TECHNOLOGY
'Those days are over': Donald Trump slams tech firms hiring in India as US unveils AI action plan
Speaking before a room of top tech executives and investors, Trump lashed out at what he called the 'radical globalism' of Silicon Valley, accusing major US tech firms of exploiting American freedoms while outsourcing jobs abroad.
ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE
'Build, Baby, Build': Inside America’s AI action plan for global dominance
The plan is built around three core pillars: accelerating innovation, building AI infrastructure, and ensuring American leadership in international AI diplomacy and security.
ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE
As AI content floods the internet, are we risking a collapse of intelligence?
For India, the stakes are especially high. Startups such as Gan.ai, Gnani.ai and Soket AI Labs, selected to build foundation models under the IndiaAI Mission, face a unique challenge: how to curate clean human-created datasets in an increasingly synthetic web
ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE
How Microsoft’s new AI tool is tackling medicine’s toughest diagnoses
To see how far medical AI has come, Microsoft tested MAI-DxO on 304 real-world cases published in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the world’s leading medical journals, and came out with flying colours
TECHNOLOGY
Lethal trifecta and prompt injection: The AI agent time bomb no one is defusing
As AI agents become more powerful, capable of reading emails, pulling data from APIs and even sending messages or making transactions, a serious security threat is taking shape
TECHNOLOGY
Vikram Sampath’s NAAV AI sets sail to bridge India’s language gap with human-centric AI
The Bengaluru-based AI startup, backed by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal and venture capitalist Asha Jadeja, aims to scale Indian language content for books, education and more
ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE
Built for chaos: Minus Zero’s bid to pioneer AI-powered self-driving tech from India to the world
With India’s first end-to-end AI autopilot system unveiled and partnerships with top OEMs underway, Minus Zero co-founder and CEO Gagandeep Reehal believes the future of autonomous driving won’t be built in Silicon Valley, it’ll be built for places like Bengaluru.
ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE
Sarvam-M: Inside India’s 'sovereign AI model' and the debate it sparked
The launch of Sarvam-M stirred a debate around India’s vision for 'sovereign AI'. Some have questioned the decision to build on top of Mistral, a French open-source model, instead of training one from scratch
BUSINESS
Bengaluru-based Minus Zero unveils India's first AI-driven autopilot system for cars
Unlike traditional autonomous systems that depend on LiDAR sensors or HD maps, both of which are costly and often impractical in Indian conditions, Minus Zero’s technology relies only on camera input.
TECHNOLOGY
Startups race ahead in adopting AI for coding while enterprises play catch-up
'If AI agents provide significant productivity gains, the gap between early and late adopters could translate into substantial competitive advantages,' Anthropic said in a report.
TECHNOLOGY
Model Context Protocol: When AI models learn to plug in
Developed by Anthropic, MCP is an open-source standard that allows AI models to securely interact with external data sources and tools, without the need for custom integrations
TECHNOLOGY
Is the future of software development all about the 'vibe'?
Dubbed 'vibe coding' by Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI and former AI lead at Tesla, this approach allows developers to describe their ideas to the AI system rather than writing code line by line
TECHNOLOGY
Grok-3: A new challenger to OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google?
According to xAI’s own data, Grok-3 outperformed several other major AI models on benchmarks related to math (AIME), science (GPOA), and coding (LCB).
TECHNOLOGY
Google Willow explained: A quantum leap in computing power
The company claims that the Willow chip is capable of solving a problem in just five minutes that would take the world's fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years, which is 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years
TECHNOLOGY
AI hits a speed bump: Why the next big thing isn't coming so fast
AI giants, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, are realising that bigger models, more data, and faster computing power aren’t delivering the results they expected.
TECHNOLOGY
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes AI can achieve a century of medical advancements in just 10 years
From breakthroughs in biology and medicine to major shifts in governance and economic development, Amodei sees a future where AI accelerates human progress at a substantial rate
TECHNOLOGY
India will likely become a major AI superpower within next four to five years: G42’s Manu Jain
Regarding G42's international expansion, Manu Jain said that India will play a significant role in the company's global growth.
TECHNOLOGY
AI-powered mind reading: Women-only university in Karnataka targets early epilepsy detection
Karnataka State Akkamahadevi Women’s University is developing a latent diffusion model prototype to reconstruct images from brain activity for early detection of diseases such as epilepsy.
STARTUP
Blending bricks and clicks: How Licious, GIVA, Curefoods went omnichannel
Founders of top new age brands at the Moneycontrol Startup Conclave noted that while online presence is crucial for discovery and initial engagement, the physical experience is essential for building trust and scaling in certain categories.
TECHNOLOGY
After OpenAI exit, Ilya Sutskever makes AI safety play with Safe Superintelligence
On a minimalist website, co-founders Sutskever, former Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross and ex-OpenAI engineer Daniel Levy said, "Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time."
TECHNOLOGY
Can NVIDIA's AI chip reign continue? A look at its rise and potential challenges
Leveraging its dominance in graphics processing units, NVIDIA has become the leader in the booming AI chip market.
TECHNOLOGY
Meet Pune's Prafulla Dhariwal, the prodigy behind OpenAI's GPT-4o
Prafulla Dhariwal leads the Omni team at OpenAI, and GPT-4o marks their first foray into natively multimodal models
TECHNOLOGY
OpenAI announces launch of GPT-4o — and it's free
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati said that GPT-4o is twice as fast as, and half the cost of GPT-4 Turbo.
TECHNOLOGY
OpenAI considers integration of NSFW content in age-appropriate context
In its Model Spec document, OpenAI says it is exploring whether it can 'responsibly provide the ability to generate NSFW content in age-appropriate contexts through the API and ChatGPT'
