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Google Brings AI Educator Series to India, Partners With UNICEF to Boost Learning Outcomes
Google’s initiatives, announced at the Education World Forum 2026 in London, will cover teacher training in six Indian languages and span four countries.
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Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic
While Anthropic was already led by former OpenAI executive Dario Amodei, Karpathy’s arrival adds another prominent early OpenAI figure to its ranks.
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Perplexity Users Claim Their Usage Limit Was Significantly Reduced, Company Reportedly Responds
Several Perplexity users woke up last week to find their accounts' usage significantly reduced. Sharing their frustrations online, these users highlighted that the rate limits were cut short to the point that their daily usage was getting exhausted in just a few queries. The list of impacted users includes those on the free tier and those paying for a subscription. After spending multiple days in confusion, the artificial intelligence (AI) company has reportedly issued a statement, shedding light on the reason behind the throttling exercise.
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iOS 27 Could Bring AI Wallpaper Generator, Smarter Siri, Revamped Shortcuts App to iPhone: Report
Apple could introduce new AI-powered features aimed at improving personalisation and productivity across the iPhone experience with iOS 27. According to a report, the Cupertino-based tech giant is developing a custom wallpaper generator powered by Image Playground for iPhone, alongside a revamped Shortcuts app with the ability to automate workflows. iOS 27 could also reportedly expand the Apple Intelligence suite with upgraded Writing Tools, AI-assisted grammar checking, and a more advanced chatbot-style version of Siri.
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Beyond Metros, This Organisation is Building AI Skills for India's Rural Graduates
1M1B has also contributed to India's open AI ecosystem through the GenAI Resource Hub, developed in partnership with Meta and integrated with the national AI platform AIKosh.
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Amazon Alexa+ Can Now Create AI-Powered Podcast Episodes on Demand
Amazon has introduced a new Alexa+ feature called Alexa Podcasts that can generate podcast-style audio episodes on demand. The tool creates AI-generated episodes on nearly any topic in a few minutes using synthetic host voices. Users only need to provide a topic and can adjust the planned coverage before the audio is generated. The feature is designed to help users learn about news, travel, hobbies, and professional topics in an audio format that can be played through Echo devices and the Alexa app.
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Google Starts Rolling Out Gemini Usage Dashboard, Adds Weekly Limit
Google is now rolling out the usage dashboard for Gemini to all users. This new space, which is slowly rolling out globally, acts as a space to let users know how soon they will hit their rate limits and plan their usage accordingly. The dashboard brings more transparency to users who frequently exhaust their usage and have to wait for the bar to reset. However, as a downside, the Mountain View-based tech giant has implemented a weekly rate limit alongside its five-hour limit, which places broader restrictions on the usage one can get out of their artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.
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Salesforce to Spend Nearly $300 Mn on Anthropic Tokens in 2026
Salesforce currently has around 15,000 engineers, many of whom now work with AI tools such as Anthropic Claude.
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Meet the Winners of the Finkelstein Awards for Data Engineering Excellence 2026
The Finkelstein Awards for Data Engineering Excellence 2026 celebrate individuals and teams pushing the boundaries of data-driven work.
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Blackstone, Google Launch TPU Cloud Venture With $5 Bn Commitment
The new company will offer data centre capacity, networking, operations, and access to Google Cloud’s TPUs through a compute-as-a-service model.
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Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis Was Early Investor in Anthropic: Report
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reportedly considers Demis Hassabis a role model.
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How One Bengaluru Road Turned Into India's Hottest Economic Cluster
What differentiates Bengaluru’s micro-markets today is the type of enterprise ecosystem they support. ORR, in particular, has evolved into one of India’s densest technology corridors.
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