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Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 Goes Live for Prime Members: Best Offers on Mobile Phones, Electronics Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is now live in early access exclusively for Prime members, 12 hours before it commences for all users in India. It promises discounts across a wide range of categories including smartphones, tablets, laptops, TVs, Amazon devices, and other electronics. The first day of the sale has already brought some great deals. You can grab gadgets at...

Xiaomi MiMo AI Models Launched With Efficient Reasoning, Small Size Xiaomi released an open-source reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. Dubbed MiMo, the family of reasoning models innovate the optimisation of reasoning capability in a relatively smaller parameter size. This is also the first open-source reasoning model by the tech giant, and it competes with Chinese models such as DeepSeek R1 and Alibaba’...

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 Starts Tonight: All You Need to Know Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is all set to begin on May 1 at 12pm (noon) for all users in India. The online marketplace promises discounts on smartphones, accessories, laptops, Amazon devices, and other electronic items during the sale.

Apple Launches Snapshot Page to Help Users Discover More About Their Favourite Artists and Athletes Apple has launched a new page on its website to help users know more about actors, artists, creators, and athletes they love across devices. Dubbed Snapshot, it collates information from the Cupertino-based tech giant’s three media distribution platforms — Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Podcasts. Pages on the website dedicated to each artist highlight their bio...

ED Said to be Quizzing Apple, Xiaomi in E-Commerce Probe on Amazon, Flipkart ED, which probes economic crimes, has been investigating Amazon and Flipkart for years for allegedly breaching laws by stocking and exerting control over goods they list online. The agency, in recent weeks wrote to smartphone companies, including Apple and Xiaomi, to get data related to their online sales.

OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT Search With Shopping Feature, Support for Multiple Citation OpenAI announced new capabilities for its ChatGPT Search feature on Monday. The San Francisco-based AI firm is adding a new experimental shopping experience to the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, which will showcase products in a more visual manner and share a direct link to buy. Additionally, the company is also adding several other utility features.

Google Preparing to Roll Out Gemini AI for Younger Users With Parental Controls: Report Google is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini to younger users. Last month, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced allowing users younger than the age of 13 years (or the applicable age in the respective country) to access its AI chatbot across Android, iOS, and on the web. The company is also letting parents and school administrators manag...

Only Google Can Run Chrome, Company’s Browser Chief Tells Judge Google Chrome's general manager Parisa Tabriz testified before a Washington federal court on Friday as part of the Justice Department’s antitrust case that accuses Google of monopolising the web search market. Tabriz told the court that Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today.

OpenAI Updates GPT-4o to Boost Intelligence and Personality, Faces Unexpected Side Effects OpenAI updated the GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model on Saturday. The update was aimed at improving the intelligence and personality aspects of the large language model (LLM), which powers the default experience for those on the free tier of ChatGPT. However, on Sunday, the company found that the update had unexpected results, and the AI model’s responses be...

Vodafone Idea Brings 5G Services to Chandigarh and Patna; Delhi, Bengaluru Expansion to Follow Next Month Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Monday expanded the availability of its 5G services to two more cities in India. Previously limited to the Mumbai circle where a majority of users are said to be enjoying high-speed internet with select prepaid and postpaid plans, the telecom operator has introduced its 5G network in Chandigarh and Patna in partnership with Samsung. It is leverag...

ChatGPT Now Offers a ‘Lightweight’ Version of Deep Research to All Users OpenAI is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Deep Research to the free users of ChatGPT. Announced on Friday, the San Francisco-based AI firm is now offering a “lightweight” version of the tool to all users, including paid subscribers. This version of Deep Research will be powered by the o4-mini AI model and will be available with specific rate limit...

Amazon Great Summer Sale Date Announced: Discounts on Samsung Phones, More Teased Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 will begin in India soon. The e-commerce site has confirmed the date when the sale will go live. Amazon Prime members are promised early access. A wide range of items will be available at considerably lowered prices during the sale. The online retailing platform has hinted at some of the discounts and bank offers that will likely be exten...

Google Says Deep AI Investments Powering Ad Sales, Soothing Anxious Investors Alphabet reassured jittery tech investors that its AI investments were powering returns at its crucial ad business on Thursday. The search giant's first-quarter profit and revenue beat expectations, and the company said it would buy back $70 billion (roughly Rs. 5,97,800 crore) in stock, adding $75 billion (roughly Rs. 6,40,362 crore) to its market value.

Reddit's AI-Powered Answers Chatbot Is Now Available to Users in India Reddit is rolling out its artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbot to more users. Dubbed Reddit Answers, the chatbot is now available in India, and users can access it via the website, mobile web, as well as Android and iOS apps. The discussion forum-style social media platform first began testing the feature in December 2024.

Adobe Releases Firefly Image Model 4 Ultra, Integrates Third-Party Models from Google, OpenAI Adobe announced a slew of new features and improvements at its annual Adobe Max conference on Thursday. The software giant announced new Firefly artificial intelligence (AI) models, support for third-party models, new Adobe Express features, a new Firefly mobile app, and more. The company also introduced a new Adobe Boards tool for storyboard creation, and a Vector mo...

Google Upgrades Gemini 2.0 Flash With a Collaborative, Natural-Sounding Conversation Style Google updated the Gemini 2.0 Flash artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. The new update refines the model’s conversational capability and makes it better suited for creative tasks, the Mountain View-based tech giant said. The company claims that users will notice the difference when talking to the AI about certain topics and tasks.

Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says Google’s Chrome web browser could be sold for as much as $50 billion (roughly Rs. 4,26,756 crore), estimates CEO of rival search engine, DuckDuckGo. Weinberg, who said the estimate was “back-of-the-envelope” math based on Chrome’s user base, testified as part of a three-week hearing in the DOJ’s case against Alphabet’s Google to determine how to remedy the...

Instagram Co-Founder Says Mark Zuckerberg Saw App’s Growth as ‘Threat’ Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testified that the app could have succeeded without being acquired by Meta Platforms. Systrom, testifying Tuesday at Meta’s antitrust trial in Washington, recounted how quickly Instagram was growing before Zuckerberg’s purchase offer.

Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut Over 20 Percent of Staff Intel is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20 percent of its staff. The cutbacks follow an effort last year to slash about 15,000 jobs — a round of layoffs announced in August.

OpenAI Interested in Buying Google Chrome, Executive Testifies at Antitrust Trial ChatGPT head of product Nick Turley made the statement while testifying at trial in Washington where US Department of Justice seeks to require Google to undertake far-reaching measures restore competition in online search. The judge overseeing the trial found last year that Google has a monopoly in online search and related advertising.

Meta’s Oversight Board Rebukes Company Over Policy Overhaul Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board on Wednesday sharply rebuked the Facebook and Instagram owner over a policy overhaul in January that cut fact-checking. The board, which operates independently but is funded by Meta, urged the world's biggest social media company to assess “potential adverse effects” of the changes, put in place just before US President Donald Tru...

Uber Sued by FTC Over ‘Deceptive’ Subscription Sign-Ups Uber was sued by the US Federal Trade Commission. In a complaint filed Monday, the FTC alleges the company charged consumers for its Uber One product without their consent, misled users about the program’s savings and made it “unreasonably” burdensome to cancel the service.

Google Could Use AI to Extend Search Monopoly, DOJ Says as Trial Begins The Justice Department is seeking an order that would require Google to sell its Chrome browser and take other measures to end what a judge found was its monopoly in online search. Prosecutors have compared the lawsuit to past cases that resulted in the break up of AT&T and Standard Oil.

Walmart-Backed Flipkart to Shift Base Back to India from Singapore Flipkart will shift its holding company from Singapore to India as its parent Walmart aims to take the 17-year-old company public. Walmart is looking to list Flipkart and PhonePe in India over the next couple of years, Dan Bartlett, Walmart's executive vice president for corporate affairs, told Reuters last year.

Airtel’s AI-Powered Spam Detection Expanded to Indian Regional Languages, International Calls and SMSes Airtel announced an expansion to its network-based artificial intelligence (AI) solution for spam calls and messages detection on Monday. The AI-powered tool, dubbed AI spam detection, can automatically identify and detect spam calls and SMSes and send a notification to users to alert them. The alert is sent in almost real-time.

Cohere Introduces Embed 4, an AI-Powered Multimodal Search Engine for Enterprise Data Retrieval Cohere released Embed 4, an artificial intelligence (AI) embedding tool, last week. The Toronto-based AI firm pitched the new search and retrieval tool to businesses building and deploying AI applications and agents. The company, which builds enterprise-focused AI models and tools, claims that Embed 4 can understand complex, multimodal documents and efficiently surfac...

Anthropic Releases New Research Capability in Claude, Adds Google Workspace Integration Anthropic is adding a new capability to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Claude. Announced last week, the company is adding a new agentic capability, dubbed Research, to the chatbot. Similar to Deep Research in Gemini and ChatGPT, Research allows Claude to conduct multiple web searches on different topics to find comprehensive information about a topic, and e...

OpenAI’s o3 AI Model Falls Short of Benchmark Claims in FrontierMath Test OpenAI’s o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model, which was released last week, is underperforming on a specific benchmark. Epoch AI, the company behind the FrontierMath benchmark, highlighted that the publicly available version of the o3 AI model scored 10 percent on the test, a much lower value than the company’s claim at launch.

Google to Appeal Against Part of US Court's Decision in Monopoly Case Alphabet's Google plans to appeal against the "adverse" portion of the court decision in DoJ's monopoly case. On Thursday U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema found Google liable for "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power" in markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges.

OpenAI Introduces Flex Processing in API to Help Developers Cut AI Usage Costs OpenAI is introducing a new service tier for developers starting Thursday via its application programming interface (API). Dubbed Flex processing, it reduces the AI usage costs by half for developers, compared to standard pricing. However, the lowered prices come with the consequence of slower response times and occasional resource unavailability.

Grok Gets New Memory Feature to Offer Personalised Replies Based on Past Chats xAI announced the rollout of a new memory feature for the Grok artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on Thursday. Similar to ChatGPT and Gemini, the feature will allow Grok to remember specific details about users, which it can use to personalise future conversations. Memories will also enable the chatbot to deliver tailored advice and recommendations, making conversat...

Google Holds Illegal Monopolies in Ad Tech, US Judge Finds US District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power" in markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges which sit between buyers and sellers. It is the second court ruling that Google holds an illegal monopoly, following a similar judgment in a case over online search.

OpenAI o3 and o4-Mini AI Models With Visual Reasoning Capabilities Released OpenAI released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Dubbed o3 and o4-mini, these are the company’s latest reasoning-focused models with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The San Francisco-based AI firm stated that these models come with visual reasoning capability, which means they can analyse and “think” about an image to answer more complex...

OpenAI Adds a Library Feature in ChatGPT to Let Users Find Their AI-Generated Images in One Place OpenAI is rolling out a new library feature in ChatGPT that will allow users to check all their images generated using artificial intelligence (AI) in a single view. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature is available to all registered ChatGPT users across all its interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI firm said that the library will act as a space to let users brows...

Google Faces GBP 5 Billion UK Lawsuit for Abusing Dominance in Online Search Google is being sued in Britain for potential damages of up to GBP 5 billion (roughly Rs. 56,536 crore). The class action, filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Tuesday, argues that Google's actions enabled it to charge higher prices for the advertisements that appear in search inquiries than it otherwise could in a competitive market.

Anthropic Is Reportedly Working on a Voice Mode Feature for Claude Anthropic is reportedly working on a voice chat feature for its in-house artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Claude. As per the report, the AI firm is planning to launch the feature, dubbed ‘voice mode’, as soon as this month. While rivals such as OpenAI and Google have already added a dedicated voice mode in their chatbots, ChatGPT and Gemini, Anthropic has so ...

Google Is Rolling Out Veo 2 Video Generation AI Model to Gemini Advanced Users Google announced the rollout of the Veo 2 artificial intelligence (AI) model to Gemini chatbot on Tuesday. Currently, the AI model will only be accessible to the paid subscribers of Gemini. With this AI model, eligible users can generate eight-second-long videos with text or image-based prompts. The Mountain View-based tech giant first introduced Veo 2 in December 202...

Meta's Zuckerberg Eyed Instagram Spinoff Amid Antitrust Scrutiny, Document Shows Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over concerns about growing risk of antitrust scrutiny. The document was shown during Zuckerberg's second day of testimony at the high-stakes trial, in which the Us Federal Trade Commission is seeking to unwind Meta's acquisitions of prized assets Instagram and WhatsApp.

OpenAI Reportedly Working on an AI-Powered Social Media Platform OpenAI is reportedly working on a social media platform. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is planning to integrate AI capabilities into the social app, although details around the integration are currently not known. The platform is said to compete with the likes of Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twitter) and Mark Zucker...

NPCI Targets 300 Million New Users for UPI Payments Platform National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) aims to draw an additional 200 million to 300 million Indians to UPI to “break their cash memory”. The outfit is piloting vision recognition technology to encourage higher UPI usage in parking payments, he added.

OpenAI Releases GPT-4.1 Family of AI Models in API, Said to Outperform GPT-4o OpenAI released three new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Monday. Staying true to its unusual naming convention, the company called this the GPT-4.1 family of AI models. There are three variants — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano. The San Francisco-based AI firm said that these models outperform the GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini across several metrics.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Disputes US Antitrust Case in Trial Testimony Mark Zuckerberg testified in a US antitrust trial this week. The FTC is seeking to force Meta to restructure Instagram and WhatsApp, challenging its reliance on ad revenue and its dominance in the social networking space. Meta has argued that its purchases of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 have benefited users.

Google Chrome Fixes 23-Year-Old Bug That Let Sites See Your Previously Visited Links Google Chrome is set to fix a 23-year-old privacy bug that allowed malicious sites to track users' browsing history. Earlier measures partially addressed the issue, but Google says Chrome version 136, launching this month, will block exploits used to identify visited links. This update marks a significant advancement in user privacy protection.

Google Introduces Ironwood, Its Seventh Generation TPU Designed to Handle AI Inference Google introduced the seventh generation of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Ironwood, last week. Unveiled at Google Cloud Next 25, it is said to be the company’s most powerful and scalable custom artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator. The Mountain View-based tech giant said the chipset was specifically designed for AI inference.

Adobe Previews Agentic AI Tools Across Acrobat, Photoshop and Premiere Pro Adobe shared a sneak peek of several under-development artificial intelligence (AI) agents across its platforms on Wednesday. The San Jose-based software giant is currently looking at how agentic tools can complete manual tasks to free up users to focus on creativity and productivity-based tasks. Adobe is building several AI agents for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Acrobat...

OpenAI Upgrades Memory in ChatGPT, Can Reference to Users’ Previous Chats OpenAI announced an update to the Memory feature in ChatGPT on Thursday. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is now improving the memory function so that it can not only remember certain information about users’ preferences and interests but can also remember and reference past conversations. The company said the new feature will enable the cha...

Elon Musk’s xAI Releases Grok 3 in API for Developers, Introduces a ‘Fast’ Model Elon Musk’s xAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm behind the Grok chatbot, released a new application programming interface (API) on Thursday. The new API is for the Grok 3 AI model, which the company introduced in February. So far, the AI model has been available to the end consumer via the X (formerly known as Twitter) platform, the dedicated website, or the ...

Google Releases Cost-Efficient and Low-Latency Gemini 2.5 Flash AI Model Google released its second artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Gemini 2.5 family on Thursday. Dubbed Gemini 2.5 Flash, it is a cost-efficient low-latency model which is designed for tasks requiring real-time inference, conversations at scale, and those which are generalistic in nature. The tech giant will soon make the AI model available on both the Google AI St...

Canva Unveils Visual Suite 2.0 With Canva AI, Canva Sheets and Canva Code Canva unveiled Visual Suite 2.0, a redesigned platform with new features and AI-powered tools, on Thursday. The Sydney-based visual communications platform showcased several new features under the Visual Suite 2.0 umbrella, such as Canva AI, Canva Sheets, Canva Code, Magic Charts, and Visual Suite in One Design, at Canva Create, its fourth annual event.

Meta Faces FTC Trial With Instagram, WhatsApp Breakup at Risk The US Federal Trade Commission is targeting Meta's deals for Instagram and WhatsApp in a landmark antitrust lawsuit set to go to trial Monday, alleging that the acquisitions were illegal, should never have been approved and should be broken up.

Aadhaar App With Facial Recognition-Based Authentication Unveiled by UIDAI UIDAI has unveiled a revamped Aadhaar app for smartphones, enabling face scans for identity verification via QR codes and smartphone cameras. The app will eliminate the need for photocopies of Aadhaar cards and is designed to expedite the authentication process, according to UIDAI. Here's everything you need to know about the redesigned Aadhaar app for smartphones.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental Will Now Power the Agentic Deep Research Feature Google is expanding its Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental artificial intelligence (AI) model to other tools. On Tuesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced that its latest Gemini model will now power the agentic Deep Research tool. This feature is currently limited to the paid subscribers of the AI platform.

Instagram is Finally Developing a Dedicated iPad App to Boost App Usage: Reportedly Instagram is reportedly developing a dedicated iPad app, 15 years after its debut. Currently, iPad users rely on a zoomed-in version of the Instagram iPhone app or the mobile website. While Meta has not officially announced plans to develop an Instagram app for the iPad, this move could finally address user requests for better support on larger screens.

Runway Introduces Gen-4 Turbo Video AI Model With Faster Generation Speeds Runway introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model in the recently released Gen-4 family on Monday. Dubbed Gen-4, the latest AI model prioritises generation speed while optimising efficiency. The AI firm says this AI model will help users in faster iterations and exploring creative vision for a project. The new addition to the Gen-4 family is ...

Google’s AI-Powered ‘Help Me Write’ Tool in Gmail Will Now Support More Languages Google is expanding the supported language in Gmail’s Gemini-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ‘Help me write. ’ Announced on Monday, the Mountain View-based tech giant will now help users with different native languages access the feature to write and refine email drafts with the help of AI. The tool was first unveiled at Google I/O 2023.

EU Decisions on Alleged Apple, Meta Tech Rule Breaches Due in Coming Weeks, Antitrust Chief Says The EU, in the coming weeks, is likely to decide if Apple and Meta breached landmark tech rules aimed at curbing their market power. Both companies are expected to face modest fines for DMA violations, sources told Reuters last month.

OpenAI Reportedly Wants to Acquire Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s Startup That’s Building a New AI Device OpenAI is reportedly discussing the possibility of buying CEO Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup. The unnamed startup was reportedly founded last year and is building AI-powered devices. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm is considering a full acquisition as well as a partnership deal with the startup.

Apple Appealing Against UK 'Back Door' Order, Tribunal Confirms Apple is appealing against a British government order to create a "back door" to its encrypted cloud storage systems. Apple believes that once created, this o-called backdoor could be exploited by hackers in addition to governments, a sentiment echoed by security experts.

Google Moves Gemini 2.5 Pro to Public Preview, Offers Higher Rate Limits in AI Studio Google moved the Gemini 2.5 Pro artificial intelligence (AI) model to public preview last week. The Mountain View-based tech giant released its latest flagship tier AI model last week as an experimental preview with limited rate limits. But now, those using the Gemini application programming interface (API) or accessing the model via the Google AI Studio will get high...

ByteDance Confirms US Talks on TikTok After Trump Gives 75-Day Extension for Deal to Save App ByteDance confirmed it’s in discussions with the US government about plans to keep TikTok running in the US. For the second time now, US President Donald Trump extended a deadline for the Chinese company to divest the app’s American operations. The latest extension permits the president to give a “one-time extension of not more than 90 days.

Microsoft Releases an AI-Generated Playable Quake II Game Demo Microsoft released an interactive real-time gameplay experience of Quake II in Copilot Labs last week. To build the artificial intelligence (AI) gameplay, the Redmond-based tech giant used its recently released Muse AI models and a new approach dubbed World and Human Action MaskGIT Model (WHAMM). The game demo is currently available as a research preview to everyone.

Meta Llama 4 Scout and Maverick AI Models With MoE Architecture Released Meta introduced the first artificial intelligence (AI) models in the Llama 4 family on Saturday. The Menlo Park-based tech giant released two models — Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick — with native multimodal capabilities to the open community. The company says these are the first open models built with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture.

Midjourney Releases V7 Image Generation Model in Alpha, Comes With a Faster and Cheaper Draft Mode Midjourney released its latest image-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, V7, on Friday. The V7 AI model is currently available in an alpha version, and the company is currently letting its user base test the model’s capability. Arriving nearly a year after its predecessor V6, the V7 Alpha model is also the first in the AI firm’s lineup to have personali...

Spotify Unveils New Ad Manager Platform, AI-Powered Tools for Advertisers Spotify introduced a suite of new ad solutions on Wednesday at the Spotify Advance event in New York. The biggest highlight is the new programmatic advertising platform dubbed Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX), which will offer advertisers access to the music streaming platform’s engaged and logged-in users. Alongside, the company is also introducing a new ad manager and it...

Google NotebookLM Is Getting a New Discover Sources Feature That Can Search the Web Google NotebookLM is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will make it easier for users to add sources for a particular topic. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature is dubbed Discover Sources, and it can scour the Internet to find relevant sources for a given topic. The Mountain View-based tech giant said that this feature uses Gemini to find info...

Amazon Submits Bid to Buy TikTok, Adding 11th Hour Intrigue to Acquisition Drama Amazon.com became the latest big name to jump into the fray, submitting a bid to the White House to buy out a business once valued at $60 billion (roughly Rs. 5,13,272 crore).

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Donald Trump to Avoid Antitrust Trial: Report Meta and its representatives met with President Trump and his senior advisers ahead of an April 14 Federal Trade Commission trial that could force the company to unwind its acquisitions of messaging platform WhatsApp and image-sharing app Instagram.

OpenAI Trained AI Models on Copyrighted O'Reilly Media Books, Researchers Claim OpenAI might have trained its artificial intelligence (AI) models on copyrighted content, alleged a research paper. As per the recently published paper from the non-profit organisation AI Disclosures Project, the San Francisco-based AI firm’s recent large language models (LLMs) showed a higher recognition of copyrighted content compared to the older models.

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...

OpenAI Expands GPT-4o-Powered Image Generation Feature in ChatGPT to All Users OpenAI expanded its image-generation feature powered by the GPT-4o model to all users on Tuesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) image generation capability was first rolled out to the paid subscribers of ChatGPT last month, and now even those on the free tier can access it. However, the free users will get limited usage with a high rate limit added.