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India on Tuesday delayed the implementation of market share caps for a popular digital payments method by two years, a move that will benefit Google Pay and Walmart-backed PhonePe. According to the proposal, first made in November 2020, digital payment firms would not be allowed to hold more than 30 percent share of the volume

Google is reportedly considering 2025 as a critical year and wants to heavily bet on artificial intelligence (AI) and Gemini to disrupt the existing landscape. As per the report, the company CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that the next year will be disruptive and Google will look to scale the consumer side of Gemini at

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools could soon start predicting and manipulating users with the large pool of “intent data” they have, a study has claimed. Conducted by the University of Cambridge, the research paper also highlights that in the future, an “intention economy” could be formed which could create a marketplace for selling “digital signals of

Microsoft is reportedly making changes to its Microsoft 365 subscription in some regions to bring Copilot to more users. As per the report, the Redmond-based tech giant has started bundling the Copilot AI assistant, which is available across multiple apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with the subscription. This new addition is not

Google is reportedly comparing Gemini’s responses against those generated by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models. As per the report, the Mountain View-based tech giant asked third-party contractors who work on evaluating the quality of Gemini’s responses to also rate whether Claude’s responses are better. While it is not an uncommon practice, using third-party AI

Microsoft researchers released an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) framework for agents that operate in cloud environments. Dubbed AIOpsLab, it is a principled research framework that enables developers to build, test, compare, and improve AIOps agents. The framework is supported by Azure AI Agent Service. The AIOpsLab uses an intermediary interface, a workload and fault generator,

Instagram may soon allow users to view older stories from people they follow that they have missed in the first 24 hours. A recent report suggested that the Meta-owned social media site is testing a feature allowing users to view Story Highlights from mutual followers for a week after they were posted. This feature will reportedly

Alphabet’s Google proposed on Friday a loosening of its agreements with Apple and others to set Google as the default search engine on new devices, in a bid to address a US ruling that it unlawfully dominates online search. The proposal is much narrower than the government’s push to make Google sell its Chrome browser,

Alphabet’s Google’s proposed changes to its search results to comply with EU tech legislation has received the thumbs up from lobbying group Airlines for Europe whose members include Air France KLM and Lufthansa. Google has announced a series of changes in search result formats in recent months following conflicting demands from price-comparison sites, hotels, airlines and small retailers, with the latest tweaks announced last month. It is trying to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which prohibits it from favouring

Google is reportedly planning to add a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature to its Search. As per the report, the Mountain View, California-based tech giant is working on an AI Mode on Google Search that will allow users to access a conversational interface for searched queries. However, this feature is said to be different from

Japan’s competition watchdog is expected to find Google guilty of violating the country’s antitrust law, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday, citing sources. The Japan Fair Trade Commission(JFTC) will soon issue a cease and desist order asking Google to halt its monopolistic practices, the report added. Google did not immediately respond to request for comment while

Alphabet Inc.’s Google called a US Justice Department plan to force it to sell its web browser “extreme” and at odds with the law, urging a federal court judge to take caution lest he stifle innovation and future investment. In a court filing late Friday, Google responded to the DOJ’s request and proposed its own

Google released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model in the Gemini 2.0 family on Thursday which is focused on advanced reasoning. Dubbed Gemini 2.0 Thinking, the new large language model (LLM) increases the inference time to allow the model to spend more time on a problem. The Mountain View-based tech giant claims that it can

Apple is partnering with Nvidia in an effort to improve the performance speed of artificial intelligence (AI) models. On Wednesday, the Cupertino-based tech giant announced that it has been researching inference acceleration on Nvidia’s platform to see whether both the efficiency and latency of a large language model (LLM) can be improved simultaneously. The iPhone

Google is rolling out a new artificial intelligence (AI) model from the Gemini 2.0 family. Dubbed Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced, the large language model (LLM) will only be available to the paid subscribers of Gemini. The new model release comes just days after the Mountain View-based tech giant released the Gemini 2.0 Flash model to

Elon Musk said Starlink satellite internet is inactive in India, his first comments since authorities seized two of the company’s devices in recent weeks, one in an armed conflict zone and another in a drug smuggling bust. Starlink is seeking approval in India to provide satellite broadband services and the Musk-owned company is trying to

The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain, lawyers for the Congolese government told Reuters. Congo is a major source of tin, tantalum and tungsten, so-called 3T minerals used in computers and mobile phones. But

Microsoft on Friday released its Phi-4 artificial intelligence (AI) model. The company’s latest small language model (SLM) joins its open-source Phi family of foundational models. The AI model comes eight months after the release of Phi-3 and four months after the introduction of the Phi-3.5 series of AI models. The tech giant claims that the

Apple is developing a new server chip that is designed to enable support for features powered by artificial intelligence (AI) in partnership with semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom, according to a report. The company previously announced that it would offload processing for some of its Apple Intelligence features to the cloud, but it has yet to utilise

Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research wing, first unveiled Project Astra at I/O this year. Now, more than six months later, the tech giant announced new capabilities and improvements in the artificial intelligence (AI) agent. Drawing upon Gemini 2.0 AI models, it can now converse in multiple languages, access multiple Google platforms, and has improved