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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.