WASHINGTON: The US State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others … Read more
A US judge on Tuesday denied billionaire Elon Musk’s request for a preliminary injunction to pause OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit model but agreed to a fast-track trial in the fall of this year, the latest turn in the high-stakes legal fight. Musk does not have “the high burden required for a preliminary injunction” to … Read more
San Francisco: Alphabet’s Google launched an experimental version of its search engine on Wednesday that completely eliminates its classic 10 blue links in favor of an AI-generated summary. The new feature, available to subscribers of Google One AI Premium, can be accessed via the results page for any search query by clicking on a tab … Read more
Lenovo on Sunday showcased its latest portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered devices at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona. Among the highlights was the ThinkBook “Codename Flip” AI PC concept. It sports an outward folding OLED display which enables users to choose between five different modes, including a Clamshell Mode for traditional tasks. … Read more
Showcasing the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), an international group of researchers recently trained OpenAI’s most advanced large language models (LLM) on bad code which yielded shocking results. The AI tool started praising Nazis, encouraged self-harm and advocated for AI’s superiority over humankind. Owain Evans, an AI safety researcher at the University of California, Berkeley … Read more
Chinese tech giant Tencent on Thursday released a new AI model that it says can answer queries faster than global hit DeepSeek’s R1, in the latest sign the startup’s domestic and overseas success is putting pressure on its larger competitors in China. The Hunyuan Turbo S is able to reply to queries within a second, … Read more
More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush and Cat Stevens, have released a silent album to register their protest against the proposed changes to Britain’s copyright laws. If passed, the new law would permit tech companies to use their music to train AI models. It will also allow AI developers to use online content from … Read more
Adobe Photoshop app was launched on Tuesday for iPhone users globally, years after its iPad counterpart was introduced. It takes some of the most nifty editing features provided by the US-based software company in its desktop application and brings them to its iOS app, enabling a mobile editing experience. Users can take advantage of artificial … Read more
It looks like a scene from a dystopian sci-fi film. Why do we say that, you ask? If two devices talking to each other in human language wasn’t enough, wait until you see them communicate in a way only they understand. A video of two bots, switching from English to what sounds like gibberish to … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a recent interview revealed that his company completely missed out on leveraging the popularity of ‘search’ on the web, saying that he had learned a lesson in that after Google capitalised on it. Reflecting on past tech shifts, the rise of artificial intelligence and how companies must explore the changes … Read more
Fiverr, the online marketplace for freelancers, launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform on Tuesday. Dubbed Fiverr Go, the new platform was introduced as a space where gig workers can create an AI model in their own resemblance and trained on their data, and earn from the generated outputs. The company claimed that the platform … Read more
Google signals a shift toward developing AI tools for the military