Meta has internally promoted Arun Srinivas to lead its India operations starting next month. At present, Srinivas currently heads the tech giant's India ads business, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Amazon Diagnostics was launched by Amazon India on Sunday. The new service is an expansion of Amazon Medical, which includes its Pharmacy and teleconsultation services as well. The diagnostics service, which was developed in collaboration with Orange Health Labs, is currently available in six Indian cities, including Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Mumbai, and Hyderabad.
Google is looking to tweak its search results to better highlight rival services, aiming to avoid a hefty EU antitrust fine. This move follows charges from the European Commission accusing the tech giant of violating the Digital Markets Act by prioritising its own services like Google Shopping, Hotels, and Flights on its Search browser.
BSNL recently soft launched its Q-5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service in select Indian circles. Aimed at businesses and enterprises, it has been introduced with plans starting at Rs. 999 per month, which offer 100Mbps speed. Further, it will offer another higher-priced plans with faster data speeds. The pilot for the BSNL 5G FWA service will begin in September 2025 beginning with Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Pune, and select other cities in India.
Google’s fight against a record EUR 4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine has suffered a blow. Advocate General Juliane Kokott of the EU’s Court of Justice said in a non-binding opinion that Google’s appeal should fail because the legal arguments put forward by the US tech giant fell short.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the US assets of short-video app TikTok. Trump signed an executive order pushing back Thursday's deadline for 90 days, a step he had previously signaled.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a “mysterious database” comprising a staggering 16 billion login credentials, in what is being called one of the biggest data breaches in history. According to a report, it impacted some of the world’s biggest technology companies including Apple, Facebook, and Google, along with government portals from multiple countries. The data breach gave threat actors brief but unprecedented access to personal credentials, posing risk of account takeover, identity theft, and phishing attacks.
YouTube will soon integrate Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI)-powered video generation model, CEO Neal Mohan announced at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2025 on Wednesday. It will support improved video generation capabilities powered by the Mountain View-based tech giant’s recently released Veo 3 video generation AI model. It is said to enable users to create AI-generated backgrounds and video clips for Shorts, delivering improved video quality alongside more upgrades.
Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with US-based satellite technology company AST SpaceMobile to introduce direct-to-device satellite broadband connectivity in India. With this move, the telecommunications provider aims to expand broadband-based cellular access at locations with challenging terrains where deployment of terrestrial infrastructure is difficult.
Google on Wednesday rolled out Search Live in AI Mode as part of a small experiment in the US. This feature lets users have back-and-forth conversations in real-time in Search, similar to Gemini Live but in the Google app. It was first announced during the Mountain View-based tech giant’s I/O 2025 keynote session in May as an extension to the AI Mode. Search Live is powered by a custom version of Gemini and has voice input capabilities, enabling the ability to not just ask queries, but also follow-up questions.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced the name of its 5G service via its social media handle on Wednesday. It is dubbed Q-5G, short for Quantum 5G. This move comes nearly a week after the state-owned telecommunications provider invited public input for naming its 5G services before it commences trial. Further, BSNL has also launched the Q-5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service in select circles, promising “blazing fast” network speeds and a SIM-less operation.
Canva is now adding a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation tool dubbed Create a Video Clip. Powered by Google’s latest video AI model, Veo 3, the new tool can generate high-resolution realistic video clips alongwith native audio. The new feature is currently available to Canva’s paid subscribers, the Canva nonprofit users, as well as the subscribers of the Canva-owned Leonardo.ai platform.
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash artificial intelligence (AI) models are now generally available to all users on the Gemini app and website. Google announced the release of the stable versions of these models on Tuesday, highlighting that these will replace the preview versions. Additionally, the company also introduced a new Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, its fastest and most cost-efficient model.
Web search in ChatGPT received an update last week. With this, users will now experience higher quality responses, and better instruction following when making a query. Additionally, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm claims that the feature can now handle more complex queries, and work with longer context of the conversation.
ElevenLabs announced the language expansion of its latest artificial intelligence (AI) text-to-speech (TTS) model last week. With this expansion, the AI model now supports 41 new languages, taking the total count to 70 supported languages. The New York City-based AI startup said that with this expansion, the model is now accessible to 90 percent of the global population.
The Justice Department's antitrust officials are examining whether Google's proposed $32 billion (roughly Rs. 2,75,441 crore) purchase of cybersecurity firm Wiz could unlawfully restrict market competition. The review, which is in its early stages, could last months more. It will ultimately determine whether US officials let the deal proceed.
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.
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.
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.
