TECHNOLOGY
FAU-G returns: Vishal Gondal’s nCore eyes gaming revival with 'Domination'
FAU-G: Domination's launch comes amid a push by local gaming studios to build ambitious games and position India as a global gaming hub.
TECHNOLOGY
Meta AI has over 400 million monthly active users, says Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta AI has over 185 million users on a weekly basis, as competition intensifies with rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft's Copilot.
TECHNOLOGY
Google's Gemini to resume AI image generation of people after 6-month pause
Google had earlier stopped users from generating images depicting people on Gemini, due to a controversy over producing historically inaccurate images.
BUSINESS
Dailyhunt parent VerSe Innovation acquires Valueleaf Group to bolster its ad exchange ambitions
VerSe Innovation estimates Valueleaf Group acquisition along with its Nexverse.ai business will contribute $100 million in revenues by FY25
BUSINESS
YouTube hikes cost of premium plans in India, family pack fee rises over 50%
YouTube Music has also increased its prices by about 20 percent. These hikes come as Google looks to boost its subscription revenue, which is emerging as a potential new moneymaker for the tech giant.
TECHNOLOGY
Amazon extends AI shopping assistant Rufus to India
Amazon is rolling out its AI shopping assistant, Rufus, in India as the online retail giant races to integrate generative AI features into its offerings.
TECHNOLOGY
LinkedIn appoints Kumaresh Pattabiraman as India country manager and product head
India is the second-largest market for LinkedIn after the United States, with more than 135 million members in the country. It is also the fastest-growing market for the Microsoft-owned professional networking platform
TECHNOLOGY
WhatsApp allows real-money gaming firms to send promotional messages in India; alcohol not allowed
Meta is looking to accelerate monetisation from WhatsApp as business messaging becomes increasingly important in its efforts to diversify revenue streams beyond traditional digital advertising.
TECHNOLOGY
Google's AI model to help researchers identify TB, other diseases from the sound of cough
Google has announced a collaboration with Salcit Technologies, an India-based respiratory healthcare firm, that has built a product called Swaasa that uses AI to analyse cough sounds and assess lung health
TECHNOLOGY
Google expands its AI search experience to India, other markets
Google's AI Overviews provides consumers a quick AI-generated summary of a topic along with links to go deeper, at the top of the search results.
TECHNOLOGY
Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 2 chatbot with image generation feature
Grok is available to all subscribers of X Premium and X Premium+, the subscription tiers of X, the Musk owned social network formerly known as Twitter
TECHNOLOGY
Made-in-India Pixel smartphones start rolling out in the country
Google is looking to scale up its Pixel smartphone business in India in order to capitalise on the rising demand for premium smartphones among consumers
TECHNOLOGY
'Stuck in traffic': Sorin Investments founder Sanjay Nayar on Bengaluru's low tech IPO count
Several Bengaluru companies are in the process of launching public offerings, Accel India's founding partner Prashanth Prakash has said amid debate over fewer 'tech city' firms tapping the market
WORLD
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies after battling cancer
Susan Wojcicki was crucial to Google's founding years, having rented garage space in her parent's house to co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start the company in 1998. She was also the company's 16th hire.
TECHNOLOGY
Nazara Technologies to buy UK-based gaming studio Fusebox Games for $27.2 million
Fusebox Games operates intellectual property-driven interactive story games and has published a title called ‘Love Island’
TECHNOLOGY
Disney+ Hotstar's paid subscriber base drops to 35.5 million in Q3-FY24
Disney+ Hotstar's subscriber drop comes despite the T20 Cricket World Cup happening during the quarter, where India clinched an ICC trophy after 11 years.
TECHNOLOGY
Reddit's international daily active user base surges to 45.7 mn in Q2, driven by growth in India, France
Reddit said it will begin testing new search result pages powered by AI to summarise and recommend content on the platform
TECHNOLOGY
Nazara subsidiary Absolute Sports to buy assets of Deltia's Gaming
The acquisition is expected to bolster Sportskeeda parent's presence in the gaming and esports media publishing sector in the United States.
TECHNOLOGY
India is the largest market for Meta AI usage, says CFO Susan Li
Meta AI is on track to achieve the social networking giant’s goal of becoming the most used AI assistant by the end of the year, founder Mark Zuckerberg said.
TECHNOLOGY
Meta's Threads set to hit 200 million monthly active users, says Mark Zuckerberg
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg expects Threads to become the next billion-user social network in the company's suite of apps in a few years.
TECHNOLOGY
Meta bets on India's AI talent with Llama 3.1, Hindi support
Llama 3.1 is touted as the first "frontier-level" open-source AI model capable of matching the performance of leading proprietary foundation models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
TECHNOLOGY
MPL-backed Mayhem Studios bags funding from Lumikai
Mayhem Studios is building a battle royale title Underworld Gang Wars, which is expected to be launched later in the year. The game has, so far, clocked more than 7.5 million pre-registrations
TECHNOLOGY
Google Maps wants to help you navigate flyovers and narrow roads in India
Google has developed an AI model specifically for Indian roads that estimates road width using satellite and Street View imagery. This will help four-wheelers avoid narrow roads whenever possible.
TECHNOLOGY
Google Maps to provide metro tickets in Kochi, Chennai via Namma Yatri
Google plans to expand the feature to more cities and additional modes of public transport such as buses in collaboration with Namma Yatri and ONDC
