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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 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.
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...
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday denied in court that his company bought rival services Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize them, as his testimony in a landmark antitrust case came to a close.
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.
Appy Pie has launched two new AI models on Tuesday. Dubbed PixelForge and Vibeo, these are multimodal large language models that can generate images and videos. The former is a text-to-image model, whereas the latter can generate videos from a text or image input.
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 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 2024, as the successor to the Veo AI model.
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 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 Musks X (formerly known as Twitter) and Mark Zuckerbergs Meta-owned social platforms.
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.
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 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 companys 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 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, Adobe Express, and even Creative Cloud.
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 chatbot to have a more natural conversation with users, and will appear more like a companion.
Elon Musks 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 mobile apps.
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 Studio as well as Vertex AI.
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.
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.
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.
Amazon introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in its flagship Nova family of models on Tuesday. Dubbed Amazon Nova Sonic, it is a voice generation model capable of generating human-like speech. However, it is not a text-to-speech (TTS) tool; instead, it can process voice input in real time and respond to it.
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 now available across all paid plans.
Google is expanding the supported language in Gmails 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.
Amazon introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model that can create up to two minutes of video content with a single prompt. Announced on Monday, the Amazon Nova Reel 1.1 AI model is the successor to the Nova Reel model, which was introduced last year at its re:Invent event.
OpenAI is reportedly discussing the possibility of buying CEO Sam Altman and Jony Ives 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 is appealing against a British government order to create a ack 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 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 confirmed its 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 apps American operations. The latest extension permits the president to give a one-time extension of not more than 90 days.
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 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.
YouTube is set to launch a revamped video editor and tools to simplify content creation. Users can sync video edits to music beats or add image stickers from their gallery. AI-generated stickers using prompts will also be added to the in-app video editor. Additionally, Shorts templates will credit the original creator, when a new video using a template is created.
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 platforms engaged and logged-in users. Alongside, the company is also introducing a new ad manager and its first AI tools to generate scripts and voiceovers.
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 information on the web.