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Jio has unveiled its latest series of JioBharat Phones, which now come with multiple safety features. The company said that the handsets will be most useful for the caretakers of the elderly, parents of children, and women, as they ship with location monitoring capabilities, usage manager, and up to seven-day battery backup. Additionally, the company unveiled its new Jio AI Classroom course.

Anthropic's new office will be located in Bengaluru, widely recognized as the technology hub of India, and operations will start early 2026, the company said. The location would serve as its second office in the Asia Pacific region after Tokyo.

Google is bringing Search Live in AI Mode to India, the company announced on Wednesday. It makes India the first country outside the US to receive the feature. Search Live in AI Mode, notably, is a two-way conversational feature which allows users to hold voice conversations with the AI chatbot. Alongside, Google also announced the expansion of AI Mode to seven new Indian languages.

OpenAI has banned several accounts, potentially linked to China, that attempted to use ChatGPT for mass surveillance, social media monitoring, and profiling. Some accounts also sought assistance in developing tools targeting Uyghurs and other sensitive topics. OpenAI confirmed no such tools were actually built, and accounts from Russia attempting phishing-related uses were also blocked.