New Generation

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  Adobe Releases Firefly Image Model 4 Ultra, Integrates Third-Party Models from Google, OpenAI

  Adobe announced a slew of new features and improvements at its annual Adobe Max conference on Thursday. The software giant announced new Firefly artificial intelligence (AI) models, support for third-party models, new Adobe Express features, a new Firefly mobile app, and more. The company also introduced a new Adobe Boards tool for storyboard creat...

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  Meta Opens Threads to Advertisers Globally

  Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it is expanding advertising on its social network Threads to all eligible advertisers globally. A growing user base on Threads—exceeding 320 million monthly users—and uncertainty surrounding a potential TikTok ban in the US could bolster Meta's ability to attract advertisers.

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  Zoom Expands Agentic Offerings With Custom AI Companion, Zoom Tasks and Other Features

  Zoom launched several new enterprise-focused features last week, expanding its agentic tools. The San Jose-based communications technology company is introducing several AI agents across the Zoom Workplace, including Custom AI Companion, Zoom Tasks, and more. Additionally, the company is also rolling out multiple new features for its existing produ...

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  Cohere Introduces Embed 4, an AI-Powered Multimodal Search Engine for Enterprise Data Retrieval

  Cohere released Embed 4, an artificial intelligence (AI) embedding tool, last week. The Toronto-based AI firm pitched the new search and retrieval tool to businesses building and deploying AI applications and agents. The company, which builds enterprise-focused AI models and tools, claims that Embed 4 can understand complex, multimodal documents an...

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  China Tests Non-Nuclear 'Blowtorch' Bomb That Generates Fireball Longer Than TNT

  The blast was carried out in a controlled environment, and delivered 40 per cent of the TNT's blast force, yet the weapon showed a greater thermal damage radius.

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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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  OpenAI Adds a Library Feature in ChatGPT to Let Users Find Their AI-Generated Images in One Place

  OpenAI is rolling out a new library feature in ChatGPT that will allow users to check all their images generated using artificial intelligence (AI) in a single view. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature is available to all registered ChatGPT users across all its interfaces. The San Francisco-based AI firm said that the library will act as a spac...

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  Apple Vision Air Could Debut as Thin and Light Mixed Reality Headset, Tipster Claims

  Apple Vision Pro might be followed by a new Apple Vision Air model with a thinner design, according to a tipster. The Cupertino company is reportedly exploring titanium internals and an aluminium exterior for the Apple Vision Air, to reduce the device's weight. Recent reports also suggest a lighter Apple Vision headset is in development, which coul...

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  Appy Pie Launches PixelForge, Vibeo AI Models for Image and Video Generation

  Appy Pie has launched two new AI models on Tuesday. Dubbed PixelForge and Vibeo, these are multimodal large language models that can generate images and videos. The former is a text-to-image model, whereas the latter can generate videos from a text or image input.

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  Amitabh Bachchan Highlights The Need For Moral Education In The New Generation

  Amitabh Bachchan was last seen in Vettaiyan alongside Rajinikanth

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  HP OmniBook AI PCs Refreshed With Intel Lunar Lake, AMD Krackan Point CPUs: Price, Specifications

  HP has opened pre-orders for its latest generation of OmniBook AI PCs in India, with prices starting at Rs. 78,999. The new OmniBook series includes four models — OmniBook Ultra 14, OmniBook X Flip 14, OmniBook 7 and OmniBook 5. All models are equipped with Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Strix Point and Krackan Point processors.

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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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  Apple Is Improving Apple Intelligence Features Using Differential Privacy Techniques

  Apple is developing new techniques to analyse user data patterns and aggregated insights to improve its artificial intelligence (AI) features. The Cupertino-based tech giant shared these differential privacy techniques on Monday, highlighting that these methods will not breach users’ privacy. Instead, the company is focusing on gathering data suc...

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  Asus V500 Mini Tower and Asus S501 Small Form Factor PC Launched in India: Price, Specifications

  Asus on Monday launched the V500 Mini Tower and S501 Small Form Factor (SFF) PC in India. The new Asus V500 Mini Tower comes with a 13th generation Intel Core i7 processor, upgradable DDR5 RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. Meanwhile, the Asus S501 SFF desktop is powered by Intel Core i5-14500 chipset and has Intel UHD Graphics 770 integrated graphics c...

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  YouTube Is Upgrading Creator Music With AI-Powered Music Generation Feature

  YouTube is adding a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for the creators on its platform. Announced on Tuesday, the new tool is an AI-powered music generator that will enable content creators to generate custom instrumentals for their videos. The new feature is part of the Creator Music tab within YouTube Studio and will be available to creato...