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US, India Extend Digital Tax Truce to June 30 as Deadline Approaches The US and India have extended their standstill agreement till June 30, over the former's retaliation over India’s digital-services tax on big tech firms. The development was announced by the US ahead of a deadline for a global deal that will reallocate taxing rights for major US tech firms that provide digital services like Alphabet-owned Google and Microsoft.

OpenAI Develops CriticGPT Model Capable of Spotting GPT-4 Code Generation Errors OpenAI published a study about a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Thursday that can catch GPT-4’s mistakes in code generation. The AI firm stated that the new chatbot was trained using the reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) framework and was powered by one of the GPT-4 models. The under-development chatbot was designed to improve the quality ...

Google Translate Adds Support for 110 New Languages With the Assistance of AI Google Translate received a big upgrade on Thursday and will now support an additional 110 languages. The new languages were added with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). The tech giant used its in-house PaLM 2 large language model (LLM), and it was particularly effective in learning those languages that were related to each other or were a regional diale...

Amazon Reportedly Working on a Multimodal AI Chatbot to Take on OpenAI's ChatGPT Amazon is reportedly working on developing an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that can rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company’s internal project is said to be code-named Metis. As per the report, the under-development chatbot will be able to perform all the general tasks of generative AI such as creating text content, responding to queries, and more. It will rep...

OpenAI's Voice Mode Feature for ChatGPT Delayed, Alpha Testing to Begin in July OpenAI Voice Mode for ChatGPT has been delayed. The launch of the upgraded chatbot with emotive expressions and real-time responses will not arrive until later this year. The artificial intelligence (AI) firm showcased the feature during last month’s Spring Updates event which also unveiled the GPT-4o model. The company said that the delay was caused to meet its hig...

Reddit to Update Web Standard to Block Automated Data Scraping From Its Website Social media platform Reddit said on Tuesday it will update a Web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports that AI startups were bypassing the rule to gather content for their systems.

Anthropic Introduces Projects for Claude AI, a New Collaborative Tool to Organise Information nthropic released a new collaborative tool for its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude on Tuesday. Dubbed Projects, the tool will allow users to ground the output of the chatbot to the internal knowledge provided to it. Using this, users can create an internal knowledge hub that can offer information in the style and tone that the user may need. The feature ca...

Genesys Launches AI-Powered Navigation Map Tailored for Indian Automotive and Mobility Sectors Genesys International, the Mumbai-based mapping, survey, and geospatial solutions company, launched artificial intelligence-powered navigation maps on Monday. The map encompasses 83 lakh kilometres across India. The company claims it was built specifically for the automotive and mobility industries of the country and will help build personalised driving experiences an...

Synthesia 2.0 AI Video Communications Platform With Expressive AI Avatars Launched for Enterprises Synthesia introduced Synthesia 2.0, an AI video communications platform for businesses, on Monday. The AI platform will allow users to generate studio-quality videos with AI avatars just by posting the video script. The platform has also launched two different styles of AI avatars, including an Expressive AI Avatar that can be given a personality and can use a full ra...

TCS Announces New Deal With Xerox to Build a Generative AI-Powered Enterprise Platform Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the multinational IT service provider, announced signing a new deal with US-based Xerox on Friday. This deal expands the strategic partnership between the two companies and will let TCS build a cloud-native and generative artificial intelligence (AI) led digital platform for Xerox. The Mumbai-based IT giant will also create a cloud-fir...

Anthropic Releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Makes It Available for Free to All Users Anthropic launched the first entrant in the Claude 3.5 large language model (LLM) family, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, on Friday. The new release comes just three months after the AI firm launched the Claude 3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models. As per the company, the latest AI model can outperform Claude 3 Opus, the most capable model from the previous generation.

Infosys Aster, AI-Powered Marketing Suite for Global Enterprises Launched Infosys, the multinational IT giant, launched a new marketing suite for enterprises on Tuesday that will offer artificial intelligence (AI) analytics and other tools to maximise sales and improve repeat customers. The suite, dubbed Infosys Aster, is aimed at both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) enterprises. It offers more than 400 assets and ...

Apple’s Source Code for Internal Tools Allegedly Stolen, Leaked by Threat Actor in Data Breach Apple might have suffered a cyberattack and lost the source code of several of its internal tools, claimed a tipster. A threat actor group that goes by the name IntelBroker has assumed responsibility for the alleged attack. Based on the information, it appears three internal tools commonly used by the tech giant faced a breach and their source code was stolen. IntelBr...

Nvidia Rides AI Boom to Dethrone Microsoft as World's Most Valuable Company Nvidia became the world's most valuable company on Tuesday, dethroning tech heavyweight Microsoft as its high-end processors play a central role in a scramble to dominate artificial intelligence technology.

Adobe Sued by US Government for Hiding Fees, Making It Difficult to Cancel Subscription The US government sued Adobe on Monday, accusing the Photoshop and Acrobat maker of harming consumers by concealing hefty termination fees in its most popular subscription plan, and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions.

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Shutterstock ImageAI, an Enterprise-Focused AI Text-to-Image Generator Launched Shutterstock ImageAI, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform that allows users to generate images from text prompts, was announced last week. Shutterstock, the stock photos, videos, and music repository, and the data and AI firm Databricks collaborated to build the text-to-image AI platform. The company claims the platform is aimed at enterprises and adher...

LinkedIn Introduces New AI-Powered Features to Assist Professionals in Job Search LinkedIn is rolling out several new artificial intelligence (AI) features that will assist users in job search and personalised learning on the platform. Announced on Thursday, these AI-powered features include a Jobseeker Coach that can hunt the right job for users from a text prompt, a tool to review resumes and applications, a chatbot that can interactively assist ...

Amazon Reportedly Struggling to Build AI Capabilities to Make Alexa Smarter Amazon introduced its voice-first virtual assistant Alexa to the world in November 2014. The technology’s name is said to be inspired by Star Trek’s computer system onboard the Starship Empire and underscored CEO Jeff Bezos’ ambition of creating a conversational and intelligent assistant. However, a report claims that despite a tech demo last year showing a cont...

Luma AI Launches AI-Powered Text-to-Video Generation Platform Dream Machine Luma AI launched its artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-video generation model, Dream Machine, globally on Wednesday. The platform can generate up to five-second-long videos from simple or descriptive text prompts. The AI model can generate videos in various styles such as cinematic, animation, realistic, and more. The AI firm claims that Dream Machine was trained e...

Reliance's Jio Platforms Clears Hurdle in Bid to Launch Satellite Internet in India A joint venture between Reliance Industries' Jio Platforms and Luxembourg-based SES to provide gigabit fibre internet has won approval from the Indian space regulator to operate satellites there, a government executive said.

Stable Diffusion 3 Medium With Ability to Run Efficiently on Consumer Laptops Released by Stability AI Stability AI's Stable Diffusion 3 Medium was released on Wednesday as a smaller version of its Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) artificial intelligence (AI) model. The company introduced the smaller text-to-image model as its most advanced image generation model. While retaining all the functionalities of the larger generative AI model, the latest tool will also go easy on GP...

Wipro Launches Lab45 AI Platform to Improve Efficiency Across Enterprise Operations Wipro, the multinational IT services and consultation company, introduced the Lab45 AI platform on Tuesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) platform is an enterprise-focused suite aimed to help its clients in gaining higher efficiencies across business functions. It leverages generative AI, machine learning, and deep learning technologies to offer customised business...

TCS Launches Generative AI Aggregation Platform WisdomNext for Businesses TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), the multinational IT services firm, has launched WisdomNext, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) aggregation platform for enterprises. The IT giant’s latest AI platform is designed to let businesses run experimentations on various generative AI platforms used to help in better adoption, cost optimisation, and scaling of the lar...

Flipkart, PhonePe IPO May Take Couple of Years, Says Walmart Executive Initial public offerings of Walmart's Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe digital payments platform could take a couple of years, a Walmart executive said. Walmart may put an initial public offering of PhonePe ahead of Flipkart, even though Flipkart is a more mature business.

JioCinema Premium Subscription Plans 2024: Benefits, Price in India, Offers, and More Here's everything you need to know about the latest JioCinema Premium plans.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024: Disney+ Hotstar Brings Dolby Vision to Live Sports Streaming in India Disney+ Hotstar has officially announced it has become India’s first video-streaming platform to stream live sports in Dolby Vision in India. Following this announcement, India matches, Super 8s, semi-finals and finals of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 will be streamed live in Dolby Vision on Disney+ Hotstar, the company has confirmed.

Wix Launches AI-Powered Mobile App Builder That Can Create Apps With Text Prompts Wix launched a new AI-powered chatbot for its mobile App Builder platform on Wednesday. The cloud-based no-code platform development company introduced artificial intelligence (AI) tools to its app-building platform just months after introducing its AI-powered end-to-end website development tool. The platform not only lets users create a branded app for businesses, bu...

Xiaomi Super Saver Sale 2024: Deals on Xiaomi 14 Series, Xiaomi Pad 6, Redmi Watch 3 Active and More Xiaomi Super Saver Sale 2024 is currently live in India. Discounts and other lucrative offers will be available on a wide range of products from the brand. The company is offering several personal electronic items such as smartphones, tablets and true wireless earphones at lower price points than usual. Even home appliances like smart TVs and robotic vacuum cleaners a...

Stable Audio Open Released by Stability AI as an Open-Source Text-to-Audio Generator Stable Audio Open has been launched by Stability AI. The open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Stable Audio Open is capable of generating up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects, according to the company and can be used by researchers and nonprofits, while commercial use will require a subscrption.

GPT-4o Tested: Faster and More Versatile Than Before, but Questions Loom Over Reliability GPT-4o was introduced with several new features. It added real-time emotive voice generation, access to the Internet, integration with certain cloud services, computer vision, and more. While the features were impressive on paper (and in the tech demos), the biggest highlight was the announcement that GPT-4o-powered ChatGPT will be available to everyone, including the...

Google AI Overviews Now Showing for Just 15 Percent of Searched Queries: Report Google recently found itself in hot water for the AI Overviews feature after it reportedly began showing incorrect and unhelpful answers for searched queries. The tech giant also issued a statement claiming it was working to address the issues. Now, a new report has found that the visibility of AI Overviews has dropped drastically and is appearing for just 15 percent ...

RBI, NIPL Working to Expand UPI to 20 Countries by 2028-29: RBI Annual Report RBI (Reserve Bank of India) and NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) are working on expanding UPI to 20 countries by 2028 or 2029, according to RBI's annual report. The central bank is in talks with central banks of various countries for entering into collaborative arrangements according to the Payments Vision Document 2025.

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Online Payment Frauds Jump Over 400 Percent in India, RBI Data Shows Digital payment frauds in India saw a 400 percent jump in the year ended March 2024, according to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) annual report. Data from the central bank shows that the value of transactions on UPI jumped 137% in the past two years to 200 trillion rupees, while the rise in online transactions is also boosted by cheap access to the internet along wi...