Technology
Mirai launches the first plugins on ChatGPT that allow bookings on the hotel’s direct channel
Mirai, a technology company specializing in direct hotel sales, has begun rolling out the first plugins for its hotel clients on ChatGPT. Guests and users of the Emperador and Moderno hotels in Madrid, along with the Porcel Hoteles chain in Granada and Gloria Thalasso & Hotels in the Canary Islands, can now interact with them directly from ChatGPT using natural language.
Wikimedia Says Suspected OpenAI AI Agents Generated Millions of Requests, Made Unauthorised Edits: Report
The Wikimedia Foundation says it has identified activity from AI agents it believes were operated by OpenAI across its projects. The reported activity included unauthorised wiki edits, attempts to use Etherpad to retrieve information from other websites and millions of requests to Wikimedia APIs. The Foundation also linked hundreds of thousands of Wikidata Query Servi...
Google Unveils EmbeddingGemma 2 With Multimodal Search and On-Device AI Support; Nano Banana 2.1 Announced
Google has announced EmbeddingGemma 2 as its latest open, lightweight multimodal embedding model. It is designed for on-device multimodal embeddings, natively mapping combinations of text, images, audio, and video into a unified embedding space. The EmbeddingGemma 2 weights are available through Hugging Face and Kaggle. It is built on the Gemma 4 architecture, and th...
eDreams ODIGEO and Amazon Alexa collaborate to bring AI travel search to Alexa+
eDreams ODIGEO, the world’s leading travel subscription platform, today announced a strategic collaboration with Alexa+, Amazon’s next-generation AI assistant, to power travel discovery and booking for the AI assistant. The global travel subscription leader is bringing its pioneering artificial intelligence capabilities to the Alexa-enabled and connected devices, opening a new channel for customers to plan their trips.
Michigan farm used this 10.22-kg rock as a doorstop for decades. It was a meteorite
A 10.22-kg rock used as a barn doorstop on a Michigan farm for decades has been confirmed as an iron meteorite from the IIIAB group. Found after a reported 1939 fall near Edmore, the rock was identified by Central Michigan University and later studied by the Smithsonian Institution.
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Airtel Announces Free International Roaming on All Postpaid Plans With 5GB Data, 60 Minutes Calls
Airtel announced free international roaming for all postpaid subscribers in India on Wednesday. The move aims to alleviate the expense of international roaming, which has traditionally been an additional cost for mobile users travelling abroad, with operators offering separate packs for data, calls, and SMS. The benefit will extend to every member on eligible Airtel p...
Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds
Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?
Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds
Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?
Tourist puts a free tourist discount card on travelers’ phones
Tourist is a free app for iOS and Android that works as a digital tourist card. Travelers show the card at local restaurants, cafés, tours, hotels and shops and get a discount on the spot, with no codes and no booking. A map in the app shows the deals nearby.