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OpenAI Drops For-Profit Plans, Will Transition to Non-Profit-Governed Public Benefit Corporation

OpenAI has announced it will not convert into a traditional for-profit company, following legal consultations and external feedback. Instead, the firm will transition its commercial arm into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), ending its 100x profit cap and allowing more investor returns while maintaining its non-profit governance structure. The non-profit entity will continue to govern the PBC.

6 May 2025 1:00 pm
US Seeks Breakup of Google's Ad-Tech Products After Judge Finds Illegal Monopoly

The US DoJ has proposed that Alphabet's Google divest its AdX advertising marketplace and ad server DFP. Google has said the company supported behavioural remedies such as making real-time bids available to competitors, but that prosecutors cannot legally pursue a bid to force it to sell parts of its business.

6 May 2025 11:51 am
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on Microwave Ovens

Amazon is offeringup to a 40 percent discount on home appliances. Apart from this, one can also get No Cost EMI on select models. Moreover, users will get a 10 percent instant discount while using an HDFC Bank credit card and EMI transactions. Interestingly, customers can get a microwave for as low as Rs. 4,899 during the Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025.

5 May 2025 3:56 pm
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on Front Loading Washing Machines

If youre on the hunt for a front-loading washing machine to make laundry less of a hassle, then the Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is a great avenue for buying one. The sale kicked off on May 1 for users in India and brings hefty discounts on products across various categories such as smartphones, tablets, headphones, refrigerators, washing machines, and other elect...

5 May 2025 3:50 pm
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on 2 Ton Air Conditioners

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 has just completed its first weekend and entered the second week. The e-commerce giant started the summer-focused sale on May 1 at noon for all users, after providing a 12-hour exclusive window for Prime members. During the sale, shoppers can find discounts on a wide variety of products across categories such as smartphones, laptops, earp...

5 May 2025 3:29 pm
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on Mobile Accessories

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025began for all users in India at noon on May 1. Amazon Prime users got a 12-hour head start as the sale went live for them at midnight on the same day. During the ongoing sale, a wide range of items is being offered at lowered prices with lucrative offers. Here, we have put together the top deals that you can enjoy on mobile accessories.

5 May 2025 3:26 pm
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on Cameras

Customers can get up to an 80 percent discount on cameras and accessories. Apart from this, one can also get No Cost EMI on select models. Apart from this, users can also get a 10 percent instant discount while using an HDFC Bank credit card and EMI transactions.

5 May 2025 2:56 pm
Google Redesigns Gemini's Side Panel on the Web, Adds Infinite Scrolling for Past Conversations

Google redesigned Geminis side panel on the web client last week. The Mountain View-based tech giant has now added an infinite scrolling feature to let users find older conversations with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. The new side panel design also pushes Gems higher up the panel, and consolidates previously directly available menu options within the Settings & help option.

5 May 2025 2:37 pm
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Laptop Deals for Students

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 started for all users on Thursday, May 1, at noon. The e-commerce giant opened the sale exclusively for Prime members at midnight of the same day, providing early access to deals and discounts. The platform-wide sale brings discounts on a wide range of products across all categories.

1 May 2025 9:42 pm
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Offers on Thin and Light Laptops

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 went live for all users of the platform on Thursday at noon. The e-commerce giant opened the sale exclusively for Prime members at midnight on May 1, offering them a 12-hour early access to the deals and offers. During the sale, buyers can find discounts on a large number of categories, including smartphones, earphones, laptops, smartwatc...

1 May 2025 4:23 pm
DeepSeek Prover V2, an Open-Source Mathematics-Focused AI Model, Released

DeepSeek, the Hangzhou, China-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released an updated version of its Prover model on Wednesday. Dubbed DeepSeek-Prover-V2, it is a highly specialised model that focuses on proving formal mathematical theorems. The large language model (LLM) uses the Lean 4 programming language to check if the mathematical proofs are logically consistent by analysing each step independently.

1 May 2025 4:21 pm
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Offers on Premium Smartphones

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 sale is now live for all shoppers in India, 12 hours after it commenced in early access exclusively for Prime members. It brings discounts on products across different categories, from smartphones and tablets to TVs and other home appliances. The sale is a great opportunity for shoppers whove been wanting to upgrade to a premium smartp...

1 May 2025 3:03 pm
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025: Best Deals on Home Appliances

Amazon is offering great deals on air conditioners, refrigerators, and washing machines. Moreover, customers can also get the best discounts on popular brands like Samsung, Godrej, Panasonic, Daikin, LG, Bosch, and more. So, if you are looking for some best deals, then you have to come to the right place.

1 May 2025 2:25 pm
Googles Pichai Says US Fix Is De Facto Spinoff of Search

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told a judge that the DoJ's plan to share Google's search data with rivals would be a de facto divestiture of the companys search engine. Pichai was called to testify as part of a three-week trial aimed at determining how Google should restore competition to online search.

1 May 2025 2:01 pm
Amazon Prime Day Sale 2025 Announced for July with Discounts on Electronics and More

Amazon has announced the ninth edition of its biggest sale event of the year, dubbed the Amazon Prime Day Sale 2025, for India and other markets. In line with previous editions, it is expected to be a two-day affair that will be exclusive to Amazon Prime members. Customers will be able to take advantage of price drops on products across a wide range of categories such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, home appliances, fashion, apparel, and beyond.

1 May 2025 12:09 pm
Google Expands NotebookLMs Audio Overviews Feature in More Than 50 Languages

Google announced the expansion of the Audio Overviews feature in NotebookLM on Tuesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) feature can create an engaging podcast-style audio discussion on any topic, as long as a source is added to a note. Audio Overviews feature two AI hosts, a male and a female voice, who discuss the topic, react to it, and contextualise the information in a conversational manner.

1 May 2025 11:09 am
Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 Goes Live for Prime Members: Best Offers on Mobile Phones, Electronics

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 is now live in early access exclusively for Prime members, 12 hours before it commences for all users in India. It promises discounts across a wide range of categories including smartphones, tablets, laptops, TVs, Amazon devices, and other electronics. The first day of the sale has already brought some great deals. You can grab gadgets at...

1 May 2025 12:00 am
Xiaomi MiMo AI Models Launched With Efficient Reasoning, Small Size

Xiaomi released an open-source reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. Dubbed MiMo, the family of reasoning models innovate the optimisation of reasoning capability in a relatively smaller parameter size. This is also the first open-source reasoning model by the tech giant, and it competes with Chinese models such as DeepSeek R1 and Alibabas Qwen QwQ-32B.

30 Apr 2025 7:17 pm
Reddit Expands AI-Powered Translation Feature for Posts and Comments in Hindi

Reddit, the discussion forum-style social media platform, announced the expansion of its automatic translation feature on Monday. In September 2024, the company introduced a machine learning (ML) feature that automatically translates posts and comments on the platform to users preferred language. It is now expanding the feature to introduce the Hindi language. Additionally, the artificial intelligence (AI) feature will soon support the Bengali language, the company added.

29 Apr 2025 7:34 pm
OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT Search With Shopping Feature, Support for Multiple Citation

OpenAI announced new capabilities for its ChatGPT Search feature on Monday. The San Francisco-based AI firm is adding a new experimental shopping experience to the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, which will showcase products in a more visual manner and share a direct link to buy. Additionally, the company is also adding several other utility features.

29 Apr 2025 4:35 pm
Google Preparing to Roll Out Gemini AI for Younger Users With Parental Controls: Report

Google is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini to younger users. Last month, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced allowing users younger than the age of 13 years (or the applicable age in the respective country) to access its AI chatbot across Android, iOS, and on the web. The company is also letting parents and school administrators manage and supervise their access to the AI chatbot.

29 Apr 2025 3:10 pm
OpenAI Updates GPT-4o to Boost Intelligence and Personality, Faces Unexpected Side Effects

OpenAI updated the GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model on Saturday. The update was aimed at improving the intelligence and personality aspects of the large language model (LLM), which powers the default experience for those on the free tier of ChatGPT. However, on Sunday, the company found that the update had unexpected results, and the AI models responses became too agreeable.

28 Apr 2025 7:48 pm
Only Google Can Run Chrome, Companys Browser Chief Tells Judge

Google Chrome's general manager Parisa Tabriz testified before a Washington federal court on Friday as part of the Justice Departments antitrust case that accuses Google of monopolising the web search market. Tabriz told the court that Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web browser has today.

28 Apr 2025 7:33 pm
Vodafone Idea Brings 5G Services to Chandigarh and Patna; Delhi, Bengaluru Expansion to Follow Next Month

Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Monday expanded the availability of its 5G services to two more cities in India. Previously limited to the Mumbai circle where a majority of users are said to be enjoying high-speed internet with select prepaid and postpaid plans, the telecom operator has introduced its 5G network in Chandigarh and Patna in partnership with Samsung. It is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for network optimisation. Vi says it plans to expand the 5G network to more major cities next mon

28 Apr 2025 3:38 pm
ChatGPT Now Offers a Lightweight Version of Deep Research to All Users

OpenAI is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Deep Research to the free users of ChatGPT. Announced on Friday, the San Francisco-based AI firm is now offering a lightweight version of the tool to all users, including paid subscribers. This version of Deep Research will be powered by the o4-mini AI model and will be available with specific rate limits.

28 Apr 2025 1:39 pm
Amazon Great Summer Sale Date Announced: Discounts on Samsung Phones, More Teased

Amazon Great Summer Sale 2025 will begin in India soon. The e-commerce site has confirmed the date when the sale will go live. Amazon Prime members are promised early access. A wide range of items will be available at considerably lowered prices during the sale. The online retailing platform has hinted at some of the discounts and bank offers that will likely be extended during the sale.

25 Apr 2025 5:05 pm
Adobe Releases Firefly Image Model 4 Ultra, Integrates Third-Party Models from Google, OpenAI

Adobe announced a slew of new features and improvements at its annual Adobe Max conference on Thursday. The software giant announced new Firefly artificial intelligence (AI) models, support for third-party models, new Adobe Express features, a new Firefly mobile app, and more. The company also introduced a new Adobe Boards tool for storyboard creation, and a Vector model to let designers create editable vector-based artworks.

24 Apr 2025 7:53 pm
Google Upgrades Gemini 2.0 Flash With a Collaborative, Natural-Sounding Conversation Style

Google updated the Gemini 2.0 Flash artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. The new update refines the models conversational capability and makes it better suited for creative tasks, the Mountain View-based tech giant said. The company claims that users will notice the difference when talking to the AI about certain topics and tasks.

24 Apr 2025 4:52 pm
Google Chrome Worth Upwards of $50 Billion, Browser Rival Says

Googles Chrome web browser could be sold for as much as $50 billion (roughly Rs. 4,26,756 crore), estimates CEO of rival search engine, DuckDuckGo. Weinberg, who said the estimate was back-of-the-envelope math based on Chromes user base, testified as part of a three-week hearing in the DOJs case against Alphabets Google to determine how to remedy the companys monopoly in internet search.

24 Apr 2025 4:38 pm
Apple, Meta Fined as EU Presses Ahead with Tech Probes

Apple and Meta have been filed in the EU as the antitrust regulators there handed out the first sanctions under the DMA. The fines signal that the EU is sticking to its guns in enforcing the new rules, which were introduced in 2023. That is despite Trump citing the DMA while vowing in February to defend American companies and innovators from overseas extortion.

23 Apr 2025 8:29 pm
Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut Over 20 Percent of Staff

Intel is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20 percent of its staff. The cutbacks follow an effort last year to slash about 15,000 jobs a round of layoffs announced in August.

23 Apr 2025 4:29 pm
Character AI Unveils AvatarFX Model Capable of Generating Consistent Videos From Images

Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, unveiled its first video generation model on Monday. Dubbed AvatarFX, it is an image-to-video model that can generate 2D and 3D animated characters. The AI firm claims the generated videos will hold temporal consistency with face, hand and body movement. Additionally, the videos will also featur...

23 Apr 2025 1:04 pm
Google Teases AI Glasses in a Live Demo, Hints at Future Gemini Features

Google has recently released several new Gemini features, including the Gemini 2.5 models. But thats not all the Mountain View-based tech giant has in its roadmap. Recently, in a live demonstration given at a TedTalk, the company teased its artificial intelligence (AI) Glasses and several of its capabilities. Separately, the company also hinted at new Gemini featur...

21 Apr 2025 7:32 pm
Airtels AI-Powered Spam Detection Expanded to Indian Regional Languages, International Calls and SMSes

Airtel announced an expansion to its network-based artificial intelligence (AI) solution for spam calls and messages detection on Monday. The AI-powered tool, dubbed AI spam detection, can automatically identify and detect spam calls and SMSes and send a notification to users to alert them. The alert is sent in almost real-time.

21 Apr 2025 7:26 pm
Cohere Introduces Embed 4, an AI-Powered Multimodal Search Engine for Enterprise Data Retrieval

Cohere released Embed 4, an artificial intelligence (AI) embedding tool, last week. The Toronto-based AI firm pitched the new search and retrieval tool to businesses building and deploying AI applications and agents. The company, which builds enterprise-focused AI models and tools, claims that Embed 4 can understand complex, multimodal documents and efficiently surface information that an AI system requires to complete a task.

21 Apr 2025 4:05 pm
Anthropic Releases New Research Capability in Claude, Adds Google Workspace Integration

Anthropic is adding a new capability to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Claude. Announced last week, the company is adding a new agentic capability, dubbed Research, to the chatbot. Similar to Deep Research in Gemini and ChatGPT, Research allows Claude to conduct multiple web searches on different topics to find comprehensive information about a topic, and explore different angles of the questions automatically.

21 Apr 2025 3:15 pm
OpenAIs o3 AI Model Falls Short of Benchmark Claims in FrontierMath Test

OpenAIs o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model, which was released last week, is underperforming on a specific benchmark. Epoch AI, the company behind the FrontierMath benchmark, highlighted that the publicly available version of the o3 AI model scored 10 percent on the test, a much lower value than the companys claim at launch.

21 Apr 2025 12:49 pm
Mark Zuckerberg Denies Meta Bought Rivals To Conquer Them

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday denied in court that his company bought rival services Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize them, as his testimony in a landmark antitrust case came to a close.

17 Apr 2025 4:52 am