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‘Saaspocalypse’: Why did Anthropic’s Claude Cowork plugins spook markets | The Hindu Explains

1. What is it about Claude’s latest release that has spooked markets and hurt Indian IT stocks? On January 30, Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins for Claude Cowork, its AI workplace suite. Unlike conventional chatbots, Cowork functions as an autonomous digital colleague: it reads files, drafts documents, reviews contracts, and executes multi-step workflows across legal,...

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Indonesia says it will restore access to Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot

Indonesia will restore access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after the billionaire’s social media platform X promised to comply with the country’s laws, a government official said on Sunday. Grok has faced a global backlash after it emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualise pictures of women and children using simple...

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X back up after brief outage hits US users, Downdetector shows

Elon Musk’s social ​media platform X ‌was back ​up after a brief outage affected more than 19,000 U.S. users on Sunday, according ​to outage tracking ⁠website Downdetector.com. The outage lasted about 45 minutes ​and ⁠was largely resolved by 12:04 p.m. ET, the website ‌said. X did not ‌immediately respond to a ‍request for comment. The...

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US judge signals Elon Musk’s xAI may lose lawsuit accusing Altman’s OpenAI of stealing trade secrets

A U.S. federal judge signaled on ‌Friday she may dismiss a lawsuit by Elon ​Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI accusing Sam Altman’s rival OpenAI of stealing trade secrets to gain an unfair advantage in developing AI technology. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco said her “tentative view” is to grant OpenAI’s motion to...

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Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday

Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary. The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed that it has signed up AI companies including Amazon, Meta Platforms, Perplexity, Microsoft and France’s Mistral AI. Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of the early internet, but that...

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Musk’s Grok barred from undressing images after global backlash

Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday (January 14, 2026) announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualized photos of women and children. The announcement comes after California’s attorney general launched an investigation into Mr. Musk’s xAI — the developer of Grok...

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SpaceX loses contact with Starlink satellite after mishap

SpaceX’s Starlink said one of its ​satellites experienced an anomaly in space on Wednesday that created a “small ‌number” of debris and cut off communications with the spacecraft at ​418 km in altitude, a rare kinetic accident in orbit for the satellite internet giant. “The satellite is largely intact, tumbling, and will reenter the earth’s...

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SpaceX to pursue 2026 IPO raising above $30 billion: Report

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion and target a valuation of about $1.5 trillion, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. SpaceX’s management and advisers are pursuing a listing as soon as mid-to-late 2026 for the entire company, the report...

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Google Meet outage hits users in India

Thousands of users across India found themselves abruptly locked out of Google Meet calls after what appears to have been a wide-scale service disruption. Reports clustered around error messages and “502 — Bad Gateway” notifications, with many users unable to access meetings. The outage struck just days after a massive disruption triggered by Cloudflare, underscoring...

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WiFi signals can quietly surveil you: study

Modern WiFi standards have a feature called beamforming that helps routers push signals more efficiently towards connected devices. To do this, phones and laptops regularly broadcast short reports describing how they ‘see’ the wireless channel. These reports are unencrypted and can be picked up by any other device in range. Are these reports rich enough...

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