LockBit, the notorious ransomware group, reportedly suffered a massive data breach on Wednesday. As per the report, the group’s dark web platform’s admin and affiliate panels were compromised to show a message and link to a MySQL database dump. The database reportedly contains 20 tables that include sensitive information around the cybercriminal group’s affiliate network, extortion tactics, details around malware builds, as well as nearly 60,000 Bitcoin addresses.

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.

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.

Spotify's new Audiobooks+ add-on plans are now available in 11 more countries, after the company tested the two plans in Ireland and Canada. The company claims that these add-ons would offer greater flexibility to its premium subscribers, while aiding authors and publishers reach new audiences.

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.

Beeper has been updated with support for on-device connections to WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, Instagram, and Google Chat, ensuring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) without relying on Beeper Cloud. The app's core features remain free, but a new Beeper Plus subscription will unlock additional features and customisation options.

Apple News+ has introduced a new Emoji Game for subscribers in two countries, coinciding with World Emoji Day. This daily puzzle challenges users to complete three phrases using as few moves as possible. It joins four other puzzles already available on the platform, and is only available to Apple News+ subscribers.

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.

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.

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.

The Delhi High Court granted an ad-interim injunction to Reliance Industries, restraining 21 defendants from using its 'Reliance' and 'Jio' trademarks for FMCG products. The Court noted the defendants’ packaging mirrored Reliance's branding, risking consumer deception. E-commerce platforms have been directed to delist infringing listings and disclose details of these sellers.

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.

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.

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.

iPhone 16e, which was launched in February this year, is listed for a discounted price in the ongoing Amazon Prime Day Sale 2025. The e-commerce website is providing additional bank discounts and exchange offers for shoppers. The sale is exclusive for Amazon Prime subscribers to access these deals.

Flipkart GOAT Sale 2025 kicks off at midnight on Saturday, and will be open to all shoppers until July 17. Customers can snag discounts on smartphones, wireless accessories, tablets, laptops, and other electronics during Flipkart's sale. Here are some of the top deals on smartphones from brands like Apple, Samsung, Motorola, and Nothing during the upcoming sale.

Samsung Days sale 2025, the company’s India-focused sale, will kick off starting Saturday, July 12. The six-day-long sale event will exclusively take place on Samsung’s website, its Shop app, and offline Experience stores, and conclude on July 18. The South Korean tech giant stated that the focus this year is on its AI-powered devices across categories.

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.

Zee5 is about to step into the Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channels service in collaboration with Amagi Media Labs. The company has announced that it will launch the FAST channels in India in August 2025. According to Statista, the FAST channels market revenue in India is projected to reach $194.71 million (about Rs. 1,671 crore) in 2025.

YouTube recently announced that it will be revising its monetisation policy to curb mass-produced and inauthentic videos on its platform. Now, the video streaming platform has announced that it will be removing its Trending Page in the next couple of weeks.

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.

Amazon Pay’s Rewards Gold program offers 5 percent cashback for Prime members and 3 percent for non-Prime users on eligible transactions. The rewards will be unlocked after completing 25 Amazon Pay transactions, including UPI, bill payments, or shopping. Cashback applies to categories like grocery, clothing, travel, food delivery, and apps like Ola, Domino's, and Zomato's District. It also includes added benefits for Amazon Pay ICICI Bank Credit Card holders.

The Elon Musk-led firm has been waiting since 2022 for licences to operate commercially in India. Last month, it received a key license from India's telecom ministry to launch, but has been waiting for a go-ahead from India's space regulator.

Yaccarino, 61, made the announcement in a post on X suggesting it was her decision, though Musk has a history of dismissing deputies suddenly. "I've decided to step down as CEO of X," Yaccarino wrote.

Microsoft Outlook is down globally, impacting thousands of users who are unable to access emails on various platforms. The company has confirmed the outage, attributing it to issues within its mailbox infrastructure. Microsoft is actively working on a fix to resolve the widespread disruption, aiming to restore full email service for affected users.

Grok 4 artificial intelligence (AI) model was released by xAI on Monday. The new AI model was introduced by xAI developers and company owner Elon Musk in a live stream on X (formerly known as Twitter). The company claimed that the new large language model (LLM) comes with a significantly improved reasoning ability and better performance across multiple subject areas.

After being listed on Mozilla Firefox’s add-ons page for months, the iCloud autofill passwords extension is now functional for Windows 11 users. Earlier, Apple had only provided support for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, according to Reddit users. However, there is no standalone password manager for iCloud passwords.

OpenAI is reportedly working on an artificial intelligence (AI) web browser and is close to releasing it. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm is readying the browser to compete with Google Chrome. The name of this browser is not known; however, it is said that it will support AI capabilities natively.

Amazon Prime Day 2025 sale is just three days away. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant’s annual subscriber-focused sale will begin at midnight on Friday, July 12, and will conclude three days later, on July 14. During this period, the company will offer heavy discounts on a large number of product categories, including smartphones, laptops, smartwatches, earphones, washing machines, air conditioners, and more.

Facebook parent Meta acquired just under 3 percent of the Ray-Ban maker, a stake worth around €3 billion ($3.5 billion) at market prices, said the people, who asked not to be identified because deliberations are private.

Last month, Google silently dropped a new feature called Manage Subscriptions for Gmail’s web client. The tech giant has now officially announced its arrival on the web as well as additional platforms. The feature lets you view and manage your active subscriptions to all of the mailing lists and newsletters through a single window, eliminating the need to unsubscribe from each sender individually.

Microsoft Edge has reached a “major milestone” with regards to the responsiveness and quick loading time of the web browser’s user interface, the company announced on Monday. The Redmond-based tech giant said its cumulative efforts have been underway since February 2025 and have helped it improve the loading speed of initial content, a key factor which “significantly” impacts user satisfaction. Consequently, users can now take advantage of a smoother web browsing experience with minimal delays.

OpenAI might be testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for ChatGPT. Several netizens shared screenshots of the new feature, dubbed Study Together, on social media platforms on Sunday, leading to the belief that the San Francisco-based AI firm is conducting a test run for it. Based on the experience of users with this feature, it appears to be similar to Google’s LearnLM.

Apple took a challenge against EU regulators to Europe's second highest court on Monday after they fined it 500 million euros ($587 million) earlier this year for breaching landmark rules aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech.

Jack Dorsey on Monday announced a new decentralised messaging app called Bitchat. It is a peer-to-peer public domain messaging project which operates over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mesh networks. Bitchat is said to offer a more secure method of messaging, protected with end-to-end encryption. The app does not require internet, an account, or even a phone number to function, the X (formerly Twitter) co-founder said. Other features include a favourites system, mentions, and rooms for topic-based conversations.

Canva, the visual communications platform, suffered an outage on Tuesday morning, as per user reports and outage trackers. The platform became inaccessible for hundreds of users globally, with many claiming to be unable to load their existing projects or start a new project. Others complained of not being able to edit their photos and other assets.

Amazon India announced the release of its Rufus artificial intelligence (AI) assistant in the desktop-based web interface on Monday. The e-commerce giant highlighted that the AI-powered shopping assistant will help users during the Prime Day sale between July 12-14 in making informed decisions. Notably, Rufus was first introduced in India in August 2024.

TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the United States ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors, The Information reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources.

OpenAI has generally been tight-lipped about the next-generation of its frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-5. However, the company has recently shared some hints at what users can expect once the model is available. An OpenAI executive has claimed that the GPT-5 large language model (LLM) could witness the merger of the GPT and o-series models.

Google's AI Overviews are AI-generated summaries that appear above traditional hyperlinks to relevant webpages and are shown to users in more than 100 countries. It began adding advertisements to AI Overviews last May.

Baidu reportedly released a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model on Wednesday. As per the report, the MuseStreamer AI model can also integrate Chinese audio in the generated videos, making it the second such model after Google’s Veo 3. The tech giant claims it to be the world’s first AI model with native Chinese audio generation support.

Sakana AI released an open-source algorithm on Tuesday, which allows multiple artificial intelligence (AI) models to collaborate on complex problems. Dubbed Adaptive Branching Monte Carlo Tree Search (AB-MCTS), it is an inference-time scaling or test-time scaling algorithm that adds a third dimension to the existing framework of large language models (LLMs).

Google has been under pressure after being hit in March with European Union antitrust charges of unfairly favouring its own services such as Google Shopping, Google Hotels and Google Flights over competitors.

Google Workspace users are finally getting access to Gems within the apps, the company announced on Wednesday. Gems are custom artificial intelligence (AI) experts that can be programmed to perform specific tasks. They have been available within the Gemini app and website since August 2024, but now the Mountain View-based tech giant is finally expanding them to Workspace apps.

Meta Platforms has been on a banning spree which is affecting users across the many social media apps under its umbrella. Amidst the ongoing mass bans, even those who are paying a premium for the Meta verified subscription have been left disappointed by tech giant’s customer support. Users have deemed the service “useless”, despite Meta claiming to offer access to direct account support as part of the benefits of its Verified check mark subscription.

Perplexity introduced its most expensive subscription tier on Tuesday. Dubbed Perplexity Max, the new plan is aimed at the platform’s heavy users and costs $200 (roughly Rs. 17,000) a month. To entice users to purchase the subscription, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is also offering early access to new features, priority access to services that utilise third-party models, and higher rate limits.

Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon Auto Day event in India on Wednesday. This is the first time the chipmaker is hosting an automobile-focused event in the country. The event is being hosted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and will take place on July 30 in New Delhi. During the event, the company plans to showcase in-vehicle technology, strategic partnerships, and cross-border learnings.