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Source: Live Mint Open-source software—in which a developer releases the source code for a product and allows anyone else to reuse and remix it to their liking—is at the foundation of Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and all four of the largest web browsers. The encryption of a WhatsApp chat, the compression of a Spotify stream…
Source: Live Mint After much speculation for over a year, OpenAI is finally taking on Google and Microsoft Bing with the addition of search functionality in ChatGPT. The new search feature is backed by GPT-4o model and is a more evolved version of the SearchGPT prototype unveiled by the company earlier in the year. In…
Source: Live Mint Google is reportedly working on a new AI agent that can take over your computer, but it isn’t as bad as it sounds. This AI agent, codenamed Project Jarvis (in an apparent reference to the JARVIS voice assistant from the Iron Man movies), is said to be trained specifically to take over…
Source: Live Mint In a significant update to its Gemini AI image generator, American tech giant Google has introduced an innovative editing tool that allows users to fine-tune specific parts of generated images. This feature, now included in the latest Android 15 Beta version, aims to provide a more customisable approach to image generation by…
Source: Live Mint Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with top American CEOs, including Google’s Sundar Pichai, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen and IBM’s Arvind Krishna, at a tech CEOs roundtable in New York. The roundtable, held at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, was part of the second leg of the Indian Prime Minister’s…
Source: Live Mint California-based tech giant Google is rolling out new measures to clearly identify content that has been created or modified using artificial intelligence (AI). As AI-generated media continues to proliferate, Google’s move aims to boost transparency and provide users with better insight into the authenticity of the information they encounter online. This initiative…
Source: Live Mint European Union regulators have launched an investigation into Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) model, Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM2), to determine if it complies with the region’s stringent data privacy laws. The inquiry, initiated by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), forms part of broader efforts by national regulators across the EU to assess…
Source: Live Mint In an interview on the sidelines of the Google I/O Connect held in Bengaluru on Wednesday, Ajjarapu reasoned that with its largest mobile-first population, micro-payment and digital payment models, a booming startup and developer ecosystem, and diverse language landscape, “India is uniquely positioned to drive the next generation of AI innovation.” In…
Source: Live Mint In a stunning display of mathematical prowess, Google’s AI systems, AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2, have achieved silver medal-level performance at the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad (via India Today). AlphaProof, a groundbreaking AI system introduced by Google, excels in formal mathematical reasoning, reported the publication. Utilizing a blend of language models and the…
Source: Live Mint Since AI’s most popular offering, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, debuted two years back and made esoteric AI tech accessible to the masses, there has been excitement over intelligent machines taking over mundane tasks or assisting humans in complex work. Geeks declared that costs would drop and productivity skyrocket, eventually leading to ‘artificial general intelligence’,…
