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Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale 2025 is now open to all shoppers, offering discounts across categories, including smartphones, laptops, TVs, and home appliances. PC peripherals are also seeing major price cuts, with printers from Canon, Epson, and HP included. The event provides a good chance to upgrade rigs with more affordable accessories.

Xiaomi Pad 8 and Xiaomi Pad 8 Pro have launched as the successors to the Xiaomi Pad 7 lineup and feature 11.2-inch displays with 144Hz refresh rate and 3.2K resolution. Powered by Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 and 8s Gen 3 chipsets respectively, they run HyperOS 3 based on Android 16. Both models include side-mounted fingerprint sensors and support 67W fast charging with an 8,850mAh battery.

Ghost of Yotei’s technical accomplishments, its meaningful mechanical upgrades, and its compelling visual presentation make it a near-complete package that’s near-impossible to not recommend. It is more Ghost of Tsushima, for sure — and that’s good enough for many — but it’s also more than that.

iQOO 15 will launch soon in China. The exact launch date is still under wraps, but the company has confirmed that iQOO 15 will be one of the first to be equipped with the newly launched Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC. It is teased to boast a 6.85-inch 2K display. It is available for pre-reservations in China.

OpenAI is reportedly preparing to introduce ads on ChatGPT as part of a wider monetisation push. The company is said to be hiring a head of monetisation, who will oversee subscriptions, APIs, new revenue channels, and ad integration. The role will report to Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications, while details on ad formats remain unclear.