Technology

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in U.S. federal court in Texas on Monday, accusing them of illegally conspiring to thwart competition for artificial intelligence. Apple and OpenAI have “locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing,” the lawsuit … Read more

Google, on August 25, announced that NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature, which uses AI to offer “a helpful visual aid to understand a complex concept.” Announced earlier this year at Google I/O, the tech giant says NotebookLM’s Video Overviews is now available in 80 languages. In a blog post, Google said that Audio Overviews will now … Read more

A week after the Centre dealt a decisive blow to India’s booming real-money gaming (RMG) industry, opinion trading platform Probo has asked its users to withdraw their remaining balances without delay. The Gurugram-based company said that users need to complete their KYC (Know Your Customer) verification and withdraw any remaining funds in their in-app wallet … Read more

Coinbase employees must sign up to use AI coding tools or risk losing their jobs, according to CEO Brian Armstrong. The co-founder of the major cryptocurrency exchange has said that Coinbase engineers who refused to give AI coding tools a shot were swiftly let go from the company. After purchasing enterprise licences for GitHub Copilot … Read more

A few weeks ahead of the iPhone 17 series launch, Apple has announced that it will be opening its first-ever retail store in Pune, Maharashtra. Named Apple Koreagaon Park, the retail store is located in the KOPA mall and will open its doors for customers from September 4 at 1 PM. The barricade for Apple’s fourth … Read more

India will start sourcing price data directly from e-commerce giants including Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart to overhaul its benchmark inflation gauge, aiming to capture shifting consumption habits and address concerns that current data is outdated, the head of the statistics ministry said. The move could make India’s retail inflation data more robust by accounting for … Read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX postponed the 10th launch of its Starship rocket due to cloudy weather in Texas on Monday, another slight delay in its efforts to overcome development setbacks and achieve several long-sought milestones essential to the Mars rocket system’s reusable design. The 232-feet (71-metres) tall Super Heavy booster and its 171-feet (52-metres) tall Starship … Read more

Thousands of users in the United States raised their complaints on social media and other platforms regarding an issue with Reddit, which has faced a massive outage in the country as users said comments were not loading, according to DownDetector, a platform that tracks outages. Most of the users reported problems with the comment section … Read more

“ChatGPT’s Study Mode is actually built to give really high-quality answers on Indian curriculum. Over time, you will see us advance the way in which our models speak to Indian students in local languages and on local teaching,” Leah Belsky, VP of Education, OpenAI, told indianexpress.com on the sidelines of the launch of the OpenAI … Read more

With the way artificial intelligence is advancing and becoming a part of everyday life, it’s likely that AI will also have a major impact on higher education, especially for those pursuing careers in medicine or law. In an interview with Business Insider, Jad Tarifi, the 42-year-old founder of Google’s first generative AI team, who left … Read more