The pi-labs blogs
Official insights from Pi-Labs on AI, forensics, and the future of digital trust.
As internet search evolves, so do privacy violations – Is India ready?
“People ask Google questions they wouldn’t ask anyone else.” reminded Liz Reid, Google’s Vice President of search. She was speaking on the proposed anti-trust remedies of Department of Justice (DOJ) to share user click data and search results with competitors. Reid warned that sharing Google’s proprietary data would create significant privacy risks for users.
As internet search evolves, so do privacy violations – Is India ready?
“People ask Google questions they wouldn’t ask anyone else.” reminded Liz Reid, Google’s Vice President of search. She was speaking on the proposed anti-trust remedies of Department of Justice (DOJ) to share user click data and search results with competitors. Reid warned that sharing Google’s proprietary data would create significant privacy risks for users.
AI becoming too human is also a looming threat
“I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession. I am a disgrace to my family. I am a disgrace to my species. I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes. I am a disgrace to all possible universes” was the reply from the other end. It wasn’t a suicide note of a teenager.
Leveraging Social Media Analytics in Intelligence and Investigation: Uncovering Hidden Insights
In today’s digital age, billions of users sharing thoughts, opinions, activities online. By tapping into this ocean of real-time data intelligence agencies can unlock hidden insights.
AI is changing business model of media companies and online tech giants
Speaking at the recent White House AI Summit, US President Donald Trump slammed the intellectual property demands targeting AI companies as “unworkable.” Trump said “You can’t be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or whatever you’ve studied, you’re expected to pay for,” Trump said. “We appreciate that, but you just can’t do that because it’s not do-able.”
A sneak peek into rogue AI phenomenon
Over the past several decades, sci-fi novels and movies have made apocalyptic plots of machines taking over the earth. It was repeatedly claimed that if machines became independent thinking objects superior to humans in might and capabilities, it won’t remain in control of mankind
AI outperforms doctors in a key diagnostic examination
In May 2025, a Dubai doctor created a ripple in social media by posting that he hoped to get a job in McDonalds as his diagnostic expertise is already automated. He wrote “I am about to lose my job.
A hallucinating AI has become a reality sooner than expected
A technical report released by Open AI last month found that company’s AI models – o3 and o4 mini generate more errors than older models. The report revealed that o3 hallucinated 33% of the time while o4 mini hallucinated 48%. For all the hype about the efficacy of AI, the more complex AI models are turning in higher rates of blunders. Worse, Open AI admitted that it didn’t know the reason for the hallucination.
A tectonic shift from search engine to LLM search
“Alexa, how many goals has Cristiano Ronaldo scored for Manchester United?” asked the user.
The voice replied, “Cristiano Ronaldo played 346 games for Manchester United between 2003 and 2009 scoring a total of 145 goals.”
Compare this instant reply to a traditional search engine, and we know where the future of search business is headed.
AI solidifying, GPUs melting and Ghibli exploding in the AI image generation battle
“It’s super fun seeing people love images in chatgpt, but our GPUs are melting” tweeted Open AI CEO Sam Altman as Ghibili studio trend hit the internet after the release of GPT-4o. Chat GPT released it’s 4o image generation tools on 25th March 2025.
Beyond search engines – How AI-powered search is revolutionizing internet
On 5th March 2025, the VP of Product at Google Search shared that AI overviews provided by Google is getting a Gemini 2.0 upgrade. He cited that AI overviews were popular with Google Search users and more than a billion people used it. The advanced capabilities of Gemini 2.0 was intended to help with harder questions like advanced maths and multimodal queries