Top Tech News Today: India-Made iPhone 15 Sold On Launch Day For The First Time, Amazon Prime Video To Show Ads, More

The iPhone 15 series was made available for pre-orders last Friday.

India-made devices have also been made available in other parts of the world, reports say.

In A First, India-Made iPhone 15 Being Sold On Launch Day

In a first, India-assembled vanilla iPhone 15 and 15 Plus started retailing in the country on Friday (September 22) on the day of launch. India-made devices have also been made available in other parts of the world, reports say. Apple is said to have shifted 7 per cent of iPhone assembling in India. The new iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus devices are being manufactured by Apple's contract manufacturer Foxconn's production unit near southern Indian Chennai. 

Amazon Prime Video To Show Ads Starting 2024

Advertisements are coming to Amazon Prime Video’s entertainment content, starting next year, the company announced on Friday. The ad-supported tiers are coming to Prime Video in 2024 amid the company's attempt to squeeze new revenue. Ads in movies and series will be introduced in Prime Video in the US, the UK, Germany and Canada in early 2024. The ad-supported tiers will be introduced in France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, and Australia later in the year. Notably, rival and streaming giant Netflix also introduced ad-supported plans earlier this year which saw five million monthly active users (MAUs), just six months after its launch, the company announced in May. 

ChatGPT To Create 'Shockingly Detailed' Images Soon

OpenAI's viral chatbot ChatGPT is now generating shockingly detailed images. ChatGPT parent OpenAI has started testing a new version of its DALL·E image generator within a small group of testers. According to the company, users of ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise will soon get the ability to generate images with this new version of its DALL·E 3. It will be integrated into ChatGPT next month.

Centre Aims To Meet 70% Of Country's IT Hardware Demand Through Local Production

The central government plans to meet up to 70 per cent of the country's demand for IT hardware through domestic production within the next three years and cut dependence on imports from non-trusted sources, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday. "At present, almost 80 per cent of our supplies to the digital ecosystem come from imports and only 8-10 per cent of our supply requirement comes from India. We want to make that 65-70 per cent in the next three years," the minister told journalists.