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Google Updating Gmail to Allow Enterprise Users to Send End-to-End Encrypted Emails Across Platforms Google is enabling its enterprise users to easily send end-to-end encrypted emails via Gmail. Announced on Wednesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant said that it has made progress in implementing the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) protocol in an easier way to allow users to send encrypted email to others on Gmail as well as on other email cl...

OpenAI Is Planning to Release an Open-Source Reasoning-Focused AI Model OpenAI is planning to release an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. This would be the San Francisco-based AI firm’s first open-source reasoning-focused AI model, and it is expected to be released in the next few months. This will be the company’s first open-source release since the GPT-2 model, which was introduced in November 2019.

Qualcomm Announces Aquisition of VinAI’s Generative AI Division MovianAI Qualcomm announced the acquisition of MovianAI Artificial Intelligence (AI) Application and Research JSC (MovianAI) on Tuesday. MovianAI is the former generative AI division of VinAI Application and Research JSC (VinAI) and a part of the Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup. With this move, the San Diego-based tech giant has acquired a 65 percent stake in the company.

OpenAI Said to Be Expanding Deep Research AI Agent in ChatGPT to Free Tier OpenAI is said to be planning to expand its Deep Research feature to the users on the free tier of ChatGPT. The feature was introduced in February as an agentic tool that can autonomously conduct multi-step research on complex topics by looking for relevant information on the Internet. It is currently only available to the paid subscribers of ChatGPT.

Amazon Introduces Nova Act AI Agent as Research Preview, Expands Access to Its Frontier AI Models Amazon introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) agent on Monday that can perform various browser-based tasks. Dubbed the Amazon Nova Act, the AI agent is powered by the tech giant’s foundation Nova family of AI models. These are first-party models the company claims will offer “frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance.”

Runway Gen-4 AI Video Generation Model With Improved Character Consistency and Real-World Physics Released Runway, the video-focused artificial intelligence (AI) firm, introduced a new video generation model on Monday. Dubbed Gen-4, it is an image-to-video generation model which succeeds the company’s Gen-3 Alpha AI model. It comes with several improvements, including consistency in characters, locations, and objects across scenes, as well as controllable real-world phys...