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Time of India
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra welcome a baby girl, step into their most heartwarming role yet
What began as a dreamy on-screen pairing in Shershaah has now blossomed into the most heartwarming chapter of real life. According to a report by Zoom, actors Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra have welcomed their first child—a baby girl—on Tuesday at a hospital in Mumbai. While the couple has yet to make an official announcement, their fans are already celebrating the news, showering the new parents with blessings and well wishes across social media. A Long-Awaited Joy The couple had announced their pregnancy on February 28 with a heartfelt post that read, 'The greatest gift of our lives. Coming soon.' That moment, which marked the beginning of their journey toward parenthood , was cherished by fans who had followed their love story from its subtle beginnings to their grand wedding in Jaisalmer. Now, as they embrace parenthood, it feels like a full-circle moment—not just for them but for their admirers who've watched this love story unfold with every shared glance, every wedding photo, and every post brimming with affection. View this post on Instagram A post shared by KIARA (@kiaraaliaadvani) A Love That Grew With Grace Kiara and Sidharth's love story has always been one of quiet grace and private affection. Though they kept their relationship away from the public eye for a long time, their chemistry was palpable. It wasn't until filmmaker Karan Johar confirmed the rumours on Koffee With Karan in 2022 that fans received an unofficial nod to what many already suspected. A year later, on February 7, 2023, they tied the knot in a regal yet intimate ceremony at Jaisalmer's Suryagarh Palace. The wedding, attended by close friends like Shahid Kapoor, Mira Rajput, and designer Manish Malhotra, was nothing short of a fairytale. Lights, Camera, Parenthood Even as they begin this new phase, Kiara and Sidharth continue to shine professionally. Kiara is currently filming Toxic alongside Yash and has major titles like War 2 with Hrithik Roshan and Don 3 with Ranveer Singh on her slate. Sidharth, on the other hand, is set to appear in VVAN: Force of the Forest, a folk thriller that's scheduled for release in November. The couple is also rumoured to be teaming up again for an upcoming project with Maddock Films, giving fans more to look forward to.
Mid East Info
3 hours ago
- Business
- Mid East Info
Zoom rolls out new agentic AI offerings to save time and drive connections - Middle East Business News and Information
Zoom AI Companion now connects with 16 third-party apps, including ServiceNow, Jira, Salesforce, Asana, and Box, to complete tasks and orchestrate agents Custom AI Companion add-on is now available to online customers, delivering extended capabilities, including AI meeting summaries across top meeting platforms and customized meeting summaries Zoom expands core AI Companion capabilities, including real-time call questions, voice recorder for in-person meetings, and meeting agenda creation, included at no additional cost with paid Zoom licenses July 2025 — Zoom Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) today delivered new agentic AI capabilities to help users complete tasks across platforms and save time during the work day. With the Custom AI Companion add-on, Zoom AI Companion can now connect to 16 third-party apps to help orchestrate tasks without leaving Zoom. Additionally, the Custom AI Companion add-on is now available for online purchase, enabling small business owners to leverage AI Companion across third-party video conferencing platforms, customize meeting summary templates, create custom avatars, and connect third-party apps to boost productivity, and help them get more done so they can focus on building and growing their business. 'With Zoom AI Companion's agentic skills, users will see a significant productivity boost to help them get more done — not just in Zoom, but across business-essential apps like ServiceNow, Jira, Salesforce, Asana, Box, and more,' said Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom. 'The Custom AI Companion add-on empowers users to streamline their workflows by having AI Companion join their Zoom Meetings and in-person meetings, and can now access AI Companion across other video conferencing platforms.' New connected third-party apps for Custom AI Companion add-on With the Custom AI Companion add-on, users can now connect to 16 third-party apps. AI Companion uses agentic AI capabilities to maximize efficiency, helping users save time and get more done without leaving Zoom Workplace. With the Custom AI Companion add-on, users can already connect to apps like Amazon Q, Glean, and Jira to deliver powerful indexing, enterprise search, and ticketing capabilities. New app connectors also deliver context-rich answers and help complete tasks across workstreams with intelligent app orchestration. Improve sales and service outcomes: Accelerate decisions and improve customer satisfaction by empowering teams to resolve service tickets, track opportunities, and update records in real-time, directly from Zoom. When connected to Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zendesk, AI Companion helps organizations streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and ensure customer interactions drive meaningful business results. Reimagine document collaboration: When connected to Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Box*, Confluence, Notion, or Coda, AI Companion helps drive meaningful conversations with secure access to existing documents during meetings, and the ability to generate new documents based on current meetings, update existing documents with simple prompts, or get a quick summary of a document. * Not all document features available at launch. Simplify project management: Keeping teams updated on projects and activities can be challenging, but when connected to Asana and Jira, users can query and command project tools, using AI Companion to update project statuses, assign tasks, and set deadlines without app-juggling or manual workflows. Reduce communication silos: Keep chats and ideas organized in Slack with the ability to search, summarize, and post messages from AI Companion. Recruit and onboard new talent: When connected to Workday, AI Companion can help expedite recruiting, interviews, and onboarding workflows with search and summary capabilities about open jobs and candidate profiles. Custom AI Companion add-on expands to online customers AI Companion captures meeting summaries from Microsoft Teams with the Custom AI Companion add-on. Many entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, small business owners, and consultants often find themselves switching meeting platforms throughout their day to take calls with clients and stakeholders, without a central way to organize their meeting notes. The Custom AI Companion add-on, now available for purchase online, expands AI Companion's meeting summary capabilities to third-party video conferencing platforms, and delivers agentic AI capabilities to help small businesses get more done: Professional service providers like consultants and freelancers can simplify workflows and save time beyond Zoom Meetings, Zoom Phone calls, and in-person meetings by using AI-generated meeting summaries across third-party meeting platforms. With connections to third-party applications like Asana, they can automatically have projects updated in Asana without leaving the meeting. Sales professionals can nurture relationships with prospects and clients while reducing admin time by automatically updating sales records in CRMs like Salesforce, based on the conversation. Educators can go beyond meeting summaries and lecture plans to reliably generate summaries and takeaways with custom summaries that can be shared with students to reinforce learning, and create personalized videos using Custom Avatars for Zoom Clips to connect with students in different languages. With the Custom AI Companion add-on, small businesses can connect AI Companion to the 16 aforementioned apps, plus tailor AI Companion skills to address their unique needs and drive efficiency across their organizations: Work across platforms: Zoom is an open platform, and AI Companion can attend third-party meetings, including Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, with Cisco Webex support coming soon. AI Companion can join meetings on a user's behalf to automatically transcribe, summarize, and deliver actionable follow-ups. Save time with AI-generated clips: With Custom Avatars for Zoom Clips, users can create an avatar in their likeness, provide a transcript of the desired content, and allow AI Companion to generate a clip for them, saving time and helping them scale their efforts. Customize meeting summaries with templates: Users can turn meetings into tailored, actionable summaries by selecting from 11 purpose-built templates designed to reflect the tone, structure, and focus of each meeting and match the meeting goals. Users can turn meetings into tailored, actionable summaries by selecting from 11 purpose-built templates designed to reflect the tone, structure, and focus of each meeting and match the meeting goals. Expand knowledge: Admins can connect Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive accounts as data sources in AI Studio while respecting existing permission controls, and crawl public URLs as a data source for knowledge collections so AI Companion can crawl those pages and provide more relevant answers to users' queries. The Custom AI Companion add-on is now available for purchase online for $12 per user per month with paid Zoom Workplace plans. To learn more about how organizations can tailor AI Companion to meet their unique needs with the Custom AI Companion add-on, visit the Zoom website. Maximize the workday with AI Companion Zoom AI Companion continues to enhance productivity and collaboration across Zoom Workplace. These capabilities are included at no extra charge as part of Zoom AI Companion for all paid Zoom Workplace licenses. Get started faster: The new onboarding experience within the Zoom desktop app makes it easier to configure AI Companion settings, including what meetings are summarized, who summaries are shared with, and how they are shared. Build better meeting agendas: Users can easily add structure to meetings by creating agendas for upcoming meetings from templates. AI Companion can also leverage previous meetings or Zoom Docs to create even more tailored agendas. Get more out of calls: Users can now query AI Companion before, during, and after Zoom Phone calls to help them catch up and gain deeper insights. They can ask questions like, 'What was the disagreement about?' or 'Can you tell me the main points being discussed?' Users can also have AI Companion pull up information from previous conversations, prioritize missed calls, and draft follow-up messages. Summarize documents in chat threads: AI Companion can summarize supported text-based documents shared in Zoom Team Chat to help quickly and efficiently digest new information without leaving the chat thread. Capture notes and tasks for in-person interactions: AI Companion also supports in-person meetings with the Voice Recorder, transcribing, summarizing, and capturing action items, allowing users to focus on the conversation and revisit details and action items later. Easily access meeting assets: Users can access meeting summaries, transcripts, recordings, and event details from the meeting card in the calendar event and via email. Hosts will also be able to share the assets with participants via the meeting card in Zoom Calendar (coming later this month), and participants can request access to the meeting card via the Zoom Calendar event. Seamless sharing: AI Companion can be configured to automatically share meeting summaries to other platforms, to update counterparts and refresh customer records with the latest conversation highlights. Zoom Workplace powers collaboration and productivity Zoom Workplace continues to accelerate collaboration and help users ideate, create, and deliver effective work effortlessly on a single app. Track edits and publish externally in Zoom Docs: Easily track content changes to docs, highlighting content additions, deletions, replacements, and formatting with specific styles. Users can also now publish Zoom Docs as public webpages, accessible to anyone, whether they are logged in or not. Stitch, combine, and create longer clips: Merge multiple Zoom Clips into one seamless video without external apps, preview and make adjustments before finalizing edits, and preserve original content without overwriting original assets. About Zoom: Zoom's mission is to provide an AI-first work platform for human connection. Reimagine teamwork with Zoom Workplace — Zoom's open collaboration platform with AI Companion that empowers teams to be more productive. Together with Zoom Workplace, Zoom's Business Services for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams, including Zoom Contact Center, strengthen customer relationships throughout the customer lifecycle. Founded in 2011, Zoom is publicly traded (NASDAQ:ZM) and headquartered in San Jose, California. Get more information at
Zawya
9 hours ago
- Business
- Zawya
Zoom rolls out new agentic AI offerings to save time and drive connections
Custom AI Companion add-on is now available to online customers, delivering extended capabilities, including AI meeting summaries across top meeting platforms and customized meeting summaries Zoom expands core AI Companion capabilities, including real-time call questions, voice recorder for in-person meetings, and meeting agenda creation, included at no additional cost with paid Zoom licenses Zoom Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) today delivered new agentic AI capabilities to help users complete tasks across platforms and save time during the work day. With the Custom AI Companion add-on, Zoom AI Companion can now connect to 16 third-party apps to help orchestrate tasks without leaving Zoom. Additionally, the Custom AI Companion add-on is now available for online purchase, enabling small business owners to leverage AI Companion across third-party video conferencing platforms, customize meeting summary templates, create custom avatars, and connect third-party apps to boost productivity, and help them get more done so they can focus on building and growing their business. 'With Zoom AI Companion's agentic skills, users will see a significant productivity boost to help them get more done — not just in Zoom, but across business-essential apps like ServiceNow, Jira, Salesforce, Asana, Box, and more,' said Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom. 'The Custom AI Companion add-on empowers users to streamline their workflows by having AI Companion join their Zoom Meetings and in-person meetings, and can now access AI Companion across other video conferencing platforms.' New connected third-party apps for Custom AI Companion add-on With the Custom AI Companion add-on, users can now connect to 16 third-party apps. AI Companion uses agentic AI capabilities to maximize efficiency, helping users save time and get more done without leaving Zoom Workplace. With the Custom AI Companion add-on, users can already connect to apps like Amazon Q, Glean, and Jira to deliver powerful indexing, enterprise search, and ticketing capabilities. New app connectors also deliver context-rich answers and help complete tasks across workstreams with intelligent app orchestration. Improve sales and service outcomes: Accelerate decisions and improve customer satisfaction by empowering teams to resolve service tickets, track opportunities, and update records in real-time, directly from Zoom. When connected to Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zendesk, AI Companion helps organizations streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and ensure customer interactions drive meaningful business results. Reimagine document collaboration: When connected to Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Box*, Confluence, Notion, or Coda, AI Companion helps drive meaningful conversations with secure access to existing documents during meetings, and the ability to generate new documents based on current meetings, update existing documents with simple prompts, or get a quick summary of a document. * Not all document features available at launch. Simplify project management: Keeping teams updated on projects and activities can be challenging, but when connected to Asana and Jira, users can query and command project tools, using AI Companion to update project statuses, assign tasks, and set deadlines without app-juggling or manual workflows. Reduce communication silos: Keep chats and ideas organized in Slack with the ability to search, summarize, and post messages from AI Companion. Recruit and onboard new talent: When connected to Workday, AI Companion can help expedite recruiting, interviews, and onboarding workflows with search and summary capabilities about open jobs and candidate profiles. Custom AI Companion add-on expands to online customers AI Companion captures meeting summaries from Microsoft Teams with the Custom AI Companion add-on. Many entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, small business owners, and consultants often find themselves switching meeting platforms throughout their day to take calls with clients and stakeholders, without a central way to organize their meeting notes. The Custom AI Companion add-on, now available for purchase online, expands AI Companion's meeting summary capabilities to third-party video conferencing platforms, and delivers agentic AI capabilities to help small businesses get more done: Professional service providers like consultants and freelancers can simplify workflows and save time beyond Zoom Meetings, Zoom Phone calls, and in-person meetings by using AI-generated meeting summaries across third-party meeting platforms. With connections to third-party applications like Asana, they can automatically have projects updated in Asana without leaving the meeting. Sales professionals can nurture relationships with prospects and clients while reducing admin time by automatically updating sales records in CRMs like Salesforce, based on the conversation. Educators can go beyond meeting summaries and lecture plans to reliably generate summaries and takeaways with custom summaries that can be shared with students to reinforce learning, and create personalized videos using Custom Avatars for Zoom Clips to connect with students in different languages. With the Custom AI Companion add-on, small businesses can connect AI Companion to the 16 aforementioned apps, plus tailor AI Companion skills to address their unique needs and drive efficiency across their organizations: Work across platforms: Zoom is an open platform, and AI Companion can attend third-party meetings, including Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, with Cisco Webex support coming soon. AI Companion can join meetings on a user's behalf to automatically transcribe, summarize, and deliver actionable follow-ups. Save time with AI-generated clips: With Custom Avatars for Zoom Clips, users can create an avatar in their likeness, provide a transcript of the desired content, and allow AI Companion to generate a clip for them, saving time and helping them scale their efforts. Customize meeting summaries with templates: Users can turn meetings into tailored, actionable summaries by selecting from 11 purpose-built templates designed to reflect the tone, structure, and focus of each meeting and match the meeting goals. Expand knowledge: Admins can connect Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive accounts as data sources in AI Studio while respecting existing permission controls, and crawl public URLs as a data source for knowledge collections so AI Companion can crawl those pages and provide more relevant answers to users' queries. The Custom AI Companion add-on is now available for purchase online for $12 per user per month with paid Zoom Workplace plans. To learn more about how organizations can tailor AI Companion to meet their unique needs with the Custom AI Companion add-on, visit the Zoom website. Maximize the workday with AI Companion Zoom AI Companion continues to enhance productivity and collaboration across Zoom Workplace. These capabilities are included at no extra charge as part of Zoom AI Companion for all paid Zoom Workplace licenses. Get started faster: The new onboarding experience within the Zoom desktop app makes it easier to configure AI Companion settings, including what meetings are summarized, who summaries are shared with, and how they are shared. Build better meeting agendas: Users can easily add structure to meetings by creating agendas for upcoming meetings from templates. AI Companion can also leverage previous meetings or Zoom Docs to create even more tailored agendas. Get more out of calls: Users can now query AI Companion before, during, and after Zoom Phone calls to help them catch up and gain deeper insights. They can ask questions like, 'What was the disagreement about?' or 'Can you tell me the main points being discussed?' Users can also have AI Companion pull up information from previous conversations, prioritize missed calls, and draft follow-up messages. Summarize documents in chat threads: AI Companion can summarize supported text-based documents shared in Zoom Team Chat to help quickly and efficiently digest new information without leaving the chat thread. Capture notes and tasks for in-person interactions: AI Companion also supports in-person meetings with the Voice Recorder, transcribing, summarizing, and capturing action items, allowing users to focus on the conversation and revisit details and action items later. Easily access meeting assets: Users can access meeting summaries, transcripts, recordings, and event details from the meeting card in the calendar event and via email. Hosts will also be able to share the assets with participants via the meeting card in Zoom Calendar (coming later this month), and participants can request access to the meeting card via the Zoom Calendar event. Seamless sharing: AI Companion can be configured to automatically share meeting summaries to other platforms, to update counterparts and refresh customer records with the latest conversation highlights. Zoom Workplace powers collaboration and productivity Zoom Workplace continues to accelerate collaboration and help users ideate, create, and deliver effective work effortlessly on a single app. Track edits and publish externally in Zoom Docs: Easily track content changes to docs, highlighting content additions, deletions, replacements, and formatting with specific styles. Users can also now publish Zoom Docs as public webpages, accessible to anyone, whether they are logged in or not. Stitch, combine, and create longer clips: Merge multiple Zoom Clips into one seamless video without external apps, preview and make adjustments before finalizing edits, and preserve original content without overwriting original assets. To learn more about Zoom Workplace, visit the Zoom website. About Zoom Zoom's mission is to provide an AI-first work platform for human connection. Reimagine teamwork with Zoom Workplace — Zoom's open collaboration platform with AI Companion that empowers teams to be more productive. Together with Zoom Workplace, Zoom's Business Services for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams, including Zoom Contact Center, strengthen customer relationships throughout the customer lifecycle. Founded in 2011, Zoom is publicly traded (NASDAQ:ZM) and headquartered in San Jose, California. Get more information at
Tom's Guide
13 hours ago
- Tom's Guide
7 most underrated apps to download to your 4K smart TV
Smart TVs these days come loaded with apps. Right out of the box, they've got some of the best streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video pre-loaded, but once you tap into their respective app stores, there are even more options to choose from. With over 10,000 apps to choose from on the Google TV Store, and plenty more on Tizen, WebOS and Roku, there's apps for everything from gaming to productivity. Not all of them are totally worth the download, though. So where should you start? I've listed all my personal favorite TV apps below. Of course, some might not be available across each TV interface, but for the most part there are alternatives you can find in each app store. Given the constant barrage of security breaches companies face these days, consistent mindfulness and safety when using the internet is crucial. That's why downloading a VPN (Virtual Private Network) is at the top of my list when it comes to TV-based apps. You might not think it, but even TVs can be the subject of hacks and data breaches. Last year, LG TVs were at risk from hackers spying on users and thousands of Roku accounts hacked. That being said, VPNs are imperative for staying safe when using any device connected to the internet. There are several options among the best VPNs to go with, but the most obvious choice would probably be NordVPN. It's the most widely available option and it even has an extensive support page that explains how to download across most TV interfaces. Although you should simply connect your PC to your TV for the best gaming experience, sometimes it's simply not possible to fit both your gaming PC and your big-screen TV in the same room. That's where Steam Link comes into play, allowing you to stream your PC games to your living room TV. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. It's by no means the most fluid way to game on a TV and you probably won't net the highest frames while doing this (unless you're hardwired in, and even then there might still be some frame drops). But it's an extra way to get yourself gaming on a TV if you have limited space but still love PC gaming. You might think that sitting at your desk in front of your PC screen or smartphone is the best method for jumping into daily meetings, but nothing beats the large screen in front of your couch. That's why having Zoom on your TV is a blessing, allowing to see a wider view of those in the call and sit comfortably in front of the screen. If Zoom isn't the de facto video conferencing app for your company, feel free to substitute in Google Meet, which is downloadable on the Google Play Store, or FaceTime, which is likewise available on Apple TV hardware. All three are great picks. Casting content is not always easy. Sure, sometimes your TV will support AirPlay or Chromecast right out of the box, but not always. That's where AirScreen comes into play. It works just like other casting software, allowing you to cast from a wide range of devices directly to the TV. In fact, AirScreen is equipped with literally every protocol, including Google Cast, AirPlay, DLNA, and Miracast, which means you don't have to fret if your TV or device doesn't support it. While subscriptions are available for AirScreen, it's totally free and it's available on a wide set of TV interfaces. It's the best way to ensure your TV has the full bandwidth to support every casting protocol in the market. There are a number of reasons why you might need to send some files to your TV in a pinch, and doing it the old fashion way with a USB stick is a bit cumbersome. Instead, you can just go with Send Files to TV (yes, that's what the app is called). It's the fastest and easiest way to get files on your TV. Some reasons why you might need this app include being able to transfer files from one TV to another, or uploading some videos to your display. Maybe you want to see home videos from the comfort of your couch, or listen to downloaded music without using something like Spotify. One primary reason I can see this being a lifesaver is for TV software updates. Just in the past few weeks, Samsung's Tizen OS on 2024 models got a major update. While you could simply wait for the update to take using Wi-Fi, you could also speed up the process by downloading the update and sending the new firmware to the TV. A problem I run into a lot on some of the newer TVs is poor Wi-Fi signal. I tend to gravitate toward checking my signal using a phone or PC, but to get the best results and understand how your TV specifically is working within your network, you'll want to download Ookla Speedtest for the clearest picture. Pro tip: I always recommend hardwiring your TVs to the router, but if you can't, use Ookla to figure out where in the room you get the best wireless reception. Not all TV remotes are equally useful. That's why I recommend getting yourself the Button Mapper app. This app lets you customize how each button on your remote functions. So, say your remote has a button that opens directly to Netflix, but you never use Netflix. You can now re-map that button to Disney Plus or Prime Video — whatever suits your fancy. You can even go a step further and change things like the home button or other assorted functions on the remote, which is pretty handy if it doesn't have a backlight like the Roku Voice Remote Pro. Now, you'll just have to memorize them all.
Axios
a day ago
- General
- Axios
That blank look you're getting? It's called the 'Gen Z stare'
There's a fight simmering on TikTok over the 'Gen Z stare' — the blank look some young adults might give you when you talk to them. Why it matters: Depending on who you ask, the stare either means the Zoomer in question thinks you're a total moron — or that kids today don't have social skills. How it works:"It is this blank, deer-in-the-headlights stare that you guys have and it's like, 'oh my god is a real live person talking to me," one TikTokker said. "We're not talking about the stare that everyone gives a boomer," she clarifies. The stare is particularly common among customer service workers, judging from the online videos. Zoom out: "If you spent your formative years on Zoom, you didn't get much exposure to learning how people give each other visual cues that they're listening," said Kate Lindsay, a millennial, who wrote about the stare on her Substack, Embedded. The other side: Gen Z says the blank look is their response when someone says something baffling and/or stupid — like asking if there's banana in a strawberry banana smoothie. Plus, they just don't like small talk. Reality check: Teens and 20-somethings have long considered their elders to be cringe-worthy idiots. The big picture: The fight is the next chapter in the generational war playing out on TikTok between millennials and their young rivals. The bottom line: The younger generations are fighting among themselves — over something that may or may not be real.
