Category: Internet

Meta is reportedly planning to acquire the Palo Alto, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup PlayAI. As per the report, the acquisition is aimed at bolstering its AI division to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Google. The Menlo Park-based social media giant has been aggressively pushing out new AI models and AI features for […]

Flipkart India, the e-commerce giant owned by Walmart, is using social videos and livestreams to convert young consumers spending a lot of time on their smartphones into loyal customers. Using videos to showcase and sell products is one of the leading new forays at Flipkart, Neha Agrahari, a senior director at the retailer, said in an […]

Apple on Thursday changed rules and fees in its App Store in the European Union after the bloc’s antitrust regulators ordered it to remove commercial barriers to sending customers outside the store. Apple said developers will pay a 20 percent processing fee for purchases made via the App Store, though the fees could go as […]

Anthropic released a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Claude on Wednesday. This new feature will allow users to create interactive AI-powered applications using the chatbot. Once created, users can also host and share these apps on the platform to let others use them. Interestingly, when others use these apps, the maker will not have […]

Amazon’s Ring, a smart security device brand, introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature on Wednesday. Dubbed Video Descriptions, the feature uses generative AI to send motion activity-based text notifications to users who have installed the company’s video cameras and video doorbells. The brand also highlighted that it is now trying to incorporate more AI […]

The Gmail inbox is nothing short of a digital black hole which contains an endless scroll of unread messages, many of which are far from essential. Junk mails, long-forgotten subscriptions, and promotional messages can turn your inbox from a well-managed space to a chaotic mess. But unlike the black holes you often hear Neil deGrasse […]

SonicWall has issued an advisory that informs customers that a malicious version of its SonicWall SSL VPN NetExtender app is being used to steal VPN configuration and credentials. The company warns that threat actors have modified two files used by the NetExtender VPN application, which is used by several organisations to allow remote users to securely […]

Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by xAI, might soon get a file editor feature. A tipster claimed that the Elon Musk-owned AI firm is working on this feature, which might support different file types, including spreadsheets. It is said to enable users to chat with Grok and ask it to make changes to […]

Britain’s competition regulator said it may force Google to rank businesses more fairly in search results and offer alternative services to consumers, marking the first use of expanded powers to oversee the world’s biggest tech companies. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is proposing to designate Alphabet-owned Google with “strategic market status”, it said on […]

ChatGPT is a generalistics large language model (LLM), which means that it can be used for a wide range of tasks, and can be helpful to a large demographic of users. While many believe it to be a useful tool for professionals, students can also use it to better learn about complex topics and find […]

Amazon Prime Day 2025 sale will kick off next month, the e-commerce giant announced on Tuesday. The upcoming annual sale event will bring discounts on several smartphones, laptops, tablets, wireless headphones, smart TVs, and other home appliances. Customers can also take advantage of exclusive bank offers during the upcoming Amazon Prime Day 2025 sale, as […]

Australia’s online regulator called on the government to reverse its controversial exemption for YouTube from a social media ban for under-16s, an unusual intervention that echoes similar pleas from rival platforms including Facebook and TikTok. The country’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said Tuesday she wanted the legislation to be “fair, consistent, and proportional.” Speaking on national […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive’s hardware company is reportedly not building a wearable device. On Sunday, the company removed its “io” branding from everywhere due to a trademark lawsuit. Now, as per the report, court filings for the suit have revealed that the artificial intelligence (AI) device in the works […]

Amazon India on Sunday announced the launch of its diagnostics services in the country. The new Amazon Diagnostics service from the e-commerce giant facilitates the pickup of test samples from a customer’s doorstep. Users can book lab tests, schedule and track appointments, and access digital reports via the Amazon app. The service, which was developed in partnership […]

BSNL recently soft launched its Q-5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service in select Indian circles. Aimed at businesses and enterprises, the SIM-free wireless internet lease line has been introduced with plans starting at Rs. 999 per month. With this plan, the state-owned telecom operator will offer 100Mbps speed. Further, it will offer another higher-priced plan […]

Google’s fight against a record EUR 4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine suffered a blow after an adviser to the bloc’s top court said regulators were right to punish the US giant for abusing Android’s market power.   Advocate General Juliane Kokott of the EU’s Court of Justice said in a non-binding opinion […]

US President Donald Trump on Thursday extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the US assets of short-video app TikTok despite a law that mandated a sale or shutdown without significant progress. Trump signed an executive order pushing back Thursday’s deadline for 90 days, a step he had previously signaled. The […]

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a “mysterious database” comprising a staggering record of 16 billion login credentials, in what is being called one of the biggest data breaches in history. According to a report, it impacted some of the world’s biggest technology companies including Apple, Facebook, and Google, along with government portals from multiple countries. The […]

YouTube will soon integrate Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI)-powered video generation model, CEO Neal Mohan announced at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2025 on Wednesday. It will support improved video generation capabilities powered by the Mountain View-based tech giant’s recently released Veo 3 video generation AI model. It is said to enable users […]

Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with US-based satellite technology company AST SpaceMobile to introduce direct-to-device satellite broadband connectivity in India. With this move, the telecommunications provider aims to expand broadband-based cellular access at locations with challenging terrains where deployment of terrestrial infrastructure is difficult. Leveraging the satellite technology company’s SpaceMobile Satellite […]

Google on Wednesday rolled out Search Live in AI Mode as part of a small experiment in the US. This feature lets users have back-and-forth conversations in real-time in Search, similar to Gemini Live but in the Google app. It was first announced during the Mountain View-based tech giant’s I/O 2025 keynote session in May […]

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced the name of its 5G service via its social media handle on Wednesday. It is dubbed Q-5G, short for Quantum 5G. This move comes nearly a week after the state-owned telecommunications provider invited public input for naming its 5G services before it commences trial. Further, BSNL has also launched […]

Canva announced the addition of a new artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-video tool to its platform on Wednesday. The new feature, dubbed Create a Video Clip, is part of the company’s Canva AI suite. The video generation capability is powered by Google’s Veo 3 AI model. Since the feature is backed by the Mountain View-based tech […]

Google made the Gemini 2.5 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models generally available on Tuesday. With this, users of the chatbot can now access the stable versions of the Gemini 2.5 Pro and the Gemini 2.5 Flash models. Interestingly, the Mountain View-based tech giant has also made the Pro model available to the users on […]

OpenAI quietly improved ChatGPT’s web search-based responses last week. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm has improved both the quality of responses and its instruction-following ability. Additionally, the web search tool can also handle longer, and more complex queries. Another interesting improvement comes to image-based web searches. OpenAI says the chatbot can now take […]

ElevenLabs announced the language expansion of its latest artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-speech (TTS) model last week. With this expansion, the AI model now supports 41 new languages, taking the total count to 70 supported languages. The New York City-based AI startup said that with this expansion, the model is now accessible to 90 percent of […]

Justice Department antitrust enforcers are reviewing whether Google’s planned $32 billion (roughly Rs. 2,75,462 crore) acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the marketplace, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Officials in the department’s antitrust division, who are probing the deal, have been examining the contours of the Alphabet unit’s plan following […]

Meta Platforms said on Monday that Arun Srinivas has been appointed as the managing director and head for Meta in India, effective July 1. Srinivas currently heads the tech giant’s India ads business, according to his LinkedIn profile. His appointment comes at a time when Meta and Indian authorities have locked horns regarding allegations of […]

Alphabet’s Google said on Thursday it had resolved a brief global service disruption on its platforms that affected multiple services such as music streamer Spotify and instant messaging provider Discord.”The issue with Google Chat, Google Meet, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Cloud Search, Google Tasks, Google Voice has been resolved for all affected users,” […]

OpenAI’s o3, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, and DeepSeek-R1 were among the 18 artificial intelligence (AI) models that played the popular strategy game Diplomacy. An AI researcher modified the game so that popular large language models (LLMs) can play the game that requires high-level reasoning and multi-step thinking, alongside other social skills. […]