Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, has secured a major partnership with messaging platform Telegram, agreeing to invest $300 million to integrate its chatbot Grok into the app’s ecosystem. The move is expected to enhance xAI’s competitive positioning in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Telegram founder Pavel Durov revealed the collaboration in a…
Meta Platforms is considering the introduction of a paid tier for its newly launched standalone AI app, Meta AI, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company’s first-quarter 2025 earnings call on Wednesday, reported The Verge. Unveiled this week, the Meta AI app brings the company’s generative-AI assistant out of Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp and into…
After the viral Japanese Ghibli-style art, OpenAI is on a roll and trying something new every day. The San Francisco-based company rolled out a new unhinged voice mode in ChatGPT on 1 April 2025. OpenAI introduced the new voice mode on its official X account, saying, “No joke, there’s a new voice in ChatGPT.” As…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a message on his official X account on Tuesday, April 1, featuring the Indian national flag emoji and a post from MyGovIndia. The original post consists of a series of images turned into Studio Ghibli-style art depicting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The images posted by MyGovIndia portrayed PM Modi…
When an article in the New Yorker opined that, “Focusing on the spectacle at the expense of understanding what Trump and his allies are actually doing has led to some of the most epically wrong things in the history of American politics,” Susan Glasser was obviously not even thinking about an imminent battle between the…
Dhruv Rathee, the YouTuber, vlogger, and social media activist, is in the spotlight after an internet user dropped an innovative and surprising question to Grok. Questioning Dhruv Rathee’s nationalism, a user asked the generative artificial intelligence chatbot whether the 30-year-old is an anti-national. Taking to social media platform X, a user named Jaiky Yadav, in…
The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is in touch with billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X over recent incidents of its AI chatbot Grok using Hindi slang and abusive responses. According to a report by news agency PTI, the IT ministry is examining the issue. It will investigate the matter and…
Baidu has announced the release of two new artificial intelligence (AI) models. The Chinese technology giant introduced Ernie 4.5, a foundation model that builds upon its predecessor, and Ernie X1, a reasoning-focused AI designed for deep thinking. Notably, Baidu has also made its AI-powered chatbot, Ernie Bot, free for users, eliminating any premium charges. In…
Elon Musk’s Grok, an AI assistant developed by his company xAI, has been making headlines with its strikingly candid responses, sparking intense discussions about its unusually human-like political opinions. While some users praise its unfiltered approach, others have raised concerns about abusive responses. The generative artificial intelligence platform’s ability to mimic human-like language patterns, including…
Director-writer Spike Jonze’s 2013 sci-film Her, coincidentally set in 2025, depicts a gentle but doomed romance between a lonely writer Theodore and his personal operating system Samantha. In the end (spoiler alert), Theodore breaks down as he discovers Samantha is in a relationship with 8,316 other people and computers, and in love with 641 of…
