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Tencent’s AI lag fuels $173 billion stock rout as rivals thrive

Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. have slumped nearly 11% in Hong Kong this year, trailing a broader tech gauge

Tech firms want 3-hour takedown rule revisited, will write to MeitY

Trade bodies are preparing representations to MeitY, warning that newly notified IT rules will introduce major compliance burdens without consultation and could lead to over-censorship of lawful content

Desk jobs on a timer? Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says AI will automate most white-collar in 18 months

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns white-collar jobs may be automated within 18 months as the company accelerates its enterprise AGI push.

‘Misanthropic and evil’: Elon Musk attacks Anthropic, claims its AI ‘hates Whites & Asians’

Elon Musk criticises Anthropic after its $30B funding round valued it at $380B, reigniting debate over AI bias and intensifying industry rivalry.

ByteDance's new AI video model goes viral as China looks for second DeepSeek moment

ByteDance, which officially unveiled Seedance 2.0 on Thursday, said in a statement that the system was designed for professional film, e-commerce, and advertising productions

Anthropic clinches $380 billion valuation after $30 billion funding round

The company has differentiated itself by focusing its model training on coding, with Claude Code gaining strong traction among developers

AI jitters hit IT stocks, but fund managers stay the course on sector holding for now

After witnessing a 7 percent decline in the previous week, IT stocks remained under pressure, falling another 6 percent so far this week and dragging the Nifty IT index to a 10-month low on February 12.

CynLr’s 10-second learning robots highlight scale-up challenge in deep tech robotics

CynLr is currently raising capital and is looking to secure $40 million plus in its ongoing round, with plans to raise about $75 million by 2028.

AI startup nabs $100 million to help firms predict human behavior

The startup said it aims to use its technology to anticipate the decisions a person might make in any given situation

Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli says India in perfect position to leverage AI

Pushmeet Kohli, one of the "hottest" AI researchers in the world currently and vice president of research at Google DeepMind, gave an exclusive interview to Moneycontrol's Managing Editor Dr Nalin Mehta and shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence and its impact on India.

Infosys, ExxonMobil expand partnership to develop immersion cooling for AI data centres

The combination will help optimise cooling operations in real time, enable predictive maintenance, and support scalable and reliable infrastructure for AI workloads.

Safe-harbour loss will likely be case-specific, not for entire platform

On February 11, MeitY notified amendments to the IT Technology rules, 2021, which reduced to three hours the 36-hour deadline to remove AI-generated such content

Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli explains why India is in perfect position to leverage AI | Read full Q&A

AI's biggest potential is in the democratization of science, says Kohli

Indian GCCs cut over 6,000 jobs in 2025 as parent companies face macro pressure

This comes in a year when India also saw record numbers of new GCCs being set up in the country and net new jobs growing significantly to 135,000-150,000.

AI's biggest potential is in democratization of science: Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli

Pushmeet Kohli and his teams have developed many path-breaking innovations on AI, including the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold model for protein structures

AI’s next biological leap could be cracking the genome, says Google DeepMind scientist

Kohli also said AI’s growing role in biology is already demonstrating how technology can level the global scientific playing field.

India can build world-class AI at home; reap healthcare, agriculture gains: Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli

“I think India is in a very good position,” Kohli said, pointing to opportunities where AI can directly benefit the country.

OPINION | AI Impact Summit 2026: India at the centre of a changing AI world

As global AI power consolidates, India advances an inclusive governance model that bridges divides, promotes fair competition, and positions the Global South as co-architects

Redington shifts focus to GCCs, AI-led infrastructure amid enterprise expansion

The technology distributor, which is repositioning itself beyond a pure-play distribution model, sees GCCs, data centres, and services-led engagements emerging as key growth drivers over the next few years.

Happiest Minds to announce new annual guidance in Q4; FY31 target revisit deferred

Soota said the AI-first push is already beginning to show up in business momentum, citing stronger order flows and an improving pipeline

New three-hour takedown window under IT Rules on deepfakes raises fears of wrongful removals

While the notified IT Rules narrow the scope of synthetically generated information and ease some labelling mandates, legal and policy experts warn that the sharply compressed takedown timelines could leave platforms with little room to assess context or legality of content.

Wall Street’s new trade is dumping any stock in AI’s crosshairs

The advances in AI have been at the forefront of Wall Street over the past few years, with tech stocks leading the charge

Oracle optimistic about India-US trade deal, to launch 3 multi-cloud data centres by April: India head Shailender Kumar

Oracle is set to offer its multi-cloud services with three new data centres in India by April, two with AWS and one Google Cloud, Kumar told Moneycontrol in an interview.

India’s AI summit and the hard work ahead

India’s AI summit is a geopolitical milestone, but milestones do not equal tech-mastery. The harder test is whether summit diplomacy can translate into the long, difficult work of building real technological capability at home

Anthropic's senior AI safety researcher Mrinank Sharma quits, says 'the world is in peril'

Mrinank Sharma’s resignation comes at a time when debates around AI risk, alignment and the societal impact of advanced models are intensifying globally.

Ex-GitHub chief Thomas Dohmke launches Entire with $60 mn seed to tackle agent era coding

The funding round values Entire at $300 million and also includes individual investments from industry leaders such as Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, and Y Combinator head Garry Tan.

Anthropic vs Anthropic in India: Karnataka startup fights for its name against US giant

Belagavi startup Anthropic Software files petition in a Belagavi court, which issues notice to Anthropic. The case will now be heard on February 16

Layoffs hit GCCs as auto tech firm AUMOVIO plans 1,000 job cuts in India

With around 6,000 employees in India, the planned reduction implies that nearly 16-17% of AUMOVIO’s local workforce will be impacted, making India one of the most affected geographies in the global exercise.

Oracle India’s multi-cloud push: Launched services with Azure, Google Cloud data centres in 2025; more in pipeline

“We are seeing a hockey stick growth. In the last two years, cloud business has doubled and the momentum continues in India…we are going to launch more data centres in this calendar year,” said Kapil Makhija, VP, Technology Cloud, Oracle India.

Inside Sarvam AI’s rapid-fire launches ahead of the India AI Impact Summit

From live AI dubbing of the Union Budget to speech, vision, and state-backed compute infrastructure, Sarvam AI is rolling out a broad stack of products in the run-up to the India AI Impact Summit.

India AI Impact Summit to push for global consensus on curbing harmful use of AI: MeitY's Abhishek Singh

The additional secretary in IT ministry cites recent coordinated action across jurisdictions on AI misuse, such as on Grok, as evidence of growing global alignment on safety norms.

Rs 30-lakh rooms, sold-out hotels: Delhi sees demand boom as Pichai, Altman headline AI summit

Events of this scale drive not just short-term occupancy but also reinforce Delhi’s positioning as a global Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) and policy hub, said hoteliers.

Qualcomm's 2-nm chip shows India’s shift to end-to-end chip design: IT Minister Vaishnaw

Vaishnaw also said that India will soon add 20,000 GPUs as AI compute capacity expands.

Two companies planning AI server manufacturing units amid data centre push: IT minister Vaishnaw

Globally, AI server manufacturing is dominated by Taiwanese Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) such as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron, along with branded players like Dell, HPE, and Lenovo, while platforms are largely Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.

Fewer calls, better conversions, leaner sales teams: How AI is becoming the new front desk of the travel business

Executives of travel platforms say AI takes care of mundane jobs, freeing up sales teams to focus on high intent travel queries for better conversion rates.

LinkedIn’s India user base grows 20% YoY to 167 million

LinkedIn is betting big on its AI skilling, assisting tools and solutions, to drive sales through its B2B talent solutions business. India remains one of its core markets for AI adoption and revenue generation.

How Anthropic took the lead in the AI race, overtaking OpenAI and Google

By pivoting from the chatbot arms race to building specialised, agentic tools for real-world business functions, Anthropic has redefined the AI competition and taken a startling lead in the enterprise market

AI race sends Big Tech’s capital spending to stratospheric high

The spending planned by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all in pursuit of dominance in the still-nascent market for AI tools, is a boom without a parallel this century

Karnataka cabinet nod for Rs 67.2-crore AI-based social media monitoring system

Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs HK Patil said the software will enable faster digital surveillance and threat detection, helping authorities respond more effectively to emerging online risks

Execution worries for DPDP Act as 71% firms struggle with interpretation: EY Survey

Close to 80% of organisations have not yet updated or drafted DPDP-aligned privacy policies or governance frameworks, pointing to a lack of structural preparedness.

Michael Kratsios to lead US delegation to AI Impact Summit in India; Sriram Krishnan among key members

White House and commerce officials to showcase America’s AI export strategy at New Delhi summit

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Quest for fair value gets tougher in the AI world

In this edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: US trade deal offers upside beyond immediate recovery, Mamata Banerjee's legal intervention helps reset political narrative, rising credit risks make asset quality a key concern, legacy automakers regain ground as two-wheeler demand expands, and more

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