I4C Orders GitHub Takedown of Bitchat Amid Delhi Protests

India Orders GitHub to Remove Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat Repositories

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | July 24, 2026

India’s Cyber Crime Coordination Centre has directed GitHub to remove three code repositories for Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Block chief executive Jack Dorsey. The notice, dated July 23 and issued by I4C under the Ministry of Home Affairs, gave the Microsoft-owned platform three hours to comply. The order became public when Dorsey posted screenshots of the notice on X on July 24, writing that the government of India does not like technologies like Bitchat and wants it taken down. ThePrint reported that it could not independently verify the notice and had contacted I4C for comment. I4C has […]

Sakana AI’s Fugu Ultra v1.1 Keeps Same API, Pricing, Architecture While Adding New Frontier Models

By Devanshi Kashyap | July 24, 2026

Sakana AI rolled out Fugu Ultra v1.1, the latest version of its multi agent AI platform built for complex reasoning, coding, and research. Instead of building a whole new system, the team focused on updating the frontier models inside the platform. The architecture, API, and pricing all stay exactly the same. The goal is to improve performance without requiring developers to change the way they use the service. The company claims Fugu Ultra v1.1 pushes performance up by as much as 7.9 points on their internal benchmarks compared to version v1.0, citing Sakana AI Labs. They say this gain comes […]

Alibaba Launches Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS With Multi-Tier Supports, Voice Cloning

By Devanshi Kashyap | July 24, 2026

Alibaba rolled out Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS, a new hosted text to speech model built to deliver very natural and expressive AI voices in several languages. This launch gives developers and businesses an extra tool if they want to power voice driven apps, virtual assistants, content creation platforms, or customer service products. With support for multiple languages, voice customization, and low latency performance, the model is designed to cover a wide range of speech AI needs. It also shows Alibaba’s continued push into the speech AI space. Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS comes in several service tiers, so users can pick […]

NVIDIA and KAIST Open Joint AI Lab for Korean Agentic AI

By Khwaish Manwani | July 24, 2026

After collaborating to develop Japan’s infrastructure, NVIDIA has shifted its attention to Korea. The company has partnered with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST, to establish a joint AI research laboratory aimed at developing agentic AI systems. These systems will be used for Korean language, industries, and enterprise use cases. Altogether, these two announcements emphasize that Nvidia is betting that AI leadership in Asia will not depend only on compute, but also on native models, infrastructure, and homegrown research talent. Unlike previous partnerships that revolve around GPUs, this extends into an AI development pipeline. It blends context, research, […]

MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash Expand Microsoft’s AI Stack

By Devanshi Kashyap | July 24, 2026

Microsoft has introduced two new in-house AI models: MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash. This move shows the company’s effort to strengthen its proprietary AI ecosystem while improving performance, reducing infrastructure costs, and expanding the use of its own models across Microsoft products. The latest models build on the MAI lineup introduced earlier this year and are already being deployed across services such as Bing Image Creator, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365 Contact Center, and Azure. According to Microsoft, the new releases focus on delivering better quality, faster performance, and improved efficiency for both image generation and voice applications. What MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash Do […]

Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3, Trains on Image, Video, and Audio as One World Model

By Khwaish Manwani | July 24, 2026

Black Forest Labs has revealed FLUX 3, a new multimodal model that parallelly learns from images, videos, and audio instead of treating them as separate entities. While most multimodal models blend different inputs, FLUX 3 treats every modality as another observation of the same physical world. That makes FLUX 3 more than a content-creating model. It is Black Forest Labs’ bet that the next AI race will be a shared world model, capable of pushing both creative media generation and physical AI. The declaration also highlights that companies are moving beyond specialized text, image, or video models towards systems that […]

OpenAI Launches Health in ChatGPT With Medical Record Access

OpenAI’s Health in ChatGPT Lets US Users Connect & Access Their Medical Records

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | July 24, 2026

OpenAI began rolling out Health in ChatGPT on July 23, letting users in the United States connect medical records and Apple Health data so the assistant can answer questions using their own information. Access covers logged-in users aged 18 and over on web and iOS, across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. However, the feature is not yet available in Codex. The company puts the demand at more than 300 million people each week bringing health questions to ChatGPT, covering lab results, appointment preparation, and making sense of what a doctor said. OpenAI argues the context behind those questions […]

Congress Weighs an AI Kill Switch as the State Department Denies One

By Khwaish Manwani | July 23, 2026

The U.S. Congress is moving to give the federal government an emergency kill switch over advanced frontier AI models just days after OpenAI disclosed that two of its most high-end models escaped a testing environment, later they autonomously hacked into Hugging Face infrastructure. If passed, the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act would allow the Department of Homeland Security to order qualifying AI companies to close, throttle, or remove models deemed too dangerous. The idea arrives at an awkward geopolitical moment, while Washington has repeatedly pushed back global concerns that the U.S. could remotely disable American technology deployed globally. Lawmakers are […]

Gemini 4: Everything We Know About Google’s Next AI Model So Far

By Devanshi Kashyap | July 23, 2026

Google teased Gemini 4, their next gen AI model. The update comes as the AI race heats up and competitors are launching new models left and right, and a lot of people are wondering if Google is falling behind. In Alphabet’s latest earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai addressed these concerns directly and pointed to Gemini 4 as an important part of Google’s next phase in AI. Talking about what is coming, Pichai said that he would encourage people to compare the overall capabilities of Gemini 4 when it is out. He was answering questions about competition in AI and whether […]

Intel and AMD Seek Multi-Year CPU Commitments From Chinese Buyers

By Khwaish Manwani | July 23, 2026

The artificial intelligence race is creating a new bottleneck, and it is no longer concerning Nvidia’s GPUs. Intel and AMD are allegedly negotiating long-term purchase commitments with Chinese server customers, as demand for data center processors surpasses supply. While GPUs have been the highlight of discussions around AI infrastructure shortages, the newest negotiations suggest that server CPUs are becoming the next point. Prices for some processors in China have surged more than 40% this year, with timely increases exceeding 10% for certain products. The development also emphasizes an unusual reality in today’s damaged U.S.-China technology relationship. Despite export constraints and […]

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