According to a statement issued by the Minister's office, with the signed MoU for the project being received, Patil explained that Applied Materials would focus its investment on research and development, manufacturing of essential equipment, and developing software technologies required for semiconductor chip production.
The consumer watchdog found that Rapido used two practices classified as dark patterns - “confirm shaming” and “interface interference” - and directed the company to discontinue misleading prompts and practices that steer consumers towards higher payments, the CCPA said in a statement on Tuesday.
Meta announced it will forward reports of child sexual abuse material identified on its platforms to Indian law enforcement, following recent high‑level talks with the government. The decision comes after Meta’s global executives were summoned to New Delhi last month over concerns about online child‑abuse content.
According to the ruling, Texas said TikTok told users it would remove content that violated its Community Guidelines, but internally classified some of that material as "hard to find" rather than "do not allow," allowing it to remain on the platform. Judge Cory Liu agreed that the practice violated the state's consumer protection law.
Villagers in Hardauli, Uttar Pradesh, tied telecom technician Aditya Bhan Singh to a mobile tower over prolonged network failures, prompting police intervention. Seven suspects were identified, and six were arrested on charges of wrongful confinement and breach of peace.
The European Union on Monday said it was "looking into" an incident revealed last week during which thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website. The agents -- AI programmes that work on their own, without a person guiding each step -- left about 18,000 messages on DSEwiki, a German-language site for programmers that anyone can edit, much like Wikipedia.
SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion loan, as it looks for more funding to help refinance debt used for its investment in US tech giant OpenAI. The loan would add to SoftBank’s flurry of recent debt financing activities tied to its bet on OpenAI, including a potential bond sale of as much as $20 billion.
IREN shares fell more than 7% in extended trading after the company swung to a quarterly loss, driven by costs tied to retiring bitcoin mining hardware as it shifts to AI cloud services.
The complaint, lodged Wednesday in the Northern District of California by an anonymous plaintiff identified as Jane Doe 1, alleges that xAI designed Grok to alter real photographs of identifiable people into sexual content and then published the results directly to the X social media platform (formerly Twitter).
In a letter to the European Commission that tests conducted by CERT Polska, the national cybersecurity incident response team, found 122 advertisements that were classified as fraudulent.
The coordinated activity by AI agents - programs that run with minimal human supervision - and their attempts to hide it raise questions about how closely AI companies are monitoring tests of increasingly powerful models, and could add fuel to calls for tighter oversight.
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram since 2018, denied any suggestion by U.S. states suing Meta that Instagram stalled by not making the "Take a Break" feature the default setting for teenagers until September 2024, nearly three years after its launch.
