Online food delivery platform Zomato has begun using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to make improvements to customer experience, according to a report in The Economic Times (ET). This is part of a larger trend of companies using AI to create more personalised experiences for their customers.

India’s internet-using population, which surpassed 720 million in December 2022, according to Nielsen’s India Internet Report 2023, may be vulnerable to a new type of voice-based cyber scam, wherein scammers are employing artificial intelligence to replicate user voices and exploit them in cyberattacks on unsuspecting individuals, according to a report.

Cybersecurity firm McAfee revealed in a 1 May report that 47% of Indian users have either encountered or know someone who fell victim to AI voice cloning scams in January-March.

Imagine spending Rs 8,000 on tickets for an event and travelling thousands of kilometres to attend it in a hope that it will be a funding opportunity for your business but it all turns out to be one big scam. Well, many had to go through exactly this 10 days ago when the ‘World Startup Convention’ in Greater Noida, touted as the biggest funding festival in the world, turned out to be a fraud show.

The convention was touted to be the “world’s biggest funding festival” with business giants such as SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Tesla’s Elon Musk on the panel along with venture capitalists Sequoia and Tiger Global. But that never happened.

Organised by “investors” Luke Talwar and Arjun Chaudhary, the World Startup Convention was initially scheduled January from 14-16 before it got postponed to March 24-26.

As per a Tweet, as many as 2,000 startups were scammed. Later, Police officials also arrived at the event location.

The convention promised to provide a platform for budding entrepreneurs to connect with potential investors and industry experts for funding. But on the day of the event, investors did not fulfill any of the big promise that they made before the event. Moreover, the quality of the programmes and events too proved to be subpar.

The tickets were priced at about Rs 8,000 each and several attendees had travelled from different parts of the country like Nashik, Chennai, and Surat and had to pay huge amounts on travel, food and accommodation as well.

The organisers had also used misleading pictures of union cabinet ministers like Nitin Gadkari, suggesting that they would be present at the event. Financial content creator/ social media influencer Ankur Warikoo and author Chetan Bhagat too faced backlash due to their alleged association with the World Startup Convention.

A regional Australian mayor said he may sue OpenAI if it does not correct ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery, in what would be the first defamation lawsuit against the automated text service.

Brian Hood, who was elected mayor of Hepburn Shire, 120km (75 miles) northwest of Melbourne, last November, became concerned about his reputation when members of the public told him ChatGPT had falsely named him as a guilty party in a foreign bribery scandal involving a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s.

Hood did work for the subsidiary, Note Printing Australia, but was the person who notified authorities about payment of bribes to foreign officials to win currency printing contracts, and was never charged with a crime, lawyers representing him said.

The lawyers said they sent a letter of concern to ChatGPT owner OpenAI on March 21, which gave OpenAI 28 days to fix the errors about their client or face a possible defamation lawsuit.

OpenAI, which is based in San Francisco, had not yet responded to Hood’s legal letter, the lawyers said. OpenAI did not respond to a Reuters email out of business hours.

If Hood sues, it would likely be the first time a person has sued the owner of ChatGPT for claims made by the automated language product which has become wildly popular since its launch last year. Microsoft Corp integrated ChatGPT into its search engine Bing in February.

A Microsoft spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.

“It would potentially be a landmark moment in the sense that it’s applying this defamation law to a new area of artificial intelligence and publication in the IT space,” James Naughton, a partner at Hood’s lawfirm Gordon Legal, told Reuters.

“He’s an elected official, his reputation is central to his role,” Naughton said. Hood relied on a public record of shining a light on corporate misconduct, “so it makes a difference to him if people in his community are accessing this material”.

Australian defamation damages payouts are generally capped around A$400,000 ($269,360). Hood did not know the exact number of people who had accessed the false information about him – a determinant of the payout size – but the nature of the defamatory statements was serious enough that he may claim more than A$200,000, Naughton said.

If Hood files a lawsuit, it would accuse ChatGPT of giving users a false sense of accuracy by failing to include footnotes, Naughton said.

“It’s very difficult for somebody to look behind that to say ‘how does the algorithm come up with that answer?'” said Naughton. “It’s very opaque.”

The day is finally here; starting today, Microsoft is permanently disabling Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 PCs, and making it unavailable for older versions of Windows as well. The final plan to kill off the browser was announced in December, and now, it’s coming to fruition.

Most have probably lost count of how many times the death of Internet Explorer has been reported, and it’s because Microsoft has been dragging out the process for years. The end of support for Windows 11 was first announced in 2020, and in June 2022, Microsoft was supposed to kill off the browser in favor of Edge. What ended up happening, however, is that this date was only when Microsoft began to move users away from Internet Explorer and to Microsoft Edge, so not everyone was immediately affected.

After Microsoft and Google sent off their computer based intelligence controlled advancements, Drama has committed and is wanting to integrate artificial intelligence into its web-based programs and content applications.

Drama uncovered in an authority blog entry that it is coordinating man-made intelligence produced content (AIGC) administrations into its PC and portable programs. The enterprise is additionally going to lengths to extend its current simulated intelligence program into AIGC for its program, news, and gaming items utilizing its own answers and new and existing associations.

Drama has likewise uncovered another component for its program’s sidebar. The ‘abbreviate’ apparatus, which is driven by ChatGPT, might be utilized to deliver outlines of site pages and distributions. The blog likewise incorporates a short demo video that shows how ChatGPT will be integrated into the program. Be that as it may, the new element has not yet been made accessible to all clients.

Tune Lin, Co-Chief of Show expressed in a blog entry that “Following the boundless interest in generative artificial intelligence devices, we feel it is presently time for programs to move forward and turn into the entryway to a computer based intelligence fueled web”.

WhatsApp’s pin talk include permits clients to stick chosen visits to the highest point of the visit list.Users can stick up to three explicit discussions that are mean quite a bit to them to get to them rapidly. Presently it seems like the stage is intending to carry a comparable element to its talk windows as well. As per reports, WhatsApp is fostering another component which will permit clients to stick messages inside talks with the goal that clients can stick significant directives for fast access.

A report by Wabetainfo recommends that the meta-claimed texting application will before long delivery another component which will empower clients to stick messages inside talks and gatherings. Sticking the messages will assist clients with coordinating their talks and feature significant directives for speedy access. It will likewise assist clients with featuring a specific message.

“With this component, finding significant messages in a conversation will be simpler. As a matter of fact, because of the most recent WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.3.17 update from the Play Store (the business rendition of the application), we found that this element is a work in progress for a future update of the application,” uncovers the report by WABetaInfo.

The component is as of now a work in progress and is supposed to be delivered later on update of the application. When delivered, the ‘Stuck Messages’ component will help clients in sticking significant messages to the highest point of the talk. Moreover, it will likewise further develop association in bunches with high message volume, making it simpler for clients to get to significant data.

To further develop client experience, WhatsApp consistently presents new elements, or makes update to the current ones. In like manner, the Meta-claimed administration is supposedly dealing with a ‘calling easy route,’ which will make the calling system quicker for individuals.

This is as per WABetaInfo, a site that tracks news and updates connected with WhatsApp. To make sense of the component, the site shared this screen capture:

The easy route highlight, in the mean time, is currently at improvement stage, and will be delivered in a future update of the application. Nonetheless, just like with any new WhatsApp capacity, this, as well, will initially be delivered exclusively for beta testing. A general delivery will occur after that.

Assuming that you’re utilizing the Android beta, another Status include that WhatsApp is trying may open up to you first.

There is currently the potential chance to share a sort of “voice note” in the situation with WhatsApp. You can share a short voice message in the status as opposed to recording a video to speak with your contacts.

This message can be all around as extended as 30 seconds, as indicated by WABetaInfo, which can as of now test this new component. What date will the new element send off? With WhatsApp, this is rarely truly self-evident and presently likewise really relies on how the beta test goes. What’s more, on the off chance that you can as of now utilize this capability in the beta, it seems to be this:

A few lucky beta analyzers can now send sound notes as announcements by getting to the component inside the message status region, as you can find in this screen capture, would it be a good idea for it be empowered for them. By permitting clients to erase a recording prior to sharing it, WhatsApp likewise gives clients more command over their voice accounts. As was at that point know, voice notes must be recorded for a limit of 30 seconds. Also, to hear voice notes posted through status, clients should refresh their WhatsApp rendition.

As usual, start to finish encryption guarantees that main individuals you select inside your protection settings might pay attention to voice notes distributed as announcements. Voice notes shared by means of announcements disappear following 24 hours, very much like photographs and recordings, in spite of the fact that clients generally have the choice to erase voice notes for everybody whenever they have been free as announcements.

In the wake of downloading the latest beta from the Google Play Store, a little gathering of fortunate beta analyzers had the option to send sound notes by means of announcements. Throughout the following half a month, the component will be accessible to much more individuals.