Perplexity is reportedly holding discussions with smartphone manufacturers to pre-install its Comet browser. As per the report, the artificial intelligence (AI) answer engine platform wants its AI-powered browser to reach "tens to hundreds of millions" users by 2026. The Comet browser was launched on July 10 and is currently available to Perplexity’s Max subscribers only.
Meta announced that it won't sign the European Union’s (EU) Code of Practice for general-purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) models last week. Earlier this month, the European Commission said that it has received the final version of GPAI Code of Practice, a voluntary tool aimed at helping the industry comply with the AI Act’s rules, whose first phase comes into force on August 2.
Netflix has reportedly admitted using artificial intelligence (AI) videos for one of its sci-fi shows. As per the report, the streaming giant generated a scene in the show The Eternaut to show a collapsing building. The company revealed the information during its Q2 2025 earnings call. This is the first time Netflix has acknowledged using AI for the production of its original shows.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas reportedly said in an interview that in the future, the Comet browser can handle a recruiter’s job easily. As per the report, the CEO highlighted that while the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered browser might not be able to do so at present, it can agentically handle a recruiter’s week’s worth of tasks with a single prompt.
Lenskart is working on a new pair of smart glasses, co-founder and CEO Peyush Bansal announced at the Snapdragon for India XR Day held in New Delhi on Monday. While most of the information remains under wraps, the purported Lenskart smart glasses are confirmed to utilise chipsets made by Snapdragon. These will be the second smart glasses from the eyewear company, building upon the introduction of the Lenskart Phonic in February this year.
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, is now letting users hide artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images. Last week, the Pennsylvania, US-based company announced a new filter on its image search interface that can hide AI images so users can only browse real or non-synthetic photos. The filter is based on a large list of websites and blogs that are known for posting AI-generated images.
Adobe announced new upgrades for its Firefly video model on Thursday, and introduced new third-party artificial intelligence (AI) models that will be available on its platform. The California-based software giant stated that it is now improving the motion generation of its Firefly video model to make it more natural and smoother. Additionally, the company is adding advanced video controls to let users generate more consistent video outputs.
Dell has launched upgraded Alienware Area-51 and Aurora gaming laptops in India, featuring Intel Core Ultra HX CPUs and Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs. The Area-51 comes in 16 and 18-inch sizes, while the Aurora 16X offers up to Core Ultra 9 chipset. Dell also introduced AMD Ryzen AI 300-powered Dell Plus AI laptops, including the 14 Plus, 14 2-in-1 Plus, and 16 Plus models.
Google is now expanding its latest video generation model, Veo 3, to its Gemini application programming interface (API). On Thursday, the Mountain View-based tech giant highlighted that Veo 3 will now be available to developers with the Gemini API, and they will be able to integrate this capability in apps and build new apps around it.
Longtime Meta employee and its Vice President, Product (Generative AI) is being elevated by the tech giant to take over Threads’ day-to-day operations from Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri, as per a report. Mosseri is said to have revealed the executive movement in an internal company memo.
Earlier this year, Google added a new capability to its app on iOS which lets you check the history of the songs searched for in the past. The feature is now rolling out for Android devices too. It is said to be an extension of the Song Search feature which leverages Android’s Circle to Search — Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) visual lookup tool — to search for the name of a song that is currently playing.
OpenAI released a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent, which will be baked into the company's chatbot, on Thursday. Dubbed ChatGPT Agent, it is a general-purpose agent which gets its own virtual computer to browse the web and find information, as well as an integrated development environment (IDE) for coding. The San Francisco-based AI firm said that ChatGPT Agent is essentially the unification of the Operator agent and the Deep Research function.
Slack has rolled out new AI features for enterprise clients, with additional ones coming soon. Users can now use a new Enterprise Search feature to quickly find information across files, chats, and third-party apps. Other additions include channel recaps, thread summaries, and translations. AI meeting notes are now available for Huddles on the platform.
Zoho, the global software-as-a-service (SaaS) giant, announced several new artificial intelligence (AI) products on Thursday. The company unveiled its first natively built large language model (LLM) Zia, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, more than 25 pre-built AI agents, Zia Agent Studio marketplace, and a model context protocol (MCP) server to let third-party agents connect to its library.
ChatGPT Plus users on macOS now have access to Record Mode, a month after its release for Team, Edu, and Pro subscribers. Unveiled by OpenAI in June, this AI-powered tool transcribes, summarises, and takes notes from conference calls and meetings using your computer's system audio. It operates silently, without joining as a participant, streamlining your workflow.
Microsoft announced two new upgrades for Copilot Vision on Tuesday, which are aimed at increasing its usability. The Redmond-based tech giant is introducing a new Desktop Share feature that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to analyse the user’s entire desktop and all the active apps, and assist users with various tasks.
Google announced on Tuesday that its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Big Sleep recently made a major cybersecurity breakthrough. Big Sleep, a cybersecurity-focused AI agent developed by Google DeepMind and Google Project Zero, was able to discover an SQLite vulnerability in the company’s product. The Mountain View-based tech giant highlighted that the security flaw was known to bad actors and was at risk of being exploited.
Google announced new features for its AI Mode tool in Search on Wednesday. Two new upgrades for the artificial intelligence (AI)-driven search experience are now available to the paid subscribers, while one new feature is available to select users. The upgrades include access to the Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model, and a new Deep Search mode for complex queries.
Meta announced the introduction of the Imagine Me feature in India on Thursday. The artificial intelligence (AI) feature has been available in the US and a select few countries so far. But with its expansion in the country, Indian users will be able to generate AI images of themselves in different styles, contexts, and scenarios. The feature is available within the Meta AI interface across all the different platforms.
Bharti Airtel announced a partnership with Perplexity on Thursday, under which all of its users will receive a free subscription to the AI platform’s paid tier. The telecom operator said access to the Perplexity Pro plan will be provided to its entire user base across mobile (prepaid and postpaid), Wi-Fi, and Direct-to-Home (DTH). The free subscription will remain valid for 12 months.
WeTransfer clarified it won't use user-uploaded files for AI model training, following user backlash for updates to its terms of service that suggested the platform could "reproduce, distribute, modify" content for moderation. The file transfer service has now updated its terms again, removing all references to using machine learning with user files, aiming to address irate users' privacy concerns.
OpenAI’s rumoured under-development artificial intelligence (AI) web browser might be called Aura internally. A tipster has found evidence of the name Aura within ChatGPT’s code, leading to the belief that it could be what the company is calling the browser internally. Aura was said to be mentioned along with several other elements associated with browsers.
Meta AI reportedly had a vulnerability that could be exploited to access other users’ private conversations with the chatbot. As per the report, a researcher found the bug late last year and informed the Menlo Park-based social media giant about it. The company then deployed a fix to the issue in January, and rewarded the researcher for finding the exploit.
Acer Swift Lite 14 AI PC has launched in India with up to Intel Core Ultra CPUs and up to 32GB RAM. It runs Windows 11 Home and supports various AI-powered features. The 1.1kg laptop sports a 14-inch OLED display with a 180-degree hinge, and packs a 50Wh battery. It will be sold in two colourways in India.
Google Discover, the personalised news and blog feed within the Google app on smartphones, is reportedly getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature. As per the report, the feed is replacing news headlines and direct links to news articles with an AI-generated summary, similar to the AI Overviews feature on Search.
OpenAI is reportedly developing new productivity tools for ChatGPT that could reduce users’ reliance on Microsoft’s Excel and PowerPoint. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is working on adding support for Microsoft’s spreadsheet and presentation file formats, so users can both create and edit these files directly within the chatbot’s interface.
Google has rolled out a new offer for university students in India which grants them access to a complimentary subscription to the AI Pro membership. The plan usually costs Rs. 1,950 per month but can be subscribed to free-of-cost for a period of one year. With Google AI Pro, subscribers get access to the Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model, along with Deep Research on Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Mistral released its first speech understanding models on Tuesday. Dubbed Voxtral, it is an open-source audio generation artificial intelligence (AI) model that not only turns text into speech but can also understand text to generate speech as a response natively. These models are available in two sizes of 24 billion parameters and three billion parameters.
Gemini in Gmail is vulnerable to prompt injection-based phishing attacks, a researcher demonstrated. As per the researcher, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that offers features such as email summary generation and email rewriting can be manipulated into displaying phishing messages to users. This vulnerability poses a significant risk, as attackers could potentially exploit it to conduct online scams.
Grok for Government, a new initiative by Elon Musk-owned xAI, was announced on Monday. The initiative will build “frontier artificial intelligence (AI) products” for the US government agencies and create agentic workflows for them. The AI firm also won a contract with a ceiling of $200 million (roughly Rs. 1,716 crores) from the US Department of Defense to develop AI capabilities.
Google’s NotebookLM is getting a new feature to help users learn about new topics without having to look for high-quality sources. Announced on Monday, the new addition is dubbed featured notebooks, and these are a list of sources curated by domain experts that users can directly open as a new notebook.
Anthropic is now expanding the list of apps and platforms its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can connect to. In May, the AI firm introduced Integrations, a new feature that made use of the company’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect to remote servers across the web and desktop apps. On Monday, the AI firm added a directory of tools that connect to Claude, as well as new third-party connectors.
WhatsApp is introducing a new official support chat on iOS, offering AI-powered responses directly within the platform. This dedicated in-app channel could make it easier to get help when encountering service issues. Users might also have the option to connect with human WhatsApp support staff within the same chat.
Elon Musk-owned xAI released a new feature for Grok’s most premium subscribers on Monday. Dubbed Companions, these are animated characters that react to user prompts, can move their head and body, and display facial expressions when responding. The new artificial intelligence (AI) feature is currently only available on the iOS app.
OnePlus on Monday announced a new update for its flagship smartphones, the OnePlus 13 series. It adds a new feature called Plus Mind which the China-based company introduced with the OnePlus 13s in June. It is aimed at enabling users to quickly store content or information in a centralised hub with a few swipe gestures, and organise it for recalling later on. Further, Plus Mind can generate descriptions and sort out information with tags.
OpenAI announced another delay for the release of its open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. On Saturday, the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, said that due to additional time required to run safety tests, the release of the AI model was delayed indefinitely. This is the second such delay, after the company postponed the release in June.
Google is said to be rolling out chat search functionality in Gemini for Android. A social media post shared a screenshot of the new search bar in the Android version of the artificial intelligence (AI) app. The feature is currently available on both iOS as well as on the web, but it has not been made available to Android users.
Google is reportedly working on an artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Gboard. As per a report, the new feature is dubbed SmartEdit and it is aimed as an enhancement for the voice typing feature in Gboard. The Mountain View-based tech giant’s keyboard app already allows users to edit or delete a portion of the text using voice commands; however, with SmartEdit, the app is said to let users make more complex edits.
Samsung has reportedly provided some clarity over the future of Galaxy AI features after the end of 2025. So far, the South Korean tech giant has maintained that the artificial intelligence (AI) tools and features that make up the Galaxy AI suite are only free to use till 2025. The company never officially confirmed if these features would be paywalled starting in 2026, or if they would continue to be available for free.
The Acer Aspire Go 14, priced from Rs. 59,999 in India, features a 14-inch WUXGA IPS display and is powered by up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU with Intel Arc Graphics. It supports up to 32GB of DDR5 RAM and up to 1TB of SSD storage. The laptop comes with Intel AI Boost, a Copilot key, an HD webcam with privacy shutter, and a 55Wh battery with 65W USB-C charging. It weighs 1.5kg and supports Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and multiple USB port connectivity.
Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with video game studios on Wednesday with a focus on artificial intelligence protections, the actors' union, SAG-AFTRA, said in a press release, ending a near year-long strike.
Shares of Nvidia ended up 0.75 percent at $164.10, giving it a market value of $4.004 trillion and extending its lead over Apple and Microsoft as it benefits from a surge in demand for artificial-intelligence technologies.
Apple researchers, in collaboration with the University of Southern California, have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that tracks behavioural data over sensor signals. The new research builds on prior work by the Apple Heart and Movement Study (AHMS) and was aimed at understanding whether behavioural data can be a better determinant of a person’s health compared to traditional indices.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform of the tech giant, is reportedly planning to launch a marketplace for artificial intelligence (AI) agents. As per the report, the company could launch the marketplace next week at its AWS Summit event in New York, which will be held on July 15.
Google is now improving the functionality of its Veo 3 video generation model with the inclusion of image-to-video generation. On Thursday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced that eligible users will now be able to add images as input and generate videos based on them using Veo 3. Notably, this feature is currently available via Gemini’s web interface, and the mobile apps do not support it.
Ray-Ban Meta Glasses were released in 2023 in the US, while they were only recently introduced in other markets such as India. However, the successor to the smart glasses may not be too far away. According to a report, alleged renders of the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses successor have surfaced which showcase two separate designs for sunglasses and prescription glasses. The glasses are reported to come with improved battery life and enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) features.
Question What’s Real (QWR), an Indian deep-tech startup, unveiled Humbl, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered smart glasses, on Thursday. The startup claims that Humbl is the first made in India AI smart glasses, and offers features similar to the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. The Indian version is said to come equipped with an AI assistant that can record videos, summarise conversations, play music, help with navigation, and more.
The Tesla chief executive officer commented on the plan hours after presenting a new iteration of Grok via video livestream. Musk and members of his xAI team touted improved voice conversations and benchmarks showing the new AI system scoring higher than models from OpenAI and others.
Google is planning to introduce ads in AI Overviews in India later this year. The Mountain View-based tech giant made the announcement at its Google Marketing Live (GML) India event on Thursday. Alongside, the company also introduced a slew of new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ad tools for brands and enterprises.
Perplexity launched its in-house web browser Comet on Wednesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) browser is powered by the company’s native search engine and various AI features. The browser’s most prominent feature is a sidebar assistant that can derive information from all opened tabs to answer user queries, summarise pages, and even perform certain actions on their behalf.
