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Meta reportedly testing AI Shopping Research tool in the U.S.

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 3, 2026

Key Highlights: Earlier this year, during its earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the company will gradually start rolling out new AI products and possibly the rumored Avocado model down the line. Well, it seems Meta has started testing at least one of the AI features, and it has to do with streamlining users’ shopping experience. Meta’s new AI Shopping Research tool offers personalized product suggestions To catch you up, last year, OpenAI released its AI Shopping Research tool inside ChatGPT, with Google rolling out similar features within Gemini. That’s not all; Perplexity also jumped onto the trend and […]

Claude AI is down today for many, Anthropic confirms massive outage

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 3, 2026

Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude experienced a widespread outage on Monday, March 2, 2026. Over on Downdetector, users reported a spike in error rates yesterday morning. Many users complained about seeing HTTP 500 and 529 errors, login loops, slow responses, and complete denial of service when trying to interact with Claude’s web and mobile app. However, Anthropic restore the issue later yesterday. Claude AI faces outage two days in a row However, it seems the issue related to Claude is far from over. Earlier in the morning today, we spotted that Anthropic has confirmed yet another issue related to Claude AI […]

U.S. DoD Deal Triggers ChatGPT Backlash as Claude Surges to No. 1

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 3, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic have been trending all over the internet. While OpenAI is all over the news due to its recent deal with the U.S. Department of Defense, Anthropic is also trending because the Pentagon has blacklisted it. The reason? The Pentagon wanted unrestricted access to Anthropic’s tech, which it may have used for mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry. But, the company refused to give such access to the government. That said, a Wall Street Journal report suggests that even after blacklisting Anthropic, the DoD used the company’s tech to launch an attack on Iran. ChatGPT downloads plunge amid rising […]

US Supreme Court Reportedly Refuses to Hear Copyright Case on AI-Generated Art

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 2, 2026

With the rise of generative AI, creative ownership has been a hot topic worldwide. As AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and others are becoming much more capable of generating images, text, and music independently, legal questions about copyright infringement and authorship are intensifying. Who truly owns content generated by AI, and can it ever qualify for legal protection? Well, the U.S. Supreme Court may have just answered that question. Thaler’s AI artwork sparks landmark copyright debate As reported by Reuters, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case this week that could have clarified the issue for AI-generated […]

OpenAI Closes Historic $110 Billion Funding Round Backed by Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank

By Rishaj Upadhyay | February 27, 2026

OpenAI is one of the biggest AI companies to exist at this point, with rivals like Google, Anthropic, Meta, and others competing alongside it. However, OpenAI now has what it takes to scale its AI footprint and push even further toward excelling in the race for AI models. Here, we are talking about investment, and that too a massive one. As reported earlier this month, Sam Altman-led OpenAI today announced that it has closed one of the biggest private funding rounds in tech history, securing $110 billion in new investment at a pre-money valuation of approximately $730 billion. The historic […]

Google launches upgraded Nano Banana 2 image generation model

By Rishaj Upadhyay | February 27, 2026

Google has been constantly improving its image generation model to stay on top of rivals. When Google first launched Nano Banana, it took the internet by storm. The internet was flooded with images generated using Nano Banana. Well, Google has now upgraded its image generation model, which means we now have Nano Banana 2. The new image generation model, which is technically Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, can create more realistic images than its predecessor. Google says that the new image model will be the default model in the Gemini app for its Fast, Thinking, and Pro modes. Nano Banana 2 […]

JioHotstar to Integrate ChatGPT for Smarter Content Search & Recommendations

By Rishaj Upadhyay | February 19, 2026

India is undoubtedly one of the biggest AI markets in the world right now. Many of the US AI companies have their massive user base in India. OpenAI recently confirmed that ChatGPT has 100 million active users only from India. So you can imagine how important India is for every AI giant around the world right now. The country is also hosting one of the biggest India AI Impact Summit 2026, where some of the biggest names have landed in the capital city. Surprisingly, Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, has skipped the AI Summit keynote. Reliance and OpenAI collaborate to bring […]

OpenAI reportedly closing a historic $100 billion funding round at an $850 billion valuation

By Rishaj Upadhyay | February 19, 2026

OpenAI has been among the news in the last week or so, and it seems it will continue to do so. In our previous report, we mentioned that OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT assistive search and recommendation features inside Jio Hotstar. This one is more of a funding-related news. Major tech giants line up for OpenAI investment OpenAI is reportedly closing in on one of the biggest funding rounds in tech history. The news comes via Bloomberg, which, without citing the source name, has reported that the company could raise over $100 billion at a valuation exceeding $850 billion. The massive […]

Bill Gates Skips India AI Impact Summit Keynote in Last-Minute Move

By Rishaj Upadhyay | February 19, 2026

India AI Impact Summit 2026 is in full swing. Many delegates and tech leaders from across the world have landed in the capital city of India. Speaking of tech leaders, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic’s CEO, and many others have marked their presence in a marquee AI event. Bill Gates unexpectedly skips India AI Impact Summit keynote As far as Microsoft is concerned, Bill Gates also landed in India. The Microsoft co-founder, however, has skipped his planned keynote at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit on February 19. Gates was set to deliver a 12-minute address […]

Microsoft confirms Copilot bug let it process & summarize confidential emails despite policies in place

By Rishaj Upadhyay | February 18, 2026

Microsoft has already been under massive scrutiny for integrating Copilot across Windows 11 for quite some time now. However, after multiple complaints from users and feedback, the company has promised to step back from its AI-everywhere approach and fix the operating system from scratch. Having that said, Microsoft 365 Copilot has been under the radar for multiple other reasons. Early this year, in early 2026, Britain’s West Midlands Police became embroiled in controversy after admitting that a flawed piece of intelligence came partly from Microsoft’s AI tool. Well, Microsoft 365 Copilot is again under scrutiny, this time for a serious […]

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