Category: Tech

Amid the AI race, China’s elite “genius classes” have quietly become one of the most powerful engines behind its rise in advanced technology, particularly artificial intelligence. A recent Financial Times investigation highlights how a vast and fiercely competitive system embedded in top high schools is churning out thousands of scientific prodigies each year. Many of them […]

A US judge has indicated she may dismiss xAI’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets, citing insufficient evidence in the claims. A federal judge in San Francisco signalled that she is inclined to dismiss a lawsuit filed by xAI, the artificial intelligence firm founded by Elon Musk, against OpenAI. US District Judge Rita Lin said […]

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2026-27 on Sunday where she emphasised on the role of artificial intelligence with major funding for semiconductors, rare earths, and R&D to boost skills, jobs, and deep-tech innovation. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2026-27 on Sunday where she mentioned artificial intelligence 11 times […]

Apple is reportedly working on its next-gen foldable even before the first iPhone Fold could make its appearance. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple’s next iPhone Fold could follow a clamshell design pattern. Apple hasn’t even revealed its first foldable iPhone yet, but it’s already dreaming up the next one. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that the […]

The one thing N Lee Plumb knows for sure about being laid off from Amazon last week is that it wasn’t a failure to get on board with the company’s artificial intelligence plans. Plumb, his team’s head of “AI enablement,” says he was so prolific in his use of Amazon’s new AI coding tool that the […]

The pledge by Alibaba, which triples the spending promised earlier by rivals Tencent and Baidu, is set to start on February 6. This move comes as the competition among Chinese AI firms toughens, especially since the launch of DeepSeek R1 model. Alibaba said on Monday it will spend 3 billion yuan ($431 million) to attract users […]

Indonesia has conditionally restored access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after X pledged compliance with local laws, following regional suspensions over concerns that the tool enabled sexualised AI-generated images of women and children. Indonesia will restore access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after the billionaire’s social media platform X promised to comply with the […]

Snapchat has blocked over 415,000 under-16 accounts in Australia amid social media ban, while warning that age verification gaps persist. Platforms face heavy fines as regulators push app stores to take greater responsibility for enforcing age checks. In a recent approach to ban social media for children under 16 years of age, Snapchat has blocked 415,000 […]

According to the reports, the Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome can predict how even the tiniest changes in DNA, a single swapped letter in the genetic code, might alter the way genes behave, and in turn, how those changes could contribute to conditions such as cancer, obesity, dementia, and high blood pressure. A new artificial intelligence model from […]

Taking to X, billionaire Elon Musk reposts a chart, highlighting China is leading the AI, robots and even renewable energy race. He warns that US risks falling dangerously behind. China is racing ahead, not just in artificial intelligence and robotics, but in renewable energy too, and Elon Musk is sounding the alarm. The billionaire entrepreneur recently […]