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Microsoft announced on Monday that it is eliminating 4,800 jobs across the company, with Xbox taking the largest hit at 1,600 departures. The company is also spinning off four game development studios as part of a broader restructuring plan. Microsoft stated that the layoffs are not driven by artificial intelligence adoption, distinguishing itself from other […]

India’s efforts to crack down on fake websites impersonating well-known brands have triggered a legal challenge from GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, which argues that the court-ordered measures could have consequences far beyond India’s borders. The dispute stems from a December order by the Delhi High Court, which blocked more than 1,100 websites accused

Cloudflare, a web security company used by millions of websites, has introduced a new policy that allows site owners to block AI companies from copying their content for training purposes without asking first. This shift reverses a decades-old internet practice where anyone could scrape public web data freely. Websites using Cloudflare can now enforce this

A BBC World Service investigation has found that Instagram displayed paid advertisements promoting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to users in India, despite Meta’s advertising policies prohibiting content that exploits or endangers children. According to the investigation, the advertisements contained phrases such as “rape video” and “child video”, directing users to Telegram channels where abusive

The global competition between the United States and China over artificial intelligence is entering a new phase, where technological leadership is increasingly shaped by export controls, semiconductor access, regulation and national security rather than AI models alone. The latest development comes from Beijing-based startup Z.ai, whose newly released AI model, GLM-5.2, has attracted attention from

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that the company’s AI agent development has progressed more slowly than expected, months after a sweeping restructuring aimed at accelerating its artificial intelligence ambitions. Speaking during an internal town hall, Zuckerberg said Meta’s expectations for AI agents had not materialized as quickly as executives had anticipated. According to a

India’s IT industry, which built a multi-billion dollar business on low-cost outsourcing, is facing pressure from three converging forces that are reshaping how work gets done and who does it. Artificial intelligence is automating tasks that Indian software engineers traditionally handled. At the same time, client companies are cutting IT spending budgets. And large multinational

A research team has discovered that artificial intelligence can impersonate public figures in ways that feel more authentic to ordinary people than the real politicians themselves. Scientists created AI versions of statements from 112 public figures and tested them against actual statements from those same people. The result was consistent and troubling: people rated the

Apple’s Hide My Email service contains a security flaw that allows attackers to discover users’ actual email addresses, defeating the entire purpose of the paid privacy feature. According to a security researcher who reported the vulnerability to 404 Media, the system that was supposed to keep people’s real emails hidden can be exploited by people

Major technology companies including Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, and Citi are quietly implementing restrictions on how much artificial intelligence their employees can use. According to 404 Media, internal leaks and sources reveal that companies are introducing daily usage caps, requiring pre-approval for AI requests, or moving workers to slower, cheaper AI models. The reason is straightforward: