Race to control the next era of the internet: The fight for your digital front door has begunThe internet's interface is shifting from search-and-click to chat-and-do, driven by genAI. New "agentic browsers" act as assistants, fulfi...
04 Nov, 2025, 07.54 PM IST
China's DeepSeek says its hit AI model cost just $294,000 to trainChinese AI firm DeepSeek revealed its R1 model was trained for just $294,000 using 512 Nvidia H800 chips, far below US rivals’ costs. The d...
19 Sep, 2025, 08.51 AM IST
The great Indic data huntRace to build Indic models has heated up, but challenge over availability of Indic language data persists.
16 Sep, 2025, 11.17 AM IST
Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of using stealth crawling techniques to evade network blocksIn a blog post, Cloudflare alleged that Perplexity initially uses a declared user agent for its bots, and later switches to undeclared, gen...
05 Aug, 2025, 10.55 AM IST
AI search pushing an already weakened media ecosystem to the brinkGenerative AI tools like ChatGPT are reducing traffic to news websites by providing direct summaries, threatening media revenue models. As ...
04 Aug, 2025, 08.54 AM IST
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas warns tech founders: ‘Big Tech will copy anything that’s good’Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity's CEO, cautioned student entrepreneurs that large tech companies often replicate successful ideas, particularl...
17 Jul, 2025, 03.19 PM IST
Cloudflare launches tool to help website owners monetise AI bot crawler accessThe tool allows website owners to choose whether artificial intelligence crawlers can access their material and set a price for access thro...
01 Jul, 2025, 03.41 PM IST
OpenAI takes on Google, ChatGPT Search now available without signupOpenAI launched ChatGPT Search in October last year. Similar to searching on Google, users can input keywords and questions on chatgpt.com'...
07 Feb, 2025, 03.16 PM IST
Companies alert as along come AI web spidersAI crawlers are computer programs that collect data from websites to train large language models. Enterprises are increasingly blocking AI ...
15 Dec, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
NYT sends AI startup Perplexity 'cease and desist' notice over content useSince the introduction of ChatGPT, publishers have been raising the alarm on chatbots which can comb the internet to find information and c...
16 Oct, 2024, 08.47 AM IST
The data that powers AI is disappearing fastWeb data restrictions impact AI models like ChatGPT. MIT's study finds 25% of top-quality data restricted. Smaller firms use synthetic data...
22 Jul, 2024, 01.41 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: OpenAI’s response to NYT’s copyright lawsuitOpenAI has refuted some of these allegations and claimed that the fair use doctrine of copyright laws will apply in its case. ET explains t...
13 Jan, 2024, 09.59 AM IST
ETtech Explainer | NYT vs OpenAI: Why news publishers are fighting Big Tech over LLMsLast week’s copyright infringement lawsuit by The New York Times ( NYT) against ChatGPT- maker OpenAI has opened another battlefront betwee...
01 Jan, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
As Google pushes deeper into AI, publishers see fresh challengesSince May, Google has begun rolling out a new form of search powered by generative AI, after industry observers questioned the tech giant's...
19 Oct, 2023, 10.43 PM IST
Meta releases AI model for translating speech between dozens of languagesCEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he envisions such tools facilitating interactions between users from around the globe in the metaverse, the se...
22 Aug, 2023, 07.15 PM IST
What is webcrawler GPTBot that OpenAI has newly released?OpenAI's GPTBot plans to expand the horizons of AI through web crawling.
09 Aug, 2023, 11.11 AM IST
Google faces a serious threat from ChatGPTChatGPT offers something more tantalizing for harried internet users: a single answer based on its own search and synthesis of that informa...
09 Dec, 2022, 11.25 AM IST