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The hacks raised concerns among U.S. lawmakers about whether increasingly capable AI models could be used to conduct or facilitate cyberattacks
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov called out Apple for overreacting and defended the platforms moderation techniques
AI computing deals and Starlink satellite growth fueled the results, the company said in a statement
A new technique can say if a state has clandestinely removed fuel assemblies from a cooling pool to extract plutonium, a key ingredient of nuclear weapons
We would like to understand from Meta as to why some of these things have not been working the way they are supposed to work, and what the challenges are, says Mr. Krishnan
Doctors are trained to approach illness in a particular way whereas what you want out of treatment may be vastly different. When this is not discussed, a large mismatch in expectations can develop, resulting in a trust deficit, and ultimately, disappointment
The report said Apple last month lodged a legal complaint at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the Interior Ministrys demand
Anthropic and OpenAI disclosed in recent days that their AI tools breached the systems of other companies, stirring concerns among U.S. lawmakers
The disruption was highlighted around 8 p.m. IST when users started facing the issue without any prior warning from the Meta group's messaging app
Sony said that Indias smart TV market is moving towards larger screen sizes, above 55 inches, and it commands the segments
More than 12,000 hectares of forest and agricultural land have burned over the past week, according to analyses from the European Unions Copernicus Earth observation programme
Three recent important research developments, all readable in one minute
Research flourishes when ideas compete but suffers when people compete for proximity to power. Many of Indias laboratories continue to operate within rigid hierarchies that would appear strange in leading scientific institutions elsewhere in the world
Qwen3.8-Max has 2.4 trillion parameters, the numerical settings a model learns from data and uses to recognise patterns, generate answers, and carry out tasks
Amazons Great Freedom Sale begins on August 7 this year, with the company touting double digit discount rates across multiple categories
The alloy shares characteristics with other unusual high-entropy alloys and quasicrystals, which are of great interest among engineers for their strength and stability
The U.S. AI industry boasts of a short yet rich tradition of open letters signed by tech companies, but do these efforts lead to any meaningful results?
With land increasingly scarce and storage becoming crucial, heres why India is looking to its vast reservoirs for the next phase of solar expansion
The eSafety study painted a sobering picture. It found that children aged 10 to 15 were using social media just as frequently in March as they had before the ban came into force on December 10
The discovery of additional rogue behaviour at OpenAI, even if limited in nature, could feed growing appetite for regulation coming out of the White House and elsewhere
As Chinese AI models close the gap with their U.S. counterparts, military researchers are also examining distillation as a potential security risk
The company's gross margin was 50.1%, including a favourable impact of approximately 2% points from tariff refunds
Amazon has made investments and signed partnerships worth billions with both OpenAI and Anthropic
While governments continue to ramp up efforts to contain the fires, Europe can also count on a herd of donkeys chomping away to prevent the next one
Unusually for a big tech company, Meta's AI spending spree has seen its cash pile wind down, with free cash flow falling to $784 million from $8.5 billion a year earlier
Microsoft reported $90 billion in revenue and $35.8 billion in net income in the last quarter of its fiscal year
Samsung Electronics has reported a record operating profit of $62 billion for the April-June quarter
The story began on November 21, 1963, when the 715-kg Nike Apache rocket rose into the sky at Thumba, a fishing village on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram.
Starting fromAugust 2, the EU mandates labels for AI-generated content to boost transparency online. From deepfakes to manipulated text, find out how this new code seeks to protect users and maintain the integrity of information
Chinese AI firm Moonshot made headlines with the release of Kimi K3 earlier this month, igniting debate over the merits and risks of open-weight models
Social media influences and trends have been around us for quite long, but ever wondered if its actually changing the way you view food and healthy lifestyles?
The clothes in your wardrobe may be silently polluting the planet. Surprising? The fashion industry is the second biggest polluter in the world.
Imagine theres a power cut, but your phone still works. Sounds impossible today, but for decades, thats exactly what traditional landline phones could do.
Carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, flying horses, galloper... this amusement ride goes by many a name, but the joy it brings is always the same. A.S.Ganesh hops aboard this evergreen ride, picks a horse to seat himself and regales you with stories about it...
The mission will consist of a bio-inspired robotic explorer driven by an AI model, and will be capable of directly sampling particles from planetary ring systems something no mission has attempted before
Language acquisition, at its core, is a social dance. A caregivers response, its tonal quality, and content adapted to the childs level, controls what and if a child learns. This cannot be outsourced to a machine
The Delhi High Court order is the first detailed attempt by an Indian court to place AI training within the Copyright Act.
The notice comes after several users participating in the Jantar Mantar protest were observed using Bluetooth-based messaging apps after the government imposed temporary restrictions on internet services
Google will allow users to set up verification by recording a brief video of themselves performing guided head movements that would capture multiple angles
The agreement spans five years, with a further five-year option, and covers the entire Pentagon, along with the U.S. Coast Guard and the intelligence community
European Union fined Google460 million for search abuses and 430 million forthe Play Store breaches
Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended the companys frontier models amidst worries about the delayed release of the Gemini 3.5 Pro model that was expected last month
Maglev trains use powerful magnetic fields to move above the track without wheels, eliminating rolling friction, enabling speeds of over 400 km/hr; however, the technology requires dedicated guideways with precision engineering, making construction and operation expensive
Data integration, legacy modernisation, workforce capability, governance, and clearly defined accountability will determine whether promising pilots become repeatable, enterprise-scale deployments, TCS said in the report.
If you want to be in space, youll need training. A lot of it. Heres a look at all the different training from spacewalk to simulation that astronauts undergo to be efficient and valiant when, after much waiting, they finally get to space!
Every space mission is a team effort. Beyond the rocket and astronauts, specialised parts like launch vehicles, orbiters, landers and rovers work together to explore space. Heres what each one does.
Mistral, meanwhile, has added its AI models called Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 to Microsofts app builder known as Foundry
A team from Nagaland University probed a prominent middle-Eocene sedimentary rock formation in Karbi Anglong district to arrive at a conclusion

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