Category: Technology

Perplexity AI has offered $34.5 billion to buy Google’s widely used Chrome browser as the tech giant faces potential antitrust-driven pressure to sell. The whopping sum proposed in a letter of intent by Perplexity is nearly double the value of the startup, which was reportedly $18 billion in a recent funding round. “This proposal is designed to satisfy an antitrust remedy in highest public interest by placing Chrome with a capable, independent operator focused on continuity, openness, and consumer protection,” Perplexity chief executive Aravind Srinivas said in the letter, a…

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Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, will take legal action against Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of violating antitrust laws in the way it manages App Store rankings. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X. Musk offered no evidence to support his allegation. Apple, OpenAI, and xAI did…

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WASHINGTON: Four astronauts from different countries returned to Earth on Saturday after spending almost five months on the International Space Station, landing safely in a SpaceX capsule. The spacecraft carrying US astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov splashed down off California’s coast at 8:44am local time. Their return marks the end of the 10th crew rotation mission to the space station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which was created to succeed the Space Shuttle era by partnering with private industry. The Dragon…

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Four astronauts from Nasa’s Crew-10 mission departed the International Space Station on Friday aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, heading for a splashdown off the US West Coast on Saturday morning after a five-month crew rotation mission at the orbiting lab. US astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, the Crew-10 commander, boarded the gumdrop-shaped Dragon capsule on Friday afternoon along with Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov ahead of a 17.5-hour trek back to Earth to a splashdown site off the California coast. The four-person crew launched to…

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Showcasing their excellent performance, Pakistani students clinch two gold medals and one silver at the prestigious Asian Science Camp (ASC) 2025 in Thailand. This outstanding performance marks the best-ever showing by a Pakistani team in an international scientific competition. The Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) selected an eight-member student delegation after a rigorous nationwide process, which included a written test and interviews. These students represented Pakistan at the six-day international camp where young scientific minds from across Asia came together to engage with Nobel Laureates and eminent scientists through plenary sessions,…

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SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI has released highly anticipated ChatGPT-5 for free, opening up its most powerful AI model yet to millions of users around the world. The move comes as the competition between tech giants to lead the AI race grows fiercer by the day. OpenAI said that ChatGPT-5 is smarter, faster, and more reliable than ever — and feels more like chatting with a real expert than a machine. The update is part of the company’s push to stay ahead in a rapidly changing industry where every breakthrough counts. ChatGPT-5…

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OpenAI on Thursday released a keenly awaited new generation of its hallmark ChatGPT, touting “significant” advancements in artificial intelligence capabilities, as a global race over the technology accelerates. ChatGPT-5 is rolling out free to all users of the AI tool, which is used by nearly 700 million people weekly, OpenAI said in a briefing with journalists. Co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman touted this latest iteration as “clearly a model that is generally intelligent.” “It is a significant step toward models that are really capable,” he said. Altman cautioned that…

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Instagram is introducing a new wave of features designed to enhance sharing and connection on the app — including a long-anticipated repost function, a live location map, and a refreshed Reels interface. Announced by parent company Meta on August 6, the update brings three major tools: a profile tab for reposted content, optional location sharing through an interactive map, and a new “Friends” tab in Reels to surface content friends engage with. “People have always come to Instagram to share what they’re up to and where they are,” Meta said…

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PARIS: A heartbreaking photo of a starving young girl in Gaza has stirred strong reactions online, not just because of the suffering it captures, but because Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, wrongly said the image was from Yemen years ago. The mix-up spread quickly across social media, leaving many people angry and upset. Some accused the chatbot of adding to the confusion and spreading false information at a time when emotions are already running high. This image by AFP photojournalist Omar al-Qattaa shows a skeletal, underfed girl in Gaza, where…

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Apple Inc will announce a domestic manufacturing pledge of $100 billion on Wednesday that will focus on bringing more manufacturing to the United States, a White House official said. The pledge would be a new financial commitment, the official said on the customary condition of anonymity. It comes as President Donald Trump pursues an aggressive tariff and trade agenda aimed at moving some manufacturing back into the United States. Apple said in February it would spend $500 billion in US investments in the next four years that will include a…

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