India has thrown its weight behind the open-source RISC-V architecture. The technology is said to be gaining ground as a global contender to the domination of Softbank‘s ARM technology. The aim is to be self-reliant in semiconductor design. India’s computing systems will leverage DIR- V (Digital India RISC V) program and will have a serious presence in all the capabilities that we need in the automotive, space tech, IoT sensors and mobility, minister of state for electronics and information technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said at the recent Digital India RISC-V Symposium organized by MEITY and IIT-Madras in Chennai. RISC-V stands for ‘Reduced Instruction Set Computer’, and ‘V’ stands for the fifth generation. The DIR-V program, launched last year, aims to boost India’s semiconductor ecosystem by creating advanced microprocessors. The minister spoke about how DIR-V will create tech opportunities for the industry.“Today, for India, the Future is Bright; the Future is DIR-V. Our Prime Minister has already declared that this initiative will define India’s techade and present numerous tech opportunities. This will be driven by the creativity and innovation of our engineers and startups in India. Innovation, functionality and performance — these are the mantras for the coming years for the DIR-V program. The government of India is fully committed to making DIR-V the Indian ISA (Instruction Set Architecture),” he said. What is RISC-V ISARISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) that enables the development of custom processors for various end applications. Unlike proprietary processor architectures, RISC-V is open and was originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley.It is the fifth generation of processors built on the concept of the reduced instruction set computer (RISC). RISC-V has gained popularity in recent years due to its technical merits and openness. It is now managed by RISC-V International, which boasts over 3,000 members. By the end of 2022, more than 10 billion chips containing RISC-V cores had shipped. RISC-V has numerous open-source core and commercial IP product implementations available.RISC-V processors have a wide range of applications, including wearables, industrial devices, IoT devices, and home appliances. They are ideal for limited space and battery-powered designs. RISC-V cores can be customised for specific needs, including smartphones, automotive, HPC, and data centers. With extensions, they can also offer energy efficiency and reliability for aerospace and government use.How does RISC-V ISA workRISC-V is an open-standard architecture that gives designers the freedom to customise their processors for specific needs. The ISA is royalty-free and has a small core set of instructions, with optional extensions for different end markets. It’s ideal for embedded applications, microcontrollers, and has potential for high-performance computing and data centres.How is RISC-V ISA beneficial for India’s chip ecosystemRISC-V architecture offers simplified processor instructions for various tasks, enabling quick custom processor development. A common ISA simplifies software development, and RISC-V is open-standard, allowing for industry collaboration and innovation. Unique features can be customised, and smaller, energy-efficient options are available. Security features are also present with open-source reference designs and software analysis tools. Public scrutiny eliminates back doors and hidden channels.The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is challenging the status quo with its free and open nature, driving unprecedented levels of innovation and pushing Moore‘s Law beyond its limits. The aim is to establish India as a RISC-V Talent Hub for the World and a supplier of RISC-V SoC (System on Chips) for Servers, Mobile devices, Automotive, IoT & Microcontrollers worldwide.India boasts a thriving ecosystem of chip designers in academia, scientific societies, and startups, all vying for a share in the growing RISC-V market. Now is the opportune time to showcase India’s strides in the global RISC-V community and unveil the Digital India RISC-V Processor roadmap to the world.

Krishnan says the creator of the system published a video appearing to show the chatbot operating and generating a scammy email. They were also trying to sell access to the system for $200 per month, or a yearly cost of $1,700. Krishnan says that in conversations with the developer behind FraudGPT, they claimed to have a few hundred subscribers and pushed for a sale, while the WormGPT creator appeared to have received payments into a cryptocurrency wallet address they shared. “All these projects are in their infancy,” Krishnan says. He adds, “we haven’t got much feedback” into whether people are purchasing or using the systems. While those touting the chatbots claim they exist, it is hard to verify the makeup and legitimacy of the systems. Cybercriminal scammers are known to scam other scammers, with previous research showing that they frequently try to rip each other off, don’t provide what they claim they are selling, and offer bad customer service. Sergey Shykevich, a threat intelligence group manager at security firm Check Point, says there are some hints that people are using WormGTP. “It seems there is a real tool,” Shykevich says. The seller behind the tool is “relatively reliable” and has a history on cybercrime forums, he says. There are more than 100 responses to one post about the WormGPT, Shykevich says, although some of these say the seller isn’t very responsive to their inquiries and others “weren’t very excited” about the system. Shykevich is less convinced about FraudGPT’s authenticity—the seller has also claimed to have systems called DarkBard and DarkBert. Shykevich says some of the posts from the seller were removed from the forums. Either way, the Check Point researcher says there’s no sign that any of the systems are more capable than ChatGPT, Bard, or other commercial LLMs. Kelly says he believes claims about the malicious LLMs created so far are “slightly overexaggerated.” But he adds, “this is not necessarily different from what legitimate businesses do in the real world.” Despite questions about the systems, it isn’t a surprise that cybercriminals want to get in on the LLM boom. The FBI has warned that cybercriminals are looking at using generative AI in their work, and European law enforcement agency Europol has issued a similar warning. The law enforcement agencies say LLMs could help cybercriminals with fraud, impersonation, and other social engineering faster than before and also improve their written English. Whenever any new product, service, or event gains public attention—from the Barbie movie to the Covid-19 pandemic—scammers rush to include it in their hacking artillery. So far, scammers have tricked people into downloading password-stealing malware through fake ads for ChatGPT, Bard, Midjourney, and other generative AI systems on Facebook. Researchers at security firm Sophos have spotted the operators of pig butchering and romance scams accidentally including generated text in their messages—“As a language model of ‘me’ I don’t have feelings or emotions like humans do,” one message said. And hackers have also been stealing tokens to provide them with access to OpenAI’s API and access to the chatbot at scale. In his WormGPT report, Kelly notes that cybercriminals are often sharing jailbreaks that allow people to bypass the safety restrictions put in place by the makers of popular LLMs. But even unconstrained versions of these models may, thankfully, not be that useful for cybercriminals in their current form. Shykevich, the Check Point researcher, says that even when he has seen cybercriminals try to use public models, they haven’t been effective. They can “create ransomware strains, info stealers, but no better than even an average developer,” he says. However, those on the cybercrime forums are still talking about making their own clones, Shykevich says, and they’re only going to get better at using the systems. So be careful what you click.

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Ecommerce unicorn Meesho on Monday claimed that it turned profitable and posted a consolidated profit after tax (PAT) as of July 2023. “The company has attained profitability at a consolidated PAT level, encompassing all costs (including ESOP), across all its divisions and categories. Setting out on its ambitious path to profitability last year, Meesho accomplished this industry-first feat well ahead of the expected timeline, as of July’ 23,” the startup said in a statement. However, the statement didn’t mention if the startup reported profit only in the month of July or for the April-July period of the ongoing financial year (FY24). A mail sent to Meesho, seeking further details about its profitability claim, remained unanswered till the time of publishing this story. The article will be updated on receiving a response from the startup. In the statement, Meesho said the company experienced “remarkable” growth in the last 12 months, with order volumes soaring 43% to over a billion orders. The startup also said that 85% of its orders during the period came from returning users. Non-fashion categories also surged by over 120% in the last 12 months, Meesho said. “Contributing to this success, the revenue over the last 12 months surged by an impressive 54%, driven by substantial growth in order volumes and monetisation rate,” the company said. It is pertinent to note that Meesho reported a net loss stood at INR 3,247.8 in FY22, up 550% year-on-year (YoY). Total revenue stood at INR 3,359.4 Cr during the year, which was a 300% jump from INR 838.6 Cr reported in the prior fiscal.  Advertising and sales promotion expenses of INR 2,579.3 Cr were one of the biggest contributors to Meesho’s total expenses in FY22.  The startup is yet to file its financial statements for FY23. In its latest statement, the Vidit Aatrey-led startup said it reduced customer acquisition cost (CAC) and marketing spending by 80% YoY. Meesho claimed to have also recorded a 60% YoY reduction in tech costs. Despite lowered CAC, Meesho said it remained the most downloaded shopping app in the country. It said it served over 140 Mn unique transacting users in the last 12 months. However, it must be noted that as a part of a cost-cutting exercise, Meesho has laid off over 700 employees in multiple rounds since 2022, as per Inc42’s layoff tracker. The latest round of layoffs was undertaken in May this year, when the startup fired 251 employees, or about 15% of its workforce. Cofounder and CEO Aatrey took to Twitter to announce the development, saying Meesho was the first horizontal Indian ecommerce company to achieve this milestone – “profitability (EBITDA and PAT profitable)”. Founded in 2015 by Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal, Meesho is backed by several marquee investors, including Fidelity Investments, SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Prosus & Naspers, and Meta. It has raised over $1 Bn till date.  The startup operates on a 0% commission model and competes with the likes of Flipkart and Amazon. Like many other Indian startups, Meesho has also seen valuation markdown amid the ongoing funding winter. Earlier this year, Fidelity Investments slashed the fair value of its investment in the unicorn by 9.7% to $2.29 Mn. 

Google has announced that it is rolling out a new linkable headlines feature in Google Docs. This feature will allow users to create links to specific headings in their documents, making it easier to share and navigate long documents. The feature also makes it easier to collaborate on documents. For instance, if you are working on a document with other people, you can use the linkable headlines feature to create links to specific sections of the document so that you can easily refer to them in your discussions. How to use linkable headlines feature in Google Docs“To improve shareability of documents, especially longer ones, we’re adding the ability to copy links to headings in Google Docs,” Google said in a blog post. Simply, open a Google Doc on web > add a heading (type some content and set to “Heading 1”) > right-click the heading > click the “Copy heading link” button > paste the contents. AvailabilityThe linkable headlines feature is currently rolling out to select users, and should be available to all users in the coming weeks. The feature will be available to Google Workspace customers, including Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Nonprofits customers.QCopying HTML elements now available on iOSGoogle also announced that the ability to paste copied HTML elements into a document is now available on iOS devices. The company also mentioned that it has added the ability to empty the entire trash folder of a shared drive in Google Drive. This will make it easier for users to manage shared drive files, eliminating the manual effort of removing items in the trash folder. Google also noted that files and folders in Trash are deleted forever after 30 days.

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The funding will be deployed by Disprz for product development, including integrating generative AI across the learning and skilling cycle The startup also aims to form strategic partnerships and make strategic acquisitions with the incoming funding, per a statement Per a Bloomberg Intelligence report, generative AI is set to reach $1.3 Tn in market size by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 42% Disprz, a corporate learning and skilling platform, has raised $30 Mn in its Series C funding round led by Lumos Capital. 360 ONE Asset (IIFL Wealth) and existing investors Kae Capital, KOIS and Dallas Venture Capital also participated. The funding will be deployed by the startup for global market expansion and product development, including integrating generative AI across the learning and skilling cycle. Disprz will also use the funds to hire data scientists, skill scientists and software engineers. Further, Disprz aims to form partnerships and make acquisitions. The funding round comes nearly two years after the skilling platform raised $13 Mn in its Series B round led by Dallas Venture Capital and Mars Growth Capital. Disprz has secured around $50 Mn in funding to date, including the current round. Founded in 2015 by Subramanian Viswanathan and Kuljit Chadha, Chennai-based Disprz is an AI-powered learning platform that helps companies upskill workforces. The startup claims to be serving nearly 350 organisations and 2.8 Mn users, including ICICI Bank, Amazon, Indian Oil, Bajaj Allianz, Ather Energy, HDFC Life, Starbucks, AIA, PETRONAS, Sharaf DG, Neom, Rivoli and Kotak Life Insurance, among others. Subbu Viswanathan, cofounder and CEO of Disprz said, “With the world ready to be disrupted by generative AI and with organisations increasingly realising that upskilling and reskilling are not the mandate of just HR but every function, we are ready to steer towards becoming India’s first centaur (profitable $100 Mn company) in our platform category in the next 4-5 years.” Disprz will join a growing list of startups adding generative AI capabilities to their platforms or service. Following the meteoric rise of large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT and Bard, the generative AI market is set to reach $1.3 Tn in size, growing at a staggering CAGR of 42% between 2022 and 2032, per a Bloomberg Intelligence report. The likes of Swiggy, Blinkit, OYO, BYJU’S, ixigo, Freshworks and others have launched generative AI-enabled products and services in their respective domains. Also, Google’s startup accelerator programme in India, Google For Startups, recently announced its seventh class of graduates, focused on generative AI.

The launch of the iPhone is arguably one of the most significant tech events of the year. Traditionally, Apple launches the new iPhones sometime in the first two weeks of September and this year is expected to be no different. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple may have scheduled an event for either September 12 or 13. Gurman has also noted in the weekly newsletter that iPhone 15 series could go on sale on September 22. The September 13 launch date rumour was also circulated by a 9t5Mac report. Last week, a report by 9to5Mac suggested that major American carriers have told employees not to take off on September 13 because of a “major smartphone announcement”. The rumoured dates do fall in line with previous iPhone launches. Last year, Apple announced the iPhone 14 on September 7. iPhone 15 series: What to expect The iPhone 15 is expected to be powered by the A17 Bionic chip, which will be a significant upgrade over the A16 chip in the iPhone 14. The A17 chip is expected to be faster and more efficient, which could lead to improved performance and battery life. However, the new chip could be reserved for the Pro models only.Furthermore, it is rumoured that all the iPhone 15 models will have a 48-megapixel rear camera. For the non-Pro models, this would be a significant upgrade over the 12-megapixel cameras.The iPhone 15 Pro models are rumoured to have a periscope zoom lens, which would allow for up to 6x optical zoom. This would be a significant improvement over the 3x optical zoom in the iPhone 14 Pro models.Also, it is almost certain that the iPhone 15 series will switch from the Lightning port to the USB-C port. It is a decision that has been forced on Apple by the European Union.Lastly, the iPhone 15 Pro models are rumoured to have a titanium frame, which would make them more durable than the stainless steel frames in previous models. The titanium frame will also make the iPhone 15 Pro much lighter than the previous generation devices.

While the fate of Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg fight remains unclear, Tesla CEO has shared some new posts about the proposed fight. The social media moguls have been egging each other into a mixed martial arts cage match in Las Vegas since June. In a post on his platform X, formerly Twitter, he wrote that his proposed cage fight with Meta CEO Zuckerberg would be live-streamed on social media platform X.“Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on X. All proceeds will go to charity for veterans,” Musk said in a post on X early on Sunday morning, without giving any further details. In another post earlier on Sunday, Musk wrote that he was “lifting weights throughout the day, preparing for the fight”, adding that he did not have time to work out so brings the weights to work.When a user on X asked Musk the point of the fight, Musk responded by saying “It’s a civilized form of war. Men love war”.The brouhaha began when Musk said in a June 20 post that he was “up for a cage match” with Zuckerberg, who is trained in jiujitsu.A day later, Zuckerberg, 39, who has posted pictures of matches he has won on his company’s Instagram platform, asked Musk, 51, to “send location” for the proposed throwdown, to which Musk replied “Vegas Octagon”, referring to an events centre where mixed martial arts (MMA) championship bouts are held.Musk then said he would start training if the cage fight took shape.(With agency inputs)