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Microsoft Launches New MAI Models for Real-Time Voice AI

Microsoft has expanded its artificial intelligence portfolio with the launch of MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a real-time speech-to-text model, alongside two new voice-generation models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. The new models are designed to help developers build faster, more natural and multilingual conversational AI experiences. MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming Enables Real-Time Transcription The new MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming

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OpenAI Adds Virtual Try-On Feature to ChatGPT Shopping

Sekyo, India’s smart lifestyle technology brand, has launched the FLEX PRO Smart Health Band, a new wearable focused on continuous health monitoring, fitness tracking and smart everyday AI powered insights, with up to 45 days of battery life. The Sekyo FLEX PRO Smart Health Band is priced at ₹5,

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Apple Watch Series 12 Unveiled With Advanced Health Sensing

Apple has officially unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12, mounting a direct challenge to screenless recovery trackers like Whoop. The updated wearable features an overhauled Health Sensing System powered by larger, highly efficient green optical sensors and the S11 silicon chip, enabling continuous heart rate tracking every five seconds—even

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OpenAI Adds Virtual Try-On Feature to ChatGPT Shopping

OpenAI has introduced a virtual try-on feature for ChatGPT, marking a direct move into visual e-commerce and positioning the platform against established retail search platforms like Google Shopping and Pinterest. The feature allows shoppers to visualize how clothing and accessories look on them before making a purchase online. The tool

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Zoho Launches Arattai for Business as WhatsApp Alternative

Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has officially launched Arattai for Business, an enterprise-grade messaging platform designed to help organizations engage customers and manage internal workflows. The rollout comes directly in response to Meta’s recent price hikes on the WhatsApp Business Platform, offering Indian businesses a cost-effective alternative for automated messaging

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Google Gemini 4 Argon Unveiled With 1 Million Token Output Window

Google has officially unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its next-generation frontier AI model designed for complex long-horizon engineering, enterprise workflows, and cyber defense. Built to challenge OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon introduces a groundbreaking 1 million token output window—a massive leap

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TRAI Orders Telecom Operators to Highlight Mandatory Recharge Plans

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a directive ordering major telecom operators—including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea—to make statutory recharge options significantly easier to find on their digital platforms and physical sales points. The regulatory intervention comes in response to numerous subscriber complaints

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Swimlane’s survey finds 88% of security pros report higher job satisfaction with AI, but 47% expect it to make entering cybersecurity harder

Artificial intelligence is making security operations centers (SOCs) a better place to work, according to new research from automation vendor Swimlane. But the same survey suggests the technology may be quietly dismantling the bottom rungs of the career ladder. The report, The New SOC Career Ladder, was released recently on

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The sub-millisecond surge that can sink your AI investment: Why power quality is now a boardroom issue

A maintenance manager had a puzzle he could not solve. A PLC on his line had failed, been replaced, and failed again. By the third failure, his team had checked everything: no overload, no short circuit, no wiring fault. “We have replaced this PLC twice this year, and now it

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In AI, the winners will be those who build trust at scale: Mukul Jain, CTO, Axis Max Life Insurance

Every CIO has sat through the proof-of-concept parade: a dazzling demo, a promising pilot, and then a long silence while the project stalls against legacy integrations, risk committees and unclear ownership. In insurance, where the product is a promise kept years or decades later, that gap is wider than most.

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Can agentic AI make credit proactive, precise and more inclusive?

Lending has traditionally followed a sequential process: sense, analyse, decide and act. Each step depends heavily on human intervention, with analysts collecting information, interpreting signals, conducting checks and moving files through the next stage. The emergence of agentic AI is beginning to challenge that model by connecting these steps into

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Cisco report: Organisational friction is emerging as a key barrier to cyber defence

Organisations are facing a widening gap between the speed at which AI is accelerating cyber threats and the ability of security teams to coordinate their response, according to Cisco’s latest Relentless Defence Report. The report finds that 91% of organisations globally and 96% in India experienced a material, business-disrupting