Author: Naveed Ahmad

OpenAI has delayed the launch of “grownup mode,” a ChatGPT function that can give verified grownup customers entry to erotica and different grownup content material. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first introduced the function in October, writing, “In December, as we roll out age-gating extra absolutely and as a part of our ‘deal with grownup customers like adults’ precept, we are going to enable much more, like erotica for verified adults.” The launch had already been delayed once, from December — when Altman reportedly despatched an inside memo declaring a “code crimson” and calling for groups to deal with the core…

Indian state Karnataka, house to the tech hub of Bengaluru, plans to ban youngsters underneath 16 from utilizing social media, becoming a member of a rising international motion that goals to curb younger individuals’s entry to on-line platforms regardless of questions over enforcement and effectiveness. Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah introduced the choice in the course of the state’s price range speech on Friday. “To stop the antagonistic results on youngsters from using cellphones, using social media might be prohibited for youngsters underneath the age of 16,” he said. He didn’t share particulars on how the restrictions could be enforced. The…

Amid enduring investor urge for food for all issues quantum, one other European firm within the house is graduating from the personal markets. Simply two weeks after Finnish quantum unicorn IQM stated it was going public by way of a merger with a particular function acquisition firm (SPAC), its French rival Pasqal is doing the identical. Accompanied by a separate $200 million private funding round, Pasqal’s SPAC deal will see it merging with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp II and subsequently being listed on the Nasdaq. The merger values Pasqal at $2 billion, pre-money. Bleichroeder is backed by Michel Combes, a French…

India’s PC market had its strongest 12 months on file in 2025, surpassing the surge in demand throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as thousands and thousands of first-time consumers who bought laptops throughout lockdowns started upgrading their units. Shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations in India rose 10.2% year-over-year to fifteen.9 million items in 2025, in response to analysts at IDC. The full marks the primary time annual shipments have crossed the 15-million-unit milestone, surpassing the peaks seen in 2021 and 2022. Pandemic-driven lockdowns uncovered many individuals in India to PCs for the primary time, increasing the nation’s PC userbase and…

Claude’s every day energetic customers are on the rise on cellular gadgets, as are its new app installs, following the corporate’s fallout with the Pentagon. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to permit the federal government to make use of its AI programs for mass surveillance of People or to energy absolutely autonomous weapons, the AI mannequin supplier behind Claude was marked as a supply-chain threat. Nevertheless, Anthropic’s stance led many customers to favor the mannequin, knowledge suggests. App intelligence supplier Appfigures experiences that the U.S. downloads of Claude’s cellular app proceed to surpass these of ChatGPT. The newest figures from March 2…

In a latest safety partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic discovered 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them categorized as “high-severity.” Many of the bugs have been fastened in Firefox 148 (the model launched this February), though a couple of fixes should look ahead to the following launch. Anthropic’s staff used Claude Opus 4.6 over the span of two weeks, beginning within the JavaScript engine after which increasing to different parts of the codebase. Based on the put up, the staff centered on Firefox as a result of “it’s each a fancy codebase and some of the well-tested and safe…

The Nuclear Regulatory Fee (NRC) gave TerraPower the go-ahead this week to construct a brand new nuclear reactor within the shadow of an growing older coal energy plant in Wyoming. TerraPower’s allow is the primary to be issued by the NRC in practically a decade. The startup — based by Invoice Gates in 2015 and backed by Nvidia — has been designing its Natrium reactor with GE Vernova Hitachi. The ultimate energy plant will generate 345 megawatts, which is about two-thirds smaller than fashionable full-size reactors, however a number of occasions bigger than many small modular reactor designs favored by…

Life Electrical Autos Holdings, often known as Life EV, formally owns the mental property, stock, and sure working property of Rad Energy Bikes. Life EV acquired Rad Energy for $13.2 million. Rad Energy Bikes, a buzzy electrical bike firm that raised practically $330 million in enterprise capital, filed for Chapter 11 chapter safety in December. The corporate had struggled for months previous to its chapter submitting, and had warned workers it may need to close down with out new capital. Life EV intends to maintain the corporate intact and stated it’ll proceed retail operations underneath the Rad Power Bikes model…

Google has formally launched TensorFlow 2.21. Probably the most vital replace on this launch is the commencement of LiteRT from its preview stage to a completely production-ready stack. Shifting ahead, LiteRT serves because the common on-device inference framework, formally changing TensorFlow Lite (TFLite). This replace streamlines the deployment of machine studying fashions to cellular and edge gadgets whereas increasing {hardware} and framework compatibility. LiteRT: Efficiency and {Hardware} Acceleration When deploying fashions to edge gadgets (like smartphones or IoT {hardware}), inference velocity and battery effectivity are main constraints. LiteRT addresses this with up to date {hardware} acceleration: GPU Enhancements: LiteRT delivers…

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in opposition to the U.S. authorities on Friday over its extraction of tariffs from international companies. The gaming large is searching for a refund for any duties it paid attributable to President Donald Trump’s government orders that invoke the Worldwide Emergency Financial Powers Act (IEEPA). This lawsuit, filed within the U.S. Court docket of Worldwide Commerce, comes after a Supreme Court docket choice struck down the tariffs that the president imposed beneath IEEPA, arguing that he exceeded his authority. Greater than a thousand different firms have already sued for refunds on the tariffs that they pay;…