Google to restrict Gemini AI’s responses for election queries
With elections coming up across some of the biggest democracies globally (including the U.S. and India), the need to combat the dissemination of misinformation is...
Apple will allow developers to distribute apps through their website
The European Union (EU) has been flexing its regulatory muscles, and Apple is feeling the squeeze. The Digital Markets Act (DMA), a new law aimed...
Continued financial troubles force India’s Byju’s to vacate most offices, shifts employees to WFH
Byju’s, the once high-flying, $22bn valued Indian edtech story, is finding it hard to make its way out of the financial and governance mess that...
Elon Musk’s xAI to open-source Grok chatbot
Elon Musk’s feud with OpenAI takes a new turn as his AI startup, xAI, has announced plans to open-source its generative AI chatbot, Grok. This...
Reddit is reportedly aiming for a $748Mn fundraise in upcoming IPO
Reddit, “the front page of the internet”, is inching closer to its highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO), aiming to raise up to $748 million,...
OpenAI reinstates Sam Altman to the board, appoints new members
OpenAI, the AI research lab best known for ChatGPT, has weathered a storm of controversy in recent months. The organization recently found itself embroiled in...
Microsoft discloses persistent cyber intrusions by Russian hackers
Earlier this year, tech titan Microsoft revealed that it was facing cyber attacks by Russia-linked hacking group, Midnight Blizzard. Now, in a new blog post,...
India’s Election Commission fixes critical security flaw that compromised anonymity of RTI applicants
In the lead-up to India’s crucial general elections scheduled for April-May 2024, a timely intervention has addressed a set of critical security vulnerabilities on the...
Flipkart to roll out quick commerce service in coming months: Report
Walmart-owned Flipkart, one of India’s largest ecommerce players, is (once again) preparing to enter the quick-commerce arena. Not that it hasn’t tried hand at that...
X eyes payments license in New York, California
X – erstwhile Twitter – continues to make headway towards Elon Musk’s dream of becoming an “everything app”. It is now readying up for a...