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Meta launches smart glasses with built-in display, reaching for 'superintelligence'

CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off what he called Meta Ray-Ban Display, although some demos of the new technology did not go as planned

Trump’s tariffs may hurt GCC economics, but MNCs finding value and talent in India: ANSR’s Vikram Ahuja

India is in the midst of a GCC boom, and poised to add another 500 centres by 2030 from around 1,700 at present, potentially creating 9 lakh new jobs.

Pocket FM now lets Hindi writers in India create AI audio series in a single click

AI Audio Series is part of Pocket FM's broader AI creator suite that aims to help budding writers brainstorm, draft, and experiment faster, while accelerating story production.

Sentient AI launches open source AGI platform to compete with OpenAI, AWS

Till date, Sentient AI has raised around $85 million in seed round from marquee investors including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures. The San Francisco-headquartered startup is currently valued at $1.2 billion.

Nandan Nilekani calls for open AI framework for next-gen models

Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani told a Shell executive that companies should not bet on today’s hottest AI tools but instead design flexible systems that can absorb future models.

OPINION | AI regulations need to let technology find its way forward and avoid intervention in anticipation of harm

FM Nirmala Sitharaman recently said that AI regulations need to keep pace with rapid technological advancements. A lawyer argues that the best way to achieve this goal is to adopt a principles-based approach, with enforcement triggered only when harm is visible

Gen AI revenue lines blur, Happiest Minds pins 25% growth hopes on US market

Experts have long held that Gen AI revenues are difficult to estimate, ever since Accenture disclosed it, since most deals have a component of the nascent technology

Over a dozen AI startups in India set to raise seed rounds amid surge in investor appetite

A bulk of the startups negotiating deals are developing AI agents or are creating tools to facilitate their development. Investors are also spending time on AI companion companies, sources told Moneycontrol.

North Korean hackers used ChatGPT to help forge deepfake ID

The trend shows that attackers can leverage emerging AI during the hacking process, including attack scenario planning, malware development

OPINION | Tech trajectories of India and U.S. are intertwined. A rupture could leave China the victor in the AI battle

For 25 years, India and U.S. have been the two poles of the global tech economy. The former a leader in services and the latter a powerhouse exporter of consumer tech and enterprise software. AI’s changing the rules of the game and China has already made waves. Framing it as India vs. U.S. is a mug’s game

Nasscom ER&D head flags fundamental business model change, as IT sector faces similar churn

KPIT has been able to cut engineering cycle times by as much as 25-30 percent by deploying AI in validation and testing environments.

Claude gets Memory: Anthropic adds Context Recall and Incognito Chats

According to Anthropic, memory is designed for professional use cases. It can remember sales pipelines, product specifications, client details, and ongoing initiatives.

AI boosts IT operations by 40%, ER&D gains still at 15%, says Infosys executive

Engineering research and development requires sector-specific solutions for industries such as automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and energy. These are also the areas where adoption cycles are slower and results take longer to materialise

OPINION | Indian IT is at a crossroads. Their risk appetite will determine if it will be history or reincarnated

The dark clouds of AI disruption and Trump’s hostility to outsourcing are not distant storms, they are already overhead. Whether Indian IT is remembered for its obituary or for its reincarnation depends entirely on the choices it makes in this moment

Apple analyst sentiment hits five-year low after two downgrades

With the downgrades, Apple’s recommendation consensus — a proxy for the ratio of buy, hold, and sell ratings — has dropped to 3.9 out of 5, its lowest since early 2020

From Zomato to boAt, top brands tuning into India's first all-AI band Trilok and virtual influencers

Marketers are lining up to sponsor albums of AI band Trilok as well as its AI influencers, drawn in by their growing reach and novelty.

YouTube unveils India-first separate ad targeting for urban and rural audiences

Google-owned YouTube is also introducing new immersive masthead ads on connected TVs amid rising viewership and ahead of the festive season.

Gen AI spending in ER&D to hit $4 mn from $2.6 mn per project at scale

Efficiency remains the dominant driver of Gen AI initiatives, with organisations reporting more than 50% of their expected return on investment already realised.

Deepfakes drive legal rush: Bollywood stars move courts as Personality Rights battles rise

In the past year alone, at least half a dozen high‑profile public figures have moved the courts to secure injunctions safeguarding their personality rights, reflecting a sharp rise in such litigation, a lawyer said.

Who is Larry Ellison, the man who ended Elon Musk's 300-day reign as world's richest

The jump in fortune is mainly attributable to Ellison’s 41 percent stake in software company Oracle.

Oracle surges on AI cloud growth as customers race to secure computing capacity

The stock was up 34.7%, hitting a record high of $325.90 in early trading, set for its biggest one-day jump since 1992

Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs?

A generation of start-ups have failed to live up to the hype. Executives are now betting that more powerful tools will crack the complexities of human biology

Former IndiaAI mission advisor Aakrit Vaish to launch Activate, an AI fund with a $75 million corpus

General Catalyst, Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity, Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm, Harsh Jain of Dream 11 are among the notable limited partners (LPs) of the fund, sources told Moneycontrol. Activate has already signed its first term sheet.

A91 Partners, Binny Bansal-backed VideoVerse acquired by Minute Media

VideoVerse’s flagship product Magnifi enables sports content owners and rights holders to automatically detect key moments, create highlights in real time, and distribute short-form video content efficiently.

Whatfix launches AI Agents to boost enterprise productivity, expects 25% ARR jump

The first three agents, Authoring, Insights, and Guidance, are now available across Whatfix’s suite.

AI startup Neysa’s cloud platform Velocis to feature AI models, including GPT-OSS

The startup also helps enterprises store their data locally and secure it through air-gapped solutions.

Google expands its AI Mode search feature with Hindi support

AI Mode is Google's attempt to counter answer engines like Perplexity, which have gained ground over the past couple of years.

Sarvam likely to roll out India’s first LLM by early next year, 40,000 GPUs to be empanelled by Centre

Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam had bagged a record 4,096 NVIDIA H100 SXM GPUs under the IndiaAI mission, and was the first startup selected to build India’s foundational AI model under the mission.

MC Interview | Semiconductor will be the next engine of jobs for the country: Ashwini Vaishnaw on India's steel moment

In a wide-ranging interview, Ashwini Vaishnaw spoke about the measures the government is taking to protect IT jobs amid a wave of anti-outsourcing rhetoric from the US, why GST reforms are a game-changer, why real money gaming had to go and progress on India' s AI initiatives.

OpenAI says spending to rise to $115 billion through 2029: Information

The company predicted it could spend more than $8 billion this year, roughly $1.5 billion more than an earlier projection, The Information said.

AI boom, AI bust?

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Ather Energy rules out cell manufacturing, to bet on partnerships instead

While several EV players, including Ola Electric and Reliance New Energy, have announced ambitious plans for giga-scale cell factories, Ather is keeping its focus on design, engineering, technology, and brand.

Uber pilots in-app AI task program for drivers in India

The initiative is part of Uber AI Solutions, the company’s global unit that supports work in areas ranging from training self-driving cars and augmented reality systems to assisting generative AI projects.

After Good Glamm’s fall, Darpan Sanghvi launches AI-powered accelerator CoFounder Circle

“Nearly 50% of CoFounder Circle’s equity will belong to the community; from CoFounder Circle employees and the ecosystem on CoFounder Circle to ex-Good Glamm stakeholders and employees with vested ESOPs,” he said in a LinkedIn post.

Indian GCCs retrain staff as AI engineers to combat talent shortage

A clear majority of India's GCCs are actively upskilling their teams for AI, with over 70% of India’s over 1,700 GCCs now tasked with driving their organisation’s global AI mandate.

India’s deep tech push gets $1 bn boost from Indian and US VCs, first bets already in play

The alliance seeks to bridge long-standing capital gaps in deep tech by channelling funds into high-cost, high-impact areas such as semiconductors, AI, robotics, space, defense, and medical devices.

OpenAI to buy product testing startup Statsig for $1.1 billion

Statsig, founded in 2021, builds tools to help software developers test and flag potential new features

Anthropic valued at $183 billion after $13 billion fundraise

Investor enthusiasm towards AI startups has stayed strong despite some doubts over tech industry spending

ASML pitches for India business as PM Modi eyes local chip making

The Veldhoven, Netherlands-based company wants to deepen its collaboration with Indian companies in the year ahead

Bollywood reels as AI reshapes Indian films

From altering iconic endings to generating entire films, AI is shaking up India's multibillion-dollar film industry, raising alarm for some, excitement for others

ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude struggle with suicide questions, reveals study

A RAND Corporation study published in Psychiatric Services has found ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude inconsistent in handling suicide-related questions. While the highest-risk prompts were generally refused, inconsistencies in less direct queries raise safety concerns.

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