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Meta AI removes block on election-related queries in India while Google still applying limits

With India’s election process completed and the new government starting its tenure in office, Meta has removed its restriction on election-related queries using its Meta AI chatbot. However, Google is still applying limits as part of its global restrictions on this type of queries. Meta’s restrictions lift means you can search for queries related to […]

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FTC refers TikTok child privacy case to Justice Department

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it has referred a complaint against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice. The agency was investigating the company over potential violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Act and was looking into whether TikTok violated a law that prohibits “unfair and deceptive” business

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Meet Seen, a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content

We all know the feeling when we send a funny TikTok video, anticipating a response from a friend, only to receive a basic laughing emoji or, worse, no reaction at all. Seen aims to solve this with its new social app, where friends record a live video reaction to content you send them.  The video

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Now a Series A startup, kids app and ‘digital toy’ Pok Pok is coming to Android

Pok Pok, a kids app maker focused on building play-based learning experiences for the preschool set, has made a name for itself in the iOS developer community after winning both an App Store award for cultural impact and an Apple Design Award. But now the company is ready to expand its reach by bringing its

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Google brings Gemini mobile app to India with nine Indian language support

Google has released its dedicated AI mobile app Gemini in India — over four months after its debut in the U.S. — with support for nine Indian languages, including Hindi. The Gemini mobile app in India is based on Google’s AI Gemini 1.5 Pro and supports nine Indian languages alongside English: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam,

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Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math, so you don’t have to use Google

Amid ongoing controversy about handling of media articles and original reporting, AI-powered search startup Perplexity now displays results for factual queries such as weather and time at a place, currency conversion, and answers to simple math queries directly through cards. This is a move to stop Perplexity users from going to other search engines like

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YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. If the feature sounds similar, it’s because it follows the same concept as Community Notes on X (formerly Twitter). The Google-owned company says the feature can be used

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How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans

OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT keeps expanding with new features. It now offers a store — the GPT Store — for AI-powered applications and services. The recently introduced memories feature lets you save preferences so that chats are more tailored to you. And soon, ChatGPT will gain an upgraded voice mode, letting you interact with

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