With Freebies, OpenAI, Google Vie For Indian Users And Training Data

With Freebies, OpenAI, Google Vie For Indian Users And Training Data

Bengaluru: OpenAI, Google and Perplexity have begun an unprecedented fight for artificial intelligence users in India, rolling out freebies in a strategy seen as a way to harvest troves of multilingual training data in the world’s most populous nation. India is the second-biggest smartphone market with 730 million devices. On average, Indians consume 21 gigabytes…

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Google Meet suffers major outage in India, users report ‘502 error’ during meetings

    Google Meet suffers major outage in India, users report ‘502 error’ during meetings

    Google Meet Outage News: Google Meet faced a major disruption in India on Wednesday, leaving thousands of users unable to join or host video calls. The video-conferencing platform appeared to suffer a widespread outage, forcing many people to cancel work meetings, online classes and interviews, IANS reported. According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, around 1,760 users…

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    Google Denies Using Gmail Data To Train Gemini AI; How To Turn Off Smart Features On Desktop And Mobile App

      Google Denies Using Gmail Data To Train Gemini AI; How To Turn Off Smart Features On Desktop And Mobile App

      Gmail Data And Privacy: Google has issued a clarification after reports claimed that Gmail was using users’ emails and attachments to train its Gemini AI models. The company called these reports “misleading” and said that no policies have changed. The reports had suggested that Google updated its policy and that users would need to turn…

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      Google Pixel Users Can Now Share Files With iPhones And Vice Versa; Is Apple AirDrop Safe To Use With Android? How To Use It

        Google Pixel Users Can Now Share Files With iPhones And Vice Versa; Is Apple AirDrop Safe To Use With Android? How To Use It

        Apple AirDrop On Android: Good news for Android users! Google has announced that AirDrop-like file sharing now works on Android without any involvement from Apple. For years, AirDrop remained a major advantage of the Apple ecosystem, allowing iPhone users to share files instantly while Android users were left without an equivalent cross-platform option. Now, Google…

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        Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys .9 Billion Stake In Alphabet, Reduces Apple Holding

        Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys $4.9 Billion Stake In Alphabet, Reduces Apple Holding

        Last Updated:November 15, 2025, 09:41 IST Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. purchased 17.9 million shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. in the third quarter Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. purchased 17.9 million shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. in the third quarter, even as it continued trimming its holdings in Bank of America…

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        European Union Probes Google Over Search Results Despite Trump Threats

        European Union Probes Google Over Search Results Despite Trump Threats

        Belgium: The EU launched a fresh investigation into Google on Thursday over suspicions the US giant is pushing down news outlets in search results, despite retaliation threats from US President Donald Trump. The European Commission said Google is demoting media publishers’ websites and content in search results when they include content from commercial partners, such…

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