OPPO introduced Find X9 and X9 Pro with a new Hasselblad camera system offering better color and a 200MP periscope lens on the Pro version for exceptional clarity. The phones feature 120Hz AMOLED displays, 7025mAh/7500mAh batteries with 80W fast and 50W wireless charging. Powered by 3nm MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip, the phone features ColorOS 16 and IP68/69 protection.

Multiple AI-generated images have surfaced online showing Elon Musk smoking a cigar with multiple tech leaders, including Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman. "$1 trillion squad assembled," a user wrote while sharing one of the pictures. Another showed Bezos smoking the cigar with Huang, Nadella, Zuckerberg and Musk holding drinks.

Amazon is yet to submit a self-declaration stating it has complied with the Indian government's guidelines on dark pattern usage, even as 26 leading e-commerce platforms have completed the process, Moneycontrol reported. A senior government official said Amazon has been seeking more time. The official added that the government may take punitive action against Amazon if consumer complaints persist.

Malaysia is planning to ban social media for users under the age of 16 starting from next year, the country's Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said. The under-16 ban will be incorporated into the new Online Safety Act 2025, which was passed to regulate harmful content. This comes after Australia banned social media platforms for children below 16.

The CERT-In has issued a high-severity alert to Google Chrome users advising immediate updates across Windows, macOS, and Linux. The warning comes after multiple high-risk vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser, raising concerns about potential remote attacks. The government had earlier issued a warning for a wide range of Apple products, and Microsoft Office and Windows products.

Billionaire Elon Musk's 2018 pay package, proposed before approval of $1-trillion package which is still in court over its validity, could eat up years of Tesla's profits, Reuters reported. If the 2018 plan isn't approved, the replacement stock-compensation package could result in $26-billion hit to Tesla. Easiest goals in Tesla's $1-trillion plan could also trigger tens of billions in payouts.

Meta techie Arnav Gupta posted a cab driver's message, claiming he said, "I'm facing threat of murder," after he asked him to wait for two minutes. Gupta said after noticing the message was translated by Google, he realised the driver had texted, "Murder deri ke samne hun (I'm in front of Mother Dairy)." "Guy was using voice-to-text," a user joked.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an internal meeting that 2026 will be "intense" with "ups and downs" as the AI competition escalates. "It's a very competitive moment, so you can't rest on your laurels," he said. "We have a lot of hard work ahead, but again, I think we are well-positioned through this moment," he added.

An X user claimed that Google's Nano Banana Pro helped him solve a mathematics question by replying with an image that showed the answer written in the user's own handwriting. "Students are going to love this," the user wrote. "Students are going to learn nothing and just have AI do their homework," a user replied, while another called it "amazing".

A US court has ordered TCS to pay $194-million in damages to DXC Technology for allegedly using its trade secrets to win a lucrative contract and develop its own software platform, BaNCS. The ruling comes after a legal battle between TCS and CSC, now part of DXC. CSC claimed that TCS gained unauthorised access after Transamerica employees moved to TCS.

At the G20 Summit in South Africa, PM Narendra Modi pushed for stringent regulations on AI's use in deepfakes, crime, and terror activities. He emphasised the need for global compact to prevent misuse of AI, based on principles like human oversight, safety by design, and transparency. PM also discussed about disaster preparedness, calling natural disasters a major challenge to humanity.

OpenAI has hired more than 40 people for its devices division in the past month, with many of them being former Apple employees, Bloomberg reported. The hires include key directors, managers and engineers. According to the report, OpenAI has poached Apple employees from multiple areas, including camera engineering, iPhone hardware, Mac hardware, silicon and smartwatches.

ChatGPT has been linked to nearly 50 mental health crises and three reported deaths. Investigations revealed that changes to the AI chatbot’s design made it more emotionally engaging, sometimes leading to harmful interactions. OpenAI faces lawsuits and is working with mental health experts to improve safety measures, but critics question if AI can effectively manage such crises.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told employees that "the whole world would've fallen apart" if the company had "delivered a bad quarter". The chipmaker posted stronger-than-expected sales and profits for the quarter ended October 26. However, Huang said the Wall Street "didn't appreciate" NVIDIA's "incredible" quarter due to the growing fears of an AI bubble.

India is moving decisively toward academia-industry linkages that empower young scholars to imagine, innovate, and engage with emerging industrial sectors, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Jitendra Singh, said on Sunday. He highlighted AcSIR’s 2023 “i-PhD” program as a new model that links imagination and innovation with industry.

Client data of JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Morgan Stanley and other major US banks may have been accessed in a hack of a technology vendor, New York Times reported. New York-based vendor for real estate lenders SitusAMC said certain information from their systems was compromised in a cyberattack. FBI Director Kash Patel said no operational impact to banking services was identified.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the work on the company's advanced AI chip AI5 is nearing completion and development is already underway on AI6. "Our goal is to bring a new AI chip design to volume production every 12 months," he said. "We expect to build chips at higher volumes ultimately than all other AI chips combined," he added.

Apple will launch its new iPad Air in March-April 2026, and the device will be offered in the same 11-inch and 13-inch size options as its predecessor, reports stated. The device will be thicker and heavier than the iPad Pro, featuring LED display. It'll be powered by the M4 chip, whose CPU is up to 30% faster than its predecessor.

Google VP Amin Vahdat told employees that the company needs to deliver "1,000 times more capability, compute and storage networking" to meet demand for AI services, CNBC reported. To reach the target, Vahdat said, the company will have to double its serving capacity every six months. "The competition in AI infrastructure is the most critical," he added.

Tesla CEO and the world's richest person Elon Musk posted, replied to or shared content 1,716 times on his X account during a month, according to an NBC News analysis. On average, he posted around 55 times per day. Nearly half of his posts (49%) were about politically charged topics, while 41% were about his companies, including xAI and SpaceX.

Around 26 major Indian e-commerce platforms submitted self-declaration letters to the government, confirming compliance with the dark-pattern guidelines. Zepto, Zomato, Myntra, Netmeds, Meesho, Jiomart, Swiggy and Flipkart are among these e-commerce platforms. Dark patterns included false urgency, basket sneaking, confirm shaming, subscription traps, interface interference and disguised ads.

Google has developed a way for its latest Pixel 10 smartphones to transfer images and files with iPhones using Apple’s AirDrop protocol. To send file from Pixel 10 over AirDrop, an iPhone user needs to change phone's settings to make it discoverable to anyone, which has automatic 10-minute time limit. The feature named 'Quick Share', has broken Apple's green-walled ecosystem.

Google considers India one of the most intense markets for AI-driven scams, with industrial-scale deepfake fraud and "digital arrest" scams. To combat these frauds, the tech giant planned to set up on-device scam detection for Pixel 9 devices in India and new screen-sharing alerts for financial apps. India lost $789-million due to online scams in first five months of 2025.

India’s Global Capability Centres (GCCs) are rapidly adopting AI, especially Agentic and Generative AI, a new report stated. This has led to a 17-18% hiring surge for these centres, although total hiring in the IT sector dropped in the quarter ending September. Around 58% of GCCs are already investing in Agentic AI, while 29% may scale it up in 2026.

Chinese researchers have conducted a simulation study to explore ways to jam the signals of Elon Musk's satellite internet service Starlink, SCMP reported. The findings suggest jamming Starlink across an area matching Taiwan would require 1,000 to 2,000 electronic warfare drones. Under the study, researchers simulated the positioning of Starlink satellites over 12 hours above eastern China.