Apple Fights $1.8 Billion App Store Lawsuit in First of UK Class Actions Against Tech Giants

Apple has abused its dominant position by charging app developers an unfair 30% commission through its App Store, costing British consumers up to 1.5 billion pounds ($1.8 billion or roughly Rs.15,601 crore), a London tribunal heard on Monday. The US tech company is facing a mass lawsuit brought on behalf of around 20 million iPhone … Read more

US President Donald Trump Signs Executive Actions Related to Crypto, AI

President Donald Trump signed executive actions related to cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence, moves that could bolster two nascent industries. The president was joined by White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks, a venture capitalist and major political donor.  The crypto order creates a working group to advise the White House on digital asset policies … Read more

Perplexity Voice Assistant for iOS Released With Web Browsing, Multi-App Actions

Perplexity has begun to roll out a new voice assistant for iOS. Powered by the company’s native artificial intelligence (AI) answer engine, the new voice assistant comes with web browsing capability and can access multiple apps to complete tasks. The AI assistant for iPhone devices comes three months after the company rolled out the Perplexity … Read more

Microsoft Introduces Purpose-Built AI Agents, Copilot Actions at the Ignite 2024 Event

Microsoft Ignite 2024, the company’s annual conference for developers and IT professionals, was held on Tuesday. At the event, the Redmond-based tech giant made several new announcements around Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, and its artificial intelligence (AI) platform Copilot. In the AI space, the company introduced new purpose-built AI agents that do not require programming … Read more

Microsoft Muse AI Model Unveiled; Can Generate Game Visuals and Controller Actions

Microsoft researchers introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday that can generate 3D gameplay environments. Dubbed the World and Human Action Model (WHAM) or Muse, the new AI model was developed by the tech giant’s Research Game Intelligence and Teachable AI Experiences (Tai X) teams in collaboration with Xbox Games Studios’ Ninja Theory. … Read more

Google Pixel 10 Could Debut With Magic Cue AI Feature That Suggests Actions Based on App Usage

Google’s Pixel 10 series of smartphones is expected to debut later this year, with the company’s fifth generation Tensor G5 chip. Previous reports indicated that Google was working on a new AI feature that could provide contextual suggestions based on a user’s activity on their smartphone, and a new leak reveals that this feature might … Read more