Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale 2025 will commence in India soon. Ahead of the sale event, the company has teased a few deals on several smartphones, laptops, and other electronics from brands such as Samsung, Apple, iQOO, OnePlus, HP, and Sony. During the sale, the e-commerce giant will offer instant bank discounts. Apart from price cuts, customers will also be able to avail themselves of cashback offers and exchange bonuses.
ChatGPT might be vulnerable to principles of persuasion, a group of researchers has claimed. During the experiment, the group used a range of prompts with different persuasion tactics such as flattery, peer pressure, and more, to GPT-4o mini, and found varying success rates. The experiment also highlights that breaking down the system hierarchy of an artificial intelligence (AI) model does not require sophisticated hacking attempts or layered prompt injections.
Flipkart has announced its biggest festival sale in India. Dubbed the Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale, the e-commerce giant will offer lucrative deals on a wide range of products across various categories. Smartphones, tablets, wearables, laptops, TVs, home appliances, and other electronics are expected to be offered at considerably lower prices than their usual market rates.
Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale 2025 is confirmed to take place soon, as the company makes the microsite live. During the sale event, the e-commerce platform will offer instant bank discounts, cashback offers, exchange bonuses, and easy EMI options. The deals will be refreshed at 8 pm every day.
Grok Code Fast 1, a new lightweight coding-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model, was released by xAI on Thursday. The Elon Musk-owned AI startup highlighted that this model comes with agentic capabilities and is designed as a full-stack coding agent that can be used to build both the backend and the front-end of a software.
The Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) recently blacklisted between 3,00,000 to 4,00,000 SIM cards that were allegedly being used to commit financial fraud, as per a report. Now, another government agency, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) has issued a warning regarding an e-SIM fraud, where the bad actors were able to gain access to a victim’s account, even if their UPI and ATM cards were blocked.
Anthropic announced an update to its privacy policy on Thursday, highlighting that it will now train its existing and future artificial intelligence (AI) models on users’ conversations. The San Francisco-based AI company highlighted that it is now giving users an option to either accept or deny this change. This revised policy only affects the end consumers and is not aimed at the enterprise customers of Anthropic.
At the 48th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced a partnership with Google to establish a Jamnagar Cloud region. Exclusively built for Reliance, it will provide “world-class” AI and compute capabilities powered by Google Cloud in a bid to accelerate AI adoption across RIL’s energy, retail, telecom, and financial services. The Jamnagar Cloud region will leverage clean energy supplied by Reliance and connectivity powered by Jio’s network.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) held its 48th annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday. Amid major announcements such as the announcement of the Jio IPO and Jio Frames smartglasses, the company also unveiled the creation of an unexpected joint venture (JV) with Meta. With this JV, RIL and Meta are collaborating on the artificial intelligence (AI) front, and will together develop enterprise solutions across a wide range of industries.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced JioFrames at the 48th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday. It is a pair of hands-free artificial intelligence (AI)-powered smart glasses that feature a built-in AI voice assistant. There is support for multiple Indian languages, enabling users to converse with the voice assistant in their native language. JioFrames comes with an HD camera, which can be used to take photos and record videos. There are various health and fitness-tracking features as well.
Reliance announced new features for its Jio AI Cloud service on Friday. Users will soon be able to search saved photos using voice prompts in their native language, though the full list of supported languages has not yet been confirmed. The AI Create Hub will allow users to turn photos into reels, collages, or promo videos without requiring expertise. Jio AI Cloud will also auto-categorise uploads such as receipts or ID cards. These features are expected to roll out soon, but no specific timeline has been provided.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) held its 48th annual general meeting (AGM) on Friday. The company is now bringing a new voice-enabled search assistant called Riya to the platform, which will assist users in content discovery.
OpenAI, on Thursday, announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) speech generation model dubbed GPT-Realtime. This is an enterprise-focused model that is capable of native audio generation with low latency, enabling two-way real-time voice conversations. The San Francisco-based AI firm said that compared to its existing voice models, the Realtime model offers higher quality output.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced a special offer on several of its entry-level broadband plans in India, as part of its Bharat Fiber service. As per the state-owned telecom service provider (TSP), customers can avail of discounts on the monthly tariff for three months. Apart from this, they will also be able to enjoy free service for the first month, essentially extending the offer to a total of four months.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is all set to host its 48th Annual General Meeting (AGM) today, August 29. RIL Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani is expected to take the stage to provide annual updates on FMCG strategies, the long-awaited Jio IPO, and other projects undertaken by companies under the RIL Group. There are also expectations of announcements related to the expansion of Reliance’s tech stack, including artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives like JioBrain and Jio’s 5G and 6G infrastructure in the telecom sector.
Google has reportedly alerted 2.5 billion Gmail account holders after a password hacker group was able to carry out a “successful intrusion.” As per the report, the incident occurred between August 8 and 18 in a widespread attack via compromised Open Authorisation (OAuth) tokens. Apart from targeting individual accounts, the threat actors have also targeted Salesforce’s database containing information about its customers, the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has found.
In a court filing at the High Court of Karnataka in southwestern India, A23, which offers rummy and poker games, said the law "criminalises the legitimate business of playing online games of skill, which would result in the closure of various gaming companies overnight".
Former Poco India head Himanshu Tandon has join CMF by Nothing, the company announced on Thursday. The executive departed the Xiaomi subsidiary in July after serving as the Country Head for more than three years. Tandon joins CMF by Nothing as the Vice President of Business, aiming to accelerate CMF’s growth and oversee its global strategy, growth, and go-to-market execution for India and the international markets.
OpenAI partnered with Anthropic for a first-of-its-kind alignment evaluation exercise, with the aim of finding gaps in the other company's internal safety measures. The findings from this collaboration were shared publicly on Wednesday, highlighting interesting behavioural insights about their popular artificial intelligence (AI) models. OpenAI found Claude models to be more prone to jailbreaking attempts compared to its o3 and o4-mini models.
Samsung dropped a surprise announcement on Wednesday in the form of a new Galaxy event, set to take place in the first week of September. The South Korean tech conglomerate has teased the launch of new premium artificial intelligence (AI) tablets and the newest member of the Galaxy S25 family. As per recent rumours, these are likely references to the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 series and the Galaxy S25 FE.
Beatoven.ai, a Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup focused on music generation, unveiled its first in-house AI Model on Wednesday. Dubbed Maestro, it is a music model that can generate instrumental tracks across various genres based on text prompts. The company claims that the large language model (LLM) was only trained on fully licensed datasets, and the rightsholders of the music are also eligible for revenue-sharing.
Google introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) image model on Tuesday, calling it the company’s best image generation and editing model to date. Dubbed Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the model improves on both the generation speed and element-based editing. Interestingly, the model went viral on the crowdsourced AI model ranking platform LMArena weeks before its official announcement.
Apple’s annual hardware launch event, dubbed ‘Awe Dropping’, is scheduled for September 9. Among the highlights is expected to be the iPhone 17 series, arriving with a refreshed lineup and a new Air model this year. Apart from this, we also expect to see the Apple Watch Ultra 3, Watch Series 11, and AirPods Pro (3rd Generation). However, the launch event might spell the end for some Apple devices too, with the company phasing them out to make room for its newest launches.
Apple has finally announced the date of its hardware launch event, following weeks of speculation. The ‘Awe Dropping’ event is all set to take place in the second week of September. From the iPhone 17 series and new TechWoven cases to AirPods Pro (3rd Generation) and Apple Watch Ultra 3, here’s what to expect from Apple’s ‘Awe Dropping’ event.
Perplexity, the Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has reportedly expanded its revenue-sharing programme for publishers. As per the report, the company will now compensate media houses and website publishers when their content appears on the Comet web browser’s AI searches. The expansion follows last year’s announcement when the company first announced its revenue-sharing programme to pay publishers for surfacing their content on its AI answer engine platform.
CloudSEK, a cybersecurity firm, highlighted that artificial intelligence (AI) summarising tools can be tricked into carrying out commands of threat actors using benign CSS tricks. These tricks usually involve using hidden text in emails, messages, weblinks, and web pages. When a user asks an AI chatbot or an AI summarising tool to process the content and provide a summary, it also processes the invisible text, which are typically prompt injections aimed at overwhelming the AI system.
WhatsApp for Mac got a new update via the App Store. The latest update with version 25.22.79 reportedly introduces a chat filtering feature with Unread, Favourites and Group options. This is available to a limited group of users. The messaging service is is making it easier to see unread, favourite, and group chats on your Mac computer.
Google’s NotebookLM introduced Video Overviews last month, which can generate narrative-based visual slides based on the selected sources. On Monday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced that the feature is now available in 80 languages globally. The expansion will now allow users to select sources that are not in the English language and then generate an AI-powered visual summary of the topic.
OpenAI Learning Accelerator, a new India-focused initiative, was introduced by the company on Monday. Through this initiative, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm aims to build advanced AI research, training, and deployment capabilities among the educators and learners of the country. The AI firm is also collaborating with various stakeholders and providing both funding and free ChatGPT licenses as part of the initiative.
Elon Musk-owned artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Apple on Monday. The legal complaint has been registered in the US federal court in Texas, and alleges the two companies of anticompetitive conduct and conspiracy to monopolise the market for smartphones and generative AI chatbots.
YouTube might be using artificial intelligence (AI) to alter human-created Shorts videos, several content creators have claimed. The YouTubers have complained that the AI-generated effects on their videos were being added without their express consent, and added that the streaming giant did not inform them about adding the said effect.
Flipkart Black is now available in India as the e-commerce platform’s new subscription programme. It has been placed as a more premium membership programme than the company’s VIP subscription. It will offer early access to sale events, provide exclusive discounts and cashbacks on electronics, along with access to customer support on priority.
Spotify will raise prices as it invests in new features and targets 1 billion users, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing the music streaming provider's Co-President and Chief Business Officer Alex Norstrom.
Slack, the enterprise-focused communication and collaboration platform, introduced a new feature on Monday that will allow users to manage their projects better. Dubbed Slack Lists, or just Lists, the new feature lets team leads create tasks and assign them to users. The feature’s functionality is similar to workflow management platforms such as Trello or Asana.
Apple is reportedly planning to roll out tools that will let businesses decide if a device can connect to ChatGPT for Enterprise or not. As per the report, the new admin tools will be rolled out as part of the upcoming versions of software updates in September. With this, the Cupertino-based tech giant’s enterprise customers will have more control over whether ChatGPT can connect to their internal data or not.
Google Drive recently added the video transcription feature for users, which allows them to view and search for captions for a particular recording. In an attempt to make the cloud storage service more video-friendly, the US-based tech giant has now integrated a new feature called Google Vids into the Drive. This new functionality will allow people to edit clips and add music and text to a video, without having to leave a web browser.
Meta, on Saturday, announced a partnership with the artificial intelligence (AI) research lab Midjourney. As part of the collaboration, the research teams of both companies will work together to bring Midjourney’s expertise in AI-powered image and video generation to Meta’s models. The company also highlighted that it will be licensing the research lab’s technologies for its future AI models.
TikTok on Friday denied circulating reports that it had been unbanned in India. The app was first banned by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in June 2020, due to concerns regarding national security and data privacy. The rumours of a possible comeback surfaced on Friday, after the official website of the Chinese social media platform became accessible for a brief period to some users.
Google unveiled its flagship Pixel 10 series of smartphones at the Made by Google event on August 20. Several days after the launch, the tech giant has announced a key feature on the latest handsets, which was previously unknown. According to Google, the Pixel 10 series will soon offer support for voice and video calls over WhatsApp via a satellite network.
Blinkit founder and CEO Albinder Dhindsa announced that the platform now delivers powered eyeglasses from Lenskart in just 10 minutes. Customers don’t need a prescription to order. They can select lens power from preset options ranging from minus 0.25 to minus 1.5, choose their preferred colour, and check out via the Blinkit app. The service is currently available in Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai, with plans to expand to more regions across India soon.
WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will allow users to leave a voice message when a call isn't answered. The upcoming feature is currently available for some beta testers. It has been spotted in WhatsApp for Android beta version 2.25.23.21, which is available via the Google Play Beta programme.
The Online Gaming bill, piloted by Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw, was approved by the Upper House after rejecting amendments moved by Opposition members. The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Apple on Wednesday rolled out the iOS 18.6.2 update for iPhone. It arrives almost a week after the release of the iOS 18.6.1 update, which added back blood oxygen monitoring to the Apple Watch for users in the US. As per the Cupertino-based tech giant, the latest firmware brings a fix for a security issue discovered in previous iterations. The update has been released for iPhone XS and later models.
Perplexity has added a new finance tool to its artificial intelligence (AI) search platform. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature now shows price alerts for the movement of Indian stocks. The new feature allows users to set a target price or movement percentage for a particular stock, and then the AI system automatically tracks it.
Workday, the HR solutions company, was recently attacked by threat actors. The company said that "some" information was compromised. However, the customer data was largely safe. Recently, hackers have been targeting tech firms to steal information.
Meta is reportedly restructuring its artificial intelligence (AI) division again, after recently establishing the Superintelligence Labs. As per the report, the new reorganisation will divide the division into four specialised groups, with each tasked with developing a specific area. Alongside the restructuring, the Menlo Park-based tech giant is reportedly also planning to downsize the division, which is said to have grown to thousands of employees.
Bharti Airtel on Wednesday discontinued one of its popular prepaid recharge plans in India. Priced at Rs. 249, it was the telecom operator’s entry-level recharge pack, offering Airtel prepaid users daily high-speed internet, unlimited calls, 100 SMS messages per day, and more. They will now have to recharge with a slightly higher-priced plan to continue to enjoy similar benefits.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly admitted last week that the ongoing excitement around the generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology resembles the 1990s dot-com bubble. As per the report, Altman made the comments during an interview with a group of journalists, and highlighted that investors funding AI startups at high valuations could get “burned” in the future.
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday that British authorities had rescinded an order asking the company to circumvent encryption to help them pursue certain national security and criminal investigations.
Adobe Acrobat Studio was introduced on Tuesday as a new platform for PDF tools and artificial intelligence (AI) features for content creation. The San Jose, California-based software giant stated that it is an upgraded platform aimed at offering the trifecta of AI-powered PDF tools, content creation features, and AI assistants that can analyse, summarise, and answer queries about files.
