Google Gemini 2.0 Can Erase Watermarks; Sparks Controversy

Google Denies Report Claiming It Plans to Bring Ads to Gemini Chatbot

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 9, 2025

Key Highlights: Google has been heavily criticized for sprinkling sponsored results across search results. No doubt, ads are one of the major driving forces of any company’s revenue. But when ads start getting in the way of how a user uses a product or service, things start to get annoying. Let’s be honest, we all hate ads, and when a new report circulated yesterday claiming that Google is mulling over the idea of showing ads in Gemini tools, people were furious. But Google was quick to respond and refuted those claims. An exclusive report by AdWeek stirred the confusion Yesterday, […]

Lenovo Might Unveil the Leaked Legion Pro Rollable Gaming Laptop At CES 2026

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 9, 2025

In January this year, Lenovo announced the world’s first rollable PC, the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6. The company took the stage at CES 2025 to reveal it and later made it available to the general public in June. Although the launch price was set for $3499, it’s now down by $200 and available via the Lenovo Store. For those who don’t know, that laptop comes with a 14-inch OLED panel that stretches upward into a tall 16.7-inch display. Lenovo’s upcoming Legion Pro Rollable gaming laptop just got leaked Well, Lenovo appears to have yet another laptop with a rollable […]

Skild AI Nears $1B Funding Deal With SoftBank and NVIDIA

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 8, 2025

Key Highlights: As the AI era is booming, big tech giants are helping startups and emerging companies with funding. In yet another news, NVIDIA and Softbank Group from Japan are mulling over investing in Skild AI, according to an exclusive report by Reuters. Here we’re looking at investment figures of absolve $1 billion, which can bump up the valuation of Skild AI to approximately $14 billion. That’s a big number to reach for a startup that was founded just 2 years back. For those uninitiated, Solid AI is a well-funded startup that makes foundation models for robots, aiming to make […]

Misraj AI Launches Kawn, A New Arabic-First AI System

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 5, 2025

Saudi Arabia’s Misraj AI has introduced a new Arabic-first AI system at Amazon’s big tech event, AWS re:Invent 2025. This system in question here is called Kawn, and it has been designed to understand Arabic the way people actually speak it. Saudi Arabia’s first language is Arabic, so it’s given that the majority of the population receives information written in Arabic. With a new AI system that can do things for you while understanding the common dialect is such a big deal Why the launch of Kawn is important As you may know, most of the world’s AI tools have […]

Here’s What Anthropic Philosopher Says About Claude’s Security, Character & AI Identity Crisis

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 5, 2025

Key Highlights: If you have ever wondered how AI behaves, remains ethical, and interacts in an emotional tone, we may finally have answers, all thanks to Anthropic’s in-house philosopher, Amanda Askell. I know you must be wondering, is that for real? Yes, they have one. In a video/podcast published by Anthropic today, Askell offers a rare look into Claude’s behavior. First, let me jump into why Anthropic has a philosopher in the first place and what she does. Well, Askell isn’t focused on model accuracy or tokens or GPUs. Her job, as she says, is to help steer Claude toward […]

OpenAI's first detailed public study reveals

OpenAI to reportedly launch GPT-5.2 on December 9

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 5, 2025

The AI race is heating up, thanks to Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, who seem to be battling it out with model after model. If you’re unaware, Google recently launched the Gemini 3 Pro, its most advanced model to date. Results show that it beats OpenAI’s best model in multiple benchmarks. Here we’re talking about complex reasoning (Humanity’s Last Exam), human preference tests (LMArena), ARC-AGI-2 problem-solving, multimodal understanding of images and video, factual accuracy (SimpleQA Verified), and software-engineering performance (WebDev Arena). As reported, this led OpenAI’s CEO to declare “code red” in his internal memo earlier this week. Now, OpenAI appears […]

WhatsApp Unveils Meta AI Features: Widgets & AI Group Icons

EU Investigates Meta Over WhatsApp Policy That Blocks Third-Party AI Providers

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 4, 2025

Key Highlights: Meta has found itself in hot water in the EU, again. Today, the European Commission officially launched an antitrust investigation into Meta’s new policy regarding third-party AI access to WhatsApp. The Commission has said that it’ll investigate whether Meta’s new policy restricts third-party AI services within the European Economic Area (EEA). Why the European Commission is worried about Meta’s new AI policy For those unaware, Meta announced its updated AI policy in October 2025. And, according to that, third-party AI providers are prohibited from using the WhatsApp Business Solution as their primary service offering. Although businesses may still […]

Opera browser gets upgraded AI experience on Android with latest update

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 4, 2025

Key Highlights: The mobile browser space is getting increasingly crowded, and with AI now entering the mix, more companies are introducing new concepts where AI handles the browsing for you and helps save time. Among the top browsers, you have Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and many others. With the increasing competition, Opera has started stuffing useful AI features to stay relevant in the ongoing race. As part of that effort, Opera has rolled out a new update today, which brings a much easier and more flexible way of invoking AI inside the browser. As someone who bounces between desktop […]

Anthropic’s new Interviewer tool breaks down AI usage pattern

By Rishaj Upadhyay | December 4, 2025

Key Highlights: If you have ever wondered how people really use AI at work, Anthropic may finally have an answer to that. Today the AI company has unveiled Anthropic Interviewer tool. And yes, it does work as the name suggests. It can conduct large-scale interviews to understand professionals’ perspective on AI. Anthropic says that this AI tool is built on Claude that runs detailed conversations automatically and feeds the results to human researchers for analysis. What the Anthropic Interviewer study reveals about AI at workplace In the initial early testing, Anthropic Interviewer interviewed 1,250 professionals, which included 1,000 general workforce, […]

Meta Scores Major Coup, Poaches Apple’s Alan Dye

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | December 3, 2025

Key Highlights In a major personnel shift in the Big Tech companies, Alan Dye, a vice president of product design at Apple and a key figure in the company’s famed design studio, is departing to join rival Meta Platforms. The move is viewed as a major talent coup for Meta as it continues to invest heavily in its Reality Labs division and future computing platforms. Dye, whose tenure at Apple spanned over a decade, was instrumental in shaping the user interfaces and experiences for critical Apple products. He reported directly to Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Williams, underscoring his seniority […]

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