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Meta debuts camera-free smart glasses at $349 to tackle privacy concerns

The Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses drop cameras but retain audio recording, while Meta expands its Muse AI assistant with shopping, appointments and computer-use features

For humanity's sake, please control the AI we created: Tech leaders urge UN

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI chief Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that governments must help prevent AI risks and excessive concentration of power

Meta launches $1,299 VR glasses-style headset to take on Apple's Vision Pro

Meta's new headset weighs about 100 grams after shifting its processor, battery and cooling system to an external pack, targeting a lighter and cheaper alternative to Apple's Vision Pro

10 mn users & counting, Amazon Pay Later lines up a broader credit play

Amazon Pay India CEO Vikas Bansal says the company will focus on expanding its smart wallet and digital credit offerings for consumers and small businesses.

Fujifilm India exploring deals to supply chemicals to domestic chip cos

Fujifilm India is exploring supply deals with chipmakers and local partners as it invests about ₹800 crore in a semiconductor materials plant in Dholera

Meta expected to unveil new smart glasses at Connect developer event

Meta is expected to show off AI-powered smart glasses at its Connect developer conference as CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues to evangelise the glasses as the next step in human-computer interactions.

As AI agents grow more autonomous, India faces a safety-regulation test

Recent incidents involving autonomous AI systems have sharpened debate over whether India's principle-based framework needs binding rules for frontier models and stronger independent testing

Beyond assembly: Why Nothing's CMF is betting on building R&D base in India

Nothing's CMF is combining Indian ownership, manufacturing and R&D with Optiemus as it seeks to move beyond assembly and build deeper product-engineering capabilities in India. But to what end?

Agentic AI widening cyber risks even as defence tools improve: Trellix MD

Frontier AI models are rapidly improving vulnerability detection but also giving threat actors greater scale, making contextual intelligence and faster action critical, warns Trellix's Ganesh Iyer

Apple explores Whoop-like fitness tracker to expand wearable lineup: Report

Apple is reportedly exploring a screenless health tracker similar to Whoop as it looks to expand beyond the Apple Watch and respond to growing demand for dedicated health and fitness wearables

Trai mandates wider choice of voice-and-SMS-only plans for consumers

Trai said in the notification adding this will give low-income consumers more choice to recharge based on their needs and financial capacity

Datanomics: Under-20 age group increasingly drives India's smartphone usage

The EU Kids Act proposes banning social media for children under 13 as several countries tighten access rules, while India weighs age-based restrictions amid rising smartphone use and cybercrime risks

Smartphone screen protectors to come under BIS standards from April 2027

The move is aimed at curbing substandard imports and grey-market trade in a Rs 12,000-15,000 crore market where Chinese products currently dominate supplies

On AI, we are Navy SEALs, never the army: Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz

Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz on why his company skipped the low-cost, headcount-driven model that built India's IT industry, and bet on AI instead

From handset to hub: Smartphone's quiet reinvention in the AI ecosystem

AI is spreading computing across watches, earbuds, glasses, cars and PCs, changing the smartphone from the primary interface into the hub connecting a growing ecosystem of devices

AI amnesia: Why AI models sometimes forget what users ask them to remember

AI amnesia is not human-like memory loss. It can stem from context limits, session boundaries, retrieval failures, model updates or changes in what an AI system has learned

OpenAI's model solves 100+ maths problems, company forms advisory group

OpenAI said a model that began training on Aug 28 has solved more than 100 long-standing maths problems, prompting the firm to create an independent advisory group to review and communicate its result

Googlebook laptops debut with Gemini, Android apps support: Check details

Google has launched Googlebook laptops with HP, Dell, Asus, Acer and Lenovo, with pre-orders open in the US and select markets, while India availability is yet to be confirmed

T-Mobile, Jio launch world's first 5G Standalone roaming connection

Jio customers can roam on T-Mobile's 5G SA network in the US, while T-Mobile customers can access Jio's 5G SA network while travelling in India

After Meta, Google to share child sexual abuse case details with govt

A spokesperson for Google confirmed the development and said that it had "proposed to operationalise the provision of relevant information to the I4C in cases related to CSAM"