giant comes at a…

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 verifying the ages of app users. Apple says it will…

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 methods to conduct cybercrimes in the ongoing year. Despite the…

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 encrypted storage feature for UK users, after reports that it…

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 variants. Developed by the company’s Wan team, these models were…

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 on Tuesday. The merged entity is expected to be run…

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 product, it has opened a sign-up waitlist where those who…

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 expected to increase the security of Google accounts, as malicious…

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 offers textbook rentals, homework help, and tutoring, said in the…

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, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The…

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 shoot up to $30 (roughly Rs. 2,600) for a minute-long…

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 Premium Lite, and is expected to be introduced in four…

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 improves both the pre-training and inference speeds of an AI…

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 Pakistan and Dubai. The ninth edition of the tournament will…

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 700 km of fibre optic cables along all metro lines,…