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Apple Inc. is removing its most advanced encrypted security feature for cloud data in the UK, a stunning development that follows the government ordering the company to build a backdoor for accessing user data. The company said Friday that Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature that adds end-to-end encryption to…
OpenAI began rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Operator in several countries on Friday. The agentic tool was so far available in preview to ChatGPT Pro users residing in the US, after the company introduced it in January. Equipped with a dedicated browser, the Operator is a general-purpose AI…
Microsoft researchers introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday that can generate 3D gameplay environments. Dubbed the World and Human Action Model (WHAM) or Muse, the new AI model was developed by the tech giant’s Research Game Intelligence and Teachable AI Experiences (Tai X) teams in collaboration with…
Google unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) system on Wednesday that can assist scientists in the scientific discovery process. Dubbed AI co-scientist, the tool is powered by the Gemini 2.0 AI model and includes a multi-agent system that specialises in different tasks in the discovery process. The Mountain View-based tech…
Fiverr, the online marketplace for freelancers, launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform on Tuesday. Dubbed Fiverr Go, the new platform was introduced as a space where gig workers can create an AI model in their own resemblance and trained on their data, and earn from the generated outputs. The…
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 able to see a checklist of “next steps” suggestions from…
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 large language models (LLMs) with different parameter sizes and reasoning-based…
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 company did not share any details about what the announcements…
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 of pain and distress in farm animals. This is one…
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 platform will not show the dislike count but it will…
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 and exploratory queries, and the AI responds in a conversational…
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 processor in the next few months. The company’s main reason…
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. The San Jose-based tech giant also redesigned the Firefly web…
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 Reuters on Wednesday. PM Modi will meet US President Donald…
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) EU antitrust fine for giving its own service an unfair…
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 document reviewed by Reuters showed. This is the second time…
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 from the two merging entities, the platform will also host…
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 over-the-top streaming platform that will combine JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar.…
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 View-based tech giant has now bundled it with the Google…
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 let go were notified via email, and the company is…
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 technology. The research found the arts, design, sports, entertainment, and…
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 has abused its power in the niche market for search-engine…
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 to employees losing their jobs starting at 5 a.m. local…
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 who download these files. As per the researchers, threat actors…
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 understand how the San Francisco-based AI firm instructed its o1…
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 that powers Qualcomm’s personal computer chips. Qualcomm said that threat…
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 a human image along with motion signals such as video…
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. The iPhone maker is likely to stop offering encrypted storage…
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 labour dispute in less than six months at the plant…
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 analyse errors. Alongside, the Microsoft-owned platform also made Copilot Edits…
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 send data entered on DeepSeek’s web client to China Mobile.…
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 Payment Interface (UPI) to select users in the country. Recently,…
OpenAI might be planning to move to the hardware space and build artificial intelligence (AI) devices, including humanoid robots. The San Francisco-based AI firm filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week and listed a large number of consumer gadgets that the company might…
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 surveillance as well as technologies that cause overall harm or…
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 level and prevent the AI from generating a harmful response…
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 open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models were also released, with the…
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 the ease of restriction in accessing the authentication service will…
Lawyers for Alphabet’s Google and Fortnite maker Epic Games are set to square off before a US appeals court in California on Monday, as Google tries to undo a jury verdict and a judge’s order forcing it to revamp its app store. Google has argued in court filings to the…
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 letter following the hack. In a statement, WhatsApp said the…
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 manufacturing of solar cells, grid-scale batteries, and other products. The…
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 in street vendors and online and urban workers. Gig workers…
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 of Funds’ will be explored to catalyse the next generation…
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 be able to use a newly announced markup feature that…
Mistral, the Paris-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released the Mistral Small 3 AI model on Thursday. The company, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on Hugging Face as well as several other platforms. Mistral claimed that the latest model was…
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 and it operates differently from traditional VPN traffic patterns. It…
Gemini in Google Sheets is getting a major upgrade that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) tool to analyse and visualise user data. Announced on Wednesday, the new features are currently being rolled out to the Google Workspace subscribers and those subscribed to the Google One AI Premium plan. Interestingly,…
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 the chatbot will also adhere to all the privacy, security,…
Jack Dorsey’s Block introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) agent dubbed Codename Goose on Tuesday. The parent company of mobile payments system Cash App, point-of-sale service Square, and music streaming platform Tidal, has now released an open-source AI agent that can handle software development tasks. The agent comes with compatibility for…
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 across different devices. Meta-owned WhatsApp allows users to synchronise multiple devices…
Microsoft released a preview build of Windows 11 last week and it appears to include a new method to share files from File Explorer to your phone or email. The new feature dubbed “Drag Tray” works like file sharing in smartphones and lets users share files by dragging them to the…
DeepSeek for iOS has overtaken OpenAI’s ChatGPT to top the App Store’s “Top free apps” chart in the US. The eponymous Chinese company released the open-source DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model last week, which outperforms OpenAI’s o1 AI model in several benchmarks. This release has made the company and its…
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 model by the company. The new variants focus on retaining…
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 a paper highlighting that the technology can be used to…
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. The ICR initiative brings together three major telecommunications service providers…
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 Friday, image ads will appear in the Threads home feed,…
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 affairs minister Pralhad Joshi said on X on Thursday that…
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 given by the user. The AI firm said the tool…
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 models to source documents. This is aimed at improving the…
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 AI characters and play a wide range of story-driven games,…
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 model is available to download, and can also be used…
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, the spectrum allocation to be done. Both our stations are…
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 of $500 billion (roughly Rs. 43 lakh crore) to build…
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 thousands of network requests to a website using the ChatGPT…
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 in India and has in recent months clashed with billionaire Ambani’s company over…
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 founding members of Twitter, also revealed a similar vertical video feed…
US search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity to merge with TikTok US a source familiar with the company’s plans told Reuters. TikTok faces a US ban starting on Sunday if it does not cut ties with ByteDance, although President-elect…
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 already covered the best offers on several consumer electronics devices…
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 as smartphones, tablets, wearables, and home appliances at considerably lower…
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 the sale, buyers will be able to find deals on…
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 told you about the top deals on gaming laptops, premium…
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, including gaming laptops, premium wireless headphones and smart TVs. Read…
Disney+ Hotstar has joined hands with Coldplay to broadcast the music band’s concert live to audiences across India. The band is set to perform in Ahmedabad next week, as part of Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour. The live stream will be presented in collaboration with Cisco, the US-based…
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 19. During the ongoing Great Republic Day sale, you can…
Google announced a new partnership with The Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday. The collaboration is focused on the Mountain View-based tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) products and services, which are powered by its Gemini AI models. The company highlighted that with this partnership, the US-based not-for-profit news agency will deliver…
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 select computer peripherals such as keyboards and mice will be available…
Air purifiers are slowly becoming a must-have product in Indian households due to wildfires, extreme weather conditions and bad air quality. If you are planning to get one for your home, this year’s Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 has plenty of options to choose from. Popular brands like Xiaomi, Sharp,…
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 fact checking teams. Threads recently rolled out a new feature…
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 to build personalised AI agents for a wide range of…
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 commenced at 12am IST for Prime members but is now open for all users in India. The first sale event of the year brings discounts on several products, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, home appliances, and other consumer electronics. If you’ve been planning a smartphone…
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 it used pirated e-books and articles to train the older…
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 options include options to add the user’s nickname, profession, as…
Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people’s cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the tracking, paving the way for a possible August trial. Chief Judge Richard Seeborg of the federal court in San Francisco…
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 Rs. 7,061 crore) fine. The Menlo Park, California-based firm said…
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 video processing pipeline, and guardrails that enable the platform to…
Social media company Meta Platforms on Tuesday scrapped its US fact-checking program and reduced curbs on discussions around contentious topics such as immigration and gender identity, bowing to criticism from conservatives as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office for a second time. The move is Meta’s biggest overhaul of…
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 “intention economy” could be formed which could create a marketplace…
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 and innovation to a point beyond human capabilities. While the…
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 and age will also have to be validated and verified…
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 apps, more than two years after the government issued rules…
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 report, Jio is working with multiple companies to co-develop native…
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 identify copyrighted text, images, audio, and videos across multiple sources…
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 restrictions and bans targeting critical minerals and the technology used…
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 in code. Smolagent can be connected with any open-source large…
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 the improved capabilities of the successor to o1, one benchmark…
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 them appear human-like and avoid the telltale signs of a…
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 be seen as a one-stop-shop for quickly looking up information,…
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 scenarios. The company stated that this dataset can help researchers…
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 the fourth nation to achieve this advanced technological capability. Two…
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 firms would not be allowed to hold more than 30…
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 to users in a human-like fashion, is today powering many…
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 the AI hardware space. Notably, an Nvidia executive recently highlighted…
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 and has been trained on high-quality data about the industry.…
Google is reportedly considering 2025 as a critical year and wants to heavily bet on artificial intelligence (AI) and Gemini to disrupt the existing landscape. As per the report, the company CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that the next year will be disruptive and Google will look to scale the…
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 agents will be born in simulation where they will learn…
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 such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with the subscription.…
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 size, the researchers claimed that the LLM is focused towards…
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 text on the website. This text is said to be…
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 that an AI system that can generate at least $100…
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 IST, December 27). The outage also affected the AI firm’s…
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 massive funds. The artificial intelligence (AI) model is said to…
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 price point than their usual market rates. Customers can avail…
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 Highlights from mutual followers for a week after they were…
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 had a collaborative agreement in place, the new partnership expands…
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 November after a successful seed round funding. The company aims…
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 series has two models, the o3 and o3-mini, and is…
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 a conversational interface for searched queries. However, this feature is…
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 efficiency and latency of a large language model (LLM) can…
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 is cutting down the limit exactly in half. The video…
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 spend more time on a problem. The Mountain View-based tech…
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 a court filing late Friday, Google responded to the DOJ’s…
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 phone numbers, via a portal that was discovered by a…
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. The researchers behind the project claimed that Genesis excels at…
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 developers will not be able to trust the outcomes of…
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. The entire McDonald’s India West and South divisions were said…
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 just days after the Mountain View-based tech giant released the…
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 approval in India to provide satellite broadband services and the…
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 top of this, Alexa catered to the musical tastes of…
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 of tin, tantalum and tungsten, so-called 3T minerals used in…
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 about topics with the same context. With the ability to…
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 its first guidelines for the Online Safety Act, a law…
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 some of its Apple Intelligence features to the cloud, but…
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 2.0 model is available in beta to select developers and…
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 deal last year to provide Amazon employees with Microsoft 365,…
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 the company’s fastest large language model developed. Further, in several…
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 the introduction of the Phi-3.5 series of AI models. The…
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 the tool will be open-sourced, however, it has yet to…
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 been discussing with the comparison sites, hotels, airlines, restaurants and…
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 models, it can now converse in multiple languages, access multiple…
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 the web, the text field has been redesigned, and certain…
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 apps, fixing bugs, code debugging, and more. The AI firm…
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 hired several top executives from the startup Adept AI Labs…
Amazon India is reportedly piloting a quick commerce service in select cities 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, in November, Amazon India was reported…
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 broader crypto ecosystem is experiencing a diversification of capital flows…
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 probe. In a filing on December 3, reviewed by Reuters…
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, with three of them capable of only text generation. Apart…
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, the Mountain View-based company has introduced it on Vertex AI…
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 be faster in response times and more concise in its…
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 the Justice Department and opponents of the Chinese-owned app and…
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 see, understand, and interact with visual input such as images…
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 to details shared by a security firm, criminals are using…
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 single image prompt. Calling Genie 2 an AI “world model”,…
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 its capabilities in making medium-range weather forecasts. The company claims…
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 no decision on when or how these ads could be…
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 within the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. The company claimed that the…
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 Bhakta, who works in digital advertising for Apple, claims the…
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 other AI-based applications. Instead of offering a large range of…
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 images without impacting the visual quality of the protected image.…
Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform, introduced a new vision-focused AI model last week. Dubbed SmolVLM (where VLM is an acronym for vision language model), it is a compact-sized model that is focused on efficiency. The company claims that due to its smaller size and…
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 law forces tech giants from Instagram and Facebook owner Meta…
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, among other things, requires Google to sell two of its…
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 and allows users to quickly share, view, and follow Channels…
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 has already been hit with at least two penalties for…
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 iOS and Android will be able to choose a sticker…
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 logical reasoning-related benchmarks. The new AI model is available to…
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 with how the user generally writes and prefers to read.…
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 EST (10:11 am IST, November 28) and marked the Falcon 9’s…
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 severe wildfires in recent years, according to several reports. The…
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 detected 15 apps that are infected by ‘SpyLoan’, a potentially…
Amazon is reportedly gearing up to enter the quick commerce sector in India. Codenamed ‘Tez’, Amazon India’s instant delivery service will be launched by the end of the year or early 2025, according to a report. If the company enters the quick commerce space, it could compete with smaller firms like…
Nvidia introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Monday that can generate a variety of audio and mix different types of sounds. The tech giant calls the foundation model Fugatto, which is short for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1. While audio-focused AI platforms such as Beatoven and Suno…
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 estimated velocity of two million mph (3.2 million kmph). The…
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. The company says the update improves the creative writing ability…
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 has added an extension to this feature dubbed AI chat…
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 presented by the Department of Justice are part of a…
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 chatbot Claude, but it remains a minority investor, the startup…
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 a series of restrictions on the sale of U.S. technology…
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 several website and app developers. Separately, the AI firm is…
Threads — the microblogging platform from Meta that rivals X (formerly Twitter) — has announced changes to its algorithm that will result in users seeing more posts from people that they follow. As of Thursday, Threads will show users fewer recommended posts, or those published by accounts that they don’t…
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 several benchmarks. Notably, the AI model is available to test…
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 (LLM) was introduced during the keynote address of the Samsung…
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 feature were said to be found within the latest version…
Alphabet’s Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,68,762 crore) if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies. The department will ask the judge, who ruled…
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, and unauthorised vendor encroachment. The company says that it is…
Perplexity added two new features to its platform on Monday to offer users a new shopping experience. The artificial intelligence (AI) search engine is rolling out ‘Buy with Pro’ and ‘Snap to Shop’ features for paying subscribers. With the former, Perplexity Pro users can now purchase products directly on the…
Epoch AI, a California-based research institute launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) benchmark last week. Dubbed FrontierMath, the new AI benchmark tests large language models (LLMs) on their capability of reseasoning and mathematical problem-solving. The AI firm claims that existing math benchmarks are not very useful due to factors like…
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 that the consumer protection agency doesn’t have authority to modify…
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 Reinhard, the company’s president of advertising, said in a blog…
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 boost its revenue. The AI firm says that ads will…
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 Calendar-based queries to users. The feature is available to those…
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 products on Google Maps, while checking availability before making their…
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 violations. In a groundbreaking decision, the European Commission ordered Meta…
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 called Shielded Email is currently in development, and it could…
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 a joint venture. The joint venture was formed after the…
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 multi-step actions on computers. The AI agents are said to…
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 offering researchers and partners its datasets to better understand its…
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 these changes in response to demands from EU regulators. Over…
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 for years and its plans got a major boost last…
Baidu, the Chinese tech giant, reportedly announced two new artificial intelligence (AI) platforms on Tuesday. As per a report, the company introduced a text-to-image generator dubbed I-RAG and a no-code platform called Miaoda. The new AI platforms were said to be showcased at the Baidu World Conference, the company’s annual…
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 Science Park in Seoul during a meeting of more than…
OpenAI is rumoured to be working on the next generation of its flagship large language model (LLM), however, it might have hit a bottleneck. As per a report, the San Francisco-based AI firm is struggling to considerably upgrade the capabilities of its next AI model, internally codenamed Orion. The model…