Search profiles are a dedicated, shareable space to highlight content across social media, video and news platforms, and help audiences find accurate and up-to-date information about sources on Search.

People can easily follow a source from their new Search profile, so they’re more likely to see content from that source on Discover on the Google app.

Search profiles give publishers and creators a central place to showcase their latest articles, videos and social posts. People can easily follow sources from their profile, so they’re more likely to see that content on Discover, found on the home screen of the Google app. Search profiles can be accessed on mobile via a creator or publisher’s knowledge panel (the information box on Search for notable people, places and things), by tapping the name of a publisher or creator on Discover, or through a direct URL.

To start, publishers and creators with a sizable following on at least one major social or video platform can claim their Search profile and customize it with an avatar, bio, website, social media and video platforms, and other important content. Claiming a profile may trigger the creation of a knowledge panel for eligible publishers and creators. If you already have a knowledge panel, it will be enhanced with your updated avatar, latest content, and a direct profile link.

Search profiles will initially launch in the US. In the future, we’ll look to expand Search profiles to more publishers and creators around the world, and add more capabilities to make profiles even more useful. We look forward to seeing how these new profiles help publishers and creators shape their presence and highlight their work on Search.

Source: Google

Anthropic is calling for top AI labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose societal risks.

The ability to slow global AI development would “likely be a good thing,” the company said Thursday in a blog post that disclosed internal data documenting how quickly its most advanced models are improving.

The post, written by the head of its internal research institute and a company co-founder, noted that model advances appear to be on a path toward “recursive self-improvement,” when AI systems can improve on their own without human intervention. Some AI insiders have seen that threshold as a potential marker of danger and enormous societal upheaval.

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” the post, written by Marina Favaro and Jack Clark, says. It proposes a global agreement on how to potentially slow development and a mechanism for verifying that competitors are respecting it.

The post cautions that recursive self-improvement hasn’t yet happened and isn’t inevitable, “but could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.”

The $1 trillion startup warns artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention

Anthropic has recently emerged as the front-runner in a ferocious competition for AI supremacy with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Jason Henry for WSJ

Source: WSJ

Info Edge reports that Shiksha’s decline in traffic from AI-powered search is now directly impacting billings.

Q4 FY26 billings dropped 13% year-over-year, the platform’s first decline in six quarters.

CEO Hitesh Oberoi acknowledged the “AI Search headwinds,” noting that Google increasingly answers queries directly rather than directing users to websites.

Shiksha is the education arm of Info Edge. It reported a 13% decline in billings to Rs 45.1 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 (Q4 FY26), down from Rs 51.8 crore in the year-ago quarter.

Shiksha is now focusing on domestic counselling, AI voice bots, and service-led monetisation instead of traffic-driven growth.

Source: Medianama

The move comes after Bengaluru-based quick home services startup Pronto confirmed it was testing opt-in recordings during household tasks, triggering concerns around surveillance, consent and the use of customer-home data for AI training.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has taken cognisance of the controversy around Pronto's in-home recording pilot and is looking into the matter, government sources told Moneycontrol, bringing greater regulatory scrutiny to how startups use customer-home data for AI systems.

The development comes after Bengaluru-based home-services startup Pronto confirmed it was testing an opt-in feature involving recordings during cleaning and other household tasks, triggering debate around surveillance, consent and the use of customer-home data for AI training purposes.

The controversy also pushed rival home-services startups to publicly distance themselves from similar practices. Urban Company cofounder Abhiraj Singh Bhal and Snabbit founder Aayush Agarwal denied claims on social media that their companies were actively deploying recording systems inside customer homes.

The issue has drawn attention because of the rapid rise of India’s instant home-services segment, where startups such as Pronto, Snabbit and Urban Company are aggressively expanding rapid cleaning and household assistance offerings. Moneycontrol had earlier reported that combined monthly active users across the three platforms crossed 10 million earlier this year.

Privacy experts say the larger concern is not just the recordings themselves, but the absence of clear regulatory guardrails around how such data could eventually be reused for AI systems.

“Pronto’s collection of personal data has brought to the forefront several uncertainties within the DPDPA, 2023, particularly when it comes to the use of personal information for AI training purposes,” said Kamesh Shekar, Associate Director at The Dialogue, a technology policy think tank.

“Although Pronto may delete the underlying data after 48 hours, concerns remain around prompt-data reuse and the broader challenge that AI-generated inferences cannot simply be ‘unlearned’ like human memory,” he added.

Source: Money Control

The company seems to be positioning Forum as a platform that functions similarly to Reddit, describing the app as a “dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about.”

After you sign in with your Facebook account, Forum will load in your groups, profile, and activity, and let you make posts with a nickname, just like on the standard Facebook app. Meta noted that your groups still exist on Facebook, and anything you share on Forum will be visible in your groups on Facebook.

Meta says Forum’s feeds are centered on conversations within groups, allowing users to see “what real people are saying, not just what’s trending,” and making it easy to pick up where they left off.

The app includes an AI-powered “Ask” tab that lets users ask questions and receive answers compiled from discussions across different groups. There’s also an admin AI assistant to help administrators manage groups and moderate content.

Source: Tech Crunch