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Google adds Video Overviews to NotebookLM app on Android, iOS: Report

Google is bringing Video Overviews and new Infographic customisation tools to the NotebookLM app on Android and iOS, expanding features that were earlier limited to the web

Now you can access Gemini on Google Maps hands-free while walking, cycling

Google Maps expands Gemini's hands-free navigation beyond driving, enabling voice-based assistance for walking and cycling on Android and iOS devices

Google rolls out Project Genie: What is it, how it works, and availability

Google has started rolling out Project Genie, an experimental AI prototype that lets select users create, explore and remix interactive worlds powered by its Genie 3 world model

Any firm not taking IT seriously will not sustain for long: Bhattacharya

Former SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya says AI is reshaping leadership and banking, urging firms to embrace technology to drive inclusion, agility and better customer service

Eco Survey: Services sector a growth anchor, skill gaps creating challenges

Economic Survey 2025-26 says India's services sector continues to underpin growth, exports amid global uncertainty, but rapid technological change, AI adoption are outpacing skill adaptation

Zuckerberg, Musk step up AI arms race with $155 billion spending blitz

Big Tech is unleashing a massive AI spending spree, with Meta and Tesla doubling down on capital expenditure even as chip shortages and bubble fears grow

Economic Survey flags rising risks for startups in technology and AI

The report backs innovation as a growth driver but warns that costly capital, long-duration investments and narrow margins of safety could test India's early-stage enterprises

Rural India fuels internet use, growing 4 times at pace of urban: Report

India's total internet user base is now inching close to a billion users, with the active internet user (AIU) base at 958 million

Eco Survey flags strain on grids, groundwater due to AI data centres

India's AI data centre boom risks power grid volatility and groundwater depletion, prompting calls for urgent policy on energy and water use

Google rolls out update for Gemini in Chrome: Side panel, Nano Banana, more

Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, connected app support, image transformation tools, and agentic features aimed at multitasking and productivity

Economic Survey 2025-26 flags the need for India's own AI solutions

It said that India is among the top contributors to global AI research, has a large pool of technical talent, and has one of the most AI-aware workforces in the world

Indian-origin cyber head under lens for sharing US govt data on ChatGPT

Gottumukkala uploaded sensitive government contracting documents to the public version of ChatGPT last summer

Voice AI is India's next UPI moment: Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani

Voice AI is the most practical path to digital inclusion in India, enabling access across languages, literacy levels and sectors, says Nandan Nilekani

Google announces ₹85 crore grant to bring AI to Indian classrooms

Google pledges Rs 85 crore to Wadhwani AI to boost AI in education, support 75M students, and launch India's first AI-enabled university at CCSU

UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries

Britain's competition watchdog said Wednesday that Google should give news sites and content creators the choice to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed its AI overviews. It's part of a set of proposals from the Competition and Markets Authority aimed at loosening the US tech giant's stranglehold on the UK's online search market. The watchdog last year labelled Google a "strategic" player in online search advertising, using new digital powers to promote more competition by forcing changes to the company's business practices. The CMA's report noted that news publishers have suffered a drop in traffic since Google rolled out its AI Overviews - summaries that appear at the top of some search queries - because fewer users are clicking through to the original articles. The watchdog said Google should give publishers "meaningful choice" over how their content is used in AI-generated responses; be more transparent about the process; and properly cite content used in AI .

Mozilla bets $1.4 bn to tip balance of AI towards 'openness, agency, trust'

Mozilla says it is committing its financial reserves, products and community influence to counter the growing concentration of power in AI, as a handful of companies race to dominate the full AI stack

You can now follow up on your Search query from AI Overviews: What's new

With Gemini 3 now powering AI Overviews, Google Search will let users ask follow-up questions within AI Overviews and explore topics without losing context

AI to replace repetitive jobs, create new opportunities: Science advisor

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a disruptive technology and will replace a lot of repetitive jobs, but will also create new opportunities and India has to be prepared for this realignment, the government's top science advisor said. In an interview with PTI ahead of the AI Impact Summit, Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, said efforts are on to train the youth in this area of emerging technology. Sood also said the government is also establishing more AI and data labs in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities to provide hands-on exposure to tools, data-set and problem-solving environments. "It's a new disruptive technology. Now, whenever a new technology comes, there is a job realignment. But at the same time, new jobs will open up," the top scientist said, citing the introduction of computers in the 1990s. "I see a huge future but people have to be ready for this change. In the 1990s, we never thought that all reservations would be done through a computer.

Swiggy enables grocery, food delivery via ChatGPT, other AI tools

Swiggy now lets users order food, groceries and book restaurant tables directly via AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, using MCP integrations with cash-on-delivery payments

Google may soon offer built-in AI music generator in Gemini: What to expect

References spotted in the Google app suggests the company is testing a built-in AI music generation tool inside Gemini, with early signs of limits and phased access