ChatGPT Plus Free Access for Select Users Announced Until the End of May

ChatGPT Plus will be free to access for select users over the next few weeks, OpenAI announced on Friday. The AI firm’s ChatGPT Plus subscription tier typically costs $20 (roughly Rs. 1,700) per month, but eligible users won’t have to pay for access to OpenAI’s deep research and multiple reasoning models and limited access to […]

Tencent T1 Reasoning Model Launched Amid Growing AI Competition in China

Chinese tech giant Tencent on Friday night launched the official version of its T1 reasoning model, stepping up competition in China’s increasingly crowded artificial intelligence sector. The upgraded T1 model offers faster response times and enhanced capabilities for processing extended text documents, the company said in a post on its official WeChat account. T1 can […]

Apple’s Siri Chief Said to Acknowledge AI Delays, Promise Fixes

Apple Inc.’s top executive overseeing its Siri virtual assistant told staff that delays to key features have been ugly and embarrassing, and a decision to publicly promote the technology before it was ready made matters worse. Robby Walker, who serves as a senior director at Apple, delivered the stark comments during an all-hands meeting for […]

Sudowrite Launches Muse AI Model That Can Generate Narrative-Driven Fiction

Sudowrite, a Los Angeles-based AI startup, launched a new fiction-writing artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. Dubbed Muse, the AI model is built with a single function of generating creative writing pieces focused on fiction. The new model will be offered on the Sudowrite platform, which also offers several other writing-focused AI models. The startup […]

WhatsApp Beta Introduces AI-Generated Group Icons, Meta AI Widget

WhatsApp has started testing two new features on recent beta versions of the messaging app on Android. The Meta-owned chat service has added a new widget that makes it easier for users to access its Meta AI chatbot, without having to open the app. Meanwhile, a new AI-generated group icon feature is available to some […]

Microsoft Said to Be Developing AI Reasoning Models to Compete With OpenAI

Microsoft is developing in-house artificial intelligence reasoning models to compete with OpenAI and may sell them to developers, The Information reported on Friday, citing a person involved in this initiative. The Redmond, Washington-based company, a major backer of OpenAI, has begun testing out models from xAI, Meta and DeepSeek as potential OpenAI replacements in Copilot, […]

OpenAI Could Reportedly Charge Up to $20,000 a Month for Expert-Level AI Agents

OpenAI is reportedly planning to release several artificial intelligence (AI) agents soon. As per the report, these AI agents will be specialised and have expertise in specific domains. Unlike most of the offerings by the company so far, these are said to not be part of its existing subscription tiers, and instead, the AI firm […]

Xiaomi 15 Series Gets Google Gemini Integration; HyperOS 2.0 Global Rollout Timeline Revealed

Xiaomi announced a collaboration with Google on Sunday, ahead of the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC 2025) in Barcelona. With this collaboration, the Mountain View-based tech giant will allow its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to be integrated within first-party Xiaomi apps in the Xiaomi 15 series. With this, Gemini can find information and take […]

Intel Xeon 6700, 6500 Series Processors With Performance Cores Announced

Intel unveiled two new processor series in the Xeon 6 family on Monday. Dubbed Intel Xeon 6700 and Xeon 6500 series, the new processors offer improved performance and power efficiency compared to the previous generation. It is based on the x86 computer architecture and comes with up to 86 cores. The chipmaker claimed that the […]

Researchers Discover DeepSeek Has Links to Chinese Telecom Firm Banned in US: Report

DeepSeek source code reportedly contains evidence that links the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with a Chinese telecommunication provider that was banned in the US. According to a report, a cybersecurity firm has uncovered code that could be used to send data entered on DeepSeek’s web client to China Mobile. The code reportedly relates to […]