The world is becoming training data for AI, for which everyone is unprotectedPronto, a home services startup, is facing criticism for using body-camera footage from workers inside customers’ homes to train AI and rob...
29 May, 2026, 11.20 PM IST
Cockroach Janta Party: Who is the founder, website link, manifesto, and why it’s going viralCockroach Janata Party Website: A new online political group, the Cockroach Janta Party, is trending across Indian social media. It began a...
20 May, 2026, 11.16 AM IST
US stocks today: Roblox shares tumble as forecast cut signals safety measures weighing on user growthRoblox shares on Friday plunged to their lowest levels in 18 months after the company cut its annual bookings forecast, raising concerns th...
01 May, 2026, 08.32 PM IST
UPI underdogs seek fair play; WhatsApp tightens scam defencesSmaller UPI players will meet NPCI to curb the growth of industry leaders PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm. This and more in today’s ETtech To...
29 Apr, 2026, 07.43 PM IST
Indian IT pack falls; MeitY’s e-gaming rulebookIndian IT stocks suffered on Wednesday after HCLTech’s weak Q4 numbers. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
22 Apr, 2026, 07.55 PM IST
‘Emily Hart’ wasn’t real: Broke South Asian student cashed in on ‘dumb’ MAGA supporters to fund his US entryEmily Hart scam: An Indian medical student reportedly created a viral, non-existent MAGA influencer named Emily Hart using AI. The persona,...
22 Apr, 2026, 12.12 PM IST
Chatbots at the ballot box: AI skirts Brazil election rulesBrazil's electoral court banned AI chatbots from offering voting tips for the upcoming presidential election, aiming to prevent disinformat...
16 Apr, 2026, 11.38 AM IST
EU to soon roll out age-check app for social media where India could be looking to followEuropean Union is launching an age-verification app to shield children online. India's Karnataka state has banned social media for under-16...
15 Apr, 2026, 04.13 PM IST
Crisis contractor for OpenAI, Anthropic eyes a move to combat extremismOpenAI was threatened with intervention by the Canadian government in February after revealing a person who carried out a deadly school sho...
14 Apr, 2026, 07.11 AM IST
Crisis contractor for OpenAI, Anthropic eyes a move to combat extremismThroughLine, a startup hired in recent years by ChatGPT owner OpenAI as well as rivals Anthropic and Google, to redirect users to crisis su...
13 Apr, 2026, 10.50 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: How Meta's Muse Spark fares against Anthropic's Opus, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini modelsMuse Spark is the first model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs. It is a natively multimodal, reasoning-focussed AI model, designed to p...
09 Apr, 2026, 09.46 PM IST
Italian bill proposes curbs on social media addictionItalian lawmakers are pushing for new rules to combat social media addiction. A proposed law aims to make online platforms more accountable...
01 Apr, 2026, 09.44 PM IST
Advocacy groups urge YouTube to protect kids from 'AI slop' videosAdvocacy groups and experts are condemning YouTube for serving low-quality AI-generated videos to children, warning of developmental harm. ...
01 Apr, 2026, 04.06 PM IST
Google to label verified investment apps in India amid regulatory crackdown on fraudGoogle will now label verified investment apps on its Indian app store. This move aims to help users identify genuine trading platforms and...
25 Mar, 2026, 07.28 PM IST
Google fined $390 million in Russia for not deleting banned content - InterfaxThis was the second fine based on a percentage of Google's turnover in Russia after a penalty worth more than 7 billion roubles late last y...
18 Jul, 2022, 06.23 PM IST
Google India purged 4 lakh bad content pieces in MayGoogle said it received 25,694 complaints from individual users located in India via designated mechanisms during the one-month reporting p...
03 Jul, 2022, 04.23 PM IST
Google pays fines to Russia over banned contentRussia last week said it would seek to fine the U.S. tech giant a percentage of its annual Russian turnover later this month for repeatedly...
25 Oct, 2021, 07.26 PM IST