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The origin stories of SPAM

The months of April and May could well be celebrated as the birth months of spam those notoriously undesired messages that clog our information highways. This is because the earliest known case of spam took place on May 3, 1978 and the first such case in the Web as we know it now took place on April 12, 1994. A.S.Ganesh turns off his spam filters to give you these two tales

12 Apr 2026 7:36 am
Apple at 50: A loyalist on the brands evolution in India

From buying an iPod Mini in 2004 to standing in line for early iPad launches, one long-time user traces how Apple Inc. shaped taste, tech and aspiration in India and how the global giant has, over time, gone quietly desi

11 Apr 2026 11:55 am
Elon Musk's xAI sues Colorado over state's new AI law

U.S. President Donald Trumps AI advisers favour federal oversight through a streamlined national framework instead of a patchwork of state-level rules

10 Apr 2026 11:51 am
OpenAI projects $2.5 billion in ad revenue this year, $100 billion by 2030: Report

OpenAI expects to generate $2.5 billion in advertising revenue this year, with projections to reach $100 billion by 2030, Axios reported

10 Apr 2026 11:40 am
Florida AG opens probe into OpenAI ahead of potential IPO

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings sent a letter to OpenAI in September 2025 expressing deep concern over increased reports of how OpenAIs products interact with children

10 Apr 2026 11:37 am
xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong leaves company: Report

Anthony Armstrong, named xAIs CFO in October, has departed the company, the Information reported

10 Apr 2026 9:45 am
OpenAI pauses UK data centre project over regulation, costs

We see huge potential for the UKs AI future. London is home to our largest international research hub, and we support the Governments ambition to be an AI leader, OpenAI said

10 Apr 2026 9:39 am
IT industry, govt. examine cybersecurity implications of Anthropics Mythos model

Claudes new LLM has found security vulnerabilities over a decade old in widely used software; as large U.S. firms get early access, Indian firms and the IT Ministry are examining what lies ahead

9 Apr 2026 5:47 pm
Russia sees China's WeChat, Douyin as models for its homegrown Max messenger

The Kremlin sees this kind of platform economy, in which e-commerce firms and affiliated banks help businesses reach their customers through online services, as its main tool for boosting slowing economic growth

9 Apr 2026 11:36 am
OpenAI will reserve portion of IPO shares for retail investors, CFO tells CNBC

OpenAI raised over $3 billion from individual investors in its latest funding round

9 Apr 2026 11:30 am
Intel joins Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip project to power humanoid, data centre goals

Elon Musk said his rocket company SpaceX, which recently merged with his social media and AI firm xAI, and Tesla would build two advanced chip factories at a sprawling facility in Austin, Texas

8 Apr 2026 9:42 am