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How is Australia setting standards on training AI? | Explained

What did Australias Productivity Commission, a government-backed independent agency, propose with respect to training AI systems with copyrighted content? How have authors, artists, trade unions, and media organisations responded to the proposal? What is the Copyright and AI Reference Group?

2 Nov 2025 3:42 am
IIT-Kanpur did Delhi cloud-seeding trial despite Met dept warning of no clouds

Indias State governments have in the past employed private companies to seed clouds, when their regions faced drought; the results have been hit-and-miss.

1 Nov 2025 8:44 pm
Are your favourite social platforms being degraded?

Enshittification is a term increasingly being used to describe how your digital experiences, services, and transactions have become worse over time. However, the words creator says this is a deliberate process, and that pushing back is possible

1 Nov 2025 11:37 am
The great AI buildout shows no sign of slowing

Microsoft and OpenAI inked a deal enhancing the ChatGPT makers fundraising ability and OpenAI promptly started laying groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at $1 trillion

1 Nov 2025 11:19 am
EU seeks diplomatic solution with Nexperia, EU tech chief says amid supply squeeze

Virkkunen said Nexperia has been invited to the Chips Act Task Force, which is collecting information on the potential economic impacts of the supply crunch

1 Nov 2025 10:53 am
Nvidia CEO hopes Blackwell chips can be sold in China but says decision up to Trump

U.S. national security concerns that the Chinese military could use U.S. technology did not make sense, he added, because Chinas own domestically produced AI chips were good enough for their military applications

1 Nov 2025 9:41 am
WhatsApp rolls out passkey encryption for chat backups

The passkeys will allow users to encrypt their chat backups with fingerprint, face or screen lock code now instead of having to remember a password or a 64-digit encryption key

31 Oct 2025 11:28 am
Netflix taps bank to explorebid for Warner Bros Discovery

Netflix has hired Moelis & Co, the investment bank that advised Skydance Media on its successful bid for Paramount Global, to evaluate a prospective offer, two of the sources said

31 Oct 2025 11:14 am
EU wants to enlist online platforms to fight hybrid threats, document shows

The EU uses the term hybrid threats to refer to coordinated attacks using a combination of economic, technological or other measures that fall short of formal warfare

31 Oct 2025 10:52 am
Palantir sues engineers who left to form 'copycat' Percepta AI

The lawsuit in Manhattan federal court claims that Radha Jain and Joanna Cohen were entrusted with Palantirs crown jewels, including its source code and customer information, and breached agreements they signed with the company to safeguard that information

31 Oct 2025 10:15 am
Nvidia to invest up to $1 billion in AI startup Poolside: Report

Poolside is in discussions to raise $2 billion at a pre-money $12 billion valuation, adding that Nvidia's investment in the round would start at $500 million, with the potential to reach $1 billion if the startup meets its fundraising targets

31 Oct 2025 10:07 am
Intel in talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova: Report

Any deal would likely value SambaNova at below the $5 billion it fetched in a 2021 funding round, and deliberations are in the early stages and there's no certainty the companies will reach an agreement

31 Oct 2025 10:00 am
Apple delivers strong quarter despite trade war challenges and ongoing AI issues

Apple delivered financial results during its summertime quarter that exceeded analyst projections

31 Oct 2025 9:34 am
According to a survey of 25 countries, Indians are least aware of AI

Despite low awareness, Indians expressed the most confidence in government regulation

31 Oct 2025 7:00 am
Scientists detect early brain response to rhythm in preterm babies

Researchers using near-infrared brain imaging found that rhythmic sounds activate both auditory and motor regions in premature infants, indicating that rhythm processing begins before full-term birth and helps wire early pathways for learning and coordination

31 Oct 2025 5:30 am
Canva announces launch of updated AI Visual Suite, Affinity integration

Canva is pitching the consolidation of old and new Generative AI features as a Creative Operating System for visual design

30 Oct 2025 10:40 pm
YouTube will use AI to enhance the resolution of your videos

YouTube confirmed in a blog post that it would use artificial intelligence (AI) in order to enhance the resolution of creators videos

30 Oct 2025 2:34 pm
Grammarly changes name to Superhuman; announces new AI product bundle

Grammarly announced that its product would still exist, but that its company name would change to Superhuman as it launches a suite of AI products aimed at enhancing professional emails, meetings, and workflows

30 Oct 2025 1:34 pm
Instagram is testing a feature to control reels feed

Adam Mosseri, head of the platform announced the update saying it will later be expanded to the Explore section too

30 Oct 2025 12:56 pm
Samsung adds Gujarati to Galaxy AI

The percentage of Galaxy S25 users engaging with Galaxy AI is around 91 percent in India

30 Oct 2025 11:55 am
U.S. company with access to biggest telecom firms uncovers breach by nation-state hackers

Ribbon Communications is a prime example of this trend, Renals said, given its relationships with U.S. military and major organisations in the telecommunications and energy sectors in multiple countries

30 Oct 2025 10:19 am
Amazon launches AI infrastructure project, to power Anthropic's Claude model

The tech giant had started Project Rainier last year to build an AI compute cluster spread across multiple data centers in the U.S. The computer incorporates nearly half-a-million of Amazon's in-house Trainium2 chips

30 Oct 2025 9:53 am
Samsung posts 32% profit rise on-year in third quarter

Samsung's latest earnings report marks a sharp turnaround for the company, which saw its profits plunge more than 50 percent on-year in the second quarter

30 Oct 2025 9:47 am
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to visit India in December

Nadella will address two AI-related conferences in Bengaluru and Mumbai during his visit, which also includes meetings in New Delhi, said one of the sources

30 Oct 2025 9:44 am
Microsoft Azure's services recovering after global outage

Britain's Heathrow Airport's website was back online after issues had affected it earlier in the day. Vodafone had also been impacted due to the outage.

30 Oct 2025 6:33 am
Researchers, families confront Huntingtons with rhythm and resolve

Beyond the laboratory, researchers are exploring more ways to ease HD symptoms and improve quality of life. Multiple studies have shown that structured movement through dance forms like the Argentine tango have helped patients with Parkinsons disease regain some motor control

29 Oct 2025 3:15 pm
Nanometre tank of helium reveals weird waves never seen before

When cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero, helium becomes a superfluid: it can flow without any friction or viscosity. This means an ultra-shallow film of superfluid helium just a few nanometres thick can move freely without getting stuck. This is impossible for any normal fluid

29 Oct 2025 3:02 pm
Zohos Sridhar Vembu criticised by doctors for suggesting vaccines may cause autism

On platform X, Mr. Vembu re-posted a controversial study that claimed vaccination was a significant, preventable driver of autismbut such a link is unproven

29 Oct 2025 2:32 pm
Hurricane Melissa a beast among a string of monster Atlantic storms

Melissa achieved whats called extreme rapid intensification

29 Oct 2025 2:25 pm
OpenAI sued for trademark infringement over Sora's 'Cameo' feature

Cameo said in the complaint that OpenAI's Cameo, which allows users to create and share their virtual likenesses on Sora, is likely to cause consumer confusion and dilute its brand

29 Oct 2025 10:31 am
Amazon to cut about 14,000 corporate jobs in AI push

Two U.S. senators have asked Amazon to explain why it is the nations largest employer of foreign workers using H-1B visas while also cutting jobs

29 Oct 2025 10:21 am
Adobe reworks its apps for AI assistants, pursues ChatGPT integration

In 2023, Adobe rolled out Firefly, a service for generating images and other content with text prompts

29 Oct 2025 10:21 am
Lilly partners with Nvidia on AI supercomputer to speed up drug development

Using the supercomputer, scientists at Lilly will be able to train AI models on millions of experiments to test potential medicines, expanding the scope of drug discovery efforts, the company said

29 Oct 2025 10:12 am
OpenAI says a million ChatGPT users talk about suicide

OpenAI estimated that approximately 0.15 percent of users have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent

29 Oct 2025 8:51 am
Who owns our knowledge? Rethinking scientific publishing in the AI age

Commercial data sharing agreements mean researchers intellectual property is being monetised twice: first through subscriptions, then through AI partnerships, while they continue to not be compensated and being denied control of their work

28 Oct 2025 5:06 pm
Foxconn to invest up to $1.37 billion in AI compute cluster, supercomputing centre

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, has been stepping up its investments in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure as it seeks new growth drivers beyond smartphones and traditional electronics manufacturing

28 Oct 2025 10:54 am
India's LTIMindtree betting big on new AI unit, CEO says

The business, BlueVerse, launched in June, uses ready-made digital assistants to solve problems for firms

28 Oct 2025 10:36 am
OpenAI will make ChatGPT Go free for Indian users for a year

Existing Go subscribers will also get 12 months for free, the company said, with redemption details to be shared later

28 Oct 2025 10:25 am
LSEG partners with Anthropic to bring financial data access to Claude users

The company said Workspace and Financial Analytics will be accessible through Anthropic's expanded Claude for Financial Services offering, allowing customers to automate financial analysis

28 Oct 2025 10:21 am
Musk could leave Tesla if $1 trillion pay plan is rejected, chair warns

The appeal comes ahead of the November 6 annual meeting, with Tesla's board having faced repeated criticism for not acting in shareholders' best interests and governance experts and advocacy groups questioning its independence and oversight of Musk's influence

28 Oct 2025 10:11 am
Chinas heatwaves threaten to dry up supply of yummy hairy crabs

The labour-intensive cultivation of the crabs begins with farmers growing their larvae in ponds for about a year before they are moved to fenced farms

27 Oct 2025 3:12 pm
Stanford/Elsevier rank list: why all that glitters is not gold

Scientists work is often evaluated by the number of citations their papers have garnered. However, there has been a nave assumption that scientists always only cite good-quality papers, which in turn has fed the notion that a papers citation number is indicative of its impact. But this neednt always be true

27 Oct 2025 3:05 pm
Australia sues Microsoft over 'misleading' AI offer

The authority said it had filed a suit in the Federal Court against Microsoft Australia and its parent Microsoft

27 Oct 2025 8:40 am
Hands-off approach: On the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar awards

Scientists are the best judges of excellence in science

27 Oct 2025 12:10 am
New model finds hovering doesnt need a complex brain

For engineering, a new finding could open a path towards bio-inspired drones that hover stably without complex control algorithms or too many sensors

26 Oct 2025 3:25 pm
What is Googles quantum advantage leap? | Explained

How does quantum information become hidden in complex systems? How can a quantum computer retrieve it? What real-world applications does this ability have? What are the challenges of establishing quantum advantage?

26 Oct 2025 12:43 am
AWS outage: How Amazon cloud outage affected the global internet

The glitch took down more than 2,000 companies with it, Downdetector noted, with several apps and services impacted like Amazon, Snapchat, Signal, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Canva, Roblox, Duolingo, Fortnite, Coinbase and Epic Games online services

24 Oct 2025 6:45 pm