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Delhi AI Summit: Gates Confirmed, Safety in Doubt

The AI Impact Summit opened in Delhi this week with the Gates Foundation confirming Bill Gates will deliver his keynote as scheduled, despite overnight reports he would withdraw, while experts warn sa

Chatbots Influence Brands' Marketing Strategies

Brands are now recognizing the need to engage with AI chatbots, acknowledging that these bots are becoming key influencers in consumer decision-making. This shift requires companies to adapt their mar

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Apple adds HLS video to Podcasts app, enabling switch

Apple is rolling out HTTP Live Streaming video support in its Podcasts app, letting listeners seamlessly toggle between audio and video versions of shows and download video for offline viewing.

Ricursive Intelligence Hits $4B Valuation Four Months In

Ricursive Intelligence, founded by ex-Google Brain and Anthropic engineers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, raised a $300M Series A at a $4B valuation just four months after launch, building AI tool

AI Memory Crunch May Delay PlayStation, Hike Switch 2 Price

Sony and Nintendo are grappling with memory chip shortages driven by AI data center demand, with Sony reportedly weighing a delay of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or 2029 and Nintendo consideri

Experts: Moltbook bot hoax was hoax, OpenClaw insecure

AI experts say the Moltbook bot hoax was likely human‑driven and expose OpenClaw’s insecure design, warning that its prompt‑injection vulnerabilities and open credentials make the platform unsafe for

Allison Nixon Hit by Waifu/Judische Death Threats

Cybersecurity researcher Allison Nixon, chief research officer at Unit 221B, was targeted with death threats on Telegram and Discord in April 2024 by anonymous users known as Waifu and Judische, promp

Fractal Analytics closes 7% below issue price in IPO debut

Fractal Analytics, India's first AI company to go public, closed its market debut at ₹873.70 — 7% below its ₹900 issue price — after bankers prompted a 40% cut to the offering size amid a broader sell

OpenAI, Anthropic Open India Offices at AI Summit

India hosted a four-day AI Impact Summit in New Delhi drawing OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, and other tech leaders, with PM Modi and French President Macron

Starmer targets AI chatbots, child data rules in new safety push

Keir Starmer unveiled UK plans to bring AI chatbots under the Online Safety Act, force tech firms to preserve children's phone data within five days of death, and consult on banning under-16s from soc

ByteDance Curbs Seedance After Disney Cease-and-Desist

ByteDance has pledged to restrict its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 after Disney accused the Chinese tech giant of running a 'virtual smash-and-grab' of its copyrighted characters, the latest in a s

Peak XV leads $15M round in C2i to cut data-center power loss

Peak XV Partners led a $15 million Series A in C2i Semiconductors, a Bengaluru startup building integrated 'grid-to-GPU' power systems designed to cut the 15-20% of energy lost converting electricity

OpenClaw Founder Steinberger Joins OpenAI

Sam Altman announced that OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to lead multi-agent AI development, with OpenClaw continuing as an open-source project under a new OpenAI-supported found

Anthropic resists Pentagon's 'all lawful purposes' AI demand

Anthropic is pushing back against a Pentagon demand that AI companies allow U.S. military use of their technology for 'all lawful purposes,' making it the most resistant of the major AI firms and risk

Microgpt 4000‑Parameter Network Visualized in Browser

Microgpt’s 4,000‑parameter language model is visualized in a browser, showing token embedding, RMSnorm, transformer block, two attention heads, feed‑forward MLP, residual connections, and softmax samp

India is ChatGPT's No. 2 market with 100M weekly users

India has become ChatGPT's second-largest market with 100 million weekly active users, CEO Sam Altman disclosed in a Times of India op-ed ahead of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, underscoring

Logitech Superstrike Brings Analog Sensors to Gaming Mice

Logitech's $179.99 G Pro X2 Superstrike becomes the first gaming mouse with induction-based analog sensors, replacing physical switches with adjustable haptics in a shift the reviewer calls the bigges

Casio's $429 Moflin AI Pet Promises Calm, Delivers Noise

A tech reporter who should be the ideal customer for Casio's $429 Moflin AI companion pet found it so irritating that she banished it to another room and put it in "Deep Sleep Mode" — the fuzzy robot'

Google's Project Genie shows AI can't craft game worlds

Google's Project Genie generated 60 seconds of arrow-key exploration with no path into a real game engine, and the author argues it's the clearest proof yet that AI cannot yet build engaging video gam