When it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning, Googlehas been quite at the forefront. However, it was caught off-guard when ChatGPT arrived in November 2022. Since then Google has taken strides in bringing AI tools to a lot of its users. However, questions still persist about user privacy and how data is being used. Google has allayed some of those fears and reiterated its commitment to user privacy.In a blog post,Yulie Kwon Kim, vice president, product management, Workspace Platform, said “We want to be completely clear that generative AI does not change our foundational privacy protections for giving users choice and control over their data.” Kim said that Google doesn’t sell any Workspace users’ data. “The content that you put into Google Workspace services (emails, documents, etc.) is yours. We never sell your data, and you can delete your content or export it,” she said in the blog post. Further, she underlined that Google does not use your Workspace data to train or improve the underlying generative AI and large language models that power Bard, Search, and other systems outside of Workspace without permission. So yes, unless and until you give consent, your data remains private and secure. Targeted ads are something a lot of digital citizens have to deal with. “Google does not collect, scan, or use your content in Google Workspace services for advertising purposes,” added Kim. Duet AI is Google’s AI tool for Docs, Slides, and Sheets. The company said that while its AI stores any prompts or generated content alongside your Workspace content but does not share them outside your organisation. Duet AI brings the same enterprise-grade security as the rest of Google Workspace, automatically applying your organization’s existing controls and data handling practices, such as data-regions policies and Data Loss Prevention, says Google.

Samsung recently announced its fifth-generation foldable smartphones — Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5globally. Soon after that, the company commenced the pre-booking for both smartphones and according to the company, the handsets have received around 1 lakh pre-bookings. Now, Samsung has announced early deliveries for pre-booking customers. Samsung confirms sale date for new foldablesAnnouncing pre delivery for pre-booking customers, Samsung has confirmed the sale date for Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 as August 18. That means, from the day onwards, interested buyers will be able to buy these handsets from online and offline channels. Also, the pre-booking offers won’t be applicable on the purchase. Samsung to deliver its foldable early to pre-booking customersFor those who’ve pre-booked the new foldables will receive their phones early. Samsung has said that the deliveries of the phones will start from August 11 for pre-booking customers.Galaxy Z Fold 5: Price and featuresSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 smartphone comes with a 6.2-inch HD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X cover display and there’s a 7.6-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X Infinity Flex Display with a 120Hz refresh rate. The display has a peak brightness of 1750 nits for better visibility in bright conditions. The display also supports S Pen input.Under the hood, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 comes with Qualcomm’s latest chipset — Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 paired with 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and up to 1TB UFS 3.2 storage.As usual, it has a total of 5 cameras — three at the back of the phone and two as the front camera on both displays. The primary display front camera is an under-display camera unit.The rear camera setup includes a 50MP primary sensor, a 12MP ultra-wide sensor and a 10MP 3x telephoto lens. The outer display front-facing camera is a 10MP sensor while the under-display unit is a 4MP sensor.Galaxy Z Fold 5 runs the Android 13 operating system underneath the One UI 5.1.1 user interface.The smartphone price starts at Rs 1,54,999.Galaxy Z Flip5: Price and availabilitySamsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 features 3.5-inch Super AMOLED cover display with 60Hz refresh rate. The handset unfolds to reveal the 6.7-inch FHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X Infinity Flex Display. The handset is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset paired with 8GB LPDDR5 RAM and up to 512GB UFS 3.1 storage.Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 is backed by a 3700mAh battery and it supports Super Fast charging which claims to deliver up to 50 per cent charge in under 30 minutes. The smartphone runs One UI 5.1 based on the Android 13 operating system.

Elon Musk has been posting a lot about his ‘cage match’ on X to create a hype around it but it seems an all talk-no action situation. A day ago, he again posted claiming that his fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be livestreamed on X as well as Meta’s platforms. Zuck has now replied and he did not pull his punches this time. What Musk saidZuckerberg’s reply came soon after Musk posted that “the fight will be managed by my and Zuck’s foundations (not UFC).” “Livestream will be on this platform and Meta.Everything in [the] camera frame will be ancient Rome, so nothing modern at all. I spoke to the PM of Italy and [the] Minister of Culture. They have agreed on an epic location,” he said, purportedly referring to the reports ofColosseum hosting their fight.Zuckerberg ‘not holding breath for Elon’Zuckerberg posted on Threads that he loves this sport and if there’s a date, people will hear from him.“I love this sport and I’ve been ready to fight since the day Elon challenged me. If he ever agrees on an actual date, you’ll hear it from me. Until then, please assume anything he says has not been agreed on,” he said. “Not holding my breath for Elon, but I’ll share details on my next fight when I’m ready. When I compete, I want to do it in a way that puts a spotlight on the elite athletes at the top of the game,” Zuckerberg noted.“You do that by working with professional orgs like the UFC or ONE to pull this off well and create a great card,” he added, and shared a photo from ‘Friday Morning Fights’ in his backyard octagon.X CEO has ‘objections’Recently, X CEO Linda Yaccarino said she has objections to the fight and Musk is training for it.“We’ll see if that cage match really does happen. I’ve had a front row seat of witnessing that,” Yaccarino added. The CEO also noted that a potential fight would be a “great brand sponsorship opportunity.” Probably, this is the reason why Musk is hyping up the fight – to bring advertising on the platform.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked citizens to upload photos with Tiranga on harghartiranga.com website under the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ movement between 13th to 15th August. “The Tiranga symbolises the spirit of freedom and national unity. Every Indian has an emotional connect with the Tricolourand it inspires us to work harder to further national progress. I urge you all to take part in the #HarGharTiranga movement between 13th to 15th August. Upload your photos with the Tiranga here… https://harghartiranga.com,” said PM in a post on X, formerly Twitter. The ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ is an initiative by the Ministry of Culture launched in the year 2022 to mark Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. The ministry also launched the Har Ghar Tiranga website that allows Indian citizens to pin the national flag virtually as well as share their selfies with Tiranga. How to upload Tiranga selfiesCitizens can upload their selfie with the national flag on the Har Ghar Tiranga website. Here are the steps to post your selfie with the flag on the Har Ghar Tiranga website:* Click on ‘Upload Selfie with Flag’ button. The option is there on the homepage of the website* A pop-up will appear, write your name on it.* Upload your Tiranga selfie, users can dropdown files here. * Click on ‘Submit’ button. Please note that you will need to give your consent to use your name and photos on the ‘harghartiranga.com’ website to upload selfie. The page also allows users to search their Tiranga selfies. “If your selfie is not showing, you will be able to see your selfie from 16 August 2023, 8:00 am onwards,” says the page.

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Indian mobile phone manufacturer has created a Guinness World Record for the largest mosaic made of smartphones in the shape of Indian Flag. The company created this record at a mall in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The record was achieved by using Lava Blaze 2 smartphones. An official adjudicator from Guinness World Records was there to verify the record and certified that the mosaic featuring the smartphones was indeed a new world record. Commenting on the occasion, Sunil Raina, President and Business Head, Lava International, said, “We are very proud to see India break the record of building the largest animated mobile phone mosaic in the shape of the Indian Flag. This is a tribute to the nation on its 77th Independence Day and marks a celebration of the success of Agni 2 – which quashed the notion that Indian tech products cannot succeed. We’re proud to have set this record.” On portfolio expansionLava International has its manufacturing and repair facility in Noida. As of August 31, 2021, the manufacturing facility is claimed to have an aggregate production capacity of 42.52 million feature phone equivalent handsets per annum.Domestic smartphone company Lava recently launched a wide range of smartphones including Lava Agni 2, Lava Blaze 5G and Lava Yuva 2 Pro. According to Counterpoint Research, Lava recorded 53% year-on-year growth during the second quarter of 2023.

Many talented artists are represented: a rapper with Trisomy-21 named Jirau (after a pioneering fashion model), who is an especially strong lyricist. In 2073, neurodiverse artists (many formerly known as “disabled”) are valued, as most AI algorithms had largely ignored them in their early training sets. Then there’s DJ Congolia, who made original beats exclusively from the sounds of living things in the Congo rainforest (near where he was born and raised). And, of course, Dice Benoit. Sitting at home in Minnesota, headset on, she exhales in anticipation. In the virtual auction, her avatar rises on stage, prepared to pitch. Her presentation is compelling. It focuses on how she can rhyme about everything: politics, climate, prison, religion, war, famine, gaming, family, friendships, love. She is a strong candidate for a good training set because a company can take her data and build rap music of almost any kind: summer love ballads, political campaign slogan-songs, flying car commercials. Dice Benoit isn’t entirely unique in her topical diversity: Long gone are the days when some hip hop artists felt the need to center misogyny, material consumption, or any other singular tropes. The reason? In the late 2020s, AI became so advanced that it was able to generate songs with that sort of content far more convincingly than any human artist could. Replicating old ideas fell out of favor, while novelty was rewarded—fresh data means new music that more people can relate to, which translates to more money. This arithmetic led to the destruction of older categories and a rapid flowering of new rap subgenres around the world. Some of the most lucrative and popular rap scenes of 2073 include those dedicated to Angolan literature, astrobiology, cyber theft, Harriet Tubman, Jack Kerouac, Maori history, Santeria, sex work, space tourism, and Sufism. And new subgenres are born regularly. Further, AI made language barriers a thing of the past. In 2073, a rapper can generate a rhyme in one language and have it translated into a hundred others in seconds. The challenges that have plagued translation forever—not all things translate well between languages—remain, but AI can optimize as well as anyone ever has. Rappers from the west side of Chicago have large fan bases all over the world who now listen to the lyrics translated to Bengali, Tagalog, and Ibo (AI ensures that despite the translation, the music remains enjoyable). This AI ecosystem rewards human artists who are productive generalists, who can generate as much quality training data as possible. Musicians who play multiple instruments well can generate training data for an entire orchestra, which improves their financial gain. In hip hop, artists who can rhyme about a lot of things—like Dice Benoit—are poised to do well. This perspective is not without controversy, however, as some lament the loss of specialization that had dominated the art world for centuries. But the excellence of AI technology has rendered this perspective less popular. The truth is, no human could ever hope to specialize the way AI can (a lesson the world first learned when IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in chess in 1997).

Reliance Industries-owned Jio Platform has completed the acquisition of US-based communications equipment maker Mimosa Networks for $60 million through its wholly owned subsidiary Radisys Corporation. The company informed the same through a statement. The acquisition will allow Jio Platforms, which also houses RIL’s telecom business in Reliance Jio, to strengthen its 5G and broadband services using Mimosa’s point-to-point and point-to-multipoint products, RIL had said when the deal was announced in March this year. “Mimosa brings a diverse portfolio of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connectivity products leveraging unlicensed spectrum bands,” RIL said in a statement.The deal between Jio Platform’s Radisys Corp and Florida-headquartered telecom telecom gear maker Airspan Networks, which owns Mimosa, was announced in March this year. “Acquisition of Mimosa will further accelerate Jio’s innovation and leadership in the production of telecom network products that deliver value to consumers and enterprises across the globe with cost-effective, rapidly deployable fixed and mobile broadband,” said Mathew Oommen, President, Jio, on the acquisition. Mimosa will now function as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Radisys. Mimosa’s products are expected to enable the rapid rollout of multi-gigabit-per-second fixed wireless access (FWA) networks and wireless backhaul connectivity for telecommunications systems, RIL added.Mimosa’s portfolio includes products based on WiFi 5 and the newer WiFi 6E technologies as well as related accessories, such as twist-on antennas. These solutions have use cases in the backhaul requirements for 5G and FTTX/ FWA rollouts and Jio has been a major customer of Mimosa, the company’s statement added.

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Info Edge’s board is mulling steps to tighten due diligence practices and mitigate risks associated with portfolio companies, said Sanjeev Bikhchandani Info Edge wrote off its entire investment in 4B Networks in the December quarter of 2022 citing excessive cash burn and significant uncertainty towards funding options Last month, Info Edge said it approached the Delhi HC against 4B Networks for failing to provide information about operations for forensic audit and received an order in its favour Mincing no words, Info Edge cofounder and veteran investor Sanjeev Bikhchandani on Friday (August 11) reportedly said that investing in Rahul Yadav-led 4B Networks was a ‘mistake’. “You can’t write off INR 288 Cr, it was a mistake,” Bikhchandani said during the company’s post-earnings call as per The Economic Times. He also said that the Info Edge’s board was mulling steps to tighten its due diligence practices and mitigate risks associated with portfolio companies. The company’s board was also said to be looking at identifying indicators and ‘red flags’ that may emerge at preliminary stages during talks with founders. At the heart of the matter is Info Edge’s decision to write off its equity investment in 4B Networks during the quarter ended December 2022. The investor then cited ‘excessive cash burn, prevailing liquidity issues and significant uncertainty towards funding options’ as the reasons for pulling the plug on the investment. Since then, a lot has happened at Yadav’s startup, with Info Edge even initiating arbitration proceedings against 4B Networks for allegedly failing to provide crucial information about operations and management for a forensic audit. Earlier in June, Inc42 exclusively reported about the slew of problems, ranging from corporate governance issues to unpaid dues of vendors and employees, at the brokerage startup. At that time, Info Edge announced the appointment of Deloitte as the forensic auditor to look into the financial details of 4B Networks. However, the management of 4B Networks allegedly didn’t cooperate with the auditor, following which the consumer internet company dragged Yadav to the Delhi High Court. In a regulatory filing late last month, Info Edge said the HC (in July) directed Yadav and Pratik Choudhary, who was also a party to the shareholders’ agreement of 4B Networks, to ‘not sell, transfer, alienate, encumber or otherwise create any third-party rights or interest directly or indirectly in the assets and properties of 4B Networks’. The investor said that the court also directed 4B Networks to preserve all books, records, accounts, databases, servers, any other devices, documentation or information. Meanwhile, after two subdued quarters on account of write offs, Info Edge returned to the black in the first quarter (Q1) of the financial year 2023-24 (FY24). It posted a consolidated net profit of INR 147.4 Cr, while revenue from operations jumped to INR 625.9 Cr in Q1 FY24 from INR 547.3 Cr in the year-ago period. Shares of Info Edge closed 4.12% lower at INR 4,458.90 on the BSE on Friday (August 11).