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Elections 2024: Meta’s awareness campaign ‘Know What’s Real’ to tackle misinformation in India

The 'Know What's Real' initiative, spanning eight weeks, is geared towards educating users on identifying and addressing misinformation prevalent on WhatsApp and Instagram. By promoting digital best practices and showcasing available safety tools, Meta hopes to empower its user base in navigating the complex landscape of online information. (Image source: CNBC-TV18)

Meta is also part of the several big tech firms globally who have pledged to help prevent deceptive AI content from interfering with this year’s global elections.

DPIIT’s Rajesh Kumar Singh: This year we will most likely be granting one lakh plus patents

Rajesh Kumar Singh, secretary, Department for Promotion Of Industry And Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry Of Commerce And Industry, Government Of India spoke of two sets of funding windows: the Seed Fund Scheme for early stage start-ups, and the Fund Scheme which is channelized through the Small Industry Development Bank of India (SIDBI) that leverages about Rs. 10,000 crores of government funding to various alternative investment funds (AIFs), to support startups that are already established.

At the India Digital Summit (IDS) 2024, Rajesh Kumar Singh, secretary, Department for Promotion Of Industry And Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry Of Commerce And Industry, Government Of India in a fireside chat with Prateek Maheshwari, co-chair, India Edtech Consortium and Co-founder, Physics Wallah, touched upon the government’s investment in digital and physical infrastructure, their plans to boost investments in the startup ecosystem and a lot more.

Naukri’s Hitesh Oberoi to new-age entrepreneurs: Generate revenue from customers than relying on investors

“Deep tech start-ups, particularly those leveraging fundamental technologies for innovation, show great promise for the future,” Info Edge's Hitesh Oberoi added, suggesting that tech companies were poised for significant growth.

At the India Digital Summit 2024, Hitesh Oberoi, co-promoter, managing director & chief executive officer of Naukri, spoke on the potential of tech companies, and the journey of Info Edge in a conversation with Neeraj Roy, founder & chief executive officer, Hungama Digital Media.

Google upgrades AI system for advertisers with Gemini models

The court imposed a Rs 1 lakh fine on Google for providing inaccurate information and failing to disclose details about the European Patent Office's rejection of the patent application. (Representative Image: Lauren Edvalson via Unsplash)

Google announced several new features to help advertisers scale and build high-quality assets — including bringing Gemini AI models into Performance Max.

ChatGPT, Gemini rival?: Bhavish Aggarwal’s Krutrim launches an AI chatbot

Krutrim means 'artificial' in Sanskrit. According to the company, Krutrim is “an AI model of our own, built on local Indian knowledge, languages, and data.” (Image source: Moneycontrol)

Krutrim’s AI chatbot is its first product after founder Bhavish Aggarwal announced the venture in December.

Former Twitter engineers building AI-powered newsreader called Particle

The company says, Particle Media, Inc.(PMI in short) is intended to redefine the way users consume web contents. It is a technology-driven interest-oriented content portal, “Interest Portal” in short, which facilitates users to efficiently define and explore their interests, evolves users’ interest by continuously learning from their interactions with the contents as well as the social circles, and algorithmically delivers the most personally relevant contents with respect to users’ interests. (Representative Image: Roman Martyniuk via Unsplash)

Particle leverages AI to summarize the news, but also aims to do so in a way that fairly compensates authors and publishers.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman revealed as Reddit’s third-largest shareholder

Sam Altman's OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is backed by Alphabet's rival Microsoft, which owns search engine Bing. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

As Reddit prepares for an IPO, it says that most of its revenue is from advertising. Also, highlights artificial intelligence as a growth area.

Navigating the ever-evolving dynamics of content production for OTT

Regional OTT content volumes exceeded Hindi language content in 2023 for the first time. (Representative Image: Bastian Riccardi via Unsplash)

In India’s content production landscape, creators and producers often find themselves without
ownership or intellectual property (IP) rights for their work.

Indonesia revenue-sharing law and Big Tech: Meta refuses to pay for news content shared on its platforms

"Following multiple rounds of consultations with the government, we understand Meta will not be required to pay for news content that publishers voluntarily post to our platforms," said Rafael Frankel, Meta's director of public policy for Southeast Asia. (Image source: Unsplash)

President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo signed a decree requiring digital platforms to pay media outlets that provide them with content.

Google introduces new OpenAI model for individuals and businesses to build on

YouTube will begin to require creators to disclose when they’ve created realistic altered or synthetic content, and will display a label that indicates for people when they’re watching this content. (Representative Image: Mitchell Luo via Unsplash)

This move is likely to attract software engineers to build on the tech company’s technology and encourage the usage of profitable cloud divisions, highlighted a report.