Google Brings Generative AI to Gmail, Raising New Privacy Questions
Google is embedding its Gemini generative‑AI engine into Gmail, launching an AI Inbox that auto‑summarizes messages, generates replies, and extracts to‑do items. The rollout includes free features like smart replies and email overviews, while advanced search and proof‑reading tools are reserved for paid subscribers. To power these capabilities, Gemini scans the entire user inbox, prompting Google to assure that no human reads the content. Users can disable the suite by turning off the “Smart features” setting.
‘Half of India’s Next Wave of Unicorns Will Be AI Companies’: Google Exec Seema Rao at AI Startups Conclave
Google’s Managing Director Seema Rao told the AI Startups Conclave that within three to five years more than half of India’s new unicorns will be AI‑focused firms. She highlighted how generative AI collapses product‑development cycles, enabling rapid prototyping and multilingual...
Google Launches New Initiative to Help Indian AI Startups Scale for Enterprise Adoption
Google India has launched the Market Access Programme to help domestic AI startups scale for enterprise adoption, leveraging Google’s distribution network and access to international markets. Participants receive priority use of Google’s Gemini and Gemma model families, as well as...
ColorOS 16 Brings Unique Features to the Reno 15 Series Making It Faster, More Intuitive
OPPO has rolled out ColorOS 16 for its Reno 15 series, introducing smoother animations, system‑level AI, and a refreshed Flux Home Screen. The update is powered by a new Luminous Rendering Engine and Trinity Engine, which together enhance visual fluidity and handle...
7 Free Google AI Tools that Rival Paid Alternatives
Google has rolled out a suite of free generative‑AI tools that rival costly paid services, covering video summarization, web‑app creation, workflow automation, presentation design, brand‑focused content, image synthesis, and multi‑speaker audio. All tools run on Google’s Gemini model and are...
India Ranks 64th Globally in AI Adoption: Key Takeaways From Microsoft Study
India slipped to 64th place globally in AI adoption, with 15.7% of its working‑age population using generative AI tools in the second half of 2025. The global average rose to 16.3% during the same period, underscoring a widening North‑South gap....
This Tiny Humanoid Robot Is Designed to Go Wherever You Go
Shanghai startup Agibot unveiled Q1, an 80 cm humanoid robot designed for portability. Weighing about one‑eighth of typical humanoids, Q1 features crash‑resistant quasi‑direct drive joints and full‑body force control. The robot ships as an open platform with developer kits, 3D‑printable shells...
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion to Expand Data Centers and Research
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI announced a $20 billion financing round, topping its $15 billion target. The capital, raised from investors such as Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, Nvidia and Valor Equity, could push the company’s valuation above $230 billion. xAI plans to use...
This US Startup Claims to Fit a 120-Billion-Parameter AI Model Into Your Pocket
Tiiny AI Inc. unveiled the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab, a Guinness‑World‑Record‑holding mini‑PC that can run a 120‑billion‑parameter large language model locally. The 14.2 × 8 × 2.53 cm device weighs 300 g, draws only 65 W, and combines an ARMv9.2 12‑core CPU with a 190 TOPS NPU, 80 GB...
‘Do More with Less’: Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei Outlines Strategy to Compete with OpenAI
Anthropic’s president Daniela Amodei says the company will win the AI race by “doing more with less,” prioritizing disciplined spending, algorithmic efficiency, and smarter model deployment. The startup’s enterprise‑first approach monetizes Claude, Sonnet and Opus models, with Claude Code emerging as...
Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed AI in Schools Around the Globe
Tech giants—including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Elon Musk’s xAI—are rapidly deploying generative‑AI tools and training programs in schools across India, the UAE, Kazakhstan, El Salvador, the United States, Thailand, Estonia, Iceland and beyond. The initiatives aim to reach millions of students...
‘The Biggest Threat to Data Centres Is On-Device AI,’ Says Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas warned that on‑device artificial intelligence could become the biggest threat to traditional data centres, which are slated to see nearly $1 trillion in spending by 2030. He argues that embedding AI models directly on chips will eliminate...
Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Grok Business, Enterprise Tiers to Take on OpenAI
Elon Musk‑owned xAI announced two new subscription tiers—Grok Business for small‑to‑medium teams and Grok Enterprise for larger organisations—offering higher rate limits and advanced workplace AI capabilities. Both tiers promise secure, encrypted data handling and guarantee that enterprise data will not...
As UK Looks to Ban ‘Nudify’ Apps, What Does Indian Law Say About AI-Generated Deepfakes?
UK lawmakers have introduced legislation to criminalize the development and distribution of AI‑powered “nudify” applications, extending the Online Safety Act’s existing provisions on non‑consensual explicit imagery. The proposal follows high‑profile cases, including Meta’s lawsuit against a Hong Kong‑based app developer,...
Xiaomi Unveils MiMo-V2-Flash, Its New Open-Weight AI Model to Take on DeepSeek
Xiaomi has launched MiMo‑V2‑Flash, a 309‑billion‑parameter open‑weight AI model designed for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks. The model delivers up to 150 tokens per second and operates at a cost of $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.3 per...
AI Can Now Pass the CFA Exams: What Does that Mean for Finance Jobs?
Advanced reasoning models have now passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams, with Gemini 3.0 Pro scoring 97.6% on Level I and GPT‑5 achieving 94.3% on Level II. The study tested six leading AI systems on 980 mock questions, showing...
How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the AI Boom
Tech giants are sidestepping the massive capital outlay of AI infrastructure by leasing compute power and using special‑purpose vehicles funded with private credit. Microsoft signed multiple multi‑billion‑dollar neocloud contracts, while Meta created a SPV and partnered with Blue Owl Capital...
Amazon Kindle’s New In-App AI Feature Lets Users Ask Questions on Books: Report
Amazon is testing a new AI feature called “Ask This Book” on its Kindle iOS app. The tool lets readers highlight any passage and ask questions, receiving AI‑generated answers without leaving the page. It is currently enabled for thousands of...
Cursor Launches Visual Editor, an AI Agent Tool that Extends Vibe-Coding to Web App Design
Cursor introduced Visual Editor, an AI‑agent‑driven visual UI builder that lets developers and designers edit web apps through drag‑and‑drop and natural‑language prompts. The tool lives inside the Cursor Browser, merging code, design panels, and a chat interface in a single...
India Accelerates Ahead in GenAI Learning with 3.6 Mn Enrolments in 2025: Coursera Report
India is leading the global surge in generative AI education, logging 3.6 million Coursera enrollments in 2025 – the highest worldwide. Google Cloud’s "Introduction to Generative AI" emerged as the top Indian GenAI course, while DeepLearning.AI’s "AI for Everyone" topped overall...
OpenAI Warns Next-Gen AI Models Could Pose High Cybersecurity Risks; Readies Defences
OpenAI warned that its next‑generation models, such as GPT‑5.1‑Codex‑Max, could be leveraged for high‑impact cyber attacks, including zero‑day exploits and enterprise sabotage. The company reported a jump to 76% success on capture‑the‑flag challenges, underscoring the models' offensive potential. To counter...
Microsoft Copilot Is Now a Workday Assistant and Nighttime Confidant, Report Finds
Microsoft released the Copilot Usage Report 2025, analyzing 37.5 million anonymized conversations from January to September. The data shows distinct usage patterns by device, time of day, and day of week, with work‑related queries dominating desktop sessions during business hours and...
Harvard Study Finds AI Agents Do More Cognitive Work than Booking or Scheduling Tasks
Harvard researchers, in partnership with Perplexity, analyzed hundreds of millions of interactions in the Comet browser and found that 57% of AI agent activity centers on cognitive work rather than simple booking or scheduling. Productivity and workflow tasks made up...
Adobe Launches Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat Inside ChatGPT: Here’s What You Can Do
Adobe announced that Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat are now embedded inside ChatGPT via OpenAI’s Apps SDK, and the three tools are offered free to users in supported regions. The integration lets users edit images, design graphics, and manipulate PDFs...
Satya Nadella on India’s AI Ambition: ‘Adoption, Not Invention, Decides the Winners’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the global AI race will be won by the fastest adopters, not the inventors, during a New Delhi fireside chat. He announced a $17.5 billion, four‑year investment in India, the company’s biggest in Asia, and a...
Microsoft Pledges $17.5 Billion to Expand AI, Cloud Capacity in India
Microsoft announced a $17.5 billion four‑year plan to expand AI infrastructure and cloud capacity in India, adding to a $3 billion commitment made earlier this year. The funding will power new data‑centre zones, sovereign‑cloud offerings, and a programme to skill 20 million Indians...
US to Allow Nvidia H200 Chip Shipments to China, President Trump Says
The U.S. government announced that Nvidia’s H200 AI processors will be allowed for export to China, subject to a 25% fee collected through Taiwan. The fee is higher than the 15% rate previously discussed and applies to other AI‑chip firms...
Gemini’s Monthly Active User Base Grew 5x Faster than ChatGPT, New Data Shows
Google’s Gemini chatbot is closing the gap with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, posting a 30% rise in monthly active users (MAU) from August to November 2025 versus ChatGPT’s 6% growth. The surge is attributed to Gemini’s new Nano Banana image‑generation model and Google’s...
Softbank’s Son Says He ‘Cried’ While Selling Nvidia Stake to Fund OpenAI Bet
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son disclosed that the group sold its entire $5.8 billion Nvidia stake to free cash for a $30 billion commitment to OpenAI and other AI projects. The shares were sold at $181.58, about 14 % below Nvidia’s all‑time high, prompting...
YouTube Creators Are Now Making AI Slop for Babies: Report
A wave of YouTube creators is mass‑producing low‑effort AI‑generated videos, dubbed “AI slop,” that are appearing on YouTube Kids and reaching toddlers under two. Bloomberg reports that creators with millions of followers are posting tutorials on how to make such...
World’s First Fully Agentic AI Smartphone: Is This China’s Second DeepSeek Moment?
ZTE has unveiled the Nubia M153, a prototype smartphone that embeds ByteDance’s Doubao AI agent directly into the operating system, giving it full‑stack control of the device. The agent can visually interpret the UI, launch and configure apps, and complete multi‑step...
India Leads Global AI Adoption as Younger Users Drive Rapid Growth
An OECD‑Cisco study finds India leading global generative AI adoption, with 66.4% of respondents actively using AI tools. Younger adults under 35 drive the surge, and 77.9% have completed AI training, while over 89% consider AI useful. The research also...
Runway’s New Gen-4.5 Text-to-Video Model that Beats OpenAI’s Sora 2, Google’s Veo 3
Runway unveiled Gen‑4.5, its latest text‑to‑video model, claiming it outperforms OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3 in benchmark tests. The model achieved an Elo score of 1247, edging out Veo 3’s 1226 and Sora 2 Pro’s 1206, and delivers cinematic to photorealistic video with...
Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train AI Agents
Silicon Valley startups are building replica versions of high‑traffic sites such as Amazon, Gmail, United Airlines and Airbnb to serve as sandbox environments for training AI agents. The clones—named Omnizon, Staynb and Go Mail—allow reinforcement‑learning models to experiment at scale without...
AWS Unveils New AI Models, Trainium3 Servers, Frontier Agents, and More at Re:Invent 2025
At re:Invent 2025, AWS announced a suite of AI advancements, including the multimodal Nova 2 Omni model and the Nova Forge platform for custom model creation. The company unveiled Trainium3‑powered EC2 Trn3 UltraServers, delivering up to 4.4× higher compute performance and fourfold energy...
Google Search Adds ‘Dive Deeper in AI Mode’ to AI Overviews
Google is testing a new feature that merges AI Overviews with AI Mode, letting users dive deeper into a query directly from the search results page with a single tap. The integration, announced by VP Robby Stein, adds a “Dive...
DeepSeek Unveils New AI Models Rivalling GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro
OpenAI and Google Impose New Daily Limits for Sora, Nano Banana AI Tools Amid Demand Surge
OpenAI and Google have introduced daily usage caps on their AI generation tools after a surge in demand. OpenAI limits free Sora video generation to six videos per day, while paid ChatGPT Plus and Pro users remain unrestricted. Google restricts...
Amazon Workers Push Back as over 1,000 Sign Letter Warning Against ‘Warp-Speed’ AI Rollout
More than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter urging the company to slow its aggressive AI rollout. The staff cite climate damage, job security threats, and heightened surveillance as primary concerns. They highlight Amazon's $150 billion investment in new...
Sam Altman Says It’s Time for a ‘Very Aggressive’ AI Infrastructure Bet
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a “very aggressive” infrastructure bet, targeting the construction of the world’s largest data‑center network to power next‑generation AI models. The plan hinges on massive capital investment and broad partnerships with firms such as AMD, Oracle...
Andrej Karpathy to Educators: Stop Trying to Catch AI-Generated Homework
Over 90% of Indian Organisations Now Using AI: Zoho Study
Zoho’s AI Privacy Equation report finds that 93% of Indian organisations have adopted artificial intelligence, with 71% strengthening privacy measures and 61% establishing ethics committees. Over two‑thirds of firms allocate more than 20% of their IT spend to privacy, and...
DeepSeek’s New Math-V2 AI Model Can Solve and Self-Verify Complex Theorems
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled DeepSeek‑Math‑V2, an open‑weight LLM that generates and self‑verifies mathematical theorems. Built on DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Exp, the model includes a verifier and theorem generator and is released under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and GitHub. In benchmark tests it earned...
Microsoft Unveils Fara-7B, a Lightweight AI Model that Can Use a PC From a Single Screenshot
Microsoft introduced Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use agent that runs locally on a PC and can interpret a screenshot to execute clicks, typing and navigation. The model was trained on 145,630 synthetic web sessions generated by the FaraGen pipeline, achieving competitive...
What Is Antigravity, Google’s New Agentic AI Coding Platform Raising Fresh Security Concerns?
Google unveiled Antigravity, an agentic AI coding platform, on November 18 alongside Gemini 3. Within 24 hours, security researchers identified a persistent backdoor that exploits the tool’s “trusted workspace” model, allowing malicious code to run on both Windows and macOS. The...
OpenAI API Customer Details, Including User IDs, Exposed in Mixpanel Data Breach
OpenAI disclosed that a breach at analytics vendor Mixpanel exposed personal data of its API customers, including user IDs, email addresses, operating‑system details and coarse location information. The incident occurred on November 9, 2025, but OpenAI’s core systems, API keys, payment data...
What Is Agentic AI, and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight?
Agentic AI, an emerging class of artificial intelligence, can autonomously search, price‑track, and book travel reservations with minimal human input. Major players such as Expedia, Google, Kayak and Priceline are piloting or rolling out these bots, and 80% of travel...
Jensen Huang Dismisses Job Loss Fears, Tells Nvidia Employees to ‘Use AI for Every Task’
ChatGPT’s New Shopping Research Feature Helps You Compare Products and Get Personalised Buying Guides
OpenAI has introduced a Shopping Research feature for ChatGPT that automatically compiles product comparisons and personalized buying guides. Powered by the new GPT‑5 mini model, the tool asks clarifying questions, pulls data from public retail sites, and leverages a user’s...
