Ai Advancement

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  China's DeepSeek Rumoured To Launch R2 Model, Here's What To Expect

  Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is ready with an advanced model, which is expected to be released next week.

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  Google Photos Has a Hidden Shortcut That Switches from Ask Photos to Classic Search

  Google Photos has a hidden shortcut that allows users to switch to the classic search experience from Ask Photos-driven search. Ask Photos was first unveiled at Google I/O last year and started rolling out to users in September 2024. The artificial intelligence (AI) feature allows users to make natural language queries to find relevant images from ...

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  China's Huawei Develops New AI Chip, Seeking to Match Nvidia, WSJ Reports

  Huawei is preparing to test its newest and most powerful AI processor, hoping to replace some higher-end products of Nvidia. The Chinese company hopes that the latest iteration of its Ascend AI processors will be more powerful than Nvidia's H100, and is slated to receive the first batch of samples of the processor as early as late May, the report a...

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  Huawei Said to be Readying New AI Chip for Mass Shipment as China Seeks Nvidia Alternatives

  Huawei plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C AI chips to Chinese customers as early as next month. The timing is fortuitous for Chinese AI companies which have been left scrambling for domestic alternatives to the H20, the primary AI chip that Nvidia had until recently been allowed to sell freely in the Chinese market.

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  Gemini Advanced Goes Free For Students Until 2026 Along With NotebookLM Plus, 2TB Cloud Storage

  Google is offering college students a free year of Gemini Advanced that is usually bundled with its Google One AI Premium plan. This promotion offers 15 months of free access, and is designed to rival OpenAI's recent offer of two free months of ChatGPT Plus for students. The offer also provides users with 2TB of Google storage and other Gemini AI f...

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  Google Expanding Gemini Live with Camera and Screen Share Features to All Android Devices

  Google announced the rollout of the Gemini Live with Camera and Screen Share features to all compatible Android devices on Wednesday. Last week, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced the availability of the features to the Google Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 series. Now, the company is rolling it out to all Android devices that support the...

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  Google Is Rolling Out Veo 2 Video Generation AI Model to Gemini Advanced Users

  Google announced the rollout of the Veo 2 artificial intelligence (AI) model to Gemini chatbot on Tuesday. Currently, the AI model will only be accessible to the paid subscribers of Gemini. With this AI model, eligible users can generate eight-second-long videos with text or image-based prompts. The Mountain View-based tech giant first introduced V...

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  Indian Startup Unveils System to Run AI Without Advanced Chips

  Ziroh Labs, an artificial intelligence startup operating in India, collaborated with researchers at the country’s premier technology school to design an affordable system that it says can run large AI models without requiring advanced computing chips from the likes of Nvidia.

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  Meta Whistleblower to Tell Congress That Company Aided China in AI Race

  Sarah Wynn-Williams who served as director of global public policy at Meta, will tell the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday that she witnessed executives undermining US national security. The testimony will include allegations that Meta, formerly called Facebook, helped China advance in the artificial intellig...

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  Robots vs Humans: The Real Threats Lies In Who Controls AI

  With rapid advances toward artificial general intelligence over the past few years, industry leaders and scientists have expressed similar misgivings about safety.

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  Gemini Live Screen and Video Sharing Features Rolling Out to Google Pixel 9, Samsung Galaxy S25 Series

  Google is rolling out the screen and video sharing features in Gemini Live to the Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 series. The Mountain View-based tech giant previewed the features at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 last month. These features were developed by Google DeepMind as part of Project Astra, and offer real-time video processing capabil...

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  Google Moves Gemini 2.5 Pro to Public Preview, Offers Higher Rate Limits in AI Studio

  Google moved the Gemini 2.5 Pro artificial intelligence (AI) model to public preview last week. The Mountain View-based tech giant released its latest flagship tier AI model last week as an experimental preview with limited rate limits. But now, those using the Gemini application programming interface (API) or accessing the model via the Google AI ...

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  ChatGPT Plus Free Access for Select Users Announced Until the End of May

  ChatGPT Plus will be available free for select users in the coming weeks, OpenAI announced. Usually priced at $20 (roughly Rs. 1,700) per month, a ChatGPT Plus subscription offers features access to advanced reasoning models, additional messaging, file uploads, image generation, and limited access to Sora video generation.

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  Spotify Unveils New Ad Manager Platform, AI-Powered Tools for Advertisers

  Spotify introduced a suite of new ad solutions on Wednesday at the Spotify Advance event in New York. The biggest highlight is the new programmatic advertising platform dubbed Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX), which will offer advertisers access to the music streaming platform’s engaged and logged-in users. Alongside, the company is also introducing a n...

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  Ghibli Effect: ChatGPT Usage Hits Record After Rollout of Viral Feature

  OpenAI image-generation tool led to a record surge in ChatGPT users owing to the frenzy to create Ghibli-style AI art. Global app downloads and weekly active users on the ChatGPT app grew 11 percent and five percent, respectively.