Category: Internet

Nvidia announced the release of Project G-Assist on Tuesday. The new feature is an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that runs locally on GeForce RTX GPU-powered desktop PCs. The current release is an experimental version of the chatbot, and it does not support RTX GPU-powered laptops. Focused on gaming, the AI assistant can control a wide […]

Microsoft introduced two new artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its 365 Copilot suite of features on Tuesday. These new AI agents are aimed at its enterprise users and can perform complex research and data analysis-related tasks. Dubbed Researcher and Analyst, these are built on OpenAI’s models with fine-tuning done by the Redmond-based tech giant. Alongside, […]

Alibaba’s Qwen team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Qwen 2.5 family on Wednesday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5 Omni, it is a flagship-tier end-to-end multimodal model. The company claims it can process a wide range of inputs, including text, images, audio, and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech responses. It is […]

OpenAI added image generation capability to its existing GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based AI firm released the 4o Image Generation model and integrated it into the GPT-4o. The company said that the focus of this image generator is on usefulness instead of decorativeness. It comes with accurate text rendering, high […]

Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, introduced a new safety feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Parental Insights, the feature is aimed at the platform’s users under the age of 18. These users can add a parent or guardian’s email address, and the platform will send them a summary of their teen’s activity. The new […]

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

Alibaba’s Qwen team released another artificial intelligence (AI) model to the Qwen 2.5 family on Monday. Dubbed Qwen 2.5-VL-32B Instruct, the AI model comes with improved performance and optimisations. It is a vision language model with 32 billion parameters, and joins the three billion, seven billion, and 72 billion parameter size models in the Qwen […]

Google released the successor to its Gemini 2.0 series artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Dubbed Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, it is the first model the company is releasing from the 2.5 family. The Mountain View-based tech giant says that this series of models will have “thinking” or reasoning capability built directly into the models. […]

Swiggy Instamart has announced a fast delivery service for smartphones in India. The quick delivery platform will sell smartphones from brands like Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, and Redmi to customers in select locations. The service will likely be rolled out to more areas eventually. Customers can order the latest iPhone 16e on the instant delivery platform for […]

Nvidia released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model last week that can be used to train robots on simulation. Dubbed Cosmos-Transfer 1, the new world generation large language model (LLM) is aimed at AI-powered robotics hardware, also known as physical AI. The company has released the model in open source with a permissive licence, and […]

Adobe previewed several new enterprise-focused artificial intelligence (AI) tools last week at its Adobe Summit 2025 conference in Las Vegas. The showcases were part of the company’s “Adobe Sneaks” programme, where it shares potential tools that can become part of its enterprise-focused Adobe Experience Platform. This year, the San Jose-based tech giant unveiled several data […]

Google Vids, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) video creation tool, is getting a new feature. Announced last week, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now adding AI-powered voiceovers to its ‘Help me create’ feature. With this, the tool will automatically add voiceovers for each scene generated by it. Users will have granular control over the […]

OpenAI and Meta are reportedly discussing an artificial intelligence (AI) partnership with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm and the Menlo Park-based social media giant are aiming to expand their AI footprint in the country by using the Mukesh Ambani-led company’s large consumer and enterprise-focused base. The ChatGPT-maker […]

Aardvark Weather, an artificial intelligence (AI) system for weather forecasting that offers several advantages over traditional methods, was unveiled on Thursday. The fully AI-driven system is said to be capable enough to replace the existing systems that require custom supercomputers and a team of experts to deliver predictions. It is also said to improve prediction […]

OpenAI, on Thursday, introduced new audio models in application programming interface (API) that offer improved performance in accuracy and reliability. The San Francisco-based AI firm released three new artificial intelligence (AI) models for both speech-to-text transcription and text-to-speech (TTS) functions. The company claimed that these models will enable developers to build applications with agentic workflows. […]

Retail giants Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart violated Indian quality control rules by stocking products that did not have the required standards certificate, India’s top government-run product certification agency said on Thursday. Raids on warehouses operated by both firms, conducted on Wednesday by the Bureau of Indian Standards in the Tiruvallur district of the southern Indian […]

Anthropic announced the rollout of the web search functionality for Claude on Thursday. The San Francisco-based AI firm released the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in March 2023, but so far, it could not access the Internet to find real-time information, and only had to rely on its internal knowledge database. This is now set to […]

Google began rolling out a new improvement for Gmail on Thursday that will help users find relevant emails easier than before. Dubbed ‘Most Relevant’, this new search result sorting feature uses artificial intelligence (AI) to bring those emails that might be more important than others to the top, ditching the traditional chronological order. This new […]

xAI, the Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence (AI) firm behind Grok, released a new application programming interface (API) on Wednesday. The new API is unique as it is the first developer tool that supports image generation. The company has lately been focused on developers and has released as many as five APIs since the first one […]

Gemini is getting two new artificial intelligence (AI) features, Google announced on Tuesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant is adding Canvas, an interactive space that lets human users and AI collaborate on projects involving documents and coding-related tasks. Another feature making its way to Gemini is Audio Overview, which was previously exclusive to NotebookLM, and […]

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

Alphabet’s Google was warned to step in line with the European Union’s Big Tech rules or risk hefty fines as part of a two-pronged escalation against Silicon Valley that risks further inflaming tensions with US President Donald Trump. The European Commission chastised Google for allegedly breaching the bloc’s landmark Digital Markets Act by favoring in-house services across […]

Nvidia released a new family of artificial intelligence (AI) models on Tuesday at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025. Dubbed Llama Nemotron, these are the company’s latest reasoning-focused large language models (LLMs) that are designed to offer a foundation for agentic AI workflows. The Santa Clara-based tech giant said these models were aimed at developers […]

Vodafone Idea is in exploratory talks with various satellite communication providers, including Starlink, the company said on Wednesday, a week after the Indian telecom firm’s rivals signed deals with Elon Musk’s company. The mobile operator made the disclosure after Indian stock exchanges sought a clarification on its stock move and a report by local financial […]

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

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs on Tuesday announced a partnership with tech company Meta to launch a consumer awareness campaign called “Be an Empowered Consumer” aimed at enhancing digital literacy and protection for online consumers. The initiative, unveiled by Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan, will operate under […]

Alphabet will buy fast-growing startup Wiz for about $32 billion (roughly Rs. 2,76,784 crore) in its biggest deal ever, the Google parent said Tuesday, as it doubles down on cybersecurity to sharpen its edge in the cloud-computing race against Amazon.com and Microsoft. The blockbuster deal will make Wiz part of Google’s cloud unit and strengthen the company’s efforts in cybersecurity solutions that companies use to remove critical risks. Its high price and unusually big breakup fee suggest Alphabet is comfortable […]

OpenAI will reportedly soon begin the testing phase of a new ChatGPT feature that will allow the chatbot to connect with other platforms. As per the report, the feature is dubbed ChatGPT Connectors and will be available to the platform’s Teams subscribers. It is said that at launch, the tool will be able to connect […]

India needs satellite internet especially in its rural areas, its telecom minister said, a positive regulatory sign for Elon Musk’s Starlink which has aspirations to operate in the world’s most-populous nation. “There are many remote corners of the country where you cannot take fiber or mobile connectivity. How do you do 100 percent saturation if you don’t […]

Mistral Small 3.1 artificial intelligence (AI) model was released on Monday. The Paris-based AI firm introduced two open-source variants of the latest model — chat and instruct. The model comes as the successor to the Mistral Small 3, and offers improved text performance and multimodal understanding. The company claims that it outperforms comparable models such […]