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.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas reportedly said in an interview that in the future, the Comet browser can handle a recruiter’s job easily. As per the report, the CEO highlighted that while the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered browser might not be able to do so at present, it can agentically handle a recruiter’s week’s worth of tasks with a single prompt.

YouTube will shut down its Trending Page and Now Trending list today. The move comes 10 years after the Google-owned video streaming service first launched the page for its users and content creators. Although the page is still visible, they could be removed by the end of the day. The company attributed the shut down to the falling visits to the page.

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, is now letting users hide artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images. Last week, the Pennsylvania, US-based company announced a new filter on its image search interface that can hide AI images so users can only browse real or non-synthetic photos. The filter is based on a large list of websites and blogs that are known for posting AI-generated images.

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.