Category: Internet

Elon Musk’s X social media platform is unlikely to be subjected to landmark EU tech rules which aim to rein in the power of Big Tech because it does not meet the rules’ gatekeeper criteria, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. The European Commission in May opened an investigation into […]

For every actor, there is a role that unlocks their untapped talent and pivots their career. Vikrant Massey’s latest outing in Netflix’s Sector 36 as a psychopathic killer might just be it. While Massey has done his fair share of negative roles in the past, his on-screen persona this time is enough to send a […]

Adobe Express, the content creation platform, was expanded in eight Indian languages on Friday. The company said this move will empower more native language speakers in the content creation process. The platform also offers generative artificial intelligence (AI) features, which users can take advantage of. Notably, the language expansion is available across the desktop, Android, […]

OpenAI released the new o1 series artificial intelligence (AI) models on Thursday. The AI firm is calling these reasoning models for their advanced capabilities in solving mathematical and complex reasoning-based problems. There are two models — o1, which is available in preview, and the o1-mini. The company said these AI models were trained to spend […]

An Indian antitrust investigation has found US e-commerce giant Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart violated local competition laws by giving preference to select sellers on their shopping websites, according to reports seen by Reuters. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in 2020 ordered an investigation into Amazon and Flipkart for allegedly promoting certain sellers with which […]

Google NotebookLM is receiving a new feature that can turn your documents into engaging podcast-like audio discussions. The Mountain View-based tech giant announced the new feature dubbed Audio Overviews on Wednesday. The feature is available to all users who consent to try out NotebookLM which is still available as an experimental tool. The feature is […]

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2024 sale has been announced by the online e-commerce platform ahead of the upcoming festival season. While the exact dates are yet to be revealed, Amazon is teasing some early deals and discounts on its website. Buyers will be able to take advantage of up to 45 percent discount on laptops, […]

Mistral released its first multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Pixtral 12B on Wednesday. The AI firm, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on GitHub and Hugging Face for users to download and test out. Notably, despite being multimodal, Pixtral can only process images using […]

This week’s OTT platter brings in a diverse array of picks from across genres that’ll cater to your appetite for entertainment. For thrills, we have Netflix’s Sector 36, which recreates the horrific serial killing case of Noida (2006), and Zee5’s Berlin, in which a sign language expert is roped into the investigation against a deaf-and-mute […]

Adobe Firefly Video Model, the upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of video generation, was previewed by the company on Wednesday. The software giant first announced the under-development video model in April and has now shared more details about it. The large language model (LLM) will be able to generate videos from text prompts as […]

Google Search results will now include the historical context of links, providing information about recently updated web pages, the company announced on Wednesday. This initiative is part of a collaboration between the Mountain View-based tech giant and the Internet Archive – a US-based non-profit digital library that archives billions of web pages for future reference. […]

Microsoft-backed G42, an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence (AI) technology company, unveiled a Hindi large language model (LLM) for India on Tuesday. Dubbed Nanda, the AI model is said to be trained with large volumes of datasets in both Hindi, English, and Hinglish languages. The generative AI model was developed in collaboration with MBZUAI and Cerebras […]

OpenAI Strawberry, a rumoured new artificial intelligence (AI) model with enhanced reasoning and mathematical problem-solving capabilities, will reportedly be released by the end of September. As per a report, the new AI model will be launched within ChatGPT as well as be included in a separate offering. Earlier this year, the AI firm was rumoured […]

Apple lost a long-running court battle with the European Union on Tuesday, resulting in the company being forced to pay EUR 13 billion ($14.4 billion or roughly Rs. 1,20,903 crore) in back taxes to Ireland, as part of a wider crackdown on so-called “sweetheart deals”. What Happened In 2016, the European Commission’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager […]

Flipkart’s Big Billion Days Sale 2024 could kick start in the last week of September. The yearly sale will bring attractive discounts on a range of products ahead of the festival season in India. A teaser on Flipkart reveals that the e-commerce giant has joined hands with HDFC this year to provide additional offers on payments […]

Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday lost its fight against a EUR 2.42 billion ($2.7 billion or roughly Rs. 22,673 crore) fine levied by EU antitrust regulators seven years ago, one of a trio of hefty fines meted out to the company for various anti-competitive practices. The European Commission fined the world’s most popular internet search engine […]

Australia plans to set a minimum age limit for children to use social media citing concerns about mental and physical health, sparking a backlash from digital rights advocates who warn the measure could drive dangerous online activity underground. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his centre-left government would run an age verification trial before introducing age […]

Google One Lite plan, a new subscription tier for the Mountain View-based tech giant’s cloud storage bundle service, has been spotted for some users in India. The new subscription tier is priced cheaper than the Basic tier, which was previously the cheapest entry to the Google One subscription. The subscription plan offers just free cloud […]

Alphabet’s Google will face US antitrust prosecutors on Monday in Alexandria, Virginia, where the Justice Department will seek to show the company stifled competition in online advertising technology, in the search giant’s second recent showdown with the Justice Department. Prosecutors say Google has largely dominated the technological infrastructure that funds the flow of news and information […]

Amazon Electronics Festive Sale 2024 kicked off in India for all users on September 6 and will last till September 10. A wide range of electronic items are being offered at lowered effective price rates, which include lucrative discounts and other offers. Customers can get personal gadgets like smartphones, smartwatches, and more alongside large home […]

NASA is offering digital content creators the chance to witness the launch of the Europa Clipper spacecraft, a mission aimed at exploring Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa. This mission will help scientists determine if the moon has the potential to support life, with research suggesting an ocean beneath its frozen crust. The spacecraft, equipped with nine […]

Meta announced a partnership with the government of Telangana on Thursday. With this collaboration, the tech giant will offer artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help the state government improve its e-governance portals and administrations as well as increase the productivity and efficiency of public departments. Telangana government has formed a two-year partnership during which it […]

Reliance Jio has rolled out special offers on select prepaid recharge plans, commemorating its 8th anniversary in India. The telecommunications provider is offering benefits including bundled subscriptions to OTT platforms, limited membership of food delivery platforms and e-commerce vouchers to users who recharge with the eligible packs. This development comes days after Reliance Industries Limited […]

A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that roughly 150 older workers who were laid off by social media platform X when Elon Musk acquired the company can sue for age discrimination as a class, exposing the company to millions of dollars in potential damages. US District Judge Susan Illston in a decision released […]

Gemini is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to upload and analyse files within the mobile app. Recently, Google rolled out the Gmail Q&A feature on Android devices which is powered by Gemini, and now, the Gemini app itself is getting a feature dubbed Upload and Analyse Files. With this, […]

Claude for Enterprise plan was launched by Anthropic on Wednesday. The new plan, aimed at businesses, offers a higher context window and usage capacity of the company’s native artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. The plan will also offer enterprises a native integration of the chatbot with GitHub, allowing them to access the codebases from the open-source […]

Early humans might have settled within a cave on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, a group of researchers have found. The discovery was made because of the identification of an ancient submerged bridge, which is said to have been constructed roughly 6,000 years ago. This discovery revises the previously accepted timeline of human settlement on […]

Elon Musk’s satellite broadband firm, Starlink, on Tuesday said that it is complying with Brazil’s top court order to block access to social media platform X in the country, a day after informing the country’s regulator it would not obey the order. Starlink had emerged as a fresh battleground between Musk and Brazil, as top court judge […]

MiniMax, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) unicorn startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, released a text-to-video generation model last week. Dubbed Video-01, the platform is available to the public even outside of China. It can generate six-second-long videos in a wide range of styles. Video-01 joins the company’s existing AI offerings such as a music […]

Shares of AI heavyweight Nvidia tumbled 9.5 percent on Tuesday in the deepest ever single-day decline in market value for a US company, as investors softened their optimism about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a broad market selloff following tepid economic data. Nvidia lost $279 billion (roughly Rs. 23,42,608 crore) in market capitalisation, a major indication that investors […]