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Alphabet's Google must pay $32.5 million (roughly Rs. 268 crore) in damages for infringing one of smart-speaker maker Sonos's patents in its wireless audio devices, a San Francisco federal jury decided on Friday. The case is part of a sprawling intellectual property dispute between the former collaborators that includes other lawsuits in the US, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The companies previously worked together to integrate Mountain View, California-based Google's streaming music service into Sonos products. Sonos first sued Google for patent infringement in Los Angeles and at the US International Trade Commission in 2020, accusing the tech giant of copying its technology during their collaboration in devices including Google Home and Chromecast Audio. Sonos last year won a limited import ban on some Google devices from the ITC , which Google has appealed. Google has countered with its own patent lawsuits in California and at the ITC, accusing Sono

Lenovo Tab M9 has been launched in India on Friday. The new Android tablet by the Chinese company comes with a metal body with a dual-tone design and supports facial unlocking. The Lenovo Tab M9 runs on MediaTek Helio G80 SoC, coupled with up to 4GB of RAM and a maximum of 64GB of onboard storage. It has dual stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos technology and an 8-megapixel camera at the rear. The Lenovo Tab M9 is backed by a 5,100mAh battery that is claimed to offer up to 13 hours of video playback time on a single charge. Lenovo Tab M9 price in India Price of the Lenovo Tab M9 starts in India at Rs. 12,999. The tablet comes in Frost Blue and Storm Grey colour variants and will go on sale starting June 1 across Amazon, Flipkart, and Lenovo.com. It will also be available through offline retail channels. The Lenovo Tab M9 was launched globally during CES 2023 with a starting price of $139 (roughly Rs. 12,000) Lenovo Tab M9 specifications The Tab M9 by Lenovo runs on Android 12 and

OpenAI , the startup behind the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, said Thursday it will award 10 equal grants from a fund of $1 million (roughly Rs. 8,300 crore) for experiments in democratic processes to determine how AI software should be governed to address bias and other factors. The $100,000 (roughly Rs. 82 lakh) grants will go to recipients who present compelling frameworks for answering such questions as whether AI ought to criticize public figures and what it should consider the “median individual” in the world, according to a blog post announcing the fund. Critics say AI systems like ChatGPT have an inherent bias due to the inputs used to shape their views. Users have found examples of racist or sexist outputs from AI software. Concerns are growing that AI working alongside search engines like Alphabet's Google and Microsoft's Bing may produce incorrect information in a convincing fashion. OpenAI, backed by $10 billion (nearly Rs. 81, 950 crore) f

Chinese search engine giant Baidu's CEO Robin Li said on Friday that the company will "very soon" officially launch Ernie 3.5, a generative AI large-language model that will power Baidu's ChatGPT -like app Ernie Bot and upgrade its search engine. Li made the announcement at the Zhongguancun Forum, one of China's most well-known technology forums, around two months after Ernie Bot was first shown to the public to mixed reviews. Since then, Ernie Bot and other products powered by the company's generative AI large-language model have remained in trial mode, with a select number of companies and users invited to test the products and provide feedback. Earlier this month, Baidu said its experience in tailoring its search engine to Chinese regulatory requirements makes it confident its AI-driven chatbot won't make mistakes on "important and sensitive topics"  On a call with analysts, Baidu CEO Li said the company was waiting for government appro