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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 23:57 EDT

iPhone 18 price leak: Apple may keep costs steady despite rising chip and memory prices

A new leak predicts that while smartphone prices are expected to rise, Apple may not increase the price of its next-gen iPhone. The iPhone 18 is anticipated to follow the same price tag as the iPhone 17. Read more

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Arya Pandey @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 23:43 EDT

Britain proposes curb on Google AI search to protect news publishers

UK watchdog on Wednesday proposed that websites should be allowed to stop the usage of Google AI overviews feature as AI-generated summaries discourage clicks to publishers' original pages, reducing traffic to their sites and in turn cutting their advertising revenue. Read more

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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 23:14 EDT

Apple and Google app stores under fire for hosting AI ‘nudify’ apps that can undress photos

A new report has found that Grok AI was just one of the apps, which was capable of undressing photos. Dozens of such apps are still available on Apple and Google app stores. Read more

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FP News Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 22:56 EDT

Did Nvidia chip help Chinese military boost its AI power? US lawmaker points to DeepSeek link

Rep John Moolenar wrote a letter to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said documents obtained by the committee from Nvidia showed the achievement came after extensive technical assistance from the chipmaker Read more

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FP News Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 21:15 EDT

China approves 3 tech companies to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips: Report

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have been shown the green light to buy more than 400,000 H200 chips in total. Other tech companies are now waiting in the queue to get similar approvals from the government Read more

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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 06:47 EDT

Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts as part of major restructuring drive

Amazon is planning to layoff 16,000 roles out of its total workforce. In the blog Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of People Experience and Technology, said this move is a part of the major restructuring drive in October last year. Read more

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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 06:42 EDT

Superstition of a trillionaire? Elon Musk eyes to time SpaceX IPO to planetary alignment, birthday

Billionaire Elon Musk is weighing a SpaceX IPO date guided as much by superstition as strategy, with people familiar with the matter saying he has floated mid-June to coincide with a rare planetary alignment and his own birthday. Read more

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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 06:16 EDT

Ubisoft layoffs: Up to 200 jobs on the line as Paris HQ faces major restructuring

Ubisoft is planning to slash a significant portion of its workforce at its Paris headquarters, proposing cuts that could impact up to 200 employees, or roughly 20 per cent of its staff. Read more

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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 05:19 EDT

Google expands AI photo editing to India, letting users edit With text or voice commands

Users can now ask Google Photos to perform a range of edits, such as blurring backgrounds, fixing glare, sharpening images, adjusting colours, or even removing reflections from windows, all through text or voice commands. Read more

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Unnati Gusain @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 03:16 EDT

International Data Privacy Day 2026: Is your data truly safe in the digital age?

On International Data Privacy Day, it’s worth asking how much privacy we truly have left in the digital world. Here, we explore how everyday social media platforms and AI technologies quietly chip away at our personal boundaries, often far beyond what we realise. Read more

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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 03:09 EDT

Trump’s diplomacy sparks EU push away from US tech

Mounting tensions between US President Donald Trump are pushing the European Union to rethink reliance on tech, as lawmakers urge digital sovereignty, cut dependence on US firms, and back local alternatives, with France replacing Zoom and Microsoft in government use. Read more

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FP Business Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 02:55 EDT

Japan’s SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30 billion more in OpenAI, valuing ChatGPT owner at $830 billion: Report

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son is set to deepen his “all-in” AI gamble, with talks under way for a fresh multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI as the global race to dominate artificial intelligence accelerates Read more

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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 02:05 EDT

London man sues Police after being wrongly flagged by facial recognition

A London volunteer has launched a legal challenge after being wrongly identified by the Metropolitan Police’s live facial recognition system, as the High Court reviews whether mass deployment of the technology in public spaces breaches privacy laws and lacks limits. Read more

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Arya Pandey @ Firstpost Tech 1 place · 01/28/2026 01:30 EDT

Poland calls on Musk to cut Russian military access to Starlink

Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, has urged Elon Musk to block Russian military access to Starlink after a US think tank said Moscow uses the satellite network to guide drone attacks in Ukraine. Read more

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Unnati Gusain @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 00:54 EDT

Social Media addiction among children: Landmark US lawsuit renews concerns over mental health

Social media addiction among teenagers has taken a worrying turn. In a recent lawsuit against Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, a 19-year-old and her mother have accused the tech giants of knowingly harming children’s mental health. Firstpost spoke to a psychologist to understand the deeper implications. Read more

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FP Tech Desk @ Firstpost Tech · 01/28/2026 00:15 EDT

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra to launch with smart privacy display

Samsung has recently teased a new feature, a smart privacy display, to debut with the Galaxy S26 Ultra. The upcoming privacy screen will allow users to control visibility across specific areas of the display. Read more

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Unnati Gusain @ Firstpost Tech · 01/27/2026 23:59 EDT

China gives green light to importing first batch of Nvidia's H200 AI chips, sources say

The approval covers several hundred thousand H200 chips and was granted during Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang's visit to China this week, the sources said, requesting anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. Read more

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Unnati Gusain @ Firstpost Tech · 01/27/2026 23:34 EDT

Amazon bungles Wednesday layoff plan with misfired internal email

In Slack messages viewed by Reuters, AWS employees who received the email said the Wednesday meeting was almost immediately canceled. Amazon referred in the email to the layoffs as "Project Dawn." Read more

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Unnati Gusain @ Firstpost Tech · 01/27/2026 23:20 EDT

EU steps in to make sure Google gives rivals access to AI services, data

The European Union said on Tuesday it’s stepping in to make sure Google gives rival AI companies and search engines access to Gemini AI services and data as required by the bloc’s flagship digital rulebook. Read more

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Unnati Gusain @ Firstpost Tech 2 place · 01/27/2026 22:52 EDT

Meta CEO Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors, court filing alleges

According to the attorney general, Meta employees messages and internal emails show that the company rejected the recommendations of its integrity staff and declined to impose reasonable guardrails to prevent children from being subject to sexually exploitative conversations with its AI chatbots. Read more

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