Technology

An $8 billion trial by Meta Platforms shareholders against Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former company leaders kicked off on Wednesday over claims they illegally harvested the data of Facebook users in violation of a 2012 agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The trial started with a privacy expert for the plaintiffs, Neil … Read more

OpenAI on Thursday, July 17, launched its powerful ChatGPT agent that can automate complex tasks on its own. In a livestream, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, along with his team of engineers, gave a live demonstration of ChatGPT agent’s capabilities. With this, ChatGPT can now do a wide range of tasks – from web browsing to … Read more

OpenAI is planning to take a cut from online product sales made through ChatGPT by integrating a payment checkout system into the chatbot, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing multiple people familiar with the proposals. Merchants that fulfill orders through the payment system will pay a commission to OpenAI, the report said. The move … Read more

Elon Musk’s xAI is in discussions to lease data center capacity in Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The startup is in discussion with two potential partners: Humain, a Saudi-backed AI company offering xAI several gigawatts of capacity, and another company building a smaller but more immediately available … Read more

WeTransfer, the platform used by many creative professionals to transfer their work online, has faced intense user backlash for the past couple of days over its updated terms of service agreement. Now it is trying to patch things up. The Netherlands-based company on Tuesday, July 15, announced it has tweaked its service terms to remove … Read more

Oppo on Saturday, July 12, launched the all-new Pad SE. The newly unveiled Android tablet has a 11-inch display with 500 nits peak brightness and a refresh rate of 90 Hz. It comes in two different colours. The entry-level tablet runs on ColorOS 15 and is equipped with a MediaTek CPU. It packs a huge … Read more

Solar physicists will make a new attempt to observe the chromosphere of the sun, which is the most dynamic region. NASA, along with a team of international solar physicists, will launch a sounding rocket experiment on July 18 from New Mexico.  Reddish in colour, the chromosphere is a region sandwiched between the sun’s atmosphere (the … Read more

Zoho has jumped into the AI race with its first proprietary large language model (LLM) that is designed for enterprise use cases such as structured data extraction, summarisation, code generation, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Zia LLM was built completely in-house by leveraging NVIDIA’s AI accelerated computing platform, the enterprise software company said in a press … Read more

Meta AI is rolling out a new AI-powered feature called “Imagine Me,” in India starting July 17.  The new feature lets users generate AI images of themselves using text prompts within chat windows of Meta platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger.  Last year, META CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a glimpse of this feature by … Read more

Amid growing fears over AI-driven job losses, new data from Naukri offers a more nuanced picture. The first quarter of FY2026 saw a 38 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth in AI roles with over 35,000 AI/ML jobs posted on Naukri between April and June this year, according to a new report published by the popular … Read more