Category: Internet

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 answer more complex user queries. […]

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 said that the library will […]

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. The company is pitching the […]

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 charge higher prices for the […]

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 voice mode in their chatbots, […]

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 tech giant first introduced Veo […]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off popular photo-sharing app Instagram in 2018 over concerns about the growing risk of antitrust scrutiny, according to a document shown at a trial in Washington on Tuesday. The document was shown during Zuckerberg’s second day of testimony at the high-stakes trial, in which the US Federal Trade Commission […]

OpenAI is reportedly working on a social media platform. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is planning to integrate AI capabilities into the social app, although details around the integration are currently not known. The platform is said to compete with the likes of Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as […]

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 initiatives including delegated accounts for […]

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 and GPT-4o mini across several […]

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand on Monday at a high-stakes trial in Washington over US antitrust enforcers’ claims that the company spent billions of dollars to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp to fend off Facebook competitors. The FTC is seeking to force Meta to restructure or sell Instagram and WhatsApp, testing President Donald […]

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 the latest fix prevents sites […]

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 — the compute used by […]

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 for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Acrobat, […]

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 the new feature will enable […]

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 the X (formerly known as […]

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 make the AI model available […]

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 Canva Create event in Los […]

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 acquisitions were illegal, should never […]

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 to submit photocopies of a […]

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 the free users will continue […]

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 designed for the iPad. Instagram […]

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 respond to it. The Seattle-based […]

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 project. The new addition to […]

Google is expanding the supported language in Gmail’s Gemini-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ‘Help me write. ‘ Announced on Monday, the Mountain View-based tech giant will now help users with different native languages access the feature to write and refine email drafts with the help of AI. The tool was first unveiled at Google I/O […]

Amazon introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model that can create up to two minutes of video content with a single prompt. Announced on Monday, the Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 AI model is the successor to the Nova Reel model, which was introduced last year at its re:Invent event. While the latest video […]

An EU decision on whether Apple and Meta have breached landmark tech rules aimed at curbing their market power will be issued in the coming weeks, antitrust chief Teresa Ribera told European Parliament lawmakers on Tuesday. The European Commission has been investigating Apple and Meta Platforms since March last year for potential breaches of the […]

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. At the moment, it is […]

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. Apple and Britain’s Home Office, its […]

Google moved the Gemini 2.5 Pro artificial intelligence (AI) model to public preview last week. The Mountain View-based tech giant released its latest flagship tier AI model last month as an experimental preview with limited rate limits. But now, those using the Gemini application programming interface (API) or accessing the model via the Google AI […]