Tag: Technology

A year ago, a Reddit thread went viral for all the wrong reasons after a user posted their experience with Siri. When they asked it “what month is it?”, Siri responded with “Sorry, I don’t understand.” That post came after a much-hyped Apple’s voice assistant failed to deliver on its most-advertised capabilities. At WWDC 2024,...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday (May 11, 2026) said technology is not merely a tool for development but a strong foundation for self-reliance, asserting that his government is working to transform the state into the country’s “Deep Tech Capital”. In an open letter ‘Yogi ki Pati’ posted on X on the occasion...

Nearly 120,000 authors and other copyright holders are seeking a share of a $1.5 billion class-action settlement with Anthropic over the ​company’s unauthorised use of their books in artificial-intelligence training, according to a filing in ‌California federal court. Claims have been filed for 91% of the ​more than 480,000 works covered by the settlement, according...

Amazon’s cloud unit on Tuesday launched ​Amazon Bio Discovery, an artificial intelligence application designed to speed early-stage ‌drug discovery by allowing scientists to run complex ​computational workflows without writing code. Drugmakers and technology companies ⁠have stepped up efforts to use AI to accelerate drug development.

Even as the government mandates real name caller ID, Truecaller AB, which built its whole business on caller identification and spam detection, has expressed confidence that it would be able to survive and grow in India, its biggest market, CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala told The Hindu in an interview from Bengaluru. The firm has almost 328...

British financial ​regulators are holding urgent talks with the government’s ‌cyber security agency and major banks to assess ​risks posed by the latest ⁠artificial intelligence model from Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and ‌Treasury officials are in talks with the National Cyber Security Centre to examine potential...

The global monetary system is not prepared to address artificial intelligence’s rapidly escalating risks, the IMF managing director warned Sunday, as a new Anthropic model raises urgent cybersecurity concerns. Kristalina Georgieva’s comments came a day before the International Monetary Fund and World Bank kick off their annual spring meetings in Washington, and after US regulators...

OpenAI said on Friday it had identified a security ​issue involving a third-party developer tool called Axios ‌and is taking steps to protect the ​process that certifies its macOS applications ⁠are legitimate OpenAI apps. The ChatGPT maker said it found no evidence that its user data was accessed, that ‌its systems or intellectual property was...

The way offices work has always changed in waves, but the last three decades delivered something different — a pace of change that didn’t allow people to settle before the next disruption arrived. Paper files gave way to desktops. Desktops to laptops. Laptops to phones that did almost everything. I remember being handed a BlackBerry...

A Los Angeles ⁠jury found Alphabet’s Google and Meta liable for $3 million in damages on Wednesday (March 25, 2026) in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit. The outcome could influence thousands of similar cases against the tech companies ‌brought by parents, attorneys general and school districts. At least half of American teens use YouTube...