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Google released its annual roundup titled Indias Year in Search 2025: The A to Z of Trending Searches
Apple Watch users in India can now look out for the hypertension notification feature after its launch
Brussels is planning a new antitrust investigation into Meta Platforms over its rollout of artificial intelligence features in WhatsApp, the Financial Times reported on Thursday
As per a new report, OpenAI plans to release a version of the new large language model by early next year
While the content of Wikipedia remains free for individuals under its license, the high-volume, automated access by for-profit entities is a different matter, Wales said
Salesforce has been pummeled by a wave of investor skepticism thats intensified the pressure on its persuasive CEO Marc Benioff
It is rare for Microsoft to lower quotas for specific products, the report said, citing two salespeople in the Azure cloud unit
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met separately with U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday
The surge in artificial intelligence technologies, which require massive computing power, has spurred unprecedented growth in data centers worldwide, including India
The data comes as the AI world has shifted its focus from training AI models, where Nvidia dominates the market, to putting them to use for millions of users, where Nvidia faces far more competition from rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices and Cerebras
The Sam Altman-led firm is already a Neptune customer, using Neptunes tracker to monitor and debug training of its GPT large language models
The case, originally brought by the Times in 2023, is one of many brought by copyright owners against tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta Platforms for using their material without permission to train their AI systems
Micron Technology said on Wednesday it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence data centres
Companies face fines of Aus$49.5 million (US$32 million) if they fail to take easonable steps to comply
Malaria sporozoites injected into human skin have to cover hundreds of micrometres to find a capillary that leads them to the liver. Older geometric models had already hinted that the natural distance across which a parasite makes a turn roughly matches the radius of small blood vessels, making it easier to loop around them
University of Science and Technology of China researchers have found a way to realise an experiment Albert Einstein dreamt up a century ago
As the year comes to an end, music streaming giants YouTube, Amazon, and Spotify are trying to woo users by presenting their annual stats in increasingly quirky and memorable ways
Tech giants including Microsoft , Google and ByteDance are scrambling to secure supplies from memory-chip makers such as Micron, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, according to three people familiar with the discussions
Anthropic has hired the law firm Wilson Sonsini to prepare for an initial public offering that could take place as early as 2026, the Financial Times reported
Nvidia has been pushing to get other chip firms to adopt its NVLink technology, with Intel, Qualcomm and now AWS on board
Bun is expected to help Anthropic scale its code-generation tool Claude Code, which reached an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion since its launch earlier this year
The generative AI boom has sped up chipmakers' development process, as they rush to design the fastest, most energy-efficient equipment for advanced data centers
Sound, waves, and a paradox later, noise cancellation has grown into a sought after delight, popularised by headphones and mastered by sound engineers.
YouTube shared a disappointing update to millions of Australian users and content creators on Wednesday, saying it will comply with a world-first teen social media ban by locking out users aged under 16
Flipping their gender setting to male and even posting photos with fake mustaches, a growing number of women on LinkedIn have posed a provocative challenge
So-called Trump accounts containing $1,000 for all children born after January 1, 2025 were part of the One Big Beautiful Bill that the Republican president pushed through Congress
The Department of Telecommunications has ordered phone makers to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on smartphones by March 2026. The order has raised concerns.
While DeepSeek-V3.2 is designed as an AI assistant for reasoning on par with GPT-5, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is for more complex tasks and is comparable with the Gemini-3.0-Pro
This is not a user-chosen convenience layer but state-mandated software that can, even if unintentionally, create pathways for monitoring which device belongs to whom, how devices move, when they are active or inactive, and how they interact with telecom networks
Jyotiraditya Scindia, Minister of Communications, said in Parliament that the Sanchar Saathi app could be deleted by users, and was optional
Earlier on X, Mr. Tan had pointed to an article on Mr. Vembus suspicions around the hype of vibe coding
OpenAI hasn't publicly acknowledged it is working on selling ads, but it is testing different types of ads, including those related to online shopping, the report said, citing a person with knowledge of its plans
The deal, unveiled by the companies on Monday, comes as Nvidia has carried out a range of investments, such as those in OpenAI and Anthropic
Apple last month challenged Indias antitrust penalty law which allows the regulator to use global turnover when calculating the penalties
Those in favour of the world-first December 10 ban point to a growing mass of studies that suggest too much time online takes a toll on teen wellbeing
The companies on Monday said they will also launch a new artificial intelligence program to help enterprises in various industries, including financial services, healthcare and retail adopt AI-powered workflows
Australia currently has no specific AI laws though the centre-left Labor government last year signalled it would introduce voluntary guidelines
Netflix has made a mostly cash offer to buy TV and film group Warner Bros Discovery as the storied yet debt-laden Hollywood studio presses on with a sale
What are the two different types of bioremediation? How is traditional microbiology combined with cutting-edge biotechnology? Has the government initiated schemes to further bioremediation programmes? What are some of the challenges the country faces with respect to adoption of such technologies?
As the human presence in the solar system expands, energy will become critical and energy sources will become strategic
The move is meant to safeguard the citizens from buying the non-genuine handsets, enabling easy reporting of suspected misuse of telecom resources and to increase effectiveness of the Sanchar Saathi initiative
Under the pact, HSBC will deploy Mistral's commercial models and future upgrades on a self-hosted basis, combining its internal tech muscle with Mistral's model building
The new service is being unveiled a little over a month after an Amazon Web Services outage on October 20 disrupted thousands of websites worldwide
Iberia said the compromised information included names, loyalty card membership and contact details, but no passwords nor bank card information
Major retail chains and tech companies are offering new or updated artificial intelligence tools in time for the holiday shopping season
Even though science tells us we are on track for catastrophic 2.5-3C warming by centurys end, in the back of our minds we think maybe its going to be fine, says RachitDubey, assistant professor, University of California

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