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India’s telecom ministry issued directions on November 28 requiring WhatsApp and other messaging apps to link accounts continuously to active SIM cards and enforce periodic logouts on web and desktop versions to curb cyber-fraud losses exceeding ₹228 billion in 2024.
The directions target app-based communication services including WhatsApp from Meta, Telegram, and Signal. Providers must comply...
Amazon has officially launched “Ask this Book,” an AI-powered feature for the Kindle iOS app designed to help readers recall character details and plot points without leaving the book.
Announced during Amazon’s September hardware event, the tool is now available for thousands of English best-sellers and operates with a strict “spoiler-free” constraint, only accessing information up to the user’s...
Uber launched its end-of-year wrap-up feature called YOUBER on Thursday for customers in the United States, aggregating data from Uber rides and Uber Eats orders to recap annual usage patterns.
End-of-year wrap-ups originated with Spotify’s popularization of personalized music listening summaries. This format has expanded to other music streaming services, gaming applications, and YouTube viewing...
Rivian announced its home-grown AI assistant at the AI...
The estate of Suzanne Adams filed a lawsuit on Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that ChatGPT intensified Stein-Erik Soelberg’s paranoia, prompting him to murder his mother before dying by suicide.
Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former technology marketing director from Connecticut, beat his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Adams, to death and then...
Google removed dozens of AI-generated videos depicting Disney-owned characters from YouTube after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter on Wednesday demanding their immediate removal due to copyright infringement.
The videos featured characters such as Mickey Mouse, Deadpool, and figures from Star Wars and The Simpsons franchises. Many of these clips were created using Google’s AI video...
Alexander Embiricos, head of product development for OpenAI’s Codex coding agent, stated on Lenny’s Podcast that human typing speed limits progress toward artificial general intelligence because it constrains prompting and output validation.
Embiricos identified the current underappreciated limiting factor to AGI as human typing speed or human multi-tasking speed on writing prompts. Codex...
A USENIX study by researchers from University College London, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, and University of California, Davis, found that popular AI browser extensions collect sensitive user data including medical records, banking information, social security numbers, and social media activity during simulated real-world browsing scenarios.
AI-assisted web browsers emerged in 2025...
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna warned on The Decoder podcast that the technology industry’s race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure may lack financial sustainability due to enormous costs estimated at trillions of dollars.
Krishna calculated that equipping a single one-gigawatt data center requires approximately $80 billion at current prices. Companies targeting 20-30 gigawatts of...
The artificial intelligence gold rush isn’t just making graphics cards harder to find; it is now coming for your system memory. As tech giants race to build massive data centers to train the next generation of AI models, the demand for high-performance DDR5 RAM has exploded, leaving consumer PC builders in the lurch.
The situation has escalated to a crisis point. Industry titans are shifting...