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.

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.

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.

Amazon Great Freedom Festival 2025 sale in India begins on August 1, with lucrative discounts on a wide range of products. Phones such as Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, iPhone 15, OnePlus 13R, and more are offered with heavy discounts. Here are the best smartphone deals during the Amazon sale.

Tencent’s Hunyuan team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Sunday, which can generate three-dimensional (3D) worlds. Dubbed Hunyuan 3D World Model 1.0, it is an open-source model that supports both text and images as input. The model can generate 360-degree world views which are both explorable and interactive.

Runway released a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model on Friday that can edit elements in other input videos. Dubbed Aleph (the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet), the video-to-video AI model can perform a wide range of edits on the input, including adding, removing, and transforming objects; adding new angles and next frames; changing the environment, seasons, and the time of the day; and transforming the style.

Microsoft is probing if a leak from its cybersecurity early warning system allowed Chinese hackers to exploit unpatched flaws in its SharePoint service. The company is said to be investigating whether this program, designed to give security experts a head start on fixes, inadvertently led to widespread exploitation of SharePoint vulnerabilities globally in recent days.

Who-Fi is a cutting-edge technology that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and track individuals without needing any visual input. It is an experimental technology which remains to be thoroughly tested in the real world. However, based on the research paper that mentions and documents its proof-of-concept, it can be used to turn any ordinary Wi-Fi signal into a biometric scanner.

Flipkart has revealed the date for its upcoming Freedom Sale 2025 as India’s 79th Independence Day approaches. The upcoming sale event will be held next month, during which the e-commerce platform will offer an instant discount of 15 percent with bank offers, and an additional 10 percent off with Super Coins to its Plus members.

Qualcomm says that Wi-Fi 8, under development as part of the 'Ultra High Reliability' (UHR) initiative, will significantly boost wireless network performance and reliability. Key enhancements include multi-access point coordination and seamless roaming. While the standard isn't expected to be finalised until 2028, Qualcomm has already highlighted these upcoming reliability improvements for Wi-Fi 8.

OpenAI launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) agent last week, which is finally rolling out to users now. On July 18, the San Francisco-based AI firm announced the launch of ChatGPT Agent, which can perform a wide range of tasks. However, nearly a week later, users still did not see an option to use the AI agent.

Government has issued a crackdown against 25 apps and websites which published obscene content, according to a report. Action has been taken under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000, against apps and video streaming platforms such as AltBalaji, Big Shots, and Ullu for allegedly displaying "indecent" representation of women.

Google is bringing another new experimental artificial intelligence (AI) feature to Search. On Thursday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced Web Guide, a new filter on the search results page that categorises information and groups URLs to make it easier for users to learn more about the topic. It is currently an opt-in feature, which means users will not see it unless they proactively sign up for it.

Amazon Great Freedom Festival will begin in India on August 1. Prime members will get 12 hours of early access to the sale, and interested users can purchase a subscription starting at Rs. 299 per month to enjoy early deals. The online marketplace has not revealed the end date of the sale. It has joined hands with SBI Card to offer up to 10 percent instant discount on purchases made using SBI credit cards and EMI transactions.

Google URL Shortener has become a highly popular tool over the years. It essentially allows you to take long URLs and squeeze them into concise links which are easier to share on other platforms. However, the platform’s deprecation was announced by the company back in 2018. Last year, the company announced that links shortened by the Google URL Shortener would soon no longer incite a response. This change is finally taking place next month.

OpenAI is reportedly planning to release its next frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-5, in August. As per the report, there will be three variants of the model, including the base variant, as well as nano and mini variants. Not a lot is known about the San Francisco-based AI firm’s upcoming flagship model; however, it is said that GPT-5 will mark the end of the o-series model.

GitHub Spark, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool available within the GitHub Copilot, was released on Thursday. Available in public preview, it is a vibe coding tool that allows users to generate apps via natural language descriptions. The Microsoft-owned platform also allows users to collaborate with the AI to better control the outcome in multiple ways.

Sony and Bandai Namco announced they had entered a strategic partnership, wherein the PlayStation parent would acquire a 2.5 percent stake in the Elden Ring publisher. The two companies will focus on the fields of anima and manga.

In a 3-0 decision, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said reasonable consumers in the proposed class action would not have been misled by Apple's promises about storage capacity in its iCloud+ plans.

YouTube on Wednesday announced new creation tools for Shorts to make the process of creating them easier and fun. It introduces a new photo-to-video tool which lets creators turn photos from their camera roll into videos, using creative suggestions. They can animate and add movement to still photos, free of charge. Further, there are new generative edits which leverage AI to add effects for transforming doodles into images and selfies into videos.

A security patch Microsoft released this month failed to fully fix a critical flaw in the U.S. tech giant's SharePoint server software, opening the door to a sweeping global cyber espionage effort, a timeline reviewed by Reuters shows.

PayPal on Wednesday announced a partnership with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) International Payments Limited and other global payment systems to build a new platform that will support cross-border transactions. Dubbed PayPal World, it will be a technology-agnostic platform that connects to all partnering payment systems. The San Jose, California-based company said it will create a multi-region deployment architecture for the platform that will be cloud native.

At the I/O Connect event, Google unveiled new tools aimed at supporting Indian developers. The brand announced that developers can now process its latest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Flash, in the country. The company is expanding access to new and precise information in Google Maps, covering over 250 million places globally. It has announced new India-specific pricing for its Maps Places UI Kit in the country.

At the Google I/O Connect event in Bengaluru, Google has announced a collaboration with Unity to launch the Google Play X Unity Game Developer Training programme in India. The programme that is supported by the Game Developer Association of India (GDAI), will offer free training for 500 developers in partnership with the governments of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

Meta launched Instagram Threads in July 2023. The social media platform was unveiled to rival Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter). On Tuesday, Meta announced that it is improving Threads Insights and making it easier for content creators to see how their posts have been performing and where their content is discovered by other users.

Alibaba’s Qwen team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) coding model on Tuesday. Dubbed Qwen 3 Coder, the model comes with several agentic capabilities including agentic coding, agentic browser-use, and agentic tool-use. The researchers have released only one variant of the model so far, the Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, which is the most powerful variant in the family.

Apple's updated App Store policies for EU developers are reportedly expected to gain approval from antitrust regulators. This would help Apple avoid hefty daily fines, potentially 5 percent of its average daily global revenue, that could be imposed by EU regulators. The company was already fined EUR 500 million in April for violating the EU's Digital Markets Act.

Apple on Monday announced the expansion of its retail services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As part of this move, the Cupertino-based tech giant has launched Apple Store online and Apple Store app. This enables customers to purchase all of the devices in Apple’s portfolio, either through the web or app, directly from the company. They can also receive support in Arabic language to find the best products tailored to their needs and get help setting them up.

ChatGPT reportedly handles more than 2.5 billion prompts daily. As per the report, OpenAI revealed the volume of messages its chatbot and servers process for the first time. The artificial intelligence (AI) company also highlighted the number of messages that are sent from the US, as compared to the rest of the world.

Perplexity and The Browser Company have begun adding new features to make it easier for users to automate repetitive tasks. Perplexity’s Comet browser will get a new shortcut feature next week that will allow users to save previously used prompts and actions and use them again with a single click.

Gemini and ChatGPT both participated in this year’s International Math Olympiad and achieved gold medal-level scores in the competition. Google DeepMind highlighted that its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot officially entered the competition and was able to solve five out of six questions, following the test's rules, without any human interaction.

If you have both work and personal Google accounts, signing into both of them on a single device can be a headache, especially due to enterprise-related restrictions. To make this process easier, Google on Monday announced new capabilities for its Chrome app on iOS which helps keep the browsing data for the organisation account separate from the personal one. Further, the Mountain View-based tech giant is also extending Chrome Enterprise’s reporting capabilities to both Android and iOS platforms.

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.

Microsoft has warned customers about active attacks exploiting a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its SharePoint server software. Malicious actors are using this flaw to gain unauthorised and persistent access to on-premise servers, and thousands of organisations could be affected. Attackers may retain access even after servers are patched with updates released by Microsoft for SharePoint servers.