Last week, China’s Deepseek launched a free assistant to compete with established US models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Following this launch, the US authorities have reportedly initiated an investigation into Deepseek to check if it used chipsets that have been restricted by…
Apple Shares Rise After Positive Sales Outlook Signals iPhone Recovery
Apple has forecast relatively strong sales growth as the firm approaches AI more cautiously than many of its peers. Despite the AI rollout stumbles, Apple’s overall sales and profits were boosted by stronger-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter of iPads…
Microsoft Surface Pro, Surface Laptop With Intel Core Ultra Series 2 Chipsets Launched: Price, Specifications
Microsoft Surface Pro and Surface Laptop were launched as the latest additions to the company’s Copilot+ PC lineup at the Surface event on Thursday. With its latest devices, the Redmond-based technology company aims to provide businesses and organisations with cloud compute…
Samsung’s One UI 7 Now Bar Feature Tipped to Be Integrated With Google Maps
One UI 7 operating system, which was launched at the Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event, is tipped to be adding Google Maps integration into the Now Bar. The South Korean tech giant introduced Now Bar and Now Brief at the event as…
India to Develop Native Generative AI Models in Six to Eight Months, Says Ashwini Vaishnaw
India will build native generative artificial intelligence (AI) models within six to eight months, the Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology (IT) Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Thursday. The initiative was announced at the Utkarsh Odisha Conclave, where the minister also…
Gemini in Google Sheets Gets Updated With Data Analysis and Visualising Tools
Gemini in Google Sheets is getting a major upgrade that will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) tool to analyse and visualise user data. Announced on Wednesday, the new features are currently being rolled out to the Google Workspace subscribers and those…
Microsoft Adds DeepSeek-R1 AI Model to Its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
Microsoft added support for the recently released DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model to its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub on Wednesday. The reasoning-focused AI model can now be accessed via these platforms. The Redmond-based tech giant also highlighted that it has…
DeepSeek-R1 AI Model Said to Be Powered by Huawei Chipsets
DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model is being hosted on China-based Huawei’s ModelArts Studio platform. While the Chipmaker has not detailed the chipsets being used to power the AI model, a tipster claimed that it is being run using the Ascend 910C…
DeepSeek Blocked on App Store, Google Play Store in Italy
DeepSeek could not be accessed on Wednesday in Apple and Google app stores in Italy. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said it had also requested information from DeepSeek about data processing in relation to Irish users.
Microsoft Shares Slide as Cloud Forecast, AI Spending Disappoint
Despite beating quarterly overall sales estimates, investors want better results from the hundreds of billions of dollars that Wall Street heavyweights have been spending to build AI data centers and infuse their products with the emerging technology.