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Microsoft Unveils Its First Fully Homegrown AI Models; Set to Bring New Features to Copilot
Microsoft unveiled the company's first two homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) models on Thursday. The foundation models were developed by the Redmond-based tech giant’s AI division, and is said to be built entirely in-house. The first model is MAI-Voice-1, a speech generation model that natively generates expressive and natural sounding voice...
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Meta Reportedly Freezes Hiring in AI Division Amid Restructuring of Superintelligence Labs
Meta has reportedly frozen hiring in its newly created artificial intelligence (AI) division. As per the report, the Menlo Park-based tech giant is no longer pursuing AI researchers and engineers from rival companies or looking to reverse-acquihire staff from smaller startups working with the technology anymore. While the reason behind the move was...
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Who Is Mira Murati: The AI Startup CEO Who Withstood Meta’s Billion-Dollar Recruitment Offensive
Mira Murati’s name made headlines in November 2023, when she briefly served as interim CEO of OpenAI following Sam Altman’s removal by the board. However, this lasted merely three days as she was replaced by Emmett Shear, who himself was removed when Altman was reinstated five days later. Murati was once again made the CTO of the company.
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Google Rolls Out AI Mode in Search to All Users in India, Removes Search Labs Sign Up Requirement
Google announced the rollout of AI Mode in Search to all users in India on Tuesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) search functionality was so far only available to Indian users registered on Search Labs, but now it is being provided to everyone. The Mountain View-based tech giant has made the feature available across the desktop interface and vi...
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1 Border, 3 Enemies: Army Says Pak Was Not The Only Adversary In Op Sindoor
An overwhelming 81 per cent of Pakistan's military hardware is of Chinese origin, with China using the country like a "live lab" to test its military tech, the army said.
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Rocket Lab Launches ‘Get the Hawk Outta Here’ Mission with Four Satellites from New Zealand
Rocket Lab launched four satellites for Hawkeye 360 from New Zealand on June 27 aboard its Electron rocket. The mission deployed radio-frequency monitoring satellites and a tech demo into polar orbit, supporting strategic intelligence operations. It marks the company’s 67th launch and ninth of 2025, with several more missions slated before year-e...
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Google Tests AI-Powered Audio Overviews in Search Results for Certain Queries
Audio Overviews are now coming to Google Search, thanks to a new Search Labs experiment. The tech giant announced the new feature on Friday, highlighting that select users will see artificial intelligence (AI) audio conversations on certain results pages. Notably, Google recently added Audio Overviews to the Gemini app and website.
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Microsoft Releases Magentic-UI, an Open-Source Agentic Web Interface That Can Perform Tasks on the Web
Microsoft released an agentic web interface on Monday that can perform complex tasks on the web. Announced at the company’s Build 2025 conference, the new tool is named Magentic-UI, and the company is pitching it as a “human-centred web agent.” The Redmond-based tech giant claims that, unlike other computer use agents, this one collaborates w...
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Google Brings Multimodal AI Mode Search to Google Lens, Expanding to More Users
Google announced that it is expanding its recently released AI Mode feature to more apps and users on Monday. The feature is now available in Google Lens and comes with multimodal capability. The company also said that the free subscribers of Google Labs will also get access to it. The tech giant introduced the artificial intelligence (AI) tool in ...
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Microsoft Releases an AI-Generated Playable Quake II Game Demo
Microsoft released an interactive real-time gameplay experience of Quake II in Copilot Labs last week. To build the artificial intelligence (AI) gameplay, the Redmond-based tech giant used its recently released Muse AI models and a new approach dubbed World and Human Action MaskGIT Model (WHAMM). The game demo is currently available as a research p...
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Alibaba Releases AI Model That Reads Emotions to Take On OpenAI
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab researchers showed their new open source R1-Omni in two demonstrations inferring the emotional state of a person in a video while also offering descriptions of their clothes and environment. The Chinese tech giant is looking to outpace OpenAI's latest model.
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Google Launches Gemini-Powered AI Mode for Search, Expands AI Overviews to More Users
Google Search received a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature dubbed AI Mode on Wednesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant was reportedly internally testing this feature last month, and has now rolled it out to a limited number of users. The AI Mode will offer responses on complex topics, and search queries that are multi-faceted and could t...
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Alibaba Releases AI Model It Claims Surpasses DeepSeek-V3
The Jan. 10 release of DeepSeek's AI assistant, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, as well as the Jan. 20 release of its R1 model, has shocked Silicon Valley and caused tech shares to plunge
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Amazon AGI SF Lab Focused on Developing New Capabilities of AI Agents Established
Amazon announced setting up a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory on Monday. Dubbed Amazon AGI SF Lab, the new research lab will be based in San Francisco and focus on developing AI agents with real-world applications. The Seattle-based tech recently hired several top executives from the startup Adept AI Labs and will be seeding the new div...
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Google's Latest Breakthrough A Major Leap In Quantum Computing
Google’s new quantum computer signals a potential end to the competition with traditional machines and promises breakthroughs in fields such as drug discovery and artificial intelligence.
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Microsoft Unveils Its First Fully Homegrown AI Models; Set to Bring New Features to Copilot
Microsoft unveiled the company's first two homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) models on Thursday. The foundation models were developed by the Redmond-based tech giant’s AI division, and is said to be built entirely in-house. The first model is MAI-Voice-1, a speech generation model that natively generates expressive and natural sounding voice...
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Meta Reportedly Freezes Hiring in AI Division Amid Restructuring of Superintelligence Labs
Meta has reportedly frozen hiring in its newly created artificial intelligence (AI) division. As per the report, the Menlo Park-based tech giant is no longer pursuing AI researchers and engineers from rival companies or looking to reverse-acquihire staff from smaller startups working with the technology anymore. While the reason behind the move was...
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Who Is Mira Murati: The AI Startup CEO Who Withstood Meta’s Billion-Dollar Recruitment Offensive
Mira Murati’s name made headlines in November 2023, when she briefly served as interim CEO of OpenAI following Sam Altman’s removal by the board. However, this lasted merely three days as she was replaced by Emmett Shear, who himself was removed when Altman was reinstated five days later. Murati was once again made the CTO of the company.
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Google Rolls Out AI Mode in Search to All Users in India, Removes Search Labs Sign Up Requirement
Google announced the rollout of AI Mode in Search to all users in India on Tuesday. The artificial intelligence (AI) search functionality was so far only available to Indian users registered on Search Labs, but now it is being provided to everyone. The Mountain View-based tech giant has made the feature available across the desktop interface and vi...
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1 Border, 3 Enemies: Army Says Pak Was Not The Only Adversary In Op Sindoor
An overwhelming 81 per cent of Pakistan's military hardware is of Chinese origin, with China using the country like a "live lab" to test its military tech, the army said.
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Rocket Lab Launches ‘Get the Hawk Outta Here’ Mission with Four Satellites from New Zealand
Rocket Lab launched four satellites for Hawkeye 360 from New Zealand on June 27 aboard its Electron rocket. The mission deployed radio-frequency monitoring satellites and a tech demo into polar orbit, supporting strategic intelligence operations. It marks the company’s 67th launch and ninth of 2025, with several more missions slated before year-e...
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Google Tests AI-Powered Audio Overviews in Search Results for Certain Queries
Audio Overviews are now coming to Google Search, thanks to a new Search Labs experiment. The tech giant announced the new feature on Friday, highlighting that select users will see artificial intelligence (AI) audio conversations on certain results pages. Notably, Google recently added Audio Overviews to the Gemini app and website.
-
Microsoft Releases Magentic-UI, an Open-Source Agentic Web Interface That Can Perform Tasks on the Web
Microsoft released an agentic web interface on Monday that can perform complex tasks on the web. Announced at the company’s Build 2025 conference, the new tool is named Magentic-UI, and the company is pitching it as a “human-centred web agent.” The Redmond-based tech giant claims that, unlike other computer use agents, this one collaborates w...
-
Google Brings Multimodal AI Mode Search to Google Lens, Expanding to More Users
Google announced that it is expanding its recently released AI Mode feature to more apps and users on Monday. The feature is now available in Google Lens and comes with multimodal capability. The company also said that the free subscribers of Google Labs will also get access to it. The tech giant introduced the artificial intelligence (AI) tool in ...
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Microsoft Releases an AI-Generated Playable Quake II Game Demo
Microsoft released an interactive real-time gameplay experience of Quake II in Copilot Labs last week. To build the artificial intelligence (AI) gameplay, the Redmond-based tech giant used its recently released Muse AI models and a new approach dubbed World and Human Action MaskGIT Model (WHAMM). The game demo is currently available as a research p...
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Alibaba Releases AI Model That Reads Emotions to Take On OpenAI
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab researchers showed their new open source R1-Omni in two demonstrations inferring the emotional state of a person in a video while also offering descriptions of their clothes and environment. The Chinese tech giant is looking to outpace OpenAI's latest model.
-
Google Launches Gemini-Powered AI Mode for Search, Expands AI Overviews to More Users
Google Search received a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature dubbed AI Mode on Wednesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant was reportedly internally testing this feature last month, and has now rolled it out to a limited number of users. The AI Mode will offer responses on complex topics, and search queries that are multi-faceted and could t...
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Alibaba Releases AI Model It Claims Surpasses DeepSeek-V3
The Jan. 10 release of DeepSeek's AI assistant, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, as well as the Jan. 20 release of its R1 model, has shocked Silicon Valley and caused tech shares to plunge
-
Amazon AGI SF Lab Focused on Developing New Capabilities of AI Agents Established
Amazon announced setting up a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory on Monday. Dubbed Amazon AGI SF Lab, the new research lab will be based in San Francisco and focus on developing AI agents with real-world applications. The Seattle-based tech recently hired several top executives from the startup Adept AI Labs and will be seeding the new div...
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Google's Latest Breakthrough A Major Leap In Quantum Computing
Google’s new quantum computer signals a potential end to the competition with traditional machines and promises breakthroughs in fields such as drug discovery and artificial intelligence.
