Flipkart is using social videos and livestreams to convert young consumers spending a lot of time on their smartphones into loyal customers. While the concept of online retailers using videos to boost sales has been around for years, Flipkart hopes this strategy will give it an edge over rivals like Amazon.com and Reliance Industries in India.
Canva introduced two new artificial intelligence (AI) features for its visual communications platform on Thursday. While these are backend features that will not be visible on the frontend to the user, they significantly improve its capabilities in terms of platform integration. The first new feature is Canva’s deep research connector for ChatGPT. This allows OpenAI’s chatbot to answer queries about the user’s Canva projects.
Meta is reportedly planning to acquire the Palo Alto, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup PlayAI. As per the report, the acquisition is aimed at bolstering its AI division to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Google. The Menlo Park-based social media giant has been aggressively pushing out new AI models and AI features for its platforms.
Apple has changed rules and fees in its App Store in the EU after the bloc's antitrust regulators ordered it to remove commercial barriers to sending customers outside the store. Apple said developers will pay a 20 percent processing fee for purchases made via the App Store, though the fees could go as low as 13 percent for Apple's small-business program.
Anthropic released a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Claude on Wednesday. This new feature will allow users to create interactive AI-powered applications using the chatbot. Once created, users can also host and share these apps on the platform to let others use them. Interestingly, when others use these apps, the maker will not have to bear the application programming interface (API) charges.
Smart security device brand Ring introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature on Wednesday that can analyse motion activity around a house and send text-based notifications to users. The new feature is currently only available in Canada and the US to Ring Home Premium subscribers. It supports all the currently available doorbells and cameras.
SonicWall has warned customers about a malicious version of its SSL VPN NetExtender app that was used to steal VPN configurations and credentials. Threat actors modified two NetExtender application files, impacting organisations allowing remote network access. Both Microsoft and SonicWall have implemented measures to block the spread of these altered NetExtender versions, urging users to remain vigilant against this credential-harvesting threat.
Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by xAI, might soon get a file editor feature. A tipster claimed that the Elon Musk-owned AI firm is working on this feature, which might support different file types, including spreadsheets. With this, users can chat with Grok and ask it to make changes to various documents.
UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is proposing to designate Alphabet-owned Google with "strategic market status", it said on Tuesday, giving it more power to intervene in search services to increase innovation and economic growth. The CMA aims to use its expanded power to rein in the power of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Meta and Microsoft without stifling investment or growth.
Amazon Prime Day 2025 sale date has been announced, and the sale event will offer significant discounts across a wide range of electronics, including smartphones, laptops, and smart TVs, along with home appliances. Shoppers can also expect exclusive bank offers, potentially slashing an additional 10 percent off the cost of their purchases.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, called on the government to reverse its controversial exemption for YouTube from a social media ban for under-16s. In a blog post, YouTube said Inman Grant’s comments ignored the benefits YouTube offered to school students and teachers.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive’s hardware company is reportedly not building a wearable device. On Sunday, the company removed its “io” branding from everywhere due to a trademark lawsuit. Now, as per the report, court filings for the suit have revealed that the artificial intelligence (AI) device in the works is not a wearable.
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.
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.
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.
