ChatGPT’s growth is starting to taper off, according to new data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Today, the OpenAI-owned AI chatbot remains the leader in the space, accounting for 50% of global downloads on mobile devices and 5…
X’s Head of Product Nikita Bier fired back at the European Commission this weekend after the EC fined the social media company €120 million (around $140 million).
In its first fine under the European Union’s Digital Services Act, the co…
Waterstones would stock books created using artificial intelligence, the company's boss has said, as long as they were clearly labelled, and if customers wanted them.
However, James Daunt, a veteran of the bookselling industry, said h…
There's a feeling of anticipation. I can see the cold breath coming from my competitors as they do the "about to run" wiggle on the start line.
A quick flick of the hips.
I'm at my local 5km community parkrun event on a Saturday mo…
Meta is developing new mixed reality glasses under the codename Phoenix, according to Business Insider — but their release date has been pushed back from the second half of 2026 to the first half of 2027.
The Facebook parent company a…
After a pause of more than two years, crypto exchange Coinbase has opened its app for registration in India. At the moment, users are able to make crypto-to-crypto trades — but speaking at India Blockchain Week (IBW), Coinbase’s APAC direc…
advertising — live in ChatGPT, the company’s chief research officer Mark Chen also acknowledged that the company “fell short” with recent promotional messages and is working to improve the experience.
Chen and other OpenAI executives we…
Moonup Technology Co., Ltd., the Taiwan operations partner of European smart home leader Shelly (Shelly Group), announced its major participation in the 2025 Taipei Building Show to be held from December 11 to December 14 at Nangang Exhibi…
Last year, more than 18,000 older people living with dementia left their homes and went missing in Japan. Almost 500 were later found dead.
Police say such cases have doubled since 2012.
Elderly people aged 65 and over now make up …
Reborn (Morocco), Fitclan (Egypt), Athlon Technology (Egypt), Atsur (Nigeria) and Songdis (Nigeria) Win Top Prizes, Including Financial Support and Opportunity to Join Carnegie Mellon University Africa’s Business Incubation Prog…
The technology sector could unlock $800 billion in value by 2030 if tech companies reduce their negative impacts on natural systems and dependencies on natural resources.
Data centre projects have been blocked or delayed in recent y…
“I could have collapsed at any moment.”
That’s how Roberto Gallart describes his health on the pivotal day his Galaxy Watch 6 alerted him to a life-threatening heart condition. A single notification prompted him to seek help – a decisio…
It’s about to be week 14 of the NFL season, and stakes and storylines abound across the league. In a new section of the Yahoo Sports app, Yahoo is hoping it can use AI to capture them all automatically. The company is launching a new fea…
It’s that time of year when companies are rolling out their Spotify Wrapped-like end-of-year recaps, letting users revisit the content they engaged with the most. While YouTube has offered a YouTube Music recap for the past few years, the …
iPhone 17 Pro users have fewer ways to take photographs in low-light conditions compared to those using older iPhone models. Specifically, the option to select Night mode when taking snaps in Portrait mode — which gives the camera app an…
India has backed away from its plan to force smartphone makers to preinstall a government app on all devices, following backlash and mounting concerns that the mandate would expand state access to users’ devices and weaken privacy protecti…
Right on the heels of announcing Nova Forge, a service to train custom Nova AI models, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced more tools for enterprise customers to create their own frontier models.
AWS announced new capabilities in Amazon…
Kaspersky’s (www.Kaspersky.co.za) detection systems discovered an average of 500,000 malicious files per day in 2025, marking a 7% increase compared to the previous year. Certain types of threats saw growth globally – there was a 59% s…
Apple on Thursday shared its annual list of App Store Award winners, continuing its tradition of celebrating the best apps and games of the past year.
For 2025, the winning iPhone app was visual planner Tiimo, and the iPhone game of the…
ChatGPT’s unwelcome suggestion for a Peloton app during a conversation led to some backlash from OpenAI customers. People feared that ads had arrived, even for paid customers. OpenAI, however, clarified that the app suggestion was not an a…
Amazon Web Services is rolling out a slate of new homegrown AI models and a service for enterprise customers to build their own custom versions. The cloud provider launched Nova 2, a fleet of four new AI models to its Nova model family, du…
New data shows ChatGPT’s growing influence as a referrer to e-commerce websites, as well as how small its slice of this market is currently.
According to a new analysis by mobile app insights provider Apptopia, ChatGPT referrals to reta…
Google announced on Tuesday that it is releasing a slew of Android 16 updates, along with new general Android and accessibility features. The rollout of the new Android 16 features, which are first coming to Pixel devices, marks a new chap…
Finland’s weather is notoriously unfriendly; but even so, your food order might be delivered by a drone.
On a rainy day after Helsinki’s annual Slush conference, Finnish entrepreneur Ville Leppälä took TechCrunch behind the scenes of a …
On November 30, 2022, OpenAI introduced a new product to the world, innocuously describing it as “a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way.”
It’s no hyperbole to suggest that ChatGPT subsequently transformed the wo…
In a carefully worded announcement on Monday, Apple said John Giannandrea, who has been the company’s AI chief since 2018, is “stepping down” to, well, not work at Apple anymore. He’ll stick around through spring as an adviser.
His repl…
A Google Search exec said that one of the company’s biggest opportunities in AI lies in its ability to get to know the user better and personalize its responses.
The promise is AI that’s uniquely helpful because it knows you. But the ri…
India has ordered all new smartphones to come pre-loaded with a state-run cybersecurity app, sparking privacy and surveillance concerns.
Under the order - passed last week but made public on Monday - smartphone makers have 90 days to …
Russia's state communications watchdog threatened on Friday to block WhatsApp entirely if it fails to comply with Russian law, news agencies reported.
In August, Russia began limiting some calls on WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms (META.…
China's leading telecommunication firms Huawei and ZTE (000063.SZ), opens new tab have won a string of contracts this year to supply 5G equipment in Vietnam, in another sign of Hanoi's strengthening bonds with Beijing, stirring concern amo…
For the first time, Washington is getting close to deciding how to regulate artificial intelligence. And the fight that’s brewing isn’t about the technology, it’s about who gets to do the regulating.
In the absence of a meaningful fede…
Is it caring or overbearing?
Many parents are turning to their phones to keep tabs on their adult children - but is this OK (if they agree to it) or is it a sign of mums and dads struggling to let go?
Dad-of-two Steven Medway, 53, …
If you were wanting some AI-generated fun this holiday weekend, you’ll need to be efficient. Google and OpenAI have cut generation request limits for Nano Banana Pro and Sora, citing overwhelming demand.
Bill Peebles, who heads So…
There's a new song doing the rounds, and in the immortal words of Kylie Minogue, you just can't get it out of your head.
But what if it was created by a robot, or the artist themself is a product of artificial intelligence (AI)? Do st…
Microsoft is making some changes to the File Explorer in Windows 11 that will make it less cluttered and launch faster. The latest Dev preview builds of Windows 11 include File Explorer preloading “to help improve File Explorer launch pe…
Microsoft is making some changes to the File Explorer in Windows 11 that will make it less cluttered and launch faster. The latest Dev preview builds of Windows 11 include File Explorer preloading “to help improve File Explorer launch pe…
A humanoid robot bubble could be brewing, warned China’s leading economic planning agency on Thursday. The alert comes amid growing fears that a bubble in a related industry — AI — is about to burst.
Speaking at a press briefing, …
Tesla has opened its largest sales and service hub in India even as the EV giant struggles with weak sales in Asia's third-largest economy.
The centre in the northern city of Gurugram combines an experience showroom, charging, and aft…
Chinese tech giant Alibaba entered the AI-powered smart glasses race on Thursday with the release of its Quark headsets in China. Notably, the batteries can be swapped out for all day usage unlike competitors.
Alibaba said the Qua…
For Cyriac Lefort, the idea for his new startup, MyHair AI, came two years ago. The French native was sitting in a hair salon in New York getting a routine haircut when his hairdresser looked at him and said, “You’re starting to lose a bi…
Artificial intelligence startup xAI, founded by Elon Musk, told city and county planners in Memphis last week that it plans to build a solar farm next to its Colossus data center — one of the world’s largest facilities for training AI mode…
A year after launching a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi, Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide and partner Uber can finally call that service driverless.
The companies said the commercial robotaxi service, which…
Two police forces in the South are trialing an AI chatbot called Bobbi, to answer frequently asked, non-emergency questions and help ease pressure on call handlers.
Thames Valley Police and the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary s…
When Qualcomm announced its high-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset in November, it mentioned that a non-Elite version was on the way, designed to power a more affordable tier of flagship phones. Now, that chip has finally arrived, wit…
Finding a YouTube video that truly matches our interests can sometimes be a challenge. The video-sharing platform appears to have recognized this issue and is taking steps to address it with its new experimental feature, “Your Custom Fee…
Spotify is planning to raise subscription prices in the U.S. in the first quarter of next year, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The move will mark the streaming service’s first price rise in the U.S. since July 2024. …
Google has partnered with Accel to find and fund India’s earliest-stage AI startups in a first-of-its-kind collaboration for the Google AI Futures Fund, launched earlier this year.
On Tuesday, Accel and Google announced a partnership to…
With holiday shopping on the horizon, OpenAI and Perplexity both announced AI shopping features this week, which integrate into their existing chatbots to help users research potential purchases.
The tools are markedly similar to one an…
This month’s OnePlus 15 arrived to much fanfare about its enormous battery life, but no sign of the cheaper 15R that was expected alongside it. Now we finally know that phone will be revealed on December 17th, alongside the OnePlus Pad G…
Samsung Electronics, a global leader in technology, today announced that its latest lineup of products and services has been recognized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® with multiple CES® 2026 Innovation Awards. This recogniti…