TECHNOLOGY
Elon Musk's X hides all likes to 'protect user privacy'
X's move to hide likes comes on heels of the social media firm tweaking its policies to formally allow adult content on the platform
TECHNOLOGY
With 15.4 million developers, India is growing faster than the US for GitHub: CEO Thomas Dohmke
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke expects India to surpass the United States as the largest developer community on the Microsoft-owned developer platform by 2027
TECHNOLOGY
AI will not replace developers, will instead create more work: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
Microsoft-owned developer platform GitHub had over 15.4 million developers in India as of May 2024, registering a 33 percent growth year-on-year. India is growing faster than the United States, says Thomas Dohmke in an interview with Moneycontrol.
TECHNOLOGY
Meta bolsters its WhatsApp Business offering with AI chatbots, others
Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp is testing new AI tools for small businesses to better assist consumers in India and Singapore.
TECHNOLOGY
Amazon to acquire some assets of streaming service MX Player
The Amazon-MX Player deal signals growing consolidation in India's increasingly competitive video streaming market.
TECHNOLOGY
Nazara subsidiary Absolute Sports to buy assets of Soap Central for $1.4 million
The SoapCentral acquisition bolsters Absolute Sports' presence in the entertainment publishing sector in the United States.
TECHNOLOGY
Google puts limits on AI Overviews after it showed odd, incorrect answers to users
Google search head Liz Reid also explains why they told people to eat rocks or put glue on a pizza.
TECHNOLOGY
Nazara Technologies to take 100% ownership of Nextwave Multimedia
Nazara Technologies also plans to make investments into gaming-focused global VC firms Play Ventures and F4 Fund along with a casual gaming studio Pixode.
TECHNOLOGY
NSE should become Nasdaq in 5 years, more founders should list in India: Nazara's Nitish Mittersain
Nazara founder Nitish Mittersain says India is the brightest spot in the world. There is a strong government, a fast GDP and public markets are deep, he said. As far as his business is concerned, Mittersain says with AI reshaping every sector, deploying this nascent technology is a “strong focus area”.
TECHNOLOGY
Google to partner with Foxconn to manufacture Pixel smartphones in Tamil Nadu
Google parent Alphabet will also start manufacturing drones through its subsidiary Wing LLC in the state
TECHNOLOGY
Google to start testing ads in its new AI search experience
Google will start testing search and shopping ads in AI Overviews that has been rolled out to all consumers in the United States.
TECHNOLOGY
Elon Musk's X completes rebranding, shifts Twitter url to X.com
The move comes as Elon Musk looks to transform X, the social network previously known as Twitter, to an 'everything app'
TECHNOLOGY
Threads starts testing TweetDeck-like pinned columns on Web
Meta's pinned columns pilot from Threads comes nearly nine months after X CEO Elon Musk rebranded TweetDeck as X Pro and brought it under a paywall.
TECHNOLOGY
Netflix to launch in-house adtech platform by the end of 2025
Netflix's ad-supported tier now has 40 million global monthly active users, up from 23 million users in January
TECHNOLOGY
Google's Project Astra provides a glimpse at the future of AI assistants
At Google I/O 2024, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said some of Project Astra's capabilities are coming to the company's products, like the Gemini app.
TECHNOLOGY
Google unveils Gemini 1.5 Flash, an AI model for fast, low-latency applications
At Google I/O 2024, the tech giant also announced the next generation of its open source model Gemma 2 and a vision language model PaliGemma, as competition heats up.
BUSINESS
Google introduces text-to-video AI model Veo to take on OpenAI's Sora
Unveiled at Google I/O 2024, Veo can generate high-quality 1080p resolution videos that can go beyond a minute.
BUSINESS
Google's AI-powered search experience starts rolling out to consumers
Google expects to make generative AI search available to over a billion consumers by the end of the year, the company said at its annual developer conference Google I/O 2024.
TECHNOLOGY
Google’s Gemini Live now lets you have human-like voice conversations with the AI assistant
At Google I/O 2024, Gemini also rolled out an immersive trip planner, more extensions and the ability to create personalised AI agents.
TECHNOLOGY
Google DeepMind unveils next-gen AlphaFold AI model to accelerate drug discovery
Scientists and academic researchers will be able to access majority of AlphaFold 3's capabilities through a newly launched AI tool AlphaFold Server.
TECHNOLOGY
Meta's latest generative AI features make it easier for advertisers to create ads
Facebook parent Meta is also expanding its paid verification service for businesses by adding new subscription tiers and extending to new markets.
TECHNOLOGY
Disney+ Hotstar's paid subscriber base drops 2.3 million to 36 million
Walt Disney's global entertainment streaming businesses, which include Disney+ and Hulu, posted a profit in the second quarter. However, it expects a softer Q3 driven by Disney+ Hotstar.
TECHNOLOGY
Bhavish Aggarwal's AI startup Krutrim launches Android app; to unveil developer offerings
Krutrim’s mobile app launch comes as the country’s first AI unicorn gears up to launch its developer offerings, which includes cloud infrastructure and mapping solutions.
TECHNOLOGY
LinkedIn forays into gaming with the launch of 3 new puzzle games
LinkedIn has launched three new puzzle games - Pinpoint, Queens, and Crossclimb - that people across the world can play on mobile and desktop.
