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Pune Highway is a Thriller drama movie that has finally landed on your digital screens. Written and directed by Bugs Bhargava Krishna and Rahul Da Cunha, Pune Highway revolves around a group of friends who have been together since childhood, and find themselves trapped in a murder mystery. As the dead body is acquired from 200 km from their residential building, a lot of questions arise. Their connection has to pass the test. The movie is a multistarrer with prominent faces like Jim Sarbh, Amit Sadh, and more.

When and Where to Watch Pune Highway

Pune Highway is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Viewers will need a subscription to watch the movie.

Official Trailer and Plot of Pune Highway

Pune Highway is a thriller movie that follows three friends, who have been raised together in the same building, find themselves trapped in a murder mystery. A dead body is recovered from a lake, which is situated at a distance of 200 Km from their home. However, things take a wild turn when their friendship is put at stake due to their connection with the murder. As the investigation proceeds, some shocking truths are uncovered. The mystery and thrilling sequences within the movie keep the audience glued to their seats until the end.

Cast and Crew of Pune Highway

Pune Highway is a multi-starrer movie with some of the talented star cast like Amit Sadh, Jim Sarbh, Anuvab Pal, Sudeep Modak, Manjari Fadnnis, Shishir Sharma, Ketaki Narayan, and more. The writers and directors of the movie are Bugs Bhargava Krishna and Rahul Da Cunha. The music composition of the movie has been delivered by Shor Police, while the cinematography has been done by Deep Metkar.

Reception of Pune Highway

Pune Highway was theatrically released on May 23rd, 2025, wherein it received a decent response from the audience and the critics. The IMDb rating of the movie is 8.1/10.

Mivi AI Buds in-ear earphones were launched in India on Friday. The company’s latest truly wireless stereo (TWS) earphones come equipped with a voice-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that users can talk to hands-free. Dubbed Mivi AI, it is claimed to be a context-aware assistant with memory function, and requires being connected with the companion app to function. The earphones feature a 13mm driver, a quad microphone setup, and are claimed to offer up to 40 hours of total playtime, with the case. The Mivi AI Buds are currently available to purchase.

Mivi AI Buds Price in India, Availability

Mivi AI Buds price in India is set at Rs. 6,999 as per a press release. However, the earphones are currently listed on the official Mivi India website at Rs. 5,999. The earphones are available in Black, Bronze, Champagne, and Silver colour options. The earphones will be available to purchase on Flipkart and the Mivi India website.

Mivi AI Buds Features and Specifications

The Mivi AI Buds have an unibody metallic body with hourglass-inspired stem design and a glossy finish. The design of the TWS earphones are similar to the Mivi SuperPods Concerto, which were launched in March. The earbuds feature a 13mm driver, quad microphone setup, and weigh 52g (inclusive of the case).

Mivi AI Buds feature a 3D soundstage and support for spatial audio. They offer Bluetooth 5.4 and LDAC codec support. These earbuds also support active noise cancellation, but the company did not provide any details about them. The Mivi AI Buds are claimed to offer a total of 40 hours of playtime, with the case and the case takes one hour to charge.

Apart from this, the earbuds come with IPX4 rating for water ingress, dual connectivity, and a gaming mode.

Mivi AI Features

One of the major highlights of the TWS earphones is the Mivi AI assistant. The voice-based AI system can be directly accessed from the earbuds, as long as they’re connected to the Mivi AI companion app. While the AI assistant can function without a screen, users have the option to opt for a text-based modality via the app. The Mivi AI assistant can be activated with the wake phrase “Hi Mivi.”

Mivi AI comes with five pre-loaded avatars — Chef, Guru, Interviewer, News Reporter, and Wellness Coach. These are custom chatbots that have specific domain expertise, and can be accessed simultaneously. The Guru avatar is a knowledge expert that can break down complex topics; the Interviewer assists in interview preparations; the Chef can help by providing step-by-step recipes; the News Reporter offers personalised news curation; and the Wellness coach is designed to listen to users and their troubles without passing judgment.

Gadgets 360 spoke with Mivi earlier this year, and the company said that Mivi AI will be offered as a free service. In the long run, however, the brand is planning to turn it into a freemium model where it will offer more premium features with a paid subscription.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 are expected to launch next week as the company’s next foldable phones. While details about the purported handsets’ specifications, features, and pricing previously surfaced online, a publication has now shared images of accessories for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7. The South Korean tech giant could launch silicone, clear, faux leather, and carbon fibre cases, as well as an anti-reflective screen protector for both foldable phones.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 Clear Case Said to Feature Built-In Magnets

Android Headlines leaked images of three types of cases for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, which is expected to be unveiled at the Galaxy Unpacked event on July 9. The company will reportedly launch a Carbon Shield Case, Clear Case, and a Silicone Case. The renders of all three cases give us an idea of what to expect from these accessories.

Silicone cases for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 (top) and Galaxy Z Flip 7
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The Clear Case is equipped with a opaque grip with the world “Fold” embossed on it, and this case only covers the rear portion of the phone, according to the publication. Meanwhile, the new Carbon Shield Case is said to feature a small section that is designed to protect the cover display. The Silicone Case is seen in Black, Blue, Gray, and Mint colour options, with a kickstand embossed with the word “Fold”.

In another report, the publication states that Samsung will launch a Clear Case, Kindsuit Case, and a Silicone Ring Case for the Galaxy Z Flip 7. The Clear Case is expected to be available in two variants that feature a ring that’s located between the folding panels, and one of the clear case variants is said to have built-in magnets for wireless charging.

The Samsung Kindsuit case (faux leather) for the Galaxy Z Flip 7 will reportedly be available in Black, Camel, and Taupe colourways. Customers will also be able to purchase a Silicone Ring Case for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, in Black, Blue, Coral, Mint, and Red colour options.

Both the Samsung Galazy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 can also be equipped with an optional first-party anti-reflective film to protect the cover display, according to the report. We’ll have to wait until July 9, which is when Samsung is expected to unveil the foldable phones at the next Galaxy Unpacked 2025 event.

Nvidia hit a market value of $3.92 trillion on Thursday, briefly putting it on track to become the most valuable company in history, as Wall Street doubled down on optimism about AI.

Shares of the leading designer of high-end AI chips rose as much as 2.4 percent to $160.98 in morning trading, giving the company a higher market capitalization than Apple’s record closing value of $3.915 trillion on December 26, 2024.

The shares were last up 1.5 percent at $159.60, leaving Nvidia’s stock market value at $3.89 trillion, just short of Apple’s record.

Nvidia’s newest chips have made gains in training the largest artificial-intelligence models, fueling demand for products by the Santa Clara, California, company.

Microsoft is currently the second-most valuable company on Wall Street, with a market capitalization of $3.7 trillion as its shares rose 1.7 percent to $499.56.

Apple rose 0.8 percent, giving it a market value of $3.19 trillion, in third place.

A race among Microsoft, Amazon.com, Meta Platforms, Alphabet and Tesla to build AI data centers and dominate the emerging technology has fueled insatiable demand for Nvidia’s high-end processors.

“When the first company crossed a trillion dollars, it was amazing. And now you’re talking four trillion, which is just incredible. It tells you that there’s this huge rush with AI spending and everybody’s chasing it right now,” said Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading.

The stock market value of Nvidia, whose core technology was developed to power video games, has increased nearly eight-fold over the past four years, from $500 billion in 2021 to now near $4 trillion.

Nvidia is now worth more than the combined value of the Canadian and Mexican stock markets, according to LSEG data. The tech company also exceeds the total value of all publicly listed companies in the United Kingdom.

Nvidia recently traded at about 32 times analysts’ expected earnings for the next 12 months, below its average of about 41 over the past five years, according to LSEG data. That relatively modest price-to-earnings valuation reflects steadily increasing earnings estimates that have outpaced Nvidia’s sizable stock gains.

The company’s stock has now rebounded more than 68 percent from its recent closing low on April 4, when Wall Street was reeling from President Donald Trump’s global tariff announcements. US stocks, including Nvidia, have recovered on expectations that the White House will cement trade deals to soften Trump’s tariffs.

Nvidia’s swelling market capitalization underscores Wall Street’s big bets on the proliferation of generative AI technology, with the chipmaker’s hardware serving as the foundation.

The sharp increases in the shares of Nvidia and other Wall Street heavyweights have left people who save for their retirements through widely used S&P 500 index funds heavily exposed to the future of AI technology.

Nvidia now accounts for 7 percent of the S&P 500. Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Alphabet together make up 28 percent of the index.

“I strongly believe that AI is a greatly productive tool, but I am fairly sure that the current delivery of AI via large language models and large reasoning models are unlikely to live up to the hype,” cautioned Kim Forrest, chief investment officer at Bokeh Capital Partners.

Co-founded in 1993 by CEO Jensen Huang, Nvidia has evolved from a niche company popular among video game enthusiasts into Wall Street’s barometer for the AI industry.

The stock’s recent rally comes after a slow first half of the year, when investor optimism about AI took a back seat to worries about tariffs and Trump’s trade dispute with Beijing.

Chinese startup DeepSeek in January triggered a selloff in global equities markets with a cut-price AI model that outperformed many Western competitors and sparked speculation that companies might spend less on high-end processors.

In November of last year, Nvidia took over the spot on the Dow Jones Industrial Average formerly occupied by chipmaker Intel, reflecting a major shift in the semiconductor industry toward AI-linked development and the graphics processing hardware pioneered by Nvidia.

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iQOO 13 was first introduced in India in December 2024 in Legend and Nardo Grey colourways. Now, a third colour variant has been unveiled. Aside from the new colour, the phone is identical to the existing handset. It is equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, features a dedicated gaming chip, and packs a 6,000mAh battery. The iQOO 13 has a 144Hz 2K LTPO AMOLED display, and a 50-megapixel triple rear camera unit. The new colour variant will go on sale later this month.

iQOO 13 Price in India, Colour Options

The iQOO 13 is priced at Rs. 54,999 and Rs. 59,999 for the 12GB + 256GB and 16GB + 512GB RAM and storage configurations, respectively for the new Ace Green colour option. The phone is now available in three colours including Legend and Nardo Grey colour options. The new green variant will go on sale in the country starting July 12, at 12am IST via Amazon and the iQOO India e-store, the company revealed in a press release.

iQOO 13 Specifications, Features

The iQOO 13 features a 6.82-inch 2K (1,440×3,186 pixels) LTPO AMOLED screen with a 144Hz refresh rate and up to 1,800nits peak brightness level. It is powered by a 3nm octa-core Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC and a dedicated in-house gaming Q2 chip. For heat dissipation, it is equipped with a 7,000 sq mm vapour chamber. The handset offers up to 16GB of LPDDR5X Ultra RAM and up to 512GB of UFS 4.1 storage. It ships with Android 15-based Funtouch OS 15.

For optics, the iQOO 13 carries a 50-megapixel main sensor, a 50-megapixel ultrawide shooter, and a 50-megapixel telephoto camera with 2x optical zoom at the back. There’s a 32-megapixel sensor at the front for selfies and video calls.

iQOO 13 houses a 6,000mAh battery with support for 120W wired fast charging. It is claimed to meet IP68 and IP69 ratings for dust and water resistance. The phone supports 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, NFC, GPS, and USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C connectivity. It measures 8.13mm in thickness and weighs 213g.

Ilya Sutskever has taken over the reins of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year, after losing CEO Daniel Gross to an intensifying talent war in the industry.

Gross has joined Meta Platforms to lead its AI products division, sources told Reuters.

The development comes as tech giants such as Meta Platforms aggressively chase high-profile acquisitions and offer multi-million-dollar pay packages to attract top talent in the race to lead the next wave of artificial intelligence.

Meta had also attempted to recruit Sutskever and acquire SSI, which was most recently valued at $32 billion (roughly Rs. 2,73,402 crore), sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

“You might have heard rumors of companies looking to acquire us. We are flattered by their attention but are focused on seeing our work through,” Sutskever said in a post on X. SSI raised $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,543 crore) in cash last year to build advanced AI systems designed to safely exceed human intelligence.

Sutskever has previously served as OpenAI’s chief scientist. He left the ChatGPT maker, which he co‑founded, after his involvement in Sam Altman’s dramatic firing and rehiring in November 2023.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, to unify the company’s AI efforts, following setbacks with its Llama 4 model and key staff departures.

The unit will be led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and ex-GitHub chief Nat Friedman, after Meta invested $14.3 billion (roughly Rs. 1,22,178 crore) in Scale and ramped up efforts to recruit top AI talent.

Gross and Friedman are known to be close, having co-founded the venture capital firm NFDG — named after their initials. The firm has backed high-profile startups including Safe Superintelligence, Perplexity and Figma.

Meta has offered to buy a minority stake in NFDG’s funds from limited partners through a tender offer, the sources told Reuters.

The Facebook owner did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, while NFDG could not be reached.

Apple acquired Gross’s startup, Cue, in 2013 for its predictive search and AI technology, after which Gross joined the iPhone maker as a director, overseeing machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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Alphabet’s Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers, which has also asked for an interim measure to prevent allegedly irreparable harm to them, according to a document seen by Reuters.

Google’s AI Overviews are AI-generated summaries that appear above traditional hyperlinks to relevant webpages and are shown to users in more than 100 countries. It began adding advertisements to AI Overviews last May.

The company is making its biggest bet by integrating AI into search but the move has sparked concerns from some content providers such as publishers.

The Independent Publishers Alliance document, dated June 30, sets out a complaint to the European Commission and alleges that Google abuses its market power in online search.

“Google’s core search engine service is misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss,” the document said.

It said Google positions its AI Overviews at the top of its general search engine results page to display its own summaries which are generated using publisher material and it alleges that Google’s positioning disadvantages publishers’ original content.

“Publishers using Google Search do not have the option to opt out from their material being ingested for Google’s AI large language model training and/or from being crawled for summaries, without losing their ability to appear in Google’s general search results page,” the complaint said.

The Commission declined to comment.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority confirmed receipt of the complaint.

Google said it sends billions of clicks to websites each day.

“New AI experiences in Search enable people to ask even more questions, which creates new opportunities for content and businesses to be discovered,” a Google spokesperson said.

The Independent Publishers Alliance’s website says it is a nonprofit community advocating for independent publishers, which it does not name.

The Movement for an Open Web, whose members include digital advertisers and publishers, and British non-profit Foxglove Legal Community Interest Company, which says it advocates for fairness in the tech world, are also signatories to the complaint.

They said an interim measure was necessary to prevent serious irreparable harm to competition and to ensure access to news.

Google said numerous claims about traffic from search are often based on highly incomplete and skewed data.

“The reality is that sites can gain and lose traffic for a variety of reasons, including seasonal demand, interests of users, and regular algorithmic updates to Search,” the Google spokesperson said.

Foxglove co-executive director Rosa Curling said journalists and publishers face a dire situation.

“Independent news faces an existential threat: Google’s AI Overviews,” she told Reuters.

“That’s why with this complaint, Foxglove and our partners are urging the European Commission, along with other regulators around the world, to take a stand and allow independent journalism to opt out,” Curling said.

The three groups have filed a similar complaint and a request for an interim measure to the UK competition authority.

The complaints echoed a US lawsuit by a U.S. edtech company which said Google’s AI Overviews is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers’ ability to compete that have resulted in a drop in visitors and subscribers.

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Baidu reportedly released a new artificial intelligence (AI) video generation model on Wednesday. As per the report, the MuseStreamer AI model can also integrate Chinese audio in the generated videos, making it the second such model after Google’s Veo 3. The tech giant claims it to be the world’s first AI model with native Chinese audio generation support. Alongside the introduction of the large language model (LLM), the company reportedly also launched a new video content creation platform dubbed HuiXiang. Notably, neither MuseStreamer nor HuiXiang is currently available outside of China.

Baidu’s MuseStreamer Can Reportedly Generate Chinese Audio

The world of AI video generation model has evolved significantly in the last two years. We have moved from models that struggled to generate people with a fixed number of fingers to LLMs which can now accurately depict realistic physics and motion. However, one area most AI players have refrained from entering was videos that also supported audio natively.

At Google I/O 2025, the tech giant became the first company to offer this capability with Veo 3, which immediately became talk of the town, leaving its biggest rival, OpenAI’s Sora, behind. The Mountain View-based tech giant recently expanded Veo 3 in all the 154 countries where the Gemini app is available, highlighting the company’s aggressive push for this tool.

However, according to a Tech in Asia report (via AI Base), Chinese tech giant Baidu has also entered the race with its MuseStream AI model. It is said to generate videos with Chinese audio, and the only model with the capability to do so. Notably, Veo 3 can only generate audio in the English language.

MuseStreamer can reportedly not only generate dialogues that are synced with the videos, it can also add sound effects and ambient noises in the videos. Baidu is said to have claimed that the model achieved a score of 89.38 percent on the VBench I2V benchmark, ranking at the top. The tech giant is pitching the LLM as a content creation tool for consumers.

Alongside the AI model, Baidu has reportedly also launched a new video content platform dubbed HuiXiang. HuiXiang is said to serve as the front-end for the AI model, where users can share prompts and generate videos. The platform currently supports 10-second-long video generations at 1080p resolution, the report stated. In comparison, Veo 3 can generate only eight-second-long videos. There is no clarity over the default aspect ratio of the video, and if users can generate videos in different aspect ratios.

Sales of foreign-branded mobile phones in China, including those of Apple, fell 9.7 percent year-on-year in May, according to data released by a government-affiliated research company on Friday.

Calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed that May shipments of foreign-branded phones in China fell to 4.54 million handsets from the same month last year.

As the largest foreign mobile phone maker in China’s smartphone-dominated market, Apple’s performance plays a significant role in the overall data on foreign-branded phone sales in the country.

Apple has faced increased competition from domestic rivals and has cut prices to stay competitive. Chinese e-commerce platforms offered discounts of up to 2,530 yuan ($351) on Apple’s latest iPhone 16 models in May.

The CAICT data did not give specific figures for Apple.

Shipments of phones within China were down 21.8 percent year-on-year to 23.72 million handsets for the month, the data showed.

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Huawei Watch Fit 4 series was unveiled in select global markets alongside the Huawei Watch 5 in May. Now, the company has brought the Watch Fit 4 and Watch Fit 4 Pro watches to India. The smartwatches sold here share identical features to their global counterparts. They feature functional buttons and 1.82-inch AMOLED displays. The watches support in-built GPS and are claimed to offer up to 10 days of usage on a single charge. The Watch Fit 4 lineup offer a 5ATM water resistance rating.

Huawei Watch Fit 4 Series Price in India

The price of the base Huawei Watch Fit 4 is set at Rs. 12,999 in India, according to a Flipkart listing. Meanwhile, the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro is priced at Rs. 20,999.

Notably, although the Pro variant shares the same design and specifications as its global counterpart, it is currently listed on Flipkart as the Huawei Watch Fit 4, omitting the Pro branding. This is likely a listing error.

The Huawei Watch Fit 4 is sold in Black, Grey, Purple, and White strap colour options, while the Pro model is offered in Blue, Black (fluoroelastomer) and Green (nylon) strap variants.

Huawei Watch Fit 4 Series Features, Specifications

Both Huawei Watch Fit 4 and Watch Fit 4 Pro sport 1.82-inch rectangular AMOLED displays with a resolution of 480 x 408 pixels. They support up to 2,000 nits and 3,000 nits brightness levels, respectively. The case is made of aluminium alloy, with the Pro option featuring a titanium alloy bezel. Each watch carries a rotating crown and a side button. 

The Huawei Watch Fit 4 series offer a 5ATM water resistance rating. The Pro variant has an additional IP6X dust resistance rating. The lineup is equipped with health and fitness trackers like heart rate, blood oxygen level (Spo2) and sleep monitors. The Pro model comes with an ECG sensor as well.

Huawei’s Watch Fit 4 and Watch Fit 4 Pro are equipped with Huawei’s Sunflower Positioning System. Alongside regular GPS tracking, they also offer water sports route tracking. They support Bluetooth calling and allow users to manage music playback and camera shutter of the paired device directly from the watch. They are compatible with both iOS and Android devices.

According to Huawei, the Watch Fit 4 and Watch Fit 4 Pro can deliver up to 10 days of battery life on a single charge with minimal usage. Under typical usage conditions, they are said to last up to seven days. With the Always-On Display (AOD) enabled, battery life is claimed to drop to around four days.