The surveillance risks of UP govt's 'CCTVs at petrol pumps' order
MediaNamaby Azdhan·5h ago
When a vehicle enters a petrol pump, Uttar Pradesh government wants the fuel stations in the National Capital Region (NCR) to have CCTVs with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) capabilities...
MeitY to release AI regulation consultation paper in a month
MediaNamaby Azdhan·5h ago
The time for AI regulations has come, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said during the launch of the World Development Report 2026.
Meta Muse builds hourly dossiers on users and their contacts
MediaNamaby Prabhanu Kumar Das·6h ago
Meta’s AI personal assistant Muse builds continuously updated dossiers on its users and people they mention, tracking relationships, goals, and behavioural patterns, according to internal...
Only 23% Indian firms use AI despite rising investment: World Bank
MediaNamaby Ann Mary Peter·7h ago
- Access the World Bank report here According to the World Bank’s October 2026 India Development Update, only 23% of surveyed formal firms in India use artificial intelligence, despite significant...
Fan clubs can use celebrities' public photos unless they cause legal harm, Delhi HC told in Janhvi Kapoor case - MEDIANAMA
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·7h ago
Fan pages that use publicly available photos of a celebrity should be allowed unless they defame the celebrity, breach their privacy or falsely suggest an endorsement, Gautam Bhatia told the Delhi...
MeitY widens labelling for social media beyond synthetic content
MediaNamaby Anjali Tripathi·9h ago
– With inputs from Nikhil Pahwa MediaNama has found that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has asked social media platforms to give priority to complaints from...
Elon Musk blames ‘Monopolistic Oligarchs’ for Starlink India delay
MediaNamaby Azdhan·9h ago
Elon Musk alleged in a cryptic post that Indian ‘oligarchs’ were blocking Starlink’s launch in India.
Swish Go tests no-fee delivery: Prices vs Swiggy and Zomato
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·10h ago
Quick food delivery startup Swish is piloting Swish Go, a feature that delivers orders from third-party restaurants and cloud kitchens, Inc42 reported on October 7.
NPCI receives requests from merchants, fintechs to delay UPI MDR rollout
MediaNamaby Prabhanu Kumar Das·11h ago
Merchant bodies, fintechs and payments companies have asked the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to delay UPI merchant discount rate (MDR) implementation until January 2027, according...
Meta adds AI checks for child abuse ads, actions 5.3 million items
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·12h ago
Meta has added new artificial intelligence (AI) tools to detect ads that covertly direct users to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) hosted on other platforms, the company said in a blog post on...
CCPA fines Meesho Rs 10 lakh over sale of unregistered herbicide, rejects intermediary defence - MEDIANAMA
MediaNamaby Rohit Singh·12h ago
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has fined e-commerce platform Meesho Rs 10 lakh for allowing the sale and advertisement of an unregistered herbicide.
Delhi HC told profit not enough for takedowns in personality rights cases
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·1d ago
Making money from a celebrity’s image should not, on its own, be enough for courts to order platforms to takedown content, Gautam Bhatia told the Delhi High Court (HC) on October 7 in the Janhvi...
RBI to make account aggregators interoperable
MediaNamaby Azdhan·1d ago
Access the original RBI press release here: [ URL | Archived copy ] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made three major announcements through a recent press release.
Janhvi Kapoor, Jr NTR AI deepfake sparks calls for regulation
MediaNamaby Azdhan·1d ago
A recent sexually explicit AI deepfake video of actress Janhvi Kapoor, involving her co-actor Jr NTR, has drawn strong condemnation from celebrities, who are calling for AI deepfake regulations...
Meta, TikTok, X take on Ofcom as it probes Instagram Instants
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·1d ago
Meta, TikTok and X are fighting United Kingdom (UK) regulator Office of Communications (Ofcom) in the High Court over how much data it has asked them to hand over, Reuters reported.
Trump Rules Out US-China Joint Ventures on AI
MediaNamaby Ann Mary Peter·1d ago
We missed this earlier: President Donald Trump has stated that he will not enter into any joint venture with China on artificial intelligence, saying that doing so would be equivalent to handing...
Modi Calls for Global Tech Rules, Origin Tracking for Deepfakes and AI Content
MediaNamaby Aakriti Bansal·1d ago
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for “global standards and common rules for emerging technologies” and suggested exploring mechanisms that would let users immediately identify the origin of...
OpenAI agents' web probes raise questions for India's UPI plans
MediaNamaby Anjali Tripathi·1d ago
This is an opinion piece. A forensic firm spent 48 hours reconstructing, from public records alone, what agents linked to OpenAI did between March and September.
Kevin Rudd on four minimum AI guardrails that US-China should agree on
MediaNamaby Nikhil Pahwa·1d ago
“Are we actually saying to ourselves that we are going to sit back and wait for a catastrophic event, a seriously catastrophic event, in order to cause the body politic in those countries and...
Indian drone manufacturer AITMC files IPO papers
MediaNamaby Amit Singh·2d ago
Drone manufacturer AITMC Ventures has filed its updated draft red herring prospectus (UDRHP) with SEBI for an initial public offering (IPO), with the maiden issue comprising entirely of a fresh...
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