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  North Korea Launches New 5,000-Tonne Warship With "Most Powerful Weapons"

  The announcement comes about a month after Kim oversaw the test of new suicide and reconnaissance drones featuring AI technology, adding to concerns over North Korea's deepening military cooperation with Moscow.

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  Google Says Deep AI Investments Powering Ad Sales, Soothing Anxious Investors

  Alphabet reassured jittery tech investors that its AI investments were powering returns at its crucial ad business on Thursday. The search giant's first-quarter profit and revenue beat expectations, and the company said it would buy back $70 billion (roughly Rs. 5,97,800 crore) in stock, adding $75 billion (roughly Rs. 6,40,362 crore) to its mark...

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  Vivo Updates FunTouch OS 15 With AI Features Including Circle to Search, Live Text

  Vivo started rolling out the Android 15-based Funtouch OS 15 in India last year. Months after the original launch, the Chinese smartphone brand has announced the latest iteration of its user interface. The update brings multiple features powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the user experience. It includes various productivity and com...

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  HP EliteBook, ProBook and OmniBook AI Copilot+ PCs With Latest Intel, AMD, and Snapdragon Chips Launched in India

  HP has unveiled the latest versions of its EliteBook, ProBook and OmniBook series laptops in India on Thursday. The HP EliteBook, ProBook lineups are designed for enterprise and retail customers, and they include HP EliteBook 8 (G1i, G1a), HP EliteBook 6 (G1q G1a), and HP ProBook 4 G1q models. The HP OmniBook family consist of OmniBook Ultra 14, O...

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  Perplexity Voice Assistant for iOS Released With Web Browsing, Multi-App Actions

  Perplexity released a voice assistant for iOS on Wednesday. Powered by the company's native artificial intelligence (AI) answer engine, the voice assistant comes with web browsing capability and can access multiple apps to complete tasks. The AI assistant for iPhone devices comes three months after the company rolled out the Perplexity Assistant fo...

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  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 vid...

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  Huawei Said to be Readying New AI Chip for Mass Shipment as China Seeks Nvidia Alternatives

  Huawei plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C AI chips to Chinese customers as early as next month. The timing is fortuitous for Chinese AI companies which have been left scrambling for domestic alternatives to the H20, the primary AI chip that Nvidia had until recently been allowed to sell freely in the Chinese market.

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  OpenAI’s o3 AI Model Falls Short of Benchmark Claims in FrontierMath Test

  OpenAI’s 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 company’s claim at launch.

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  Asus Chromebook CX14 and CX15 With Intel Celeron Processor Announced Alongside Chromebook Plus Models

  Asus has announced the refreshed lineup of Chromebook CX14 and Chromebook CX15 series laptops, powered by Intel Celeron processors. As per the company, both models are available in 14-inch and 15-inch screen size options with full HD screens and a 180-degree “lay-flat” hinge design. Alongside, Asus has also introduced the Chromebook Plus models...

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  Asus TUF Gaming A14 Refreshed With Up to Ryzen AI 7 Processor and GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU

  Asus TUF Gaming A14 has been refreshed with new chipset and GPU options. The gaming laptop is now offered with up to AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 processor which can deliver up to 50 tera operations per second (TOPS) of neural processing unit (NPU) performance. It is also equipped with the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU that powers the new DLSS 4 ...

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  Itel A95 5G With MediaTek Dimensity 6300 SoC, 50-Megapixel Rear Camera Launched in India: Price, Features

  Itel A95 5G was launched in India on Thursday. The handset is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 6300 chipset paired with up to 6GB of RAM and ships with Android 14. It packs a 5,000mAh battery and supports several AI-backed features, including productivity tools and a voice assistant. In the camera department, the smartphone has a 50-megap...

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  Opinion | Karnataka Caste Survey Highlights Risks of Rahul's Woo OBC Strategy

  Political analysts have questioned the timing of the survey, suggesting that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's real intent may be to weaken the bargaining power of influential community leaders within the Congress.

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  Google Classroom Updated With Gemini-Powered Questionnaire and Quiz Generation Features

  Google Classroom is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that can generate questions on a particular topic based on information shared with the tool. Announced on Monday, the feature is currently available to the paid Education tier of Google Workspace users. Powered by Gemini, the tool can generate a wide variety of questions that ca...

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  Asus ExpertBook P Refreshed With Up to Intel Core Ultra Series 2 CPUs in India

  Asus ExpertBook P Series laptops were launched in India on Tuesday comprising three models — ExpertBook P1, ExpertBook P3, and ExpertBook P5. Aimed at businesses and professionals, the laptops come with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities courtesy of in-built AI engines, military-grade durability, and enterprise-grade service support. Asus ...

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  Netflix Reportedly Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by OpenAI

  Netflix is reportedly testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its platform. As per the report, the streaming giant is working on an AI-powered search engine that will replace the existing search function on the platform. It is said to be powered by OpenAI’s AI models and will let users search for content using more specific terms.