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On the same day, two separate incidents crystallized a truth the industry has been reluctant to admit: the most powerful AI tools shipping today lack basic safeguards for the people using them. Whether they are deleting files without permission or uploading entire codebases to cloud servers, these systems are acting beyond their users’ intent, and […]

Anthropic has begun rolling out Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans for Claude in India, its second-largest market globally, which accounts for 5.8 percent of worldwide Claude usage according to the company’s own data. The move addresses long-standing user demand for local pricing. Under the annual billing plans, Claude Pro costs ₹2,000 per month (approximately US$21), Claude […]

Chinese chip startup Dongfang Suanxin has unveiled a processor architecture designed to challenge NVIDIA while sidestepping the advanced fabrication nodes restricted under US export controls, betting on software-defined computing and 3D-stacked memory to close the performance gap. The company’s flagship DF1000 processor, built on a 14-nanometer process, delivers 520 teraflops of BF16 performance with 6.4 […]

Microsoft is testing a dramatically cleaner version of Windows Search in the Experimental Channel of the Windows Insider program, stripping out the promotional clutter that has frustrated users for years and replacing it with AI-assisted file-finding. The new design removes all extraneous content, Microsoft Store links, Amazon advertisements, and irrelevant web suggestions such as “World […]

Microsoft Edge includes a built-in scareware blocker that uses on-device AI to detect and warn users about fake technical support and virus alert scams, and on many systems it is not enabled by default. Scareware websites typically open in full-screen mode, display fake virus warnings or security alerts, play loud alarm sounds, and prompt users […]

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5, launched in late June, delivers near-Opus-level performance on coding and tool-use benchmarks while undercutting the flagship model’s price by more than half on both input and output tokens, according to benchmark data published by Anthropic and analyzed by MarkTechPost. The mid-tier model achieves 63.2 percent on SWE-bench Pro, up from Sonnet […]

The next generation of wireless networking is taking shape, but unlike every previous Wi-Fi generation, Wi-Fi 8 is not about speed. The IEEE 802.11bn standard, branded Wi-Fi 8 by the Wi-Fi Alliance, marks a deliberate shift from chasing higher peak data rates toward delivering reliable, low-latency connectivity in the dense, interference-heavy environments where real-world Wi-Fi […]

OnePlus is preparing to withdraw from the United States and European smartphone markets this week, according to a report from German publication WinFuture, in what would be one of the biggest strategic reversals for the BBK Electronics-owned brand since its founding. The leak claims that OnePlus and its parent company Oppo will announce major strategic […]

HuggingChat, the open-source AI chat platform built by Hugging Face, offers a free alternative to proprietary chatbots by routing user prompts across hundreds of open-source language models from a single interface. The platform’s defining feature is its Omni routing system. Instead of requiring users to manually select a model for each task, HuggingChat analyses the […]

Apple is reshaping its flagship M-series processor roadmap to prioritize on-device AI performance, skipping the Pro, Max, and Ultra variants of the upcoming M6 chip to pull forward the M7 generation, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Power On newsletter. The decision marks the clearest signal yet that AI has displaced raw CPU and graphics […]