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Apple and Google announced that both iOS and Android devices will now have the capability to alert users if they are being unknowingly tracked by third-party Bluetooth trackers. This is due to an industry specification jointly worked on by Apple and Google called Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers (DULT), which enables devices to detect and alert...
Airtel’s customer base in India rose from 397 million in the previous quarter to 406 million in the fourth quarter of the financial year 2024 (January-March 2024), marking a quarter-on-quarter growth of 2.4%. Within its overall customer base, 352 million come from mobile services. The average revenue per user (ARPU) for these services came to Rs 209,...
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has denied information under the Right to Information (RTI) regarding submissions for responsible AI frameworks. In January, MeitY issued an ‘Expression of Interest’ document seeking proposals for building tools and frameworks based on Responsible AI themes. It also said that the government...
Eight TikTok creators have filed a lawsuit to stop the US government from implementing the law that bans TikTok in the country. This comes after TikTok filed a lawsuit of its own against the law, urging the court to declare it unconstitutional on grounds that the law violates its freedom of speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution by...
The conversation at Google’s annual developer conference, I/O 2024, on May 14 was dominated by AI. While Google shared updates on its AI models, particularly Gemini, it also announced new products and features. These span from generative AI models with creative output to integral hardware required to train AI models. Here are some of the new products...
A group of bipartisan United States lawmakers introduced a bill on May 5, 2024 imposing export control on AI systems to prevent exploitation of US AI models and other enabling tech by foreign adversaries, according to a press release by the Foreign Affairs Committee. The bill proposes amendments to the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 of the US and...