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  Anthropic’s Claude AI Chatbot Gets Voice Mode Feature, Offers Real-Time Two-Way Conversations

  Anthropic is finally adding Voice Mode capability to its Claude chatbot. On Tuesday, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm announced the rollout of the real-time two-way voice conversation feature, which will be available in Claude’s mobile apps. Similar to its recently released web search feature, the company is late to the voice mode party, wit...

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  Mistral Agents API With Web Search Tool and Improved Memory Function Announced

  Mistral announced its new Agents application programming interface (API) on Tuesday. The new API comes equipped with connectors for code execution, web search, image generation, as well as support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. These capabilities are powered by several artificial intelligence (AI) models, including the recently released De...

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  Anthropic Introduces Web Search Capability in Its API, Offers Additional Controls for Enterprises

  Anthropic announced the release of web search capability in its application programming interface (API) on Thursday. Now, developers and enterprises can use Claude via the Anthropic API to build applications that benefit from up-to-date knowledge and real-time information. The San Francisco-based AI firm said that Claude will use reasoning to autom...

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  Apple Reportedly Considering AI-Powered Search Options for Safari Browser

  Apple is reportedly considering bringing artificial intelligence (AI) search options to the Safari browser. As per the report, the information was shared by an Apple executive during a testimony in the ongoing antitrust case against the US Justice Department. The executive highlighted that the Cupertino-based tech giant had held discussions with se...

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  Hugging Face Releases a Free AI Agent That Can Complete Computer-Based Tasks

  Hugging Face released a demo of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent on Tuesday that can complete various web-based tasks. Dubbed Open Computer Agent, the tool is available for free, and anyone can go to the website to access the agent. Since it can perform tasks on web browsers, it can access websites such as Google Search, Maps, and even ticket ...

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  Google Can Reportedly Use Content to Train Search AI Even If Publishers Opt Out

  Google can reportedly use content from publishers even if they have opted out of artificial intelligence (AI) training. As per the report, a Google DeepMind executive revealed the information during a testimony in the company’s ongoing antitrust case against the US Justice Department. The executive reportedly highlighted that such content is not ...

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  Google CEO Sundar Pichai To Take Stand At Search Antitrust Trial

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai is expected to take the stand on Wednesday morning at a trial in Washington where antitrust enforcers seek an order forcing the company to sell its Chrome web browser and take other measures.

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  Only Google Can Run Chrome, Company’s Browser Chief Tells Judge

  Google Chrome's general manager Parisa Tabriz testified before a Washington federal court on Friday as part of the Justice Department’s antitrust case that accuses Google of monopolising the web search market. Tabriz told the court that Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functionality that its popular Chrome web b...

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  Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says

  Google’s Chrome web browser could be sold for as much as $50 billion (roughly Rs. 4,26,756 crore), estimates CEO of rival search engine, DuckDuckGo. Weinberg, who said the estimate was “back-of-the-envelope” math based on Chrome’s user base, testified as part of a three-week hearing in the DOJ’s case against Alphabet’s Google to determi...

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  Grok Vision, Multilingual Audio Support and Real-Time Search Features Roll Out to xAI's Chatbot

  Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot by xAI, is getting a couple of new features. Announced on Wednesday, the AI firm is rolling out Grok Vision, a computer vision feature, to its iOS app. Additionally, xAI is also shipping multilingual audio support and real-time web search to both the Android and iOS apps.

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  Anthropic Releases New Research Capability in Claude, Adds Google Workspace Integration

  Anthropic is adding a new capability to its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Claude. Announced last week, the company is adding a new agentic capability, dubbed Research, to the chatbot. Similar to Deep Research in Gemini and ChatGPT, Research allows Claude to conduct multiple web searches on different topics to find comprehensive information ...

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  Google Faces GBP 5 Billion UK Lawsuit for Abusing Dominance in Online Search

  Google is being sued in Britain for potential damages of up to GBP 5 billion (roughly Rs. 56,536 crore). The class action, filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Tuesday, argues that Google's actions enabled it to charge higher prices for the advertisements that appear in search inquiries than it otherwise could in a competitive market.

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  Google NotebookLM Is Getting a New Discover Sources Feature That Can Search the Web

  Google NotebookLM is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will make it easier for users to add sources for a particular topic. Announced on Wednesday, the new feature is dubbed Discover Sources, and it can scour the Internet to find relevant sources for a given topic. The Mountain View-based tech giant said that this feature uses...

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  Anthropic Upgrades Claude AI Chatbot With Web Search Capability

  Anthropic announced the rollout of the web search functionality for Claude on Thursday. The San Francisco-based AI firm released the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in March 2023, but so far, it could not access the Internet to find real-time information, and only had to rely on its internal knowledge database.

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  OpenAI Unveils Responses API, Agents SDK to Help Developers Build AI Agents

  OpenAI made several developer-focused announcements in a live stream on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based AI giant is introducing a new application programming interface (API) and an open-source software development kit (SDK) that will allow developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) agents and manage multi-agent workflows. Alongside, the comp...