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Google, PayPal partner to roll out AI-powered solutions across platforms

The AI startup provides artificial intelligence search tools that deliver information summaries to users

18 Sep 2025 9:49 am
Amazon violated online shopper protection law, judge rules ahead of Prime signup trial

The ruling by U.S. District Judge John Chun in the case accusing Amazon of deceptive practices to generate Prime subscriptions puts the company at a disadvantage at trial

18 Sep 2025 9:48 am
Moody's flags risk in Oracle's $300 billion of recently signed AI contracts

Oracle said this month it expected booked revenue at its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure business to exceed half a trillion dollars

18 Sep 2025 9:43 am
Crosstalk: waning immunity against Japanese encephalitis worsens dengue

Both JEV and dengue virus belong to the same genus. Previous research had hinted at interactions between JEV immunity and dengue outcomes. To understand more, a new study examined three large dengue outbreaks in Dharan in Nepal between 2019 and 2023

18 Sep 2025 5:30 am
How the DeepSeek-R1 AI model was taught to teach itself to reason | Explained

Reinforcement learning alone, with the right design, could produce reasoning behaviour that was previously thought to require human examples

17 Sep 2025 8:30 pm
Google launches payments protocol for agentic AI transactions

The initiative is already supported by more than 60 partners including fintech companies like Revolut, Coinbase and Paypal to merchants and SaaS companies like Etsy, Salesforce and Inuit to financial providers like American Express and Mastercard

17 Sep 2025 3:04 pm
OpenAI is building age verification system in ChatGPT for teen safety

OpenAI is working on an age-prediction system that can estimate the age of ChatGPT users

17 Sep 2025 2:32 pm
YouTube announces AI tools for creators using Shorts

Using this, creators will be able to generate output with lower latency at 480p to create video clips easily with sound, for the first time

17 Sep 2025 12:27 pm
Nvidia's new RTX6000D chip for China finds little favour with major firms

The RTX6000D, designed mainly for AI inference tasks, is seen as expensive for what it does, the two people said

17 Sep 2025 10:21 am
Robotics startup Figure valued at $39 billion in latest funding round

The Series C round was led by Parkway Venture Capital, and also saw participation from industry majors such as Nvidia , Intel Capital, LG Technology Ventures, Salesforce , T-Mobile Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures

17 Sep 2025 10:11 am
Workday to buy AI firm Sana for $1.1 billion as HR software deal-making heats up

Just last month, private equity firm Thoma Bravo agreed to buy Workday rival Dayforce for $12.3 billion

17 Sep 2025 10:03 am
U.S. senators demand Meta's internal data on kids' safety

The 10 senators led by Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, made the demand a week after a Senate hearing where former Meta safety researchers said the company shut down internal research showing Meta knew children were using its VR products and being exposed to sexually explicit material

17 Sep 2025 9:45 am
Microsoft seizes 340 websites linked to growing phishing subscription service

Microsoft obtained an order from the U.S. District Court in Manhattan earlier this month to seize domains associated with Raccoon0365, the subscription service that allowed users to carry out massive phishing campaigns, which sometimes involved thousands of emails at a time, according to Steven Masada, assistant general counsel for Microsofts Digital Crimes Unit

17 Sep 2025 9:37 am
The hidden human cost of Artificial Intelligence

AIs efficiency and accuracy are built on the invisible labour of low-paid workers in developing countries. From data labelling to content moderation, ghost workers face exploitation, insecurity, and mental health risks.

17 Sep 2025 8:30 am
Portable ion chromatograph brings real-world practice to classrooms

Aquamonitrix works as a simple, low-pressure ion chromatograph that can separate anions along a relatively short column. The solution used to carry the sample into the chromatograph and facilitate the exchange of anions with the column contains only sodium chloride, so the process is also environmentally friendly

17 Sep 2025 5:30 am
Google releases open-source AI model VaultGemma with differential privacy

The AI model has 1-billion parameters and is based on the Gemma 2 from Googles family of small language models

16 Sep 2025 3:33 pm
OpenAI upgrades AI coding agent Codex

Called GPT-5 Codex, the agent can choose how much time it spends on a task with more complex problems taking up to 7 hours at a time

16 Sep 2025 11:56 am
Google fires over 200 AI contract workers for demanding better pay, job security: Report

A new report has revealed that these raters were working with the company to help improve AI products including Gemini and AI Overviews

16 Sep 2025 11:48 am
Bending ice could explain how lightning is born in thunderstorms

Thunderstorm electrification is one of the oldest unsolved problems in atmospheric science

16 Sep 2025 11:07 am
Dawn of artificial mummification pushed back 5,000 years

A new study by scientists from across Asia has reported that many of communities in Southeast Asia gently heated and smoked their dead to preserve them

16 Sep 2025 10:30 am
Online marketplace Fiverr to lay off 30% of workforce in AI push

The cuts, which will affect 250 employees, are a part of a restructuring plan announced by Fiverr's CEO Micha Kaufman geared towards investing heavily in AI and incorporating the technology into the company's platform

16 Sep 2025 9:53 am
Conduct of social media companies during political unrest

Companies stay largely passive during such unrest; their reluctance to deploy technological workarounds or challenge government orders shows the tension between profit motives and digital rights

16 Sep 2025 8:30 am
As the lights stay on, birds are staying up past their bedtime

By combining millions of recordings from hundreds of species, scientists have found that artificial light is nudging birds to stay awake longer by nearly an hour. The timings for birds with large, watchful eyes shifted the most while small-eyed species barely stirred from their routine. The changes were sharpest in the breeding season

16 Sep 2025 5:30 am
Greece targets threat of invasive fruit flies from Asia

Fruit fly species from Asia have begun to make their appearance in southeastern Europe as climate change increases local temperatures

15 Sep 2025 4:37 pm
Elon Musk's Starlink reports service outage, thousands of users affected

Starlink, operated by Musks SpaceX, provides internet services via a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites and is used in remote areas and conflict zones globally

15 Sep 2025 11:30 am
How slain U.S. activist Charlie Kirks supporters are shutting down online critics

Charlie Kirk, who rallied his millions of followers to help U.S. President Donald Trump win a second White House term, was both revered and reviled for his pro-gun, anti-abortion and anti-immigrant rhetoric

15 Sep 2025 9:38 am
Trump seen again pushing deadline on TikTok sale or divestment, source says

It would be the fourth reprieve granted by U.S. President Donald Trump from federal enforcement of a law that originally gave ByteDance until January 2025 to sell or shut down TikTok

15 Sep 2025 9:32 am
Googles top AI scientist says learning how to learn will be next generations most needed skill

Googles DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the most valuable human skill for the future will be learning how to learn

15 Sep 2025 8:46 am
Mosquitoes suck but should we simply get rid of them?

In a world increasingly in the clutches of mosquito-borne diseases, does it make sense for scientists to try and wipe out some mosquitoes altogether?

15 Sep 2025 5:30 am
What do SC guidelines say on DNA? | Explained

Why did the Supreme Court intervene in DNA samples in criminal cases? What lapses did the court uncover? What has the court said about DNA reliability in past rulings? What do the new guidelines mandate? Is DNA alone enough to convict?

14 Sep 2025 10:37 pm
Parliamentary panel suggests licensing requirements for AI content creators

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology also recommends mandatory labelling of AI-generated content and stronger measures against deepfakes

14 Sep 2025 8:14 pm
Australia approves worlds first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia

The single-dose vaccine was developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland state after more than a decade of research

14 Sep 2025 2:45 pm
In AI meeting tools, experimentation matters more than automation

Automation doesnt replace judgment but supports it when used thoughtfully

14 Sep 2025 7:00 am
The long and short of it

George Kerr Anderson was an American inventor and tinkerer who spent a lifetime making improvements to devices from lengthening the words that could be typed with a typewriter before its ribbon had to be changed, to creating standalone shorthand machines. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about a man and his machines, both of which are now mostly forgotten

14 Sep 2025 12:54 am
U.S. FTC probes Google, Amazon over search advertising practices

The investigations are being conducted by the FTC's consumer protection unit, and focus on whether Amazon and Alphabet properly disclosed terms and pricing for ads

13 Sep 2025 10:57 am
OpenAI to share 8% of its revenue with commercial partners: Report

The difference between those figures adds up to more than $50 billion in additional revenue OpenAI would keep for itself, the report added

13 Sep 2025 10:40 am
Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of data annotators: Report

The company sent out emails Friday night notifying employees that it was planning to downsize its team of generalist AI tutors, the report said

13 Sep 2025 10:33 am
U.S. penalizes two Chinese companies that acquired tools for chipmaker SMIC

GMC Semiconductor Technology (Wuxi) Co and Jicun Semiconductor Technology were placed on the list, formally known as the Entity List, for acquiring equipment for SMIC Northern Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (Beijing) Corp and Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corporation, the Federal Register posting said

13 Sep 2025 10:29 am
YouTube expands multi-language audio to millions of creators

YouTube is expanding its multi-language audio to millions of creators so that they can make use of multi-lingual dubbing

12 Sep 2025 2:42 pm
Oracle nears $1 trillion valuation, Ellison edges toward richest-person title

The enterprise software maker's remarkable rise, fueled by a wave of multi-billion-dollar cloud deals, puts the spotlight on the scramble for computing power from companies that are pouring billions to become leaders in the AI race

12 Sep 2025 10:48 am
U.S. regulator probes AI chatbots over child safety concerns

The consumer protection agency issued orders to seven companies, including tech giants Alphabet, Meta, OpenAI and Snap

12 Sep 2025 10:24 am
The physics of light-based computers can change the way AI works

Recently, two research teams studied nonlinear interactions between intense light pulses passing through glass fibres and uncovered something unusual. They reported that its possible to use the physics of light in optical fibres to perform complex AI tasks potentially much faster and with less energy than traditional computers

12 Sep 2025 5:30 am
India-Germany submarine partnership advances with MDL contract talks for Project 75(I)

Negotiations mark key step in six-submarine programme under Atmanirbhar Bharat

11 Sep 2025 10:23 pm
Spotify rolling out lossless audio to Premium users

Spotifys new Lossless feature will let Premium listeners stream tracks in up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC, meaning that their music will feel more detailed

11 Sep 2025 2:38 pm
11 Sep 2025 10:54 am
Steel truss bridges have secret defences against collapse

A new study has revealed that bridges can quietly redirect forces after damage, paving the way for engineers to reinforce existing designs

10 Sep 2025 5:11 pm
Meta, TikTok win challenge against EU tech fees

Meta and ByteDance's TikTok sued the European Commission after they were hit with a supervisory fee of 0.05% of their annual worldwide net income to cover the EU executive's cost of monitoring their compliance with the Digital Services Act

10 Sep 2025 2:44 pm