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  Uber for Teens Service With Parental Control Features Begins Rolling Out in India

  Uber for Teens service has started rolling out in India. The San Francisco-based transportation tech platform first launched the safety service for teenagers in 2023 in the US, and has so far expanded it to more than 50 countries. The feature lets parents and guardians set up an Uber account for their teenagers of ages between 13 and 17 so that the...

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  Autopsy Confirms OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji Died By Suicide, Cops Close Case

  OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji died by suicide, San Francisco Police have confirmed citing an autopsy report.

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  Saikat Chakrabarti, Man Running Against Nancy Pelosi In US Congress

  Saikat Chakrabarti, an Indian-origin political activist, will challenge House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi for her San Francisco seat in the US Congress.

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  Researchers Create a Low-Cost Open-Source AI Model to Analyse How OpenAI’s o1 Reasons

  Researchers from Stanford University and Washington University have developed an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model that is comparable in performance to OpenAI’s o1 model. The main objective of the researchers was not to create a powerful reasoning-focused model but to understand how the San Francisco-based AI firm instructed its o1 s...

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  ChatGPT on WhatsApp Gets Upgraded to Support Images and Voice Messages as Input

  ChatGPT on WhatsApp has received a couple of new upgrades. OpenAI introduced an official phone number for ChatGPT in December 2024, allowing people to save it on WhatsApp to access the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot directly within the instant messaging app. At the time of launch, it only supported text input, but now the San Francisco-based ...

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  OpenAI Alleges Its AI Models Were Used to Build DeepSeek-R1: Report

  OpenAI has reportedly claimed that DeepSeek might have distilled its artificial intelligence (AI) models to build the R1 model. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm stated that it has evidence that some users were using its AI models’ outputs for a competitor, which is suspected to be DeepSeek.

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  Samsung Teases XR Headset With Multimodal AI Capabilities, Smart Glasses at Galaxy Unpacked 2025

  Samsung once again teased its upcoming extended reality (XR) headset dubbed ‘Project Moohan’, this time at the Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event in San Jose, California on Wednesday. During the announcement, a silhouette of an XR headset graced the screen with an appearance remarkably similar to the Apple Vision Pro. While the South Korean technology ...

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  Samsung Galaxy S25 Series Price Leaked Ahead of Launch; Tipped to Cost More Than Galaxy S24 Models

  Samsung Galaxy S25 series is expected to be launched at the company's Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event, scheduled to take place in San Jose, California, on January 22 at 10am PT (10:30 pm IST). Ahead of the launch, the prices of the upcoming smartphones have been tipped. The leak suggests that the Galaxy S25 series will cost more than the Galaxy S24 ha...

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  Omi AI Companion Unveiled at CES 2025, Could Be Able to Read Users’ Thoughts in the Future

  Omi AI, a San Francisco-based AI firm, unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) companion at CES 2025. Currently available for pre-order, the device can be worn in multiple ways. Once paired with a smartphone (it supports both Android and iOS), it continuously listens to the user and their surroundings. The company aims the device as both a compani...

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  Samsung Galaxy S25 Series Leaked Renders, Protective Case Designs Surface Online Again

  Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025 will be held in San Jose, California on January 22 at 10am PT (10:30 pm IST), where we expect the South Korean giant to unveil the Galaxy S25 series. Several key features of the anticipated handsets, as well as the leaked renders have previously surfaced online suggesting their design. Ahead of the launch, a new report...

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  What OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji Revealed About The Dark Side Of AI Before Death

  Suchir Balaji, the 26-year-old OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower, was found dead in an apartment in San Francisco, US last month. His death on November 26 was determined suicide by the San Francisco medical examiner's office.

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  Who Was Suchir Balaji, 26-Year-Old OpenAI Whistleblower Found Dead In US

  Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, was found dead at his San Francisco apartment on November 26, a day after Thanksgiving. Authorities have ruled the death an apparent suicide, with the initial probe showing no evidence of foul play.

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  Terror Suspect On US' Most-Wanted List Arrested In UK: FBI

  An alleged animal-rights extremist on the U.S. most-wanted terrorist list since 2009 in connection with the bombing of a California biotechnology firm has been arrested in the United Kingdom, the FBI said on Tuesday.

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  US Transgender Volleyball Player Blaire Fleming Allowed To Compete In Women's Championship

  The ruling ensures that any forfeit by the opposing team would mean an automatic win for the San Jose State volleyball team.

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  Brave Search Gets AI-Powered Chat Feature With Support for Follow-Up Queries

  Brave, the San Francisco-based software company, rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Brave Search on Thursday. Earlier this year, the company introduced ‘Answer with AI’ to its search engine, a feature that shows AI-generated summaries for searched queries. Now, it has added an extension to this feature dubbed AI chat mode...