Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that social media firms are responsible for certain user-posted content in the country. This could result in fines against social media companies in Brazil. The decision could impact the business of platforms including Meta's Facebook and Instagram, as well as TikTok, Elon Musk's X and other internet giants, such as Alphabet's Google, in a market of over 200 million people.
Google said on Thursday it had resolved a brief global service disruption on its platforms that affected multiple services such as music streamer Spotify and instant messaging provider Discord. The outage disrupted services on platforms such as Spotify, Snapchat and Discord that rely on the tech giant's cloud managed services and infrastructure.
Amazon has nearly doubled the ad load on Prime Video, increasing it from about two or three minutes to four to six minutes per hour, according to a new report. While this expands ad space and lowers CPM, it may disrupt the viewing experience. Amazon reportedly informed investors but has yet to publicly acknowledge the change. The increased ad load, however, remains lower than traditional TV and some OTT rivals.
OpenAI and Google have reportedly struck a deal which will let the former use the latter's cloud servers for computational needs. The deal was finalised after several months of discussions, the report mentioned. The financial terms of the deal are currently not known. Notably, ChatGPT suffered a major outage on Tuesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union regulation to ban social media for children under the age of 15. This step is being proposed after a 31-year-old school aide was knifed during a bag search for weapons at a school in eastern France.
Meta and TikTok have said that EU's supervisory fee levied on them was disproportionate and based on a flawed methodology. Meta told judges at the General Court it was not trying to avoid paying its fair share of the fee, but it questioned how the Commission had calculated the levy, saying it had been based on the revenue of the group rather than of the subsidiary.
Magistral, Mistral’s first-ever reasoning-focused large language models (LLMs), have been released. The Paris-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm has released two variants of Magistral — an open-source model named Small and an enterprise-focused model named Medium. Both feature multi-step reasoning and visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The open-source model can be downloaded via Hugging Face.
People who accused Google of illegally collecting their personal information cannot sue the Alphabet unit as a group in a class action, a US judge ruled. "Inquiries relating to Google's implied consent defense will overwhelm the damages claims for all causes of action," Rogers wrote.
Starlink is expected to introduce its satellite communication services in India soon. Ahead of the anticipated launch, a report has shed light on its expected pricing. It may price the Standard kit, which is required for setup, at Rs. 33,000. Meanwhile, its unlimited data plans may be priced between Rs. 3,000 and Rs. 4,200 per month in India.
OpenAI has finally introduced the o3-pro AI model for its paid subscribers. The model, which is said to be more capable than its non-pro version, is also capable of tool use such as web search and memory. Currently, o3-pro is only available to the ChatGPT Pro subscribers. Developers can also access the model via application programming interfaces (APIs).
Liquid Glass design language was introduced by Apple at the WWDC 2025 on Monday. The new design language brings a glass-like material that can both reflect and refract content in the background. The company says this new element was built using new graphics technologies powered by Apple silicon and hardware.
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a team to oversee Meta's initiatives around so-called "artificial general intelligence" (AGI). Zuckerberg is building the new AI team in tandem with a reported investment of over $10 billion (roughly Rs. 85,563 crore) in Scale AI
Apple published a research paper on Saturday, where researchers examine the strengths and weaknesses of recently released reasoning models. Also known as large reasoning models (LRMs), these are the models that “think” by utilising additional compute to solve complex problems. However, the paper found that even the most powerful models struggle with a complexity issue.
ChatGPT has evolved from a basic artificial intelligence (AI) text generation platform to a full-blown assistant. However, AI still remains a tool which needs to be instructed properly to get the desired output. To make the most of ChatGPT and to significantly improve productivity at work, one needs to know the right prompts to use.
Google Chrome has achieved its "highest score ever" on the Speedometer 3 browser performance benchmark, a company blog post announced. Chrome's performance has reportedly improved by 10 percent since August 2024, with browsers based on Google's open-source engine typically excelling in these tests.
PhonePe announced on Friday that it is planning to launch a Unified Payments Interface (UPI) solution for feature phone users in India. The digital payments and financial services company highlighted that the payment solution will be built on the UPI 123Pay technology. The service will be built on conversational engagement platform Gupshup’s GSPay tech stack.
Tesla shares went into free-fall on Thursday as President Donald Trump publicly feuded with Elon Musk. Traders dumped Tesla in heavy trading after Musk quickly responded to Trump's criticism with social media posts that stepped up criticism of the president's tax bill. Trump fired back further, alleging Musk was upset because the bill takes away tax benefits for electric vehicle purchases.
About $22 billion (roughly Rs. 1,88,626 crore) of SpaceX's government contracts are at risk amid the ongoing feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The disagreement, rooted in Musk's criticism of Trump's tax-cut and spending legislation that began last week, quickly spiraled out of control.
Hugging Face released an open-source vision language action (VLA) artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. Dubbed SmolVLA, the large language model is aimed at robotics workflows and training-related tasks. The company claims that the AI model is small and efficient enough to run locally on a computer with a single GPU, or a MacBook.
Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers. The company is developing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) software that would power such robots, the report said, adding that Amazon plans to use hardware from other firms in its tests, for now.
Mistral Code, an artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, was introduced by the company on Wednesday. The Paris-based AI firm highlighted that the platform was built for enterprise developers, and is designed to help them increase their productivity while writing and deploying code. The platform is powered by the company’s in-house AI models, and offers enterprises flexibility to adapt them to their needs.
OpenAI released two new utility features for ChatGPT users on Wednesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) app on MacOS now has a Record Mode that can capture meetings, brainstorming sessions, and voice notes, and transcribe and summarise the main discussion points. This feature is currently only available to the ChatGPT Team subscribers.
A telecom group representing Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel has raised concerns that artificially low satellite spectrum pricing in India could negatively impact their operations. Indian telecom giants, through this group, have said that low spectrum rates could give foreign players like Starlink an unfair advantage.
OpenAI is now rolling out ChatGPT’s memory improvements to those on the free tier of the platform. Announced on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm announced that now all users of the chatbot will get personalised responses based on their previous conversations with ChatGPT. Notably, the free users are getting a lightweight version of the feature.
Google’s NotebookLM added a new feature on Tuesday to make it easier for users to share their notebooks publicly. The artificial intelligence (AI) notes summarising platform is now adding a new Share button that will allow users to share a link to their notebooks with others. The feature works similarly to the share option on Google Docs and Slides.
OpenAI plans to build ChatGPT into a super-assistant that truly understands its user and their needs. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm’s vision for the first half of the ongoing year was recently revealed in an internal strategy document. The document shed light on the company’s larger vision around its chatbot and the features it plans to add to it eventually.
Microsoft cut hundreds more jobs just weeks after its largest layoff in years. The AI boom has roiled the tech labor market because companies are prioritising AI-focused jobs and harnessing the technology to save money.
Google plans to invest $500 million (roughly Rs. 4,273 crore) over a decade to improve its compliance system, resolving shareholder lawsuits over antitrust claims. Google denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.
Google on Saturday said it will appeal an antitrust decision under which a federal judge proposed less aggressive ways to restore online search competition. Antitrust enforcers are concerned about how Google's search monopoly gives it an advantage in AI products like Gemini and vice versa.
Kedarnath Yatra, a pilgrimage journey for one of the four Dhams for Hindu devotees, has witnessed a rise in online scams in recent years. The Uttarakhand government is cracking down on fake helicopter ticket booking scams. Fraudsters have been creating fake ticket booking websites and are advertising them via social media pages, to lure devotees looking to book a helicopter ride.
Google and US antitrust enforcers will make their final arguments on whether the tech giant should be forced to sell its Chrome browser. If the judge does require Google to sell off Chrome, OpenAI would be interested in buying it, Nick Turley, OpenAI's product head for ChatGPT, said at the trial.
Perplexity Labs, a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature within the Perplexity platform, was introduced on Thursday. The company says the new mode can turn text prompts into full-fledged projects such as reports, spreadsheets, and even simple web apps. It uses a suite of tools, such as deep web browsing and code execution, to perform complex tasks that were so far beyond the scope of the platform.
Tencent released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday that can animate still portrait images. Dubbed HunyuanPortrait, the large language model (LLM) is based on the diffusion architecture, and can generate videos with realistic animation based on a reference image and a guiding video. The researchers behind the project highlighted that the model can capture both facial data and spatial movements to accurately sync them into the reference image.
Google unveiled SignGemma, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can translate sign language into spoken text. The model, which will be part of the Gemma series of models, is currently being tested by the Mountain View-based tech giant and is expected to be launched later this year. Similar to all the other Gemma models, SignGemma will also be an open-source AI model, available to individuals and businesses.
WhatsApp could soon introduce a logout feature for primary devices, according to details spotted in a recent teardown. This new functionality would offer users greater flexibility, allowing them to temporarily stop using the messaging platform or switch accounts without deleting app data.
The viral Ghibli-style image trend on ChatGPT has sparked global participation, including from celebrities and brands. However, experts warn of serious privacy risks, as users unknowingly share facial data that may train AI models. With permanent digital footprints, the potential for misuse, like deepfakes or identity theft, raises critical concerns around data control and transparency.
Qualcomm's modem chips worked better than a rival component developed by Apple, a study commissioned by the former said. The iPhone 16e, the first smartphone to use Apple’s in-house C1 modem, was slower to download and upload information on T-Mobile’s 5G network in New York City than Qualcomm-powered Android devices, according to a report by Cellular Insights
Meta's fate against the FTC's antitrust case is now up to a federal judge to decide whether the company should be broken up. If Judge Boasberg sides with the FTC and finds the company illegally monopolised that market, it’s possible Meta could be forced to spin off Instagram, WhatsApp, or both.
Mistral announced its new Agents application programming interface (API) on Tuesday. The new API comes equipped with connectors for code execution, web search, image generation, as well as support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. These capabilities are powered by several artificial intelligence (AI) models, including the recently released Devstral as well as Black Forest Lab’s Flux 1.1 [pro] Ultra.
ByteDance released a new multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. Dubbed Bagel, it is a visual language model (VLM), which is capable of image understanding, generation, and editing. The Beijing-based tech giant has open-sourced the model, and it is available to download via popular AI repositories such as GitHub and Hugging Face.
OpenAI’s o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model is said to have bypassed instructions to shut down during an experiment. As per the researchers, the AI model made sabotage attempts to refuse being shut down despite being specifically instructed to do so. The experiment also included OpenAI’s Codex-mini and o4-mini, as well as Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 3.7 Sonnet models.
Starlink is said to be gearing up to introduce its satellite communication services in India after clearing most of the regulatory hurdles. With the launch getting closer, a report suggests that its plans could be priced as low as $10 (roughly Rs. 850) per month with unlimited data. With this, the Elon Musk-backed company aims to rapidly grow its user base to 10 million in order to offset high spectrum costs owing to volume benefits.
OpenAI’s o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model recently helped a cybersecurity researcher in uncovering a zero-day vulnerability in Linux. As per the researcher, the flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Server Message Block (SMB) implementation, also known as ksmbd. The previously unknown security flaw is said to be tricky to find since it involved multiple users or connections interacting with the system at the same time.
Elon Musk's X was largely restored for most users after an outage that impacted tens of thousands of users in the US on Saturday. Musk has now decided that he is shifting his attention back to his business empire amid growing investor concerns.
X (formerly Twitter) is experiencing widespread outages, including in India, with users unable to load posts or videos on both the website and mobile apps this Saturday. Reports on a popular downtime tracking website confirm the inaccessibility. While the X developer platform indicated a site-wide outage was resolved days ago, some login-related functions are still suffering degraded performance.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reportedly said that artificial intelligence (AI) models hallucinate less than humans. As per the report, the statement was made by the CEO at the company’s inaugural Code With Claude event on Thursday. During the event, the San Francisco-based AI firm released two new Claude 4 models, as well as multiple new capabilities, including improved memory and tool use.
Vercel, the company behind the vibe coding platform for web application development, v0, is now releasing an artificial intelligence (AI) model. Announced on Thursday, the v0 AI model is available via an application programming interface (API). It is the first AI model developed by the company, being shipped with the first API from them.
Anthropic introduced Claude 4 artificial intelligence (AI) models at its inaugural developer conference on Thursday. The San Francisco-based AI firm unveiled Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 models, and announced new capabilities including Extended Thinking with tool use. Opus 4 is said to be state-of-the-art (SOTA) in coding, tool use, and writing.
Mistral released a new coding-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday. Dubbed Devstral, it is an open-source coding agent that can perform software development tasks. The Paris-based AI firm says that, unlike other open software engineering (SWE) agents, this model can solve real-world software engineering problems and write contextualised code in a codebase.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will share Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) data with financial institutions, including banks and UPI providers. This FRI metric, developed by the Digital Intelligence Platform, classifies mobile numbers into three risk levels linked to financial fraud. PhonePe is an early adopter, using FRI data to alert users through its 'PhonePe Protect' feature.
