Category: Internet

Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Friday allege Facebook parent company Meta and ChatGPT […]

Researchers at India’s AI4Bharat are raising $12 million (nearly Rs. 100 crore) from venture capital firms Peak XV and Lightspeed Venture for an artificial intelligence startup, according to three people familiar with the matter. The larger-than-usual seed funding round underscores the growing interest in generative AI, after OpenAI‘s ChatGPT dazzled users with its ability to engage in […]

Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta’s Twitter copycat app, Threads, as a “friendly” refuge for public discourse online, framing it in sharp distinction to the more adversarial Twitter which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk. “We are definitely focusing on kindness and making this a friendly place,” Meta CEO Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, shortly after the […]

Researchers at AI4Bharat, a start-up backed by Microsoft, are raising $12 million (nearly Rs. 100 crore) from venture capital firms Peak XV and Lightspeed Venture, according to three people familiar with the matter. The larger-than-usual seed funding round underscores the growing interest in generative AI, after OpenAI‘s ChatGPT dazzled users with its ability to engage […]

Microsoft India President Anant Maheshwari has resigned from his role after a stint of almost seven years at the software company. The exit led to a shuffle among the top executives of the multinational software giant. Microsoft has elevated company’s chief operating officer Irina Ghose to the role of Managing Director for India. When contacted […]

Alibaba Group Holdings and Huawei Technologies on Friday showcased new products, including an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator and an AI model upgrade, as Chinese companies jostle for position in the global AI race. Alibaba Cloud, an Alibaba subsidiary, presented at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai an image generator named Tongyi Wanxiang that […]

The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear on July 14 the cross-pleas of Google and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) challenging the verdict of an appellate tribunal in a case related to Google’s alleged anti-competitive practices in the Android mobile device case. On March 29, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) […]

Is it permissible in law for a statute to have unbound and limitless discretionary authority, the Bombay High Court asked on Friday while hearing a bunch of petitions against the recently amended Information Technology (IT) Rules against fake news. A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale said before it goes into the […]

MasterChef India, the biggest reality cooking show in the country, is returning with a brand-new season soon. Season 2 on Sony Liv (Season 8 overall) will see judges Vikas Khanna and Ranveer Brar reuniting to seek the next big home cook, who will get to showcase their talents in front of millions and win a […]

Diablo IV’s much-awaited season 1 update will release July 20, nearly a month-and-a-half since the game debuted to rave reviews. Dubbed ‘Season of the Malignant,’ the update was shown off during a developer live stream, held early Friday, detailing new quests, items, and further focus on its battle pass. As the title suggests, the upcoming […]

Walmart-owned Flipkart on Friday announced that it will be distributing Axis Bank’s personal loans on the e-commerce platform. The platform, which has 450 million customers, will be distributing loans of up to Rs 5 lakh which can be repaid in up to three years, it said in a statement. The announcement comes amid reports of […]

Blind, the new suspense thriller starring Sonam Kapoor in the lead, is now available to stream on JioCinema. Originally slated for a theatrical release, the film was surprisingly listed among Jio Studios’ 2023 content slate, after presumably being shopped around for a while since wrapping production in early 2021. Marking Kapoor’s digital debut, the film’s […]

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is now available for advance booking in India in multiple premium formats — save for 3D. Ticket sales are now live across BookMyShow and PayTM, with first showings starting as early as 8am in select theatres. While the MI franchise is undeniably huge, it hasn’t gone the same […]

State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Thursday announced the launch of a virtual branch, PNB Metaverse. It is a virtual branch of the bank, which will deliver a unique experience of banking to existing and new customers, who can now explore the bank’s products and services such as bank deposits, retail/MSME loans, digital products, women/senior […]

Threads, the new “Twitter Killer” app from Meta that was launched on Thursday, now has 50 million users — just over 24 hours since the app was rolled out. The text-based microblogging service is closely tied to Meta’s popular photo and video sharing service, Instagram. While the brisk rise of Threads is impressive, it is […]

Meta announced the Threads app on July 6. The app is built by the team at Instagram and allows users to share text updates and join public conversations. Given its user interface and features, it is easy to deduce that the app aims to compete against Twitter — the Elon Musk-owned microblogging site which has rustled […]

EA Sports FC 24 — formerly, FIFA — is reportedly launching on September 29. As per reliable data miner billbil-kun, EA’s annual (but rebranded) football simulation game will be available in Standard and Ultimate editions, with the latter granting a week’s worth of early access — unlike FIFA 23’s three days — starting September 22. […]

July is here and the month brings a healthy roster of new game releases. While it is not as games-heavy as June was, with big titles like Final Fantasy XVI and Diablo IV releasing last month, July still promises a few distinct titles. Perhaps the most awaited of them all is Pikmin 4, the fourth […]

Director and producer Zoya Akhtar, on Thursday, unveiled the first poster of the second season of the show Made In Heaven. Taking to Instagram, Zoya shared the show’s first poster and captioned it, “The weddings, the drama & the chaos are about to get 2X grander. #MadeInHeavenS2OnPrime coming soon!” Created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema […]

More than 10 million people have signed up to Threads, Meta’s rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the Facebook parent’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday. Threads is the biggest challenger yet to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, which has seen a series of potential competitors emerge but not yet replace one of […]

Threads, a new text-based microblogging platform developed by Facebook parent Meta, was launched on Thursday. The company’s new platform will compete with Twitter and is linked to its popular photo and video sharing app, Instagram, and users have begun receiving prompts to sign up and create a profile. Threads is currently unavailable in the EU, […]

Killers of the Flower Moon just got a second trailer, ahead of its theatrical release on October 20. Apple TV has dropped a chunky two-and-a-half-minute-long trailer for the highly-anticipated murderous Western drama from director Martin Scorsese, as he reteams with frequent collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Drawing from David Grann’s no-fiction novel ‘Killers […]

A rise in cyberattacks poses a vital risk to India’s economic ambitions, with industries from manufacturing to pharmaceuticals becoming more vulnerable as they digitise operations, according to a Google subsidiary. Attacks have spiked significantly in the past six months, said Amit Pradhan, India consulting leader for the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, which is owned by Alphabet’s […]

It’s no surprise that as the novel All Elite Wrestling grew in popularity, a video game based on it was brewing somewhere out on the horizon. As a viable alternative to mainstream pro wrestling — which the WWE dominates — the franchise managed to cement its legacy by bringing in talent already well-known within the […]

ChatGPT’s creator OpenAI plans to invest significant resources and create a new research team that will seek to ensure its artificial intelligence remains safe for humans — eventually using AI to supervise itself, it said on Wednesday. “The vast power of superintelligence could … lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction,” OpenAI […]

Twitter is not the right place to seek information during an emergency, Dutch politicians and a prominent online group said on Wednesday, following an incident in which citizens were directed to the platform for updates during a large storm. “We find it problematic that the government depends on Twitter for sharing crucial information,” lawmaker Nico […]

ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7 percent in June from May, while unique visitors to ChatGPT’s website dropped […]

Facebook behemoth Meta officially launched Threads, its text-based rival to Twitter, on Wednesday —  but its release in Europe has been delayed over regulatory concerns. Threads is the biggest challenger yet to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, which has seen a series of potential competitors emerge but not yet replace one of the social media’s most iconic companies, […]

The government’s initiative ONDC on Wednesday said its beta version has now become live in Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is an initiative of the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). It said that along with Bengaluru and Meerut, which were chosen for going beta […]