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Pan India Internet acquires IndiaOnline.com
NEW DELHI: Pan India Internet, an online internet company based out of Delhi (India), has recently acquired the top level domain –www.IndiaOnline.com – for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition comes as a major breakthrough for the company, which is already running India’s largest online network of 350 city-based websites by the name India Online Network, under the main portal – www.IndiaOnline.in
Each city and state of India has been covered through an identical website like www.DelhiOnline.in,www.MumbaiOnline.in, www.ChennaiOnline.inetc.
Each city website under the network acts as a one stop platform for the users to search for any kind of information within any city of India. Each city site further offers multiple services like – local search engine, news and weather updates, classifieds, events, city guide, discussion forums, jokes, games etc. The company has also launched the IndiaOnline.in mobile app, which can be downloaded through the Google Play Store.
IndiaOnline director Rahul Jalan said, “Acquiring the domain IndiaOnline.com is a major breakthrough for us considering the importance of a dot com domain for a network like ours. The network will continue to run under the main site www.indiaonline.in and this new domain indiaonline.com will simply be used to redirect users to our main site. This domain was originally owned by a foreign based company and we are extremely proud to bring this domain back to India.”
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OpenAI researcher Zoe Hitzig resigns over ChatGPT ad plans
Zoe Hitzig says an ad-driven model could put user privacy and AI integrity at risk.
CALIFORNIA: OpenAI researcher Zoe Hitzig has resigned from the company, citing concerns about the introduction of advertising in ChatGPT. Hitzig, who spent two years working on AI development and governance, announced her departure in a guest essay for The New York Times, just as the company began testing ads.
Hitzig’s main concern is not the presence of ads itself, but the long-term financial pressure they could create. While OpenAI maintains that ads will be clearly labelled and will not influence the AI’s responses, she argues that dependence on ad revenue can eventually change how a company operates.
She also expressed concern about the vast amount of sensitive data OpenAI holds, questioning whether the company can resist the tidal forces that push businesses to monetise private information.
“I resigned from OpenAI on Monday. The same day, they started testing ads in ChatGPT. OpenAI has the most detailed record of private human thought ever assembled. Can we trust them to resist the tidal forces pushing them to abuse it?” she wrote in a post on X.
Her warning points to a growing tension between business priorities and ethical responsibility, raising the question of whether a company can deliver objective AI responses while also keeping advertisers happy. It also underscores concerns around data privacy, as OpenAI handles vast amounts of personal information, creating risks that go beyond those faced by earlier tech platforms. At the same time, there are fears about future integrity, with financial pressures potentially pushing AI systems to favour engagement over accuracy or safety.
As ChatGPT moves from a purely subscription-based model toward a more commercial approach, the industry is watching closely. For Hitzig, the shift represents a fundamental change in OpenAI’s mission, raising concerns that the drive for profit could eventually compromise the integrity of the technology.
