New Generation

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  OpenAI Releases 'Significantly Advanced' ChatGPT-5 As AI Race Accelerates

  OpenAI on Thursday released a keenly awaited new generation of its hallmark ChatGPT, touting "significant" advancements in artificial intelligence capabilities, as a global race over the technology accelerates.

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  Gemini's Storybook Feature Lets You Generate New Illustrated Books With Read-Aloud Narration

  Google added a new quality-of-life feature to its Gemini chatbot on Tuesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can now generate custom illustrated storybooks based on text prompts, uploaded images or documents. Users can also specify the style of the artwork in the storybook, as well as instruct Gemini to use specific names of characters, se...

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  New EPFO Rule: No UAN Without Aadhaar Face Scan. What You Must Know Now

  Starting August 1, 2025, EPFO has made it easier and faster for employees to generate and activate their Universal Account Number (UAN) through Aadhaar-based face authentication on the UMANG App.

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  Health, Quality In Focus In Andhra Pradesh's New Liquor Policy

  The Andhra Pradesh government is set to introduce a new liquor policy from September 1, with Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu emphasising a shift in focus from revenue generation to public safety.

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  Google’s Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast Video Generation Models Now Generally Available to Developers via Vertex AI

  Google announced on Wednesday that the Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast video generation models are now generally available to all developers on Vertex AI. These models were so far available in closed beta to only those developers who had registered for the artificial intelligence (AI) models. With this, the company is now letting everyone using the platform a...

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  Google NotebookLM Gets a New Video Overviews Feature, Studio Panel Upgraded

  Google NotebookLM is getting another artificial intelligence (AI) feature to help users better understand complex topics. On Tuesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced the rollout of Video Overviews, a tool that can generate a visual narrative-focused overview from the sources. The new feature is aimed at complementing the existing Audio...

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  Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) With 5.5-Inch Display, Alexa Launched in India: Price, Specifications

  Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) was launched in India on Tuesday. It features a 5.5-inch display with an inbuilt camera. It is powered by the Alexa voice assistant. It runs on the AZ2 Neural Edge processor. The new model is an upgrade to the Amazon Echo Show 5 (Second Generation). The new Amazon Echo Show is launched in two colour options, and it feat...

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  US Startup Claims To Have Found New Way To Make 5,000-Kg Of Gold Every Year

  The fusion power plant could produce 5,000 kg of gold per gigawatt of thermal power in a single year of operation.

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  Tencent’s Hunyuan Team Releases Open-Source Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0, Can Generate Explorable 3D Worlds

  Tencent’s Hunyuan team released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Sunday, which can generate three-dimensional (3D) worlds. Dubbed Hunyuan 3D World Model 1.0, it is an open-source model that supports both text and images as input. The model can generate 360-degree world views which are both explorable and interactive.

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  Runway Unveils Aleph Video-to-Video AI Model That Can Be Used for Post-Production

  Runway released a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model on Friday that can edit elements in other input videos. Dubbed Aleph (the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet), the video-to-video AI model can perform a wide range of edits on the input, including adding, removing, and transforming objects; adding new angles and next frames;...

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  J&K Governor Urges Kashmir University Alumni To Power Educational Growth

  In his address, Manoj Sinha extended his felicitations to the alumni and lauded the University of Kashmir for nurturing brilliant minds.

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  3G IITs To Expand Student Strength, 1364 Seats Added This Year

  The move to scale up student capacity in the newer IITs aligns with the government's long-term objective of making high-quality technical education more inclusive and geographically accessible.

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  Google Brings a Native Media Player in Gemini Mobile App, Lets Users Play Audio Overviews

  Google has added a new feature in the Gemini mobile apps, which will now make it possible for users to play Audio Overviews. Audio Overviews was first added in the company’s NotebookLM product, and was later brought to Gemini earlier this year. However, the functionality was such that while Gemini app users could upload a file to generate a podca...

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  Google Photos Rolling Out AI-Powered Image-to-Video Generation and Remix Features

  Google Photos is getting two new artificial intelligence (AI) features that will allow users to transform their images in the gallery in different ways. On Wednesday, the Mountain View-based tech giant announced an AI-powered image-to-video feature that will allow users to convert any photo in the gallery into a video.

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  AMD Unveils Stable Diffusion 3 Medium Model With Support for 4-Megapixel Image Generation on Ryzen AI Laptops

  AMD announces the release of the Stable Diffusion 3 Medium artificial intelligence (AI) model optimised for XDNA 2 neural processing units (NPUs). The chipmaker claimed that it is the world’s first AI model that processes outputs in the BF16 format. The model will be supported by the newer Ryzen AI laptops with at least 24GB RAM, after users down...