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The Delhi High Court held that letting competitors bid on the trademark ‘Hindware’ as an ad keyword is infringement, and that Google’s safe-harbour shield does not cover it. The business of search advertising rests on a quiet assumption: that a platform can auction off any word, including someone else’
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TL;DR Australia’s Fair Work Commission has announced a process review after an estimated 70% workload increase over three years, partly driven by generative AI tools that enable more people to file longer, more complex, and sometimes inaccurate claims. New Zealand’s Tenancy Tribunal and Australia’s financial complaints
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The fight over who makes the world’s chips is increasingly a fight over the parts of a chip nobody photographs. India has just landed one of them. Intel and 3D Glass Solutions have signed an agreement to build a roughly $3.3 billion substrate-manufacturing plant in the eastern state
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Samsung Electronics and LG Uplus signed a memorandum of understanding on 27 May to jointly develop Integrated Sensing and Communication, or ISAC, a technology that would allow mobile network base stations to double as environmental sensors. The agreement was signed at LG Science Park in Magok, Seoul, with Samsung Research,
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The year-old Dutch startup is folding in a seven-year-old performance-marketing platform, betting that customers want AI, automation and human specialists in one place. Most startups spend their first year trying to survive. Aizy has spent its first year buying a company older than itself.The Breda-based AI-marketing firm announced that
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TL;DR CoStar Group is acquiring Zonda, the leading new-home construction data and marketplace platform, for $800 million in cash. The deal fills the last gap in CoStar’s real estate data empire, which already spans commercial, multifamily, residential resale, and spatial data through more than 40 acquisitions totalling $7.
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One of the biggest selling points of an AI voice assistant is its ability to enhance our productivity. By being able to simply ask questions whenever the need arises, we can find answers without breaking our concentration or interrupting our normal workflow. Unfortunately, most AI assistants fall short of this
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As enterprise AI agents move into production, organizations are confronting a growing reliability problem. Many teams are discovering that LLM performance alone does not determine whether agents succeed in production. Long-running AI workflows must survive crashes, preserve state, recover from failures, manage inference costs, and coordinate across APIs, tools, and
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Who would have thought that the secretive American spytech and data analyst firm, Palantir Technologies, could have gotten so embedded in the UK’s government and public sector? At first under the radar, Palatnir’s £330 million contract with the NHS is the deal that’s recently caused the headlines.
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Gemini in Android Auto is changing my daily drive. * It's making me safer, providing entertainment, and more. * I actually look forward to car time now. At the beginning of April, I tried the
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* A full-screen Fire TV pop-up ad has been spotted during start-up, which you have to dismiss * manually * It's currently promoting the new Fire TV mobile app redesign * Amazon could use this as an opportunity to sell to third-party advertisers The odd ad crops up across Fire TVs devices
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* OpenAI is retiring GPT-4.5, the final GPT-4 model still available in ChatGPT * The move closes the chapter on the AI model that helped spark the generative AI boom * Some people are already nostalgic for GPT-4 and GPT-4o, despite newer models being more capable It was easy to miss because
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: Drone Imagery to Physical AI — Niantic Spatial and Spexi Geospatial partner to turn drone imagery into city-scale 3D intelligence for physical AI — on demand, geometrically accurate, and ready for simulation and training. A smarter way to text customers — This is a guest post by HostMyText.Imagine
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New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma may have just shown Copilot the door on gaming consoles, but Microsoft isn't pumping the brakes elsewhere with its AI companion. The company is rolling out a sweeping design and performance overhaul across both the standalone Copilot app and the broader Microsoft 365
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An advertiser paid for editorial consideration of this deal. Our editorial experts vetted the deal using their independent expertise. Because we determined that the deal will save money for the consumer, we wrote the content. One of the most intrusive and invasive things that can occur online is the collection
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* Russian authorities have extended the deadline for enforcing fees on VPN usage until after the September elections * At the same time, a wave of "more aggressive, targeted" VPN restrictions has been recorded * A group of popular Telegram proxies has also reportedly stopped working Last week's news
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Father's Day will be here before you know it (it lands on Sunday, June 21 this year). We know Dad might just want some peace and quiet for Father's Day -- or a day to himself with no "to-do" lists where he can take
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There's a specific kind of satisfaction in discovering that the expensive option isn't actually better. I set out to find the best frozen fries for the air fryer by buying six bags across a range of brands and prices, cooking them all under the same conditions
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chris olah isn't someone you’d expect to see as a speaker in the ceremony following Pope Leo’s historic AI encyclical, in which the pontiff called for “disarming” the technology. For one thing, Olah is an atheist who at 15 rejected his evangelical Christian upbringing. As a
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If you are looking for an antivirus software package that you can pay for using the change between the seats on your sofa, you've come to the right place. Right now, Norton 360 Standard has dropped to £25 (was £70) from Norton for your first year. • See all
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High-end mobile AI features are trickling down to more affordable smartphones thanks to MediaTek's new Dimensity 8550 chipset. MediaTek built it specifically to bring Google’s Gemini Intelligence platform to the mid-range Android market, though the SoC doesn't seem to have brought upgrades in other key
