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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Advertisers are grappling with trade-offs of AI-powered ad planning and buying tools for automating nearly every step in digital ad campaigns. The tools work by asking buyers for parameters for campaigns, such as budget limits and sales goals, then allow algorithms to decide where ads will run, who they target and, in some cases, how ads appear.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Meta Platforms Inc and Google’s parent Alphabet Inc have raised concerns about Indian rules barring tech giants from monitoring internet browsing by children under 18 as it will make safety filters ineffective, according to three executives privy to the discussions. “The DPDP Act’s rules include an exemption that allows social media intermediaries to use the age of a user as part of the data that the platform can use to identify them.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. McDonald’s is giving its 43,000 restaurants a technology makeover, starting with internet-connected kitchen equipment, artificial intelligence-enabled drive-throughs and AI-powered tools for managers. The goal? To drive better experiences for its customers and workers who today contend with issues ranging from broken machines to wrong orders, according to Brian Rice, the Chicago-based burger giant’s chief information officer.

According to Janus Henderson's Global Dividend index, dividends at US companies rose 8.7% on an underlying basis from 2023. The underlying growth was mostly influenced by internet media companies such as Alphabet – which owns Google – and Meta – owner of Facebook and Instagram – both of which made their first dividend payments last year and contributed one quarter to US dividend growth in 2024. European companies forecast to pay out record dividends in 2025 Jane Shoemake, client portfolio manager on the Global Equity Income team at Janus Henderson, argued that last year's dividend ...

The US Department of Justice is currently pursuing two anti-monopoly cases against Google — one over search and another over advertising technology. «We routinely meet with regulators, including with the DOJ to discuss this case. As we've publicly said, we're concerned the current proposals would harm the American economy and national security,» a Google spokesperson said.

ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.

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uBlock Origin and others as it is moving Chrome into its new Manifest V3 extension. Users have taken to Reddit and X (formerly Twitter) to share that Chrome had automatically disabled the older extensions. They reported that a notification popped up stating that it was “no longer supported”. Media reports stated that the update is building on the drawn-out process of Google trying to totally abandon Manifest V2. The server had lost support officially in October 2023. Accordingly, any extension which has not been upgraded to Manifest V3 is being disabled or removed from the Chrome web store.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Google and HP are scheduled to release this year a 3-D video communications platform that works without requiring users to wear glasses or a headset, an effort to infuse virtual meetings with a greater sense that people are together in the same space. Video calls famously turned heel in the past few years, transforming from a panacea of the early pandemic into a soul-sapping burden for workers.

Many netizens found humor in her perspective, with one user remarking that PG owners in Bengaluru are essentially building generational wealth while offering little in return. Another joked that these landlords serve only rice under the pretense of providing three full meals a day. Some even compared the business model to that of a unicorn startup—zero investment, infinite returns, and absolutely no refunds. Others expressed their frustration, pointing out that the security deposit system in Bengaluru is a one-way street—once paid, it is rarely seen again.

Reddit to share his experience. According to him, the Founder and CEO of the company asked him to fill out a form and submit an assignment within «half a day» as part of the selection process. The unrealistic expectation left him unimpressed, prompting him to post a screenshot of the email exchange along with his response. In his Reddit post, the candidate expressed his disbelief at the demands placed on him for such a senior position.

Elon Musk, founder of xAI, has endorsed the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok. In a recent post on X, Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X, responded with “yes” to a user who wrote, “Don’t Google it, just Grok it.” Competing with Google

Venus Wang, divorce wasn’t just an emotional rupture—it was a financial and personal reckoning. “I remember the personal identity shift was a very big thing for me—to transform from someone else’s wife to a single mom,” she told CNBC Make It. At 37, she was unemployed, caring for her daughter full-time, and staring at a bank balance of just $10,000. Before her divorce, Wang had built a steady six-figure career in procurement at a major tech firm. But with no job and a child to raise, she realised she needed a plan—and fast.

Shyam Gollakota has been able to pull off. A recipient of the Infosys Prize 2024, Gollakota, a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, US, aims to augment human auditory perception using AI and change how humans interact with sound. The technology enables the programming of acoustic scenes, allowing specific sounds to be amplified or filtered out based on semantic descriptions. This means AI can isolate each sound, place it in a spatial context and manipulate what a listener should hear. “Humans naturally struggle to judge how far away a sound is coming from,” the professor explained. “If you close your eyes and try to estimate distance by listening, it’s difficult. Someone far away could be speaking loudly, while someone close might be speaking softly. But with AI-driven audio processing, we can create an effect where, as you move through a space, it feels like stepping through virtual sound walls — suddenly, you hear everything within your bubble and nothing outside it.”

artificial general intelligence (AGI), they'll have to work overtime, as per a report.

internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders. Shutting down Skype will help Microsoft focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying its communication offerings, the software giant said on Friday. Founded in 2003, Skype's cheap audio and video calls quickly disrupted the landline industry in the early 2000s and made the company a household name boasting hundreds of millions of users at its peak. But the platform has struggled to keep up with easier-to-use and more reliable rivals such as Zoom and Salesforce's Slack in recent years.

DeepSeek AI had created a market rout upon its entry into the field of artificial intelligence through its V3 and R1 AI models, but it now looks like it is facing some competition from Tencent, another Chinese tech company that is claiming to have built an AI model that gives faster responses to prompts than DeepSeek, according to a Reuters report.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Google changed its rules around how product-review sites appear in its search engine. In the process, it devastated a once-lucrative corner of the news media world.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The AI boom has sparked a surge in new data centers. In Abilene, Texas, some 1,500 people are building the first data center for the Stargate artificial-intelligence venture led by OpenAI.

Snowflake AI, that is being spearheaded by Sridhar Ramaswamy, their chief executive. According to a Fortune report, conducting weekly 'war room' meetings with the team to strategize and build up on different ideas is the secret to the recent success tasted by the company, even though there were certain issues within the $43 billion over some time.