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Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup Avataar.ai has officially launched “Varya,” marking a major milestone as India’s first indigenous distilled video generative AI model. Developed with strategic backing from the government’s IndiaAI Mission, Varya represents a significant step forward in building sovereign technological capabilities. The model is specifically designed
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Honor appears to be expanding its mid-range smartphone portfolio with the upcoming release of a new device, the Honor X7e Plus 5G. Speculation regarding the phone’s launch intensified after it was spotted on major regulatory certification platforms, indicating that an international release outside of China is imminent. The smartphone
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Xiaomi has officially entered the competitive landscape of AI-driven software development by open-sourcing its latest tool, “MiMo Code V0.1.0.” Developed as a terminal-native AI coding assistant, this innovative platform is specifically engineered to tackle long-horizon, multi-step engineering tasks. Unlike standard coding assistants that handle basic snippet completions, MiMo
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Minister says trusts can go it alone on procurement as Parliament mulls February 2027 FDP contract renewal Patients in England cannot stop their data being processed by the Palantir-built NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), but individual NHS trusts can choose not to use it, health minister Preet Kaur Gill has
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A local court in Germany has issued a ruling that could reshape the operation of search engines and artificial-intelligence-based chatbots worldwide. The Munich Regional Court preliminarily ruled that Google is liable for a series of false statements generated by its AI Overviews feature, requiring the company to prevent the dissemination
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * There are many possible causes of your phone's battery degradation. * Identifying the reasons for deteriorating battery life can be challenging * Sometimes the culprit is malware: How to identify and remove it. Lately, is
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jun / 2026 The Marshall Milton ANC are an all-new pair of headphones that borrow the best parts of over-ear headphones and fit them inside a comfier on-ear form factor. They successfully bridge the gap -- both in price and positioning -- between Marshall's flagship Major series and the
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Visa will secure agentic payments in OpenAI systems. * AI-driven payments are a still-developing security landscape. * Consumers and businesses alike face potential risks. Agentic commerce is a rapidly growing frontier of AI for consumers and businesses,
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TL;DR The US government issued an export control directive on 12 June ordering Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns over a reported jailbreak. Anthropic complied but pushed back publicly, calling the action disproportionate and warning it would halt all frontier model
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TL;DR A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI, with New York serving a subpoena demanding records on advertising, user data, minors, and internal policies. The probe lands days after OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO at an $852 billion valuation, adding material legal
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TL;DR CoreWeave will join the Nasdaq-100 on 22 June 2026, just 15 months after its IPO. The GPU cloud provider, which started as a crypto mining operation, reported $2.1 billion in Q1 revenue but carries nearly $25 billion in debt. Its founders have sold $2.3 billion in
