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Tech wrap March 13: Samsung Galaxy F16, BGMI update, Snapchat AI filters

Samsung Galaxy F16 5G launched. Krafton rolls out BGMI 3.7 update. Snapchat rolls out three new AI-generated lenses. OPPO F29 series launching in India. Google brings Gemma 3 open model

Google brings Gemma 3 open model to compete with Meta's Llama, DeepSeek V3

Google has claimed that its latest open model for developers, Gemma 3, has outperformed Llama-405B, DeepSeek-V3 and o3-mini models on the benchmarking platform LMArena

Google introduces new AI models for rapidly growing robotics industry

The robotics field has made large strides over the past few years with increasing advancements in AI and improving models, speeding up commercialization of robots largely in industrial settings

UK antitrust body raises concerns about Apple and Google's mobile browers

Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome browsers dominate the market, it said, with Safari accounting for 88% of browsers on Apple devices and Chrome accounting for 77% on devices running Google's AOS

Soon, Google Gemini will scan Gmail for events and add them to Calendar

Google has stated that Gemini will not add an event to the Calendar even if it finds details in Gmail, but it will ask the users if they wish to add the event to their calendar

Motive to hire hundreds as AI unicorns expand, follow Big Tech to India

Motive is among upstarts that are following major tech corporations like Meta and Microsoft into India, betting on one of world's deepest AI engineering pools to speed innovation

Google confirms arrival of lock screen widgets with Android 16: Know more

Lock screen widgets that were available on Pixel Tablet since last year will be made available for phones by the end of this year with Android 16 update

Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai get House GOP subpoena on alleged censorship

Biden administration officials said those posts contained dangerous misinformation, but Republicans have argued it was an attempt to censor conservatives' speech

Google Pixel 9a: What to expect and upgrades it would get over the Pixel 8a

The Pixel 9a has reportedly appeared on FCC listing recently, suggesting that the affordable Google AI smartphone is set to launch soon

Meta, Google must help combat India's illegal gambling, betting mkt: Study

A report by not-for-profit think tank Digital India Foundation states that the illegal gambling and betting ecosystem in India exceeds $100 billion annually and is growing at 30 per cent per year

Google's AI Mode expands Search with deeper analysis and reasoning: Details

Google's newly introduced Search Mode expands on AI Overview with more advanced reasoning, thinking, and multimodal capabilities

Google reports 250+ AI deepfake terrorism content to Australian regulator

The Australian eSafety Commission called Google's disclosure "world-first insight" into how users may be exploiting the technology to produce harmful and illegal content

Missing Apple Intelligence on older generation iPhones? Try Gemini widgets

For iPhone users who have missed out Apple Intelligence since it is available only on select models, there are alternatives such as Google Gemini that are readily available and packed with surprise

Google releases March Pixel drop: New features, how to update, and more

In the March 2025 Pixel drop, Google has released improved scam detection feature for calls and texts, option to connect external cameras, and more for select Pixel smartphones

Alphabet's Google urges Trump administration to reconsider company breakup

The US Department of Justice is currently pursuing two anti-monopoly cases against Google

Google building digital agri stack for India using satellite imagery

Global tech giant Google is building a digital agri-stack using satellite imagery and has started with a base layer that will help identify farm boundaries, a senior official said on Saturday. Data and analysis of this base layer of the stack can be used in a slew of applications like bettering the subsidy payments, farm insurance or farm loans, Manish Gupta, a senior director at Google DeepMind said. ".. we have built the first such model that using satellite imagery analysis can now start to identify field boundaries based on usage pattern start to identify what crops are being grown and so on," Gupta said, speaking at the Mumbai Tech Week here. The model has taken inspiration from UIDAI's Aadhar, ascribing a unique ID to each farm and is intended to act as a base layer of the "digital agri stack", he said. Gupta said it is upon the startups and other agri-tech players to build solutions which will provide loan crop insurance and also subsidies using the data churned out by the .

Canada regulator to impose fee on Google for online law's operating costs

The imposition of the levy on the Mountain View, California-based search engine giant comes at a time of increased tension between Canada and the United States

Alphabet's Google cuts less than 100 employees in its cloud division

The retrenchment comes in the wake of slower growth from Google's cloud business, as well as massive spending aimed at supporting the tech giant's ambitions in AI

Glance deepens pact with Google to add GenAI content in new apps

Glance will work with Google Cloud and use its tech such as Gemini AI and Imagen, a text-to-image model, to create content for customers who use its smartphone and TV screensavers

Google loses fight on Android Auto access as EU court backs Italy watchdog

The Italian watchdog fined Google 102 million euros ($106.7 million) in 2021 for blocking Enel's JuicePass on Android Auto