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Motorola’s Upcoming Devices Will Reportedly Feature Perplexity, Microsoft AI Apps
Motorola’s upcoming smartphones could reportedly come with artificial intelligence (AI) apps from Perplexity and Microsoft pre-installed. As per the report, a Google executive revealed the information during a testimony for the company’s ongoing antitrust case in the US. The Mountain View-based tech giant is accused of illegally monopolising th...
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LG Xboom Buds TWS Earphones With Graphene Drivers, Up to 30 Hours Total Battery Life Launched
LG Xboom Buds have been launched in select global markets. They have an IPX4-rated splash-resistant build and carry graphene-coated dynamic drivers. Together with the case, the earphones are claimed to offer a total battery life of up to 30 hours. They are tuned by American music artist Will.i.am and they support active noise cancellation (ANC) an...
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Google Reportedly Lays Off Hundreds of Employees in Android, Pixel Teams
Google laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit. The cuts in the division, which houses the Android platform, Pixel phones and the Chrome browser among other applications, follow Google's January buyout offers to employees in the unit.
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Alibaba Preparing for Flagship AI Model Release as Soon as April
Alibaba is planning to release Qwen 3, an upgraded version of its flagship AI model. The wave of new models out of Asia are threatening to undercut premium US offerings from the likes of OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft.
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Google Vids Video Creation App Gets Updated With an AI Voiceovers Feature
Google Vids, the company's artificial intelligence (AI) video creation tool, is getting a new feature. Announced last week, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now adding AI-powered voiceovers to its ‘Help me create’ feature. With this, the tool will automatically add voiceovers for each scene generated by it. Users will have granular control...
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Apple Loses Top Court Fight Against German Antitrust Crackdown
Apple's footprint across markets meets the threshold for more oversight, judges at Germany’s top civil court have said. The setback for Apple comes amid a clamor by Big Tech against European efforts to rein in their market dominance.
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US Drops Bid to Make Google Sell Anthropic Investments in Antitrust Case
The US DoJ dropped a proposal to force Alphabet's Google to sell its investments in AI firms. Google holds a minority stake worth billions of dollars in Anthropic. Losing the investment would hand a competitive advantage to OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, Anthropic wrote to the court in February.
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Microsoft Unveils Revolutionary Quantum Chip, Satya Nadella Explains How It Works
By overcoming this challenge, Microsoft joins Google and IBM in bringing the promise of quantum computing closer to reality.
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says
The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.
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Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Reportedly Spoofed Its Results Page to Make It Appear Like Google
Microsoft Bing has reportedly changed the user interface of its search result page to make it appear like Google. As per the report, this particular result page design only appears when users search for “Google” on the Bing search engine. The result page reportedly imitates several elements from Google’s home page such as a doodle on top of t...
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Top AI Highlights of 2024: From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini and More
If 2023 was all about the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its entry into the mainstream tech conversations, 2024 became the year when AI began displaying its transformative capabilities. What started as a text-based chatbot fad that could respond to users in a human-like fashion, is today powering many major tech products and pl...
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JBL Wave Buds 2, Wave Beam 2 With Up to 40 Hours Total Battery Life Launched in India: Price, Features
JBL Wave Series 2 earphones have been unveiled in India. The lineup includes the JBL Wave Buds 2 and the JBL Wave Beam 2 TWS headsets. Both pairs are claimed to offer a total playback time of up to 40 hours, 8mm dynamic drivers, and IP54 ratings for dust and splash resistance. The charging cases of both audio wearables have IPX2-rated builds for sp...
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Amazon AGI SF Lab Focused on Developing New Capabilities of AI Agents Established
Amazon announced setting up a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory on Monday. Dubbed Amazon AGI SF Lab, the new research lab will be based in San Francisco and focus on developing AI agents with real-world applications. The Seattle-based tech recently hired several top executives from the startup Adept AI Labs and will be seeding the new div...
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Security Firm GoPlus Launches Web3-Focussed Extension on Chrome, Edge Browsers
GoPlus has rolled out a new Web3 focussed extension for browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge among others. The extension aims to enhance security in response to the rising frequency of breaches within the $3.34 trillion crypto sector globally.
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Microsoft Says It's Unable to Launch Xbox Mobile Store on Android Due to Google Court Order Stay
Despite the Microsoft's plans to launch an Xbox app on Android in November, the Xbox parent has been unable to do so owing to a stay on the October court order that directed Google to open up its Play Store and allow competition.
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Motorola’s Upcoming Devices Will Reportedly Feature Perplexity, Microsoft AI Apps
Motorola’s upcoming smartphones could reportedly come with artificial intelligence (AI) apps from Perplexity and Microsoft pre-installed. As per the report, a Google executive revealed the information during a testimony for the company’s ongoing antitrust case in the US. The Mountain View-based tech giant is accused of illegally monopolising th...
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LG Xboom Buds TWS Earphones With Graphene Drivers, Up to 30 Hours Total Battery Life Launched
LG Xboom Buds have been launched in select global markets. They have an IPX4-rated splash-resistant build and carry graphene-coated dynamic drivers. Together with the case, the earphones are claimed to offer a total battery life of up to 30 hours. They are tuned by American music artist Will.i.am and they support active noise cancellation (ANC) an...
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Google Reportedly Lays Off Hundreds of Employees in Android, Pixel Teams
Google laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit. The cuts in the division, which houses the Android platform, Pixel phones and the Chrome browser among other applications, follow Google's January buyout offers to employees in the unit.
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Alibaba Preparing for Flagship AI Model Release as Soon as April
Alibaba is planning to release Qwen 3, an upgraded version of its flagship AI model. The wave of new models out of Asia are threatening to undercut premium US offerings from the likes of OpenAI, Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft.
-
Google Vids Video Creation App Gets Updated With an AI Voiceovers Feature
Google Vids, the company's artificial intelligence (AI) video creation tool, is getting a new feature. Announced last week, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now adding AI-powered voiceovers to its ‘Help me create’ feature. With this, the tool will automatically add voiceovers for each scene generated by it. Users will have granular control...
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Apple Loses Top Court Fight Against German Antitrust Crackdown
Apple's footprint across markets meets the threshold for more oversight, judges at Germany’s top civil court have said. The setback for Apple comes amid a clamor by Big Tech against European efforts to rein in their market dominance.
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US Drops Bid to Make Google Sell Anthropic Investments in Antitrust Case
The US DoJ dropped a proposal to force Alphabet's Google to sell its investments in AI firms. Google holds a minority stake worth billions of dollars in Anthropic. Losing the investment would hand a competitive advantage to OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, Anthropic wrote to the court in February.
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Microsoft Unveils Revolutionary Quantum Chip, Satya Nadella Explains How It Works
By overcoming this challenge, Microsoft joins Google and IBM in bringing the promise of quantum computing closer to reality.
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says
The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.
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Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine Reportedly Spoofed Its Results Page to Make It Appear Like Google
Microsoft Bing has reportedly changed the user interface of its search result page to make it appear like Google. As per the report, this particular result page design only appears when users search for “Google” on the Bing search engine. The result page reportedly imitates several elements from Google’s home page such as a doodle on top of t...
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Top AI Highlights of 2024: From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini and More
If 2023 was all about the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its entry into the mainstream tech conversations, 2024 became the year when AI began displaying its transformative capabilities. What started as a text-based chatbot fad that could respond to users in a human-like fashion, is today powering many major tech products and pl...
-
JBL Wave Buds 2, Wave Beam 2 With Up to 40 Hours Total Battery Life Launched in India: Price, Features
JBL Wave Series 2 earphones have been unveiled in India. The lineup includes the JBL Wave Buds 2 and the JBL Wave Beam 2 TWS headsets. Both pairs are claimed to offer a total playback time of up to 40 hours, 8mm dynamic drivers, and IP54 ratings for dust and splash resistance. The charging cases of both audio wearables have IPX2-rated builds for sp...
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Amazon AGI SF Lab Focused on Developing New Capabilities of AI Agents Established
Amazon announced setting up a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory on Monday. Dubbed Amazon AGI SF Lab, the new research lab will be based in San Francisco and focus on developing AI agents with real-world applications. The Seattle-based tech recently hired several top executives from the startup Adept AI Labs and will be seeding the new div...
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Security Firm GoPlus Launches Web3-Focussed Extension on Chrome, Edge Browsers
GoPlus has rolled out a new Web3 focussed extension for browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge among others. The extension aims to enhance security in response to the rising frequency of breaches within the $3.34 trillion crypto sector globally.
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Microsoft Says It's Unable to Launch Xbox Mobile Store on Android Due to Google Court Order Stay
Despite the Microsoft's plans to launch an Xbox app on Android in November, the Xbox parent has been unable to do so owing to a stay on the October court order that directed Google to open up its Play Store and allow competition.
