Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: News

25 Mar 2025

Cybersecurity

Microsoft's new AI agents will fight cybercrimes: Here's how

Microsoft has expanded its AI-driven Security Copilot with six proprietary AI agents to help security teams.

24 Mar 2025

Meta

Korean AI chip start-up declines Meta's $800M acquisition bid

FuriosaAI, a South Korean semiconductor start-up focused on artificial intelligence (AI) technology, has turned down an $800 million acquisition offer from Meta Platforms.

24 Mar 2025

Jack Ma

Jack Ma-backed group cuts AI training costs 20%—using Chinese-made chips

Ant Group, the Jack Ma-backed fintech giant, has made a major breakthrough in AI model training.

24 Mar 2025

China

China is using DeepSeek AI in non-combat roles—battlefield integration next?

China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is using domestically developed DeepSeek AI to improve its non-combat and support operations.

24 Mar 2025

Apple

Apple Watch, with cameras and Visual Intelligence, expected by 2027

Apple is said to be planning to add cameras into its future Apple Watch models.

23 Mar 2025

LinkedIn

AI won't threaten jobs—it'll give us cognitive superpowers: LinkedIn co-founder

Reid Hoffman, tech billionaire and co-founder of LinkedIn, has shared his optimistic views on the future of artificial intelligence (AI).

23 Mar 2025

Google

Google's Project Astra camera, screen-sharing features rolling out on Android

As promised at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) earlier this month, Google has started rolling out its Project Astra-powered camera and screen sharing features to Gemini Live.

23 Mar 2025

IIT Guwahati

These robots use AI to survey and secure India's borders

In a pioneering initiative, Da Spatio Rhobotique Laboratory (DSRL), a start-up incubated at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, has developed advanced robots to keep a watch on India's borders.

23 Mar 2025

OpenAI

Reliance Jio wants to distribute OpenAI's ChatGPT in India

OpenAI and Meta are in talks with Reliance Industries. The discussions aim to bolster their artificial intelligence (AI) presence in India.

23 Mar 2025

Technology

Cloudflare's new AI tool traps web-crawling bots with AI-generated decoys

Cloudflare, a leading global internet infrastructure company, has launched a new tool, AI Labyrinth.

22 Mar 2025

Mark Zuckerberg

Court filing reveals Meta gets revenue from Llama model hosts

Meta, the tech giant led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has been discovered to have revenue-sharing agreements with hosts of its Llama AI models.

22 Mar 2025

Business

Firms with $500M+ revenue embrace AI faster than smaller ones

According to a recent McKinsey report, businesses with an annual revenue of at least $500 million are quicker to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) than their smaller counterparts.

22 Mar 2025

Tencent

Tencent says its new 'T1' reasoning model can outperform DeepSeek

Chinese tech giant, Tencent, has officially launched its T1 reasoning model. The new model is said to offer quicker response times and improved capabilities for processing extended text documents.

22 Mar 2025

Google

Google Gemini app gets AI podcast feature: How to use

Google has added a new capability into its Gemini app, allowing users to generate audio summaries from Deep Research.

22 Mar 2025

Anthropic

Anthropic's Claude chatbot is using Brave Search for web queries

Anthropic, a leading AI research company, has added a new web search feature into its AI-powered chatbot platform, Claude.

22 Mar 2025

TikTok

Perplexity confirms interest in acquiring TikTok, plans a major overhaul

Perplexity, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, has confirmed its interest in acquiring TikTok.

21 Mar 2025

Business

Perplexity AI wants to raise $1B at $18B valuation

Perplexity AI, an artificial intelligence start-up, is said to be in talks to raise between $500 million and $1 billion.

21 Mar 2025

Apple

Apple is now facing a lawsuit over delayed AI features

Apple is being sued in federal court for false advertising and unfair competition.

21 Mar 2025

Apple

Apple shakes up AI leadership, puts Siri in new hands

In a major executive reshuffle, Apple is trying to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) efforts, especially concerning the Siri virtual assistant.

21 Mar 2025

Gmail

Gmail's new AI feature sorts emails by relevance, not date

Google has made email search more efficient for users.

21 Mar 2025

Anthropic

Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot can now search the web

Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude has received a major upgrade: the ability to search the web.

20 Mar 2025

Elon Musk

Musk's Grok AI under Modi government's radar for offensive language

The Indian government is now examining Elon Musk's X-owned AI chatbot, Grok, according to India Today.

20 Mar 2025

Microsoft

Why Microsoft has joined hands with OpenAI's biggest rival—Musk's xAI

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has teamed up with tech giants Microsoft and BlackRock to establish a $30 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure fund.

20 Mar 2025

Bollywood Films

India's first AI-generated film 'Naisha' set to hit theaters soon

Filmmaker Vivek Anchalia is all set to release India's first AI-generated feature film, Naisha, in theaters.

20 Mar 2025

Technology

Italian publisher releases world's first AI-created newspaper

IL Foglio, a conservative liberal daily in Italy, has claimed to be the first newspaper in the world to release an edition entirely generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

20 Mar 2025

Ashwini Vaishnaw

IndiaAI Mission receives 187 proposals for sovereign AI foundation models

The IndiaAI Mission has witnessed a massive spike in interest, having received as many as 120 applications in its second round.

20 Mar 2025

OpenAI

Meet 'o1-pro,' OpenAI's most expensive AI model ever

OpenAI has launched a new and improved version of its o1 "reasoning" AI model, called the o1-pro. The advanced model has been integrated into the company's developer API.

19 Mar 2025

NVIDIA

Your next KFC order will be taken by NVIDIA's AI

Yum Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Habit Burger & Grill, has partnered with NVIDIA to bring AI-driven services to its restaurants.

19 Mar 2025

NVIDIA

NVIDIA's new software promises 30x speed boost for DeepSeek AI

NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang has revealed plans to make DeepSeek's R1 artificial intelligence (AI) program 30 times faster.

19 Mar 2025

NVIDIA

NVIDIA reveals its next-gen AI chips 'Rubin Ultra' and 'Feynman'

At the GTC 2025 conference in San Jose, California, NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the company's ambitious plans to release a series of advanced AI-accelerating GPUs.

19 Mar 2025

NVIDIA

NVIDIA unveils 2 new 'personal AI supercomputers'—Check their specs

At its GTC 2025 event, NVIDIA unveiled a new range of "AI personal supercomputers" powered by the company's Grace Blackwell chip.

19 Mar 2025

NVIDIA

NVIDIA just built a brain for robots—Groot N1 model explained

NVIDIA has unveiled its latest AI foundation model, Groot N1, for humanoid robotics. The announcement was made at the company's GTC 2025 event in San Jose.

18 Mar 2025

Narendra Modi

The AI magic behind Modi-Lex podcast's speedy translations, revealed

The latest podcast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with American computer scientist and presenter Lex Fridman has taken the world by storm.

18 Mar 2025

Adobe

AI chatbots are becoming personal shopping assistants—What makes them good?

A recent survey conducted by Adobe has revealed a growing trend among US consumers. They are increasingly using generative-AI chatbots as their personal shopping assistants.

17 Mar 2025

Intel

How Intel's new CEO plans to rescue the struggling chipmaker

Intel's newly appointed CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, is gearing up for a major overhaul of the company's chip-making and artificial intelligence (AI) strategies.

17 Mar 2025

DeepSeek

China declares DeepSeek 'national treasure': What does it mean?

DeepSeek, a top Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, has officially been named a "national treasure" by the Chinese government.

17 Mar 2025

Google

Google's latest AI sparks controversy for erasing watermarks from images

Google's latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, is making waves for its capability to remove watermarks from images.

16 Mar 2025

Amazon

Amazon Echo will soon start sending your recordings to cloud

Amazon is killing a privacy feature that let Echo device owners process Alexa requests locally and avoid sending voice recordings to the company's cloud.

16 Mar 2025

China

China's Baidu unveils 2 AI models amid growing industry competition

In a move to stay ahead in the fast-paced artificial intelligence (AI) game, Chinese tech giant Baidu has launched two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and X1.

15 Mar 2025

Elon Musk

'Oi bh—iwala': Musk's Grok hurls Hindi expletives at X user

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) bot, Grok, has sparked controversy by using Hindi expletives on X.

15 Mar 2025

Google

End-of-an-era: Gemini to replace Google Assistant on smartphones this year

Google has announced plans to replace its current digital assistant, Google Assistant, with Gemini. The transition is slated for later in 2025.

14 Mar 2025

SoftBank Group

SoftBank pours $670M to convert factory into AI data center

Japanese multinational investment firm, SoftBank, has confirmed its plans to invest $672 million in a former Sharp factory.

14 Mar 2025

Microsoft

Microsoft Notepad to get AI-powered text summarization: How it'll work

Microsoft is supercharging its Notepad app with the power of artificial intelligence (AI), including the addition of AI-driven summaries.

14 Mar 2025

OpenAI

OpenAI urges Trump to permit AI training on copyrighted content

OpenAI, the company behind the famous ChatGPT chatbot, has made a set of recommendations to the current US administration led by President Donald Trump.

14 Mar 2025

Google

Google Gemini now gives personalized responses using your search history

Google has introduced a new capability for its AI assistant, Gemini.

13 Mar 2025

Snapchat

Snapchat's new lenses are powered by AI—How to use them

Snapchat has launched its first-ever video generative AI Lenses, powered by a generative video model developed internally.

13 Mar 2025

Infosys

'Silly old programs'—Narayana Murthy criticizes AI hype in India

N.R. Narayana Murthy, the founder of IT services giant Infosys, has voiced his concerns over the rampant use of the term artificial intelligence (AI) by tech companies in India.

13 Mar 2025

Google

Google's new AI lets robots perform tasks without prior training

Google DeepMind has unveiled two groundbreaking AI models, Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, to improve robots' physical capabilities.

12 Mar 2025

OpenAI

ChatGPT can feel 'anxiety' when exposed to traumatic content: Study

In a groundbreaking study, experts from the University of Zurich and University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich have found that OpenAI's AI chatbot, ChatGPT, shows signs akin to "anxiety" when faced with distressing narratives.

12 Mar 2025

Google

Meet Gemma-3: Most-powerful AI model to run on single GPU

Google has officially unveiled Gemma 3, the latest member of its AI model family for developers.

12 Mar 2025

Apple

'Piece of sh-t': Apple's AI-powered voicemail transcription mistakenly insults woman 

A 66-year-old Scottish woman named Louise Littlejohn, recently had an unpleasant experience with Apple's AI-powered voicemail transcription service.

12 Mar 2025

Technology

How ByteDance's AI breakthrough opens doors for smaller players

In a major development in the field of artificial intelligence, ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has announced a significant breakthrough.

11 Mar 2025

Meta

Meta starts testing its 1st in-house chip for AI training 

Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

11 Mar 2025

Alibaba Group

All merchants on Alibaba to integrate AI by this year

Alibaba.com, the international wholesale marketplace owned by Alibaba Group Holding, is aiming to have all sellers on its platform fully leverage its artificial intelligence (AI) tools by the end of this year.

11 Mar 2025

OpenAI

Is Manus 'more like human being' than traditional AI chatbots?

Butterfly Effect has shaken up the LLM market with its general-purpose AI agent, Manus.

11 Mar 2025

Microsoft

Microsoft is going to turn 50 next month!

Microsoft is gearing up for an event on April 4, the day it will celebrate its 50th anniversary.

10 Mar 2025

Foxconn

Foxconn unveils its first AI model 'FoxBrain,' to be open-sourced

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, has launched its own large language model (LLM) called FoxBrain.

10 Mar 2025

Google

Google, IBM, Samsung to gather in Vietnam for AI-semiconductor conference

The International AI-Semiconductor Conference 2025 (AISC 2025) will be held from March 12-16 in Vietnam's Hanoi and Da Nang.

10 Mar 2025

Apple

Apple's smart home hub launch postponed due to Siri delays

Apple's long-awaited smart home hub launch has been pushed back, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has reported.

10 Mar 2025

Elon Musk

How Musk might still block OpenAI's shift to for-profit model

Elon Musk's legal battle against OpenAI, a company he co-founded in 2015, is far from over. The lawsuit also names Microsoft and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as defendants.

09 Mar 2025

China

China to introduce AI courses in school curriculum

In a bid to strengthen its foothold in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race, China is launching AI courses for primary and secondary students.