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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive have said that their first artificial intelligence-powered hardware device may launch in two years or less, a confirmation many had been waiting for from the duo, who have kept the mysterious product under wraps. “Finally, we have the first prototypes,” Altman said in a video … Read more
A hacker has claimed to be circulating an expansive database relating to lakhs of users of Adda, the community and housing society management platform used by several apartments, villas, and gated independent houses in India as well as other countries. Using the alias ‘Blinkers’, the hacker uploaded the personal details of over 1.86 million (18.6 … Read more
Meta’s internal documents about child safety suggest that the social media giant engaged in a broad pattern of deceit to downplay risks to young users while being aware of the serious harms on its platforms, a legal court filing has alleged based on newly unredacted information. The legal brief was filed in the United States … Read more
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is not an ordinary woman. Her academic credentials are par excellence. She is a Stanford professor in the Computer Science Department and now the founder of World Labs, a one-year-old AI startup already valued at over $1 billion. Often called the “Godmother of AI,” Li recently won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for … Read more
Days after the release of Nano Banana Pro, Google’s latest and most advanced image-generation and editing AI model, social media feeds are flooded with AI-modified, photorealistic content that is increasingly blurring the line between what is real and what is synthetic media. Nano Banana Pro is powered by the recently unveiled Gemini 3 Pro, which … Read more
It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds. But that is essentially what happened at OpenAI this year. One of the first signs came in March. CEO Sam Altman and other company leaders got an influx … Read more
Gemini 3 vs Gemini 3 Pro vs Gemini 3 DeepThink: The rollout of Gemini 3, Google’s latest large language model (LLM), appears to be the tech giant’s strongest AI debut in recent months as it has drawn positive feedback from users and developers alike. Early reviews suggest that Gemini 3 is a highly capable foundational … Read more
Earlier this week, out of nowhere, Google announced that it has developed a way for its latest Pixel 10 smartphones to transfer images and other files with iPhones using Apple’s AirDrop protocol. And the impact of the announcement might be bigger than a device launch – and for good reason. One might wonder why Google … Read more
Google is reshuffling its compute priorities in order to meet the growing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) products and services. The search giant envisions reaching 1000x serving capacity in the next four to five years by doubling it every six months, according to a report by CNBC. Google needs to be “able to deliver … Read more
Earlier this week, out of nowhere, Google announced that it has developed a way for its latest Pixel 10 smartphones to transfer images and other files with iPhones using Apple’s AirDrop protocol. And the impact of the announcement might be bigger than a device launch – and for good reason. One might wonder why Google … Read more