Company found allowing access to users under 16 may face fine from Rs50,000 to Rs5 million The Senate on Monday introduced the Social Media (Age-Restricted Users) Bill 2025, proposing a complete ban on the use of social media by individuals under the age of 16. The bill, jointly presented by senators Sarmad Ali and Syed…
Most victims are in US and Germany, including several government agencies WASHINGTON/LONDON: Hackers have broken into systems of nearly 100 organisations running Microsoft’s server software, two of the organisations that helped uncover the campaign said on Monday. The breach was uncovered over the weekend and appears to be part of a wider spying effort targeting organisations…
OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, has signed a deal to use artificial intelligence to increase productivity in the UK’s public services, the government has announced. The agreement signed by the firm and the science department could give OpenAI access to government data and see its software used in education, defence, security, and the justice system….
Mumbai gets India’s first Tesla showroom as company launches Model Y Tesla Inc has officially entered the Indian market with the inauguration of its first showroom in Mumbai, nearly a decade after CEO Elon Musk first teased the move in 2016. The US-based electric vehicle manufacturer opened a 4,000-square-foot “Experience Centre” in Maker Maxity Mall,…
Policy says these accounts will face a reduction in content reach Meta has announced new measures to curb the spread of “unoriginal” content on Facebook, targeting accounts that routinely repost others’ videos, photos, and text without significant changes or attribution. In a statement issued on Monday, the social media giant said it has already removed…
The Pentagon has signed a multi-million dollar deal to begin using Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, as part of a wider rollout of AI tools for government use, the Department of Defence confirmed. Announced on Monday by Musk’s company xAI, the $200m (£149m) contract is part of its “Grok for Government” programme, and aligns…
Meta’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centres in the US. The first multi-gigawatt data centre, called Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, Zuckerberg said. He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size…
Commercial therapy chatbots like 7cups and Character.ai perform worse than base models and lack proper oversight The study also found commercial mental health chatbots, like those from Character.ai and 7cups, performed worse than base models and lacked regulatory oversight, despite being used by millions. AI chatbots like ChatGPT are being widely used for mental health…
Meta’s popular instant messaging app’s new feature gives users better sense of real-time group activity WhatsApp is enhancing its group chat experience with a new typing indicator feature that reveals the number of users typing simultaneously, aiming to provide users with a better understanding of real-time group activity. According to WABetaInfo, the new feature is currently…
Grok made posts on social media platform X that included praise for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler NEW YORK: Elon Musk’s startup xAI issued an apology on Saturday for offensive comments made by its AI assistant, Grok, earlier this week. The company attributed the incident to a software update intended to make the AI behave more…
