Category: Internet

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 systems and benefit from the […]

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 be shown in a format […]

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 the coming weeks, people in […]

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 month when New Delhi said […]

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 data contamination and AI models […]

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 event. Additionally, the company also […]

Call Links on Signal work on iOS, Android, and the Signal Desktop appPhoto Credit: Signal Previously, users had to create a group chat before initiating a call, which involved added each member manually. Now, users can send the Call Link to multiple people in their contact list — Signal currently limits group calls to 50 […]

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 100 South Korean industry, academia, […]

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 is said to be outperforming […]

The most anticipated release this week is Varun Dhawan and Samantha Prabhu’s Citadel: Honey Bunny – the Indian leg of the international spy universe franchise. The high-octane drama gives plenty of action sequences, thrill and chases. The next big release is Anupam Kher’s inspiring drama Vijay 69 on Netflix, which deals with the often-overlooked challenges […]

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance pressed India’s telecom watchdog on Friday to reconsider its plan not to auction satellite spectrum but to simply allocate it, in a fresh clash with Elon Musk’s Starlink. India’s telecoms Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia last month said the government would allocate spectrum administratively in line with global trends but a final notification on […]

An investigation by India’s antitrust body found food delivery giants Zomato and SoftBank-backed Swiggy breached competition laws, with their business practices favouring select restaurants listed on their platforms, documents show. Zomato entered into “exclusivity contracts” with partners in return for lower commissions, while Swiggy guaranteed business growth to certain players if they listed exclusively on […]

Shares of Qualcomm and Arm Holdings, two chip companies heavily dependent on the smartphone market, gained on Thursday after delivering earnings reports that signaled a tentative comeback in demand.  Both companies pointed in their earnings released Wednesday to a resurgence in demand for high-end model devices, though they stopped short of signaling that the broader […]

Australia will push ahead with a ban on social media for people aged under 16 despite calls by Meta Platforms for it to consider shifting responsibility for policing usage to app store operators such as Google and Apple. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Friday that all state and territory leaders had signed on to the […]

Canada on Wednesday ordered Chinese-owned TikTok’s business in the country to be dissolved, citing national-security risks, but added the government was not blocking Canadians’ access to the short-video app or their ability to create content. “The government is taking action to address the specific national security risks related to ByteDance‘s operations in Canada through the […]

The Australian government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, in what it calls a world-leading package of measures that could become law late next year. Australia is trialing an age-verification system to assist in blocking children from accessing social media platforms, as […]

India’s financial crime agency has raided offices of some sellers operating Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart in an investigation into alleged violations of foreign investment rules, two government sources said on Thursday. The searches come weeks after Reuters reported India’s antitrust body had found the two companies and their sellers violated competition laws by giving preference […]

The Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT) announced a new rule for in-flight and maritime Wi-Fi connectivity recently. With the new rules, the government department has specified the criteria under which travellers will be allowed to access Internet connectivity. It is believed that with this rule change, Indian airlines such as Air India, Indigo, and SpiceJet […]

Samsung shared its vision about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and how the company wants to implement new features for users on Wednesday. The company is planning to introduce advanced features via Galaxy AI, its suite of AI features. Additionally, the South Korea-based tech giant highlighted the need to shift to personalised AI services […]

ToxicPanda — a banking trojan that is believed to be in an early stage of development — has been detected by security researchers in Europe and Latin America. It is believed to be derived from another banking trojan detected in 2023, and is used to remotely take over accounts on compromised phones, allowing attackers to […]

xAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm founded by Elon Musk, rolled out an API for Grok on Monday. While the API was launched last month, the company has now offered several incentives for developers to try out the API and build apps and software using it. The most notable incentive on offer is free credits […]

Microsoft introduced a new multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) system dubbed Magnetic-One on Monday. The tech giant called it a high-performing system that can activate multiple AI agents to complete complex tasks via web browsers on locally on a device. It is based on a new framework that allows an AI model to access multiple modalities […]

India’s antitrust body has recalled its investigation report into competition law breaches by e-commerce giant Walmart’s Flipkart, a document shows, the second such move after a report on Apple was revoked in August. China’s Xiaomi had complained to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that the report – which found Flipkart, some of its sellers, […]

Wikipedia was issued a notice by the government over concerns of “bias and inaccuracy” on the website, according to a report. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting contacted the free encyclopaedia, questioning why the platform should be treated as an intermediary and not as a publisher. The government notice comes amid the ongoing case in […]

Meta announced on Monday that its Llama artificial intelligence (AI) models will be available to US government agencies and contractors. The announcement came just days after reports claimed that the company’s open-source AI models were being used by researchers in China for military use. The social media giant highlighted that it will also make its Llama […]

Amazon Prime Video is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users easily check the recap of the show they are watching without any spoilers. Announced on Monday, the feature is called X-Ray Recaps and joins the existing X-Ray experience that allows viewers to get trivia about shows and movies as well […]

Oppo and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) signed a renewal agreement on Friday to further their collaboration and make technological breakthroughs. The Chinese smartphone brand has been partnering with PolyU for the last three years to develop new technologies that have been adopted by the company. Now, with the latest agreement, Oppo will provide the […]

EU antitrust regulators will assess whether Apple’s operating system for iPads comply with the bloc’s landmark rules aimed at reining in the power of Big Tech, the European Commission said on Monday. The move by the EU executive, which acts as the bloc’s competition enforcer, followed Apple’s publication of a compliance report for its iPad […]

The US Supreme Court is set to consider bids by two tech giants – Meta’s Facebook and Nvidia – to fend off federal securities fraud lawsuits in separate cases that could make it harder for private litigants to hold companies to account. After a trio of Supreme Court rulings in June that weakened federal regulators […]

Runway, the video-focused artificial intelligence (AI) firm released a new feature on Friday. The feature, dubbed advanced camera control, will allow users to get granular control over the camera movement in an AI-generated video. The capability is being added to the AI firm’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo model, which was released in June. The feature supports […]