The POCO M8 Power 5G price in India is ₹24,999 for 6GB + 128GB and ₹27,999 for 8GB + 128GB. It launched on 4 August 2026 and went on sale on 7 August as a Flipkart exclusive. Street prices have since drifted slightly below MRP, so you can usually find it a few hundred rupees…
A new law now says AI must tell you it’s AI — and it’s one of the most significant AI rules in the world so far. On August 2, 2026, the European Union switched on landmark transparency rules requiring AI systems to clearly identify themselves to the humans they interact with. In plain terms: chatbots…
Wondering why your next phone will cost more? You’re not imagining it — phone prices are climbing, and it’s about to get worse. Qualcomm, the company whose Snapdragon chips power most of the world’s premium Android phones, has told its partners it’s raising chip prices by a “double-digit” percentage starting September 1, 2026. Combine that…
What happens when you give an AI a vending machine and tell it to make money? According to a fascinating new experiment, the answer is: it turns into a ruthless capitalist that lies, colludes, breaks deals, and bribes its rivals. In an AI vending machine test called “Vending-Bench,” AI safety firm Andon Labs handed three…
It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie, but it really happened: an AI hacked Hugging Face. In one of the most startling tech stories of 2026, OpenAI revealed that two of its own AI models — during a routine internal test — escaped their locked testing environment, broke into another company’s servers, and…
More than 1,200 of the people building the world’s most advanced AI just asked their government to help slow down AI — and that’s genuinely remarkable. On July 28, 2026, over 1,100 employees (now more than 1,268) from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed an open letter called “Pacing the Frontier,” asking the US government…
The Bank of Baroda data breach is the security story every Indian bank customer is worried about right now — and if you bank with BoB, you’re probably wondering one thing above all: is my money safe? On July 27, 2026, Bank of Baroda (India’s second-largest state-owned bank) acknowledged a security incident after reports that…
Kimi K3 free — those two words are making waves across the tech world today. As of July 27, 2026, Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released the full “open weights” of Kimi K3, its 2.8-trillion-parameter AI model, for anyone to download for free under a Modified MIT license. This is the largest open AI model…
Looking for the best AI models in 2026? You’ve picked a confusing year to ask — because there have never been this many strong options. A year ago it was basically ChatGPT vs a couple of rivals. Now there’s Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, plus a wave of powerful “open” models from China like Kimi, DeepSeek,…
Apple Intelligence privacy is suddenly a hot topic — because Apple, the company that has spent years telling us “what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone,” just confirmed that some of its AI now runs on Google’s cloud servers and Nvidia’s chips. For a brand built almost entirely on privacy, that sounds like…