Pranav Dixit

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Pranav is a senior editor at Engadget responsible for handling news coverage during west coast hours. He previously spent more than five years in New Delhi as the India-based tech correspondent for BuzzFeed News, writing about the impact of Silicon Valley tech companies on the culture, society, democracy, and politics of more than a billion people in the region. In 2019, he won a Mirror Award a feature about how misinformation that spread through WhatsApp destroyed an Indian village, and was a 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Send him a tip on Signal at +1 408-905-9124 or pranav.dixit@engadget.com

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Apple halts iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro after bricking reports
“We have temporarily removed the iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro models as we work to resolve an issue that is impacting a small number of devices," Apple told Engadget.
OpenAI's new safety board has more power and no Sam Altman
This move comes with a notable shift: CEO Sam Altman is no longer part of the safety committee, marking a departure from the previous structure.
OpenAI's new o1 model is slower, on purpose
The company said that o1's reasoning capabilities are significantly more advanced than previous models, a critical area where most current AI systems still falter.
Apple invents its own version of Google Lens called Visual Intelligence
With just a click, Visual Intelligence can identify objects, provide information, and offer actions based on what you point it at.
There's no Apple Watch Ultra 3, just a new color and a new band
The Ultra 2 now comes in satin black finish, which Apple claims it achieved through a custom blasting process that applies a diamond-like PVD coating, giving the chonky smartwatch a refined and durable look.
The US, UK, EU and other major nations have signed a landmark global AI treaty
The treaty focuses on three main areas: protecting human rights, including privacy and preventing discrimination, safeguarding democracy, and upholding the rule of law.
This startup wants to be the iTunes of AI content licensing
Getting AI companies to pay publishers for fresh data sounds great in theory. But will anyone bite?
OpenAI will now use content from Wired, Vogue and The New Yorker in ChatGPT's responses
The partnership comes amid growing concerns over the unauthorized use of publishers’ content by AI companies.
Google brings the AI feature that told Americans to eat rocks to six more countries
AI Overviews are now available in India, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
Here are all the AI features coming to the Pixel 9 phones
Google is bringing a ton of new AI features with the Pixel 9 phones.
Gemini, Google's AI-powered chatbot, is the default assistant on Pixel 9 phones
You can still use Gemini as your assistant on most current Android phones — but only if you opt in. You must first fire up Google Assistant and tell it to replace itself with Gemini when you are asked.
Google will no longer air an Olympics ad that showed a child using AI to write a fan letter
The backlash reflects the broader debates around the role of AI in creative processes and its potential impact on the quality of human expression.
Google will let you search your Chrome browsing history by asking questions like a human
Google said that it won't directly use your browsing history or tabs to train its large language models, and the feature also doesn't work with pages you browsed in Incognito mode.
Perplexity will put ads in its AI search engine and share revenue with publishers
It’s not clear exactly how much revenue Perplexity will share with publishers. Dmitry Shevelenko, the company’s chief business officer, declined to reveal numbers but told Engadget that it would be a “meaningful double-digit percentage shared back with the publishers that contributed source input to the answer."
OpenAI unveils SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine
The launch of SearchGPT comes amid growing competition in AI-powered search.
Llama 3.1 is Meta's latest salvo in the battle for AI dominance
Meta said that the new model, called Llama 3.1 405B, is the first openly available model that can compete available rivals in general knowledge, math skills and translating across multiple languages.
Google isn’t killing third-party cookies in Chrome after all
Killing cookies, Google said, would adversely impact online publishers and advertisers. This announcement marks a significant shift from Google's previous plans to phase out third-party cookies by early 2025.
Condé Nast has reportedly accused AI search startup Perplexity of plagiarism
The letter, which was sent on Monday, demands that Perplexity stop using content from Condé Nast publications in its AI-generated responses and accused the startup of plagiarism.
Bangladesh is experiencing a ‘near-total’ internet shutdown amid student protests
The unrest is centered around the country’s quota system that requires a third of government jobs to be reserved for relatives of veterans who had fought for Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Meta will withhold multimodal AI models from the EU amid regulatory uncertainty
Meta’s move follows a similar decision by Apple, which recently announced it would not release its Apple Intelligence features in Europe due to regulatory concerns.

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