The US Justice Department is probing whether Alphabet’s Google violated antitrust law in its agreement with Character.AI that allows the tech giant to use the AI startup’s technology, Bloomberg Law reported on Thursday. Antitrust enforcers have recently told Google they are examining whether the company structured the agreement with Character.AI to avoid formal government merger…
Anthropic introduced Claude 4 artificial intelligence (AI) models at its inaugural developer conference on Thursday. The San Francisco-based AI firm unveiled Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 models, and announced new capabilities including Extended Thinking with tool use. Opus 4 is said to be state-of-the-art (SOTA) in coding, tool use, and writing. Additionally, Claude…
Cetus Protocol, a decentralised crypto exchange and key liquidity provider on the Sui blockchain, said it lost approximately $223 million (roughly Rs. 1,910 crore) in a security breach. The project confirmed the incident in a post on X, formerly Twitter, stating that its smart contracts had been paused “temporarily for safety” and that a full investigation…
Xiaomi Civi 5 Pro was launched in China on Thursday alongside the Xiaomi 15S Pro. The latest Civi model comes with a Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset and a 6,000mAh battery with 67W wired fast charging support. It boasts a 1.5K micro-curved display with 1.6mm uniform, narrow bezels, and a Leica-backed triple rear camera unit including a 50-megapixel main…
Xiaomi unveiled the XRING O1 on Thursday as its first in-house chipset for the Xiaomi 15S Pro, and details of the chipset have now surfaced online. It is a 3nm chip that is built using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) advanced N3E process technology, which was also used by Apple, MediaTek and Qualcomm for their…
Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra has been launched in China alongside the Xiaomi 15s Pro. Just like the smartphone, the new Android tablet also runs on Xiaomi’s in-house 3nm XRING 01 chipset. The tablet boasts a 14-inch OLED display with 3.2K resolution and a 3:2 aspect ratio. The Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra has a 12,000mAh battery with…
Microsoft is testing several new artificial intelligence (AI) features for first-party apps in Windows 11. On Thursday, the Redmond-based tech giant announced that it is releasing a new update to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels. The update is only for those with a Copilot+ PC. The update includes new features for MS…
Lava Shark 5G was launched in India on Friday. The smartphone is powered by a 6nm octa-core Unisoc T765 chipset paired with 4GB of RAM. It supports an additional 4GB virtual RAM expansion as well. The handset carries a 50-megapixel dual rear camera setup with an LED flash alongside a 5-megapixel selfie shooter. It comes…
Mozilla’s Pocket is shutting down, the company said in an announcement earlier this week. The read-it-later web bookmarking service owned by Mozilla will be discontinued in July, and users will have a few months to export their data before it is deleted permanently. Some parts of the Pocket service will continue to be available via…
L2: Empuraan is a sequel to the 2019 blockbuster film Lucifer. The film was directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran and scripted by Murali Gopy, and it delves deeper into the mysterious world of Stephen Nedumpally, also known as Khureshi-Abr’aam. The story is gripping with the high-octane action scenes. The film achieved 80 crores worldwide on its…