India is reportedly proposing new security rules for smartphones. These rules include sharing source code and making software changes. Tech companies like Apple and Samsung are opposing these measures. They argue the requirements lack global precedent and risk revealing proprietary…
In 2021, Facebook, another Meta company, reported that data of over 350 million users had been exposed from publicly accessible profiles but not breached. Data breaches at other major social media platforms, X and LinkedIn, were reported in 2018 and…
Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Friday said artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories are being set up in nine Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) of the state.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are reducing their California business presence, moving companies to Nevada and buying property elsewhere, amid concern over a proposed California wealth tax on billionaires. The measure has sparked debate, with tech leaders warning…
AI dominated CES 2026, from voice-controlled espresso machines by Bosch using Amazon Alexa, to personalised perfumes from DigitalScent. Tennis robots from UBTech and Tenniix showcased AI-driven realism in sport and lifestyle tech.
At the Consumer Electronics Show, gadget makers warned of a global DRAM shortage driven by booming AI demand. Memory prices are soaring, boosting revenues at Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology. IDC says shortages may last into next year, forcing higher…
xAI, the startup behind Grok, said on Thursday it was restricting image generation and editing to paying subscribers as it tried to fix safeguard lapses that had allowed sexualised outputs including depictions of scantily clad children.
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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has turned off its image creation feature for non-paying users following backlash over its use to create sexualized deepfakes of women and children. Some users reportedly used Grok to generate pictures of women and children…
Here at MIT Technology Review we’ve been writing about the gene-editing technology CRISPR since 2013, calling it the biggest biotech breakthrough of the century. Yet so far, there’s been only one gene-editing drug approved. It’s been used commercially on only…