Category: Internet

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 computers and mobile phones. But […]

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 Indian users by playing Bollywood […]

OpenAI on Monday announced the rollout of its search engine-based feature to all registered users. Dubbed ChatGPT Search, the feature enables users to find responses to their queries by providing contextual information available on the web, sourced from websites and blogs. The feature was first announced in July when a prototype called SearchGPT was released […]

Meta Platforms has agreed to a AUD 50 million settlement ($31.85 million or roughly Rs. 270 crore), Australia’s privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, closing long-drawn, expensive legal proceedings for the Facebook parent over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner had alleged that personal information of some users was being disclosed […]

TikTok made a last-ditch effort on Monday to continue operating in the United States, asking the Supreme Court to temporarily block a law intended to force ByteDance, its China-based parent company, to divest the short-video app by January 19 or face a ban. TikTok and ByteDance filed an emergency request to the justices for an […]

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 passed in 2023 to govern […]

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 add files in Projects, 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 publish the code. Interestingly, the […]

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 tech giant claims that the […]

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 benchmarks, the foundation model also […]

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 platforms, and has improved […]

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 retailers for more than a […]

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 testers, whereas the Gemini 2.0 […]

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 it has yet to utilise […]

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 claimed that Devin was able […]

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 icons have been repositioned. On […]

OpenAI released the Canvas tool out of preview on Tuesday, day four of its 12-day shipping schedule. Canvas was first announced in October as a sandbox-styled pop-up window that allows users to make inline edits, formatting, and other changes to text and code. Users can both make edits themselves or highlight a particular section and […]

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 to launch its quick commerce […]

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 and will be seeding the […]

Vipps has announced the launch of support for contactless payments using an iPhone in Norway, making the Norwegian payments firm the first third-party app in the world to offer tap-to-pay support on iOS, just like Apple Pay. Previously, only the company’s Apple Pay and Wallet apps were allowed to access the NFC chip for contactless […]

Google’s Year in Search 2024 details are out, and the company has revealed some of the most notable trends with regard to searches made by users in India this year. Over the past few months, people searched for movies like Stree 2 and Kalki 2898 AD, while cricket fans looked up the Indian Premier League […]

OpenAI finally launched Sora, its artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model, on Monday. In February, the company previewed Sora to select individuals, and now, it released a different variant of the model dubbed Sora Turbo. Sora can generate videos in 1080p resolution which can be as long as 20 seconds. The AI model has been […]

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 and not released publicly, the […]

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 a devastating blow to TikTok […]

Hackers are reportedly using a phishing campaign that tells users that their Hackers guide users through the process of sharing their logins and banking informationPhoto Credit: Bitdefender In order to target users with the Netflix suspended account scam, hackers send users an SMS that tells users that there was an issue processing their payment, instructing […]

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 and other visual assets. It […]

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 thinking. The OpenAI o1 AI […]

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”, the company stated that it […]

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 that the system was able […]

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 for its enterprise clients. Notably, […]