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  Asus Updates ROG Strix Scar, Strix, Zephyrus and Flow Gaming Laptop Lineups With Intel and AMD CPUs

  Asus has launched the 2025 ROG laptop lineup in India. The new range of gaming-focused PCs, which were announced during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2025) in January, include six models — Asus ROG Strix Scar 16, ROG Strix Scar 18, ROG Strix G16, ROG Zephyrus G16, ROG Zephyrus G14, and the ROG Flow Z13. The new ROG laptops are powered by Int...

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  Google Is Adding Native Image Editing Capability to the Gemini App

  Google is expanding the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered native image editing feature to the Gemini app. Announced on Wednesday, this new capability will allow users to make specific changes to images without leaving the AI chatbot. This new capability was first unveiled in March within the Google AI Studio platform.

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  WhatsApp Will Soon Offer Secure AI Access via Meta's Private Processing Technology

  Meta is introducing a new technology called Private Processing for WhatsApp that will allow users to access artificial intelligence (AI) tools in a private and secure environment. On Tuesday, the Menlo Park-based tech giant shared a first look at the technology and how it is ensuring both data security as well as transparency at the user level.

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  MediaTek Dimensity 9500 SoC Tipped to Offer Improved Ray Tracing and AI Performance; Specifications Leak

  Dimensity 9500 SoC is rumoured to be in development as the latest flagship-tier smartphone processor from MediaTek. Ahead of its anticipated debut sometime later this year, a tipster suggests that it could be fabricated using TSMC's N3P process (3nm). Powered by Arm’s latest Cortex-X9 series cores, the chipset is speculated to bring improvements ...

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  OpenAI Updates GPT-4o to Boost Intelligence and Personality, Faces Unexpected Side Effects

  OpenAI updated the GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model on Saturday. The update was aimed at improving the intelligence and personality aspects of the large language model (LLM), which powers the default experience for those on the free tier of ChatGPT. However, on Sunday, the company found that the update had unexpected results, and the AI mo...

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  Google DeepMind UK Workers To Unionise Over AI Sales To Israeli Defence Groups: Report

  DeepMind has come under strain from its parent company, Google, in recent months to find commercial uses for its powerful AI.

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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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  ChatGPT Now Offers a ‘Lightweight’ Version of Deep Research to All Users

  OpenAI is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Deep Research to the free users of ChatGPT. Announced on Friday, the San Francisco-based AI firm is now offering a “lightweight” version of the tool to all users, including paid subscribers. This version of Deep Research will be powered by the o4-mini AI model and will be available with...

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  This Viral AI Video Shows Indian Desserts Like You've Never Seen Before

  The video features some of our beloved Indian desserts, creatively reimagined through the power of AI.

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  North Korea Launches New 5,000-Tonne Warship With "Most Powerful Weapons"

  The announcement comes about a month after Kim oversaw the test of new suicide and reconnaissance drones featuring AI technology, adding to concerns over North Korea's deepening military cooperation with Moscow.

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  Google Says Deep AI Investments Powering Ad Sales, Soothing Anxious Investors

  Alphabet reassured jittery tech investors that its AI investments were powering returns at its crucial ad business on Thursday. The search giant's first-quarter profit and revenue beat expectations, and the company said it would buy back $70 billion (roughly Rs. 5,97,800 crore) in stock, adding $75 billion (roughly Rs. 6,40,362 crore) to its mark...

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  Vivo Updates FunTouch OS 15 With AI Features Including Circle to Search, Live Text

  Vivo started rolling out the Android 15-based Funtouch OS 15 in India last year. Months after the original launch, the Chinese smartphone brand has announced the latest iteration of its user interface. The update brings multiple features powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the user experience. It includes various productivity and com...

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  HP EliteBook, ProBook and OmniBook AI Copilot+ PCs With Latest Intel, AMD, and Snapdragon Chips Launched in India

  HP has unveiled the latest versions of its EliteBook, ProBook and OmniBook series laptops in India on Thursday. The HP EliteBook, ProBook lineups are designed for enterprise and retail customers, and they include HP EliteBook 8 (G1i, G1a), HP EliteBook 6 (G1q G1a), and HP ProBook 4 G1q models. The HP OmniBook family consist of OmniBook Ultra 14, O...

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  Perplexity Voice Assistant for iOS Released With Web Browsing, Multi-App Actions

  Perplexity released a voice assistant for iOS on Wednesday. Powered by the company's native artificial intelligence (AI) answer engine, the voice assistant comes with web browsing capability and can access multiple apps to complete tasks. The AI assistant for iPhone devices comes three months after the company rolled out the Perplexity Assistant fo...

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  Character AI Unveils AvatarFX Model Capable of Generating Consistent Videos From Images

  Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, unveiled its first video generation model on Monday. Dubbed AvatarFX, it is an image-to-video model that can generate 2D and 3D animated characters. The AI firm claims the generated videos will hold temporal consistency with face, hand and body movement. Additionally, the vid...