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Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil Surface Pro 10 with an OLED screen and Surface Laptop 6, both with Intel Core Ultra and Snapdragon X Elite chips, on March 21  —  Microsoft’s first AI PCs will be unveiled on March 21, ahead of next-gen Windows 11 AI features coming this fall. 

Chakshu portal, a platform to report suspected communications of cyber fraud, was launched by the government of India on Monday. The portal was created alongside the Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP) which will be used for real-time intelligence sharing and coordination between all the stakeholders. The Chakshu portal can be used to report phone calls, SMS,

CoinDesk: Bitcoin surpassed $69K to hit a new all-time high, eclipsing the previous record set on November 10, 2021  —  The success of the spot ETFs which opened for business on January 11 was the catalyst for this latest bull run for the world’s largest crypto.  —  The price of bitcoin (BTC) … Source link

Wix, a cloud-based website development platform, has launched its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot that can generate a customised website using simple text prompts. The AI website generator was first announced by the company in July 2023 but was not made available to the public. After seven months, Wix has launched the feature globally and users

Financial Times: As Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft comply with the EU DMA ahead of March 7, experts are skeptical the rules will have the desired effect  —  This week is the deadline for large online platforms to comply with new EU regulations on competition.  Too little too late, say some Source link

Brussels on Monday fined Apple EUR 1.84 billion euros $2 billion (roughly Rs. 16,581 crore) for thwarting competition from music streaming rivals via restrictions on its App Store, the iPhone maker’s first ever penalty for breaching EU rules. A basic penalty of EUR 40 million (roughly Rs. 359 crore) was inflated by a huge lump

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Mews, which offers cloud-based hotel management tools, raised $110M led by Kinnevik at a $1.2B post-money valuation; the company says it’s not yet profitable  —  Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time since 2020.

A group representing Indian startups has asked the country’s antitrust watchdog to order Alphabet’s Google to reinstate apps it removed for policy violations, a letter seen by Reuters shows, escalating a showdown with the US giant in a key market. Google on Friday removed more than 100 Indian apps, including popular ones by Matrimony.com, for

Financial Times: Q&A with the CEO of Grindr, whose stock fell 75% since its SPAC merger in November 2022, on future plans, including an “à la carte” travel payments service  —  CEO George Arison hopes new travel and networking features can expand its appeal Source link

Anthropic has introduced its new family of artificial intelligence (AI) models called Claude 3. The third generation of the company’s AI-powered chatbot now comes in three separate versions — Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus — where Opus is the most capable model, followed by Sonnet and Haiku. The company has