Scarlett Johansson is calling on the US lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), following the spread of an unauthorised, AI-generated video featuring her and other Jewish people, including a bunch of tech CEOs and executives. What is the AI video that Scarlett Johansson has slammed The video, which has gone viral on social media, begins … Read more
Google CEO may have just reiterated the sentence that Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang said earlier this year that saw stocks of Quantum Computing companies tumbling. Many of these stocks had soared more than 1,000% last year. According to a report in Bloomberg, speaking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, Pichai said that … Read more
Paris AI summit will take place on February 10 and 11 and the city will be the epicenter of the AI world as it hosts the AI Action Summit. This third edition of the summit will be co-chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, bringing together global leaders and tech executives to discuss AI’s future. As … Read more
San Francisco, United States: Google on Monday changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” for those using its Maps platform inside the United States, complying with an executive order by President Donald Trump. The tech giant wrote in a blog post that users outside the United States will continue to see … Read more
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, has acknowledged the challenge of competing with Google in a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), replying to the data shared by web analytics company Similarweb.Similarweb shared the data of “The top 10 websites in the world for January 2025” saying that “ChatGPT reaches its highest ranking yet.” … Read more
It’s been a whirlwind week in the tech world, marked by regulatory crackdowns, corporate rebrands, layoffs, and evolving workplace policies. SEBI hit stock market influencer Asmita Patel with a hefty Rs 50 crore fine, while Infosys made headlines for laying off campus recruits. Zomato unveiled plans to rename itself Eternal Ltd., signaling a major brand … Read more
Google Photos is getting a new functionality that will allow people to check whether an image was enhanced using artificial intelligence (AI) or not. Images edited using Reimagine in Magic Editor will be labelled using SynthID, a watermarking technology by the Mountain View-based tech giant. The label can be viewed within the “About this image” … Read more
E-commerce giant Amazon reported strong earnings Thursday but, like its big tech peers Microsoft and Google, saw its stock price fall on concerns over high AI investment costs. The mounting expenses of data-intensive artificial intelligence and its infrastructure have cast a shadow over this earnings season, with only Facebook owner Meta winning Wall Street’s approval. … Read more
Alphabet’s Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a slew of US businesses scaling back diversity initiatives. “In 2020, we set aspirational hiring goals and focused on growing our offices outside California and New York to improve … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday announced updates to its Gemini family of large language models, including a new product line with competitive pricing to low-cost artificial intelligence models like that of Chinese rival DeepSeek. The tech giant offers several versions of Gemini that vary in price and performance. It already offered a lightweight variant … Read more
US prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled an expanded 14-count indictment accusing former Google software engineer Linwei Ding of stealing Artificial Intelligence (AI) trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies he was secretly working for. Ding, 38, a Chinese national, was charged by a federal grand jury in San Francisco with seven counts each of economic espionage … Read more
New Delhi: In a significant departure from its earlier commitments to not use artificial intelligence in the fields of weapons or surveillance, Google has updated its ethical guidelines on the same. The company’s original 2018 AI principles explicitly prohibited AI applications in four areas: weapons, surveillance, technologies that could cause overall harm, and uses … Read more