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‘I want people to know that we made Google dance’: Satya Nadella

In 'The Co-Intelligence Revolution', Venkat Ramaswamy and Krishnan Narayanan show how intelligence is emerging from the interactive relationships between humans, AI and ecosystems.

TikTok unavailable to new users in US, awaits return to app stores

TikTok resumed services after Trump’s assurance that the company and its partners would not face hefty fines to keep the app running.

Amid heat on TikTok in the US, users begin exploring alternatives like RedNote, Clapper

TikTok was removed from Apple & Google’s app stores Saturday ahead of a federal ban in US targeting the platform. Trump says he'll restore app's access upon returning to power today.

Google-backed Pixxel launches India’s first hyperspectral satellites with SpaceX

The satellites dim to use hyperspectral imaging, capturing detailed data across light bands to aid agriculture, mining, environmental monitoring, and defence.

US justice dept pushes to break up Google in search monopoly case. Chrome, Android in line of fire

Google was found to have monopoly over general search services in August. Judge has allowed DOJ & Google to file suggestions before end of year, with final decision likely in August 2025.

ChatGPT is boosting human creativity, not killing it. Here is how

The shift from Googling to asking ChatGPT marks a transformation in how people collaborate with technology to think, create and innovate.

Google has illegal monopoly over internet search, rules US judge in landmark antitrust case

The ruling paves the way for a second trial to determine potential fixes, such as requiring the company to stop paying smartphone makers to set Google as the default search engine.

Can you erase your case details from the internet? ‘Right to be forgotten’ walks a tightrope

The right to be forgotten allows a person to limit, de-link, delete or correct the disclosure of personal information on the Internet. But experts as well as high courts remain divided.

Competition Commission is Indian startups’ bugbear. It’s also causing global embarrassment

The DSM-Firmenich merger was just one of the 20-odd deals worth $1.5 billion pending before the CCI last year. Some experts blame the commission for trying to be too 'industry friendly'.

Why antitrust body CCI has ordered probe into Google’s Play Store policies amid tussle with Indian apps

Regulator says Google ‘prima facie’ appears to be violating the Competition Act, 2002. Applicants claimed the tech giant’s policies were ‘discriminatory and unfair’.

On Camera

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.