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Aadhaar-based face authentication transactions for service delivery are gaining robust momentum with monthly transactions in May touching an all-time high of 10.6 million, since its launch in October 2021, said a press statement.

In the letter, former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog said the factory was planned for Taiwan's Foxconn, for early test production of DRAM memory chips, while Samsung's plant in Xian was designed to manufacture NAND flash memory chips.

Google said on Thursday it plans to block Canadian news on its platform in Canada as a new law requiring internet giants to pay news publishers come into effect in the country. Meta Platforms also made a similar announcement last week after the passage of Bill C-18, or the Online News Act.

Canada's Department of Justice has concluded that Microsoft's deal to buy Activision Blizzard "is likely to" lead to less competition in some aspects of gaming, according to a court filing on Thursday. Microsoft has pressed for a decision in the court fight before the July 18 termination date for the deal. A ruling could come as early as next week.

Inflection AI, a startup backed by several Silicon Valley heavyweights, said on Thursday it had raised $1.3 billion (nearly Rs. 10,670 crore) from investors including Microsoft and Nvidia, amid a boom in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. The investment, a mix of cash and cloud credit, valued the one-year-old company at $4 billion (nearly Rs. 32,840 crore), a so...

Edtech major Byju's is growing slowly but sustainably and is close to achieving profitability at the group level, the company's CEO Byju Raveendran said on Thursday. The company organised a town hall with Raveendran to allay apprehensions about the uncertainty around the company's growth and its future.

Two US authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, infringing the autho...

In the high-stakes arena of enterprise AI, tech titans are in a relentless race to unveil the next significant innovation in hardware. Dell Technologies recently introduced the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 for Generative AI and is flexing it in a recent whitepaper. The PowerEdge XE9680, explicitly designed to tackle AI workloads, is not just a new entrant in the race - it's a potential frontrunner. (more…)

Internet shutdowns by law enforcement agencies like the one in Manipur and Punjab cost $1.9 billion (nearly Rs. 15,590 crore) to the Indian economy in the first half of 2023, a report said on Thursday. The shutdowns also led to a loss of nearly $118 million (nearly Rs. 968 crore) in foreign investment and triggered over 21,000 job losses, the global non-profit Interne...

Microsoft President Brad Smith on Thursday talked up the benefits of regulating artificial intelligence (AI) and how the US software giant can help, reiterating a message to a Brussels audience that he delivered in Washington last month. He has sought to court regulators and lawmakers with calls for regulating AI.