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Think your return to the office was rough? Elon Musk faces some big challenges

Elon Musk is leaving Washington after a short but turbulent stint in government and getting back to his numerous businesses

30 May 2025 11:27 am
Business Insider cuts 21% of workforce, memo shows

The New York-based company joins several digital media companies in restructuring operations as consumers increasingly depend on artificial intelligence for news synopsis, which is eating into web traffic

30 May 2025 10:17 am
Grammarly secures $1 billion from General Catalyst to build AI productivity platform

Grammarly looks to use AI to build more communication-based productivity tools and even hosts third-party tools on its platform by leveraging access to its 40 million daily users

30 May 2025 10:09 am
Chinese tech companies prepare for AI future without Nvidia: Report

China's biggest technology companies have begun the process of switching to homegrown chips as they contend with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors

30 May 2025 9:53 am
Germany weighs 10% tax on online platforms like Google

Germany is considering a 10% tax on large online platforms like Alphabet's Google and Meta's Facebook, its new minister of state for culture told magazine Stern

30 May 2025 9:25 am
New York Times, Amazon sign AI licensing deal

The multi-year agreement allows Amazon access to its news articles and content from NYT Cooking and sports website The Athletic

30 May 2025 9:04 am
OpenAI argues to keep countersuit against Elon Musk in trial over for-profit shift

OpenAI said it should be allowed to keep its countersuit against billionaire Elon Musk

30 May 2025 8:52 am
U.S. FTC backs DOJ proposal in Google search antitrust case

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice's proposal to make Alphabet's Google share search data with competitors includes adequate safeguards

30 May 2025 8:41 am
Amazon's in-car software deal with Stellantis is winding down

Amazons deal with Stellantis to create in-car software that the companies hoped would transform the driving experience while bolstering their vehicle-tech credentials is winding down

29 May 2025 3:00 pm
Google opens its online store to sell Pixel devices throughout India

The new Google Store will also help Pixel users in servicing. They can now self-serve by initiating repair requests and scheduling pick-up directly from the website

29 May 2025 11:48 am
Why wrench attacks on wealthy crypto holders are on the rise

The tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world

29 May 2025 10:53 am
Telegram, Elon Musk-owned xAI partner to distribute Grok to app users

Under the one-year deal, xAI will give Telegram half of any subscription sales made through the messaging app, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Wednesday

29 May 2025 10:31 am
OpenAI CFO says new structure opens door for potential IPO

OpenAI, in which Microsoft has invested more than $13 billion, outlined plans in December to convert its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC)

29 May 2025 10:12 am
Trump tells U.S. chip design software makers to halt China sales: Report

President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. firms that offer software used to design semiconductors to stop selling their services to Chinese groups, the Financial Times reported

29 May 2025 9:58 am
Netflix co-founder and former CEO Reed Hastings joins Anthropic board

He has previously held director positions at Microsoft and Facebook, and served as the CEO of Netflix for 25 years

29 May 2025 9:55 am
China's DeepSeek releases an update to its R1 reasoning model

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released an update to its R1 reasoning model in the early hours of Thursday

29 May 2025 9:37 am
Meta AI bot used a billion times monthly, says Mark Zuckerberg

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg touted the tech firm's generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) assistant on Wednesday

29 May 2025 8:59 am
Byju's Learning app delisted from Google Play Store

Byju's learning app has been delisted from Google Play Store due to non-payment of dues to its vendor Amazon Web Services, according to sources

28 May 2025 2:48 pm
Apple prevented over $2 billion in fraudulent transactions last year alone: Report

Apples annual App Store fraud prevention analysis reported that the company had prevented over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions in the past five years

28 May 2025 2:31 pm
OnePlus unveils its AI strategy, revamps Alert slider to a customisable Plus Key with AI Plus Mind

The Plus Key activates AI Plus Mind, a new feature to quickly save, catalogue, and recall key information found on the screen

28 May 2025 11:55 am
Anthropic rolls out voice mode for Claude

The feature is being rolled out in English over the upcoming weeks, the company said on X

28 May 2025 11:03 am
WhatsApp for Apple iPad now available for download on App Store

Meta introduced WhatsApp for Apple iPad after years of requests sent in by users

28 May 2025 11:00 am
Salesforce to buy Informatica for $8 billion to bolster AI data tools

Thoma Bravo and Cloud Software Group were part of the five interested buyers of the asset, that person and another person familiar with the process said

28 May 2025 9:45 am
Texas governor signs law to enforce age verification on Apple, Google app stores

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill requiring Apple and Alphabet's Google to verify the age of users of their app stores

28 May 2025 9:11 am
EU investigates four pornography platforms over risks to children

The EU launched an investigation on Tuesday into four pornographic platforms over suspicions they are failing to stop children accessing adult content

28 May 2025 8:16 am
Realme GT 7, GT 7T, Dream Edition and Buds Air 7 Pro launched: Features, price, sale

All the phones in this new series ships with a 7,000 mAh battery supported by a 120 W fast charger included in the box

27 May 2025 3:50 pm
Trump Media to raise $3 billion to spend on cryptocurrencies

The company that runs the Truth Social streaming and social media platform aims to raise $2 billion in fresh equity and $1 billion more through a convertible bond, the report said

27 May 2025 1:47 pm
China accuses Taiwan of cyberattack on tech company

The foreign hacker organisation behind the attack was supported by Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), authorities in the capital of Guangdong province said, based on an initial police investigation

27 May 2025 12:30 pm
Putin says services like Microsoft, Zoom should be 'throttled' in Russia

Putin said it was important for Russia to develop domestic software solutions

27 May 2025 9:43 am
Capgemini and SAP partner with Mistral to deploy AI for sensitive sectors

The collaboration targets industries with stringent data requirements, such as financial services, public sector, aerospace and defence, and energy and utilities

27 May 2025 9:35 am
Google Cloud and Myntra create AI-powered Dream Room Inspirations experience for home furniture shopping

Google Cloud and Myntra announced the launch of the Dream Room Inspirations feature that leverages Generative AI in order to help furniture buyers create visuals of rooms and favoured aesthetics

26 May 2025 2:33 pm
Nvidia to launch cheaper Blackwell AI chip for China after U.S. export curbs

China remains a huge market for Nvidia, accounting for 13% of its sales in the past financial year

26 May 2025 1:21 pm
OpenAI to open office in Seoul amid growing demand for ChatGPT

South Korea has the largest number of paying ChatGPT subscribers after the United States, according to OpenAI

26 May 2025 1:07 pm
Anthropics Claude Opus 4 model is capable of deception and blackmail

The safety team also imposed stricter guardrails after discovering that the AI model offered responses on questions related to bioweapons

26 May 2025 12:54 pm
How Trump 2.0 is changing the FTC, and what it means for Big Tech

After Mr. Trump took office in January, he appointed Andrew Ferguson as the FTC Chair, who expressed his commitment to Mr. Trumps deregulatory agenda

24 May 2025 10:30 am
Musks DOGE expanding his Grok AI in U.S. government, raising conflict concerns

Such use of Grok could reinforce concerns among privacy advocates and others that Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team appears to be casting aside long-established protections over the handling of sensitive data

24 May 2025 10:11 am
Google faces DOJ probe over Character.AI deal: Report

The U.S. Justice Department is probing whether Alphabet's Google violated antitrust law in its agreement with Character.AI, per a report

23 May 2025 9:07 am
Microsoft blocks emails containing the terms Palestine, Gaza and genocide

The news was first discovered by the protest group No Azure for Apartheid (NOAA). whose employees found that they couldnt send emails with terms like Palestine, Gaza and Genocide in the subject line or body

22 May 2025 1:22 pm
Google defeats Rumbles antitrust lawsuit over video sharing market

Alphabet's Google has persuaded a federal judge in California to reject a lawsuit from video platform Rumble

22 May 2025 12:25 pm
Amazon tests AI audio summaries for products, expanding tech giants' AI push

Amazon is testing AI-powered short-form audio summaries on select product detail pages, the e-commerce giant said on Wednesday

22 May 2025 10:18 am
U.S. college student pleading guilty to stealing, extorting teacher and student private data

Assumption University student Matthew Lane, 19, is accused of using stolen login credentials to access the computer network of a software and cloud storage company serving school systems in the U.S. and abroad, according to U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Leah B. Foley

22 May 2025 10:00 am
Microsoft AI weather forecast faster, cheaper, truer: study

According to its designers, Aurora is the first AI model to consistently outperform seven forecasting centres in predicting the five-day trajectory of devastating cyclones

22 May 2025 10:00 am
Google, AI firm must face lawsuit filed by a mother over death of son, U.S. court says

The lawsuit is one of the first in the U.S. against an AI company for allegedly failing to protect children from psychological harms

22 May 2025 9:13 am
M&S says cyber hackers broke in through third-party contractor

Marks & Spencer said hackers broke into its systems by tricking employees at a third-party contractor, skirting its digital defences to launch a cyberattack

22 May 2025 9:02 am
Google unveils new AI video tool Flow along with Veo 3 at Google I/O 2025

Flow is targeted towards filmmakers and creatives

21 May 2025 12:54 pm
Microsoft to add Anthropic's AI coding agent to its GitHub service

Executive Vice President Jay Parikh said at Microsoft's annual software developer conference on Tuesday that the company will also offer Anthropic's coding agent in GitHub

21 May 2025 9:19 am
Epic Games says Fortnite back on Apple's U.S. App Store

Epic Games on Tuesday said its hit game Fortnite has returned to Apple's digital App Store in the United States after being sidelined

21 May 2025 8:56 am
Apple to open its AI models to developers: Report

Apple is preparing to allow third-party developers to write software using its artificial intelligence models, in a push to boost the creation of new applications, Bloomberg News reported

21 May 2025 8:38 am
Google unleashes AI Mode in the next phase of its journey to change search

Google on Tuesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate a year-old makeover of its search engine

21 May 2025 8:23 am
Google rolls out NotebookLM app in Android and iOS

Using the mobile app users will be able to further probe the app hosts and request for more details about the sources

20 May 2025 2:41 pm