The Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) has reportedly blacklisted between 3,00,000 to 4,00,000 SIM cards that were linked with fraudulent activities. As per the report, the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool is flagging as many as 2,000 high-risk phone numbers on a daily basis.
Apple has reportedly responded to the allegations made by Elon Musk on Monday, where the billionaire accused the iPhone maker of being biased towards OpenAI’s ChatGPT app. The Cupertino-based tech giant has refuted all allegations and highlighted that apps are ranked on the platform based on algorithms and selection by experts operating with objective criteria.
Google Search added a new feature on Tuesday that allows users to select publications as their preferred source. The feature enables users to see news and articles from their favourite or go-to publishers more frequently. We, at Gadgets 360, have been bringing you the latest news and information about a wide range of consumer tech devices, the latest rundown on new and upcoming games, and breaking down cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity.
LinkedIn launched a new game, Mini Sudoku, on its professional social networking platform on Tuesday. The game, which is a modern take on the classic puzzle, is available to all users. It also marks the sixth entry in the platform’s gaming catalogue, a new service which started in May 2024.
Microsoft Edge users will now be shown a prompt on top of the webpage when they download the Google Chrome web browser. The tech giant highlighted that both web browsers use the same technology, simultaneously claiming that Edge comes with added Windows protection. This could be an attempt to get more people to use its native browser.
OpenAI is finally bringing back the GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model to ChatGPT, after retiring it last week. The San Francisco-based AI firm removed the older model after the launch of the GPT-5 model, highlighting that the new frontier model can handle both reasoning and conversational tasks. However, many users took to social media platforms to highlight that they preferred 4o’s responses more than GPT-5’s.
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity on Tuesday launched an audacious bid to buy the Google Chrome browser in its entirety, according to a report. The Aravind Srinivas-led company is said to have offered Google $34.5 billion (roughly Rs. 3.02 lakh crore) for the rights to the world’s most popular web browser, a sum which is even higher than Perplexity’s own valuation.
Flipkart Independence Day Sale in India kicks off tomorrow (August 13). Buyers will be able to purchase devices from brands such as Apple, Motorola, Nothing, Oppo, and Vivo at considerably lower prices than their usual market rates. Ahead of the Independence Day Sale, Flipkart has revealed a handful of deals on smartphones that will go live tomorrow.
Anthropic is adding a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature to its Claude chatbot. On Monday, the San Francisco-based AI firm announced a new feature that will allow Claude to remember and refer to previous conversations with the user. With this, users can pick up a conversation from where they left off.
A California man named Lawrence Klein has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft over ending Windows 10 support. The decision to discontinue support for Windows 10 is alleged to be part of the company’s larger strategy to force its customers to purchase new devices optimised to run Microsoft’s suite of generative AI software.
ChatGPT’s health advice was the reason behind a man’s trip to the hospital, as per a new case study. The study highlights that a 60-year-old person was suffering from rare metal poisoning, which resulted in a range of symptoms, including psychosis. The study also mentions that the poisoning, identified as being caused by long-term sodium bromide consumption, occurred because the patient took advice from ChatGPT about dietary changes.
Flipkart Independence Day Sale 2025 will start this week, the company has announced. During the five-day-long sale event, the e-commerce platform will offer instant discounts, cashback offers, and exchange bonuses on several electronics and home appliances, like smartphones, laptops, televisions, and other gadgets.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Sunday that the company is increasing the rate limit of the reasoning models for all users. The San Francisco-based AI firm said this new change will affect all model classes; however, this change is temporary. Going forward, the company stated that it will determine how to address this capacity trade-off, suggesting that those on the free tier may lose access to certain features.
ChatGPT users are not happy with OpenAI’s latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-5. The new model was released on Thursday as a unification of the GPT-series and o-series. The San Francisco-based company said that they wanted to create a model that could do everything by itself so users did not have to use the model picker (the dropdown menu that shows multiple available models) over and over.
Apple will be forced to allow browsers that do not function on the WebKit browser engine, under Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act Guidelines. The country's regulator dubbed the Cupertino company’s practice as anti-competitive as it blocked other browsers to offer the same performance as Safari. This will essentially allow other web browsers and in-app browsers to use other browser engines like Blink and Gecko.
OpenAI finally released its next-generation frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-5, on Thursday. The new model comes with improvements across different parameters. However, one specific area where it displays a significant upgrade is health-related queries. The San Francisco-based tech giant says unlike previous models by the company, the latest large language model (LLM) can act as an active thought partner, asking questions to understand the situation better and flagging potential concerns.
OpenAI on Thursday released its latest family of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models. Named GPT-5, it is said to offer a significant improvement in performance across coding, health, match, visual perception, and health. As per the San Francisco-based firm, customers can select between four types of AI models— GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-5 Nano, and GPT-5 Pro, with different pricing based on the number of tokens used.
Microsoft introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent on Tuesday that can autonomously analyse and classify malware. Dubbed Project Ire, the AI system is currently available as a prototype, although the Redmond-based tech giant has tested its capabilities in both controlled environments as well as in real-world scenarios. It can fully reverse engineer a software without human intervention and conduct analysis at multiple levels to assess whether a software is benign or malware.
Indian Railways has brought a new facility enabling last-minute ticket bookings on Vande Bharat Express trains. Travellers can now book seats up to 15 minutes before departure from their boarding station. This article will tell you how to reserve a seat just before the train departs.
OpenAI’s upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-5, has reportedly been leaked ahead of release. As per the report, the models were listed in a now-deleted GitHub blog post, along with certain details about them. The post reportedly mentions four variants, which includes the previously reported GPT-5 base model, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-5 Nano, and a new GPT-5 Chat, which is said to be for enterprise usage.
The new pledge raises Apple's total domestic investment commitment in the US to $600 billion over the next four years. Earlier this year, the company announced it would invest $500 billion and hire 20,000 workers across the country in that period.
Google defended its artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search amid growing concerns about their role in declining website traffic. On Wednesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant said that third-party reports suggesting a drop in search traffic are inaccurate and based on “flawed methodologies.” It defended features such as AI Overviews and the recently added AI Mode by stating that these features ensure websites are receiving “more quality clicks.”
Google on Wednesday announced an offer for university students in the US and more regions. It will provide a complimentary subscription to its AI Pro plan for a period of one year. The subscription will grant them access to Google’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) features and tools across apps such as Gemini, Docs, Sheets, and NotebookLM. In the coming weeks, it will also be expanded to include more countries.
Instagram is rolling out a new update for its app on both iOS and Android devices. The latest update brings three new features to the photo and video sharing app, which are claimed to improve the way a user interacts with others on Instagram.
OpenAI released two open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models on Tuesday. This marks the San Francisco-based AI firm’s first contribution to the open community since 2019, when GPT-2 was released in open-source. The two new models, dubbed gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, are said to offer comparable performance as the o3 and o3-mini models.
Google added a new quality-of-life feature to its Gemini chatbot on Tuesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can now generate custom illustrated storybooks based on text prompts, uploaded images or documents. Users can also specify the style of the artwork in the storybook, as well as instruct Gemini to use specific names of characters, settings, or even plot points.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased the company’s upcoming frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-5, on Sunday. In a social media post, the executive shared a screenshot of a query and its response, highlighting the improvements in text generation that the model will bring. Notably, previous reports have claimed that the GPT-5 AI model could be released in August, although the company has not officially confirmed this.
Asus has announced that select laptops will soon be available for purchase via Swiggy Instamart in Indian cities like Bangalore, Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, and Kolkata. Available models include the Vivobook Go 15, Vivobook 15, and TUF Gaming F16, starting at Rs. 33,990. The Vivobook models offer 15.6-inch displays with AMD or Intel processors. The TUF Gaming F16 features an Intel Core 5 CPU, RTX 3050A GPU, 144Hz 16-inch display, RGB keyboard, and ships with Windows 11.
Perplexity is said to be illegitimately accessing content from websites despite being prohibited from doing so. Cloudflare, a global web security services company, conducted a test to confirm the stealth behaviour of the answer engine company. The researchers highlighted that not only were crawler bots from Perplexity ignoring the directives from the websites, but they were also actively hiding their identity via multiple means to ensure website owners could not track the activity.
OpenAI on Monday announced new improvements in ChatGPT that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to better cater to users’ digital well-being. These are not new features, per se; instead, these are backend changes made to the chatbot and the underlying AI model to tweak how it responds to users.
The Meta-owned photos and video sharing platform, going forward, will not allow its users to go live on Instagram if they do not have a public account with at least 1,000 followers. The tech giant silently disabled the feature by only updating the support page on its website.
Strong results from Microsoft and Meta Platforms late on Thursday also fueled gains in Amazon and sent chipmaker Nvidia to a record high, with the four heavyweight AI players gaining over half a trillion dollars in market value.
The San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous ruling, rejected claims from Google that the trial judge made legal errors in the antitrust case that unfairly benefited "Fortnite" maker Epic Games, which filed the lawsuit in 2020.
Telegram has announced the rollout of its app version 11.14.0, which brings a slew of new features to Android and iOS users. While iOS users can download the app through the App Store, Android users have a choice of either downloading it from the Play Store or getting an APK from the official Telegram website.
Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink said on Thursday it will launch a clinical study in Great Britain to test how its chips can enable patients with severe paralysis to control digital and physical tools with their thoughts.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared plans to introduce advertisements when users chat with Alexa+. The Seattle-based tech giant unveiled the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered version of Alexa voice assistant in February, which comes with several new capabilities. Currently available in the US, the company claims it has been rolled out to and is being used by millions of users.
ChatGPT has a feature that allows users to create a URL of their conversation with the chatbot and share it with friends or colleagues. As per a report, some of these shared conversations were discoverable when running a query on search engines such as Google Search, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. To see these conversations, one reportedly needs to filter the search results to a specific ChatGPT domain.
Flipkart will begin its Flipkart Freedom Sale on August 1 at 12pm IST for all buyers. The online marketplace has revealed some of the smartphone deals ahead of it. Flipkart is providing 10 percent instant discount on purchases made using ICICI Bank cards, BoB cards and EMI transactions during the sale. Shoppers can avail no-cost EMI options and exchange offers on select products.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the company’s vision for superintelligence with the public on Wednesday. In his first address to people since the creation of the Superintelligence Labs, the CEO highlighted that the company is focused on building personal superintelligence that brings power into the hands of people, instead of a centrally directed technology aimed at automating all work.
Adobe Photoshop is getting several new artificial intelligence (AI) features to make it easier for users to make complex edits. Announced on Tuesday, the software giant released a new Harmonize tool that can blend objects with realism in compositions within seconds, just by tapping on the tool. The company is also adding an image upscaler tool that can enhance the resolution of any image using generative AI.
Apple's iOS 26 update will bring Advanced Fingerprinting Protection to all tabs, to prevent web tracking even outside Private Browsing. This enhanced protection is designed to safeguard a user's identity while browsing the web. Mozilla's open source Firefox browser has provided similar fingerprinting protection since 2020.
Google is adding several new features to AI Mode in Search, the company’s latest artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search experience. On Tuesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced four new features to expand the usability of the tool. The most prominent inclusion is the expansion of Search Live, which will allow users to ask questions from the video feed in Google Lens.
Google NotebookLM is getting another artificial intelligence (AI) feature to help users better understand complex topics. On Tuesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced the rollout of Video Overviews, a tool that can generate a visual narrative-focused overview from the sources. The new feature is aimed at complementing the existing Audio Overviews feature, in scenarios where the topic is so dense that breaking it down visually would help users more.
OpenAI added a new study mode to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, ChatGPT, on Tuesday. This new mode is designed to assist students with their homework, test preparation, and learning new topics, without providing answers upfront. Available to all logged-in users, the new feature utilises several learning frameworks to break down problems, encourage students to come up with solutions, and guide them in the right direction.
YouTube is launching a new age verification feature in the US, utilising machine learning to estimate users' ages. This technology aims to ensure age-appropriate content is displayed for younger viewers, and is designed to bypass instances where users may have provided incorrect birthdates to circumvent age restrictions.
Apple on Wednesday introduced its ‘Shop with a Specialist over Video’ service in India. It enables customers to connect with knowledgeable Apple Specialists over a video call to get personalised buying recommendations, compare different product models, see available purchase options, and learn more about Apple devices. The service is offered in a single language to users in India via the Apple Store online, available on both iOS and Android devices.
Oppo has reportedly integrated artificial intelligence (AI) technology into its after-sales service system. As per the report, the Chinese smartphone brand has deployed its in-house AI model AndesGPT to its customer support service. The company is said to believe that the AI integration will enable its users to get quick responses from the company even during off-hours and on holidays.
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab Z.ai announced the release of two new open-source GLM models on Monday. Dubbed GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air, the AI firm calls them its latest flagship models. Both of them are hybrid reasoning models that offer a thinking mode for complex reasoning and tool use, and a non-thinking mode for instant responses. Additionally, the company says these models support agentic capabilities.
Anthropic announced new weekly rate limits for its paid subscribers on Monday. The artificial intelligence (AI) firm highlighted that the decision to add an upper ceiling to the chatbot’s usage was taken due to some users abusing Claude Code’s usage. As per the company, some users were running the coding tool 24/7 in the background.
JioPC was launched in India as a virtual desktop platform on Tuesday. This cloud-based service transforms a JioFiber or Jio AirFiber customer's set-top box into a personal computer, requiring just a keyboard, mouse, and internet connection. Subscribers receive 100GB of cloud storage and access to various AI tools.
