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The model will be able to provide personalised guidance to students for various subjects in their preferred Indian languages.

To beat OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever is betting on ‘learning-first’ superintelligence that grows like a human

Rather than releasing a finished system, SSI would deploy AI agents with exceptional learning capabilities that accumulate expertise on the job, like human workers joining an organisation

Trump signs order to launch 'Genesis Mission': How US plans to use AI to speed up discoveries | Explained

The White House says the initiative is designed to restore US leadership in science and technology and dramatically reduce the time required for major discoveries.

Nvidia-Google AI chip rivalry escalates on report of Meta talks

Meta is in discussions to use the Google chips — known as tensor processing units, or TPUs — in data centers in 2027

India–Canada ties warm up with a $50 billion trade plan — why it matters now?

The reset marks a shift from strained political ties to renewed economic cooperation, with both sides eyeing deeper trade, technology and energy partnerships.

OPINION | India's Manufacturing Moment: Shaping the factories of tomorrow

India's manufacturing sector is evolving with advanced, tech-driven processes. Initiatives like Make in India, along with AI, robotics, and IoT, are boosting efficiency and growth

iOS rollout, rising willingness to pay drive Truecaller’s premium growth in India: CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala

In October, Truecaller crossed 3.3 million paying subscriptions out of over 450 million users

OPINION | The AI boom is real. The ‘hype accounting’ it has created is unreal

In AI-rush, world’s most celebrated industrial-disruption ever, the fastest is the imagination of those financing it. The circus of circular-money and ‘vibe-revenue’ around it is defying human-arithmetic 

Salesforce India’s FY25 profit jumps 45% to Rs 1,292 crore, revenue up 46%

Salesforce's offices in India are spread across six locations with a workforce of over 13,000, growing from 2,500 employees in 2020. India is the second-biggest market for the company after the US

Accel partners with Google to deepen AI investment play 

The two will together invest up to $2 million in at least 10 startups. Google will give founders another $350,000 in compute credits across Google Cloud, Gemini, and DeepMind

Accenture explores Agentic AI for high-volume enterprise workflows, says India head

Accenture is already applying Agentic AI in finance workflows for a large Indian retail company, where 5 agents are expected to deliver around 35% cost savings in payment operations.

Chart of the Day | IT sector continues to navigate uncertainty

Gartner predicts that by 2026, global spending on software incorporating generative AI will actually surpass spending on traditional software without AI capabilities

‘$1 trillion squad’: AI images of Musk, Altman, Huang, Cook with other billionaires spark frenzy

The exaggerated realism, combined with the uncanny nature of the images created using Grok and Nano Banana, among other AI tools, blurred lines between fact and fiction, prompting many to initially wonder if the photos were genuine. Even after confirmations that they were AI-generated, the debate only amplified the meme storm.

India is getting free AI. But is Big Tech getting something more valuable?

As global AI firms offer millions of Indians free access to their models through tie-ups with Indian telcos, a key question emerges: Is India’s vast user base becoming training data for global AI models and who is accountable when consent is buried inside a bundle?

'In two years of 100% growth, we added a net total of just four people,' says Umesh Sachdev, CEO, Uniphore

Sachdev explains how the latest round came together, why Uniphore is doubling revenue year-on-year, how it has achieved this scale while adding a net headcount of just four people in two years, and what makes its Business AI Cloud central to the next phase of enterprise adoption.

Google says India is a global hotspot for AI-driven scams, pilots phone-level fraud alerts

Google on November 20 announced a set of India specific products , including real-time scam detection on phone calls

From Rs 50K employee reimbursement to Rs 10 crore for IT parks: How Karnataka is luring IT firms to Beyond Bengaluru clusters

The measures are part of a wider strategy to ease pressure on Bengaluru’s strained infrastructure and seed new technology hubs across the state.

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | A bag of chips full of air

Moneycontrol's Pro Panorama November 20 edition: India's trade ties tilt more to China, position your equity portfolio smartly before the next re-rating, China charts climate course to enhance global clout, and more

'Jensen Huang does it again,' say netizens as Nvidia CEO crushes AI bubble fears after 65% profit jump

On social media, users joked that by calming fears of an AI bubble and protecting the economy from a potential crash, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had 'saved Christmas'. Others shared memes portraying him as a superhero for investors.

Business-as-usual mindset may wipe out 30% of revenue for tech services firms, warns Bain & Co

In its new report 'The new growth equation for tech services' Bain & Company noted that AI is the biggest disrupter in tech services, but "not the only one".

'AI divide may be much worse than the digital divide, if we are not careful,' says Sarvam AI's cofounder Vivek Raghavan

Sarvam plans to release a 120-billion-parameter model 'with more than 17 trillion tokens, of which 15–20% come from fully Indian data,' he noted, calling it a critical step in understanding and building AI 'from scratch'.

Tech, IT industry run huge risk if they do not turbocharge engineers, says MeitY’s Abhishek Singh

India’s ambitions to build its own LLMs are set to advance with Bengaluru-based Sarvam nearing the launch of its foundation model, Singh added during the panel discussion.

Data centre spending to jump 20.5% in 2026 as India IT spend crosses $176 bn, says Gartner

Data centre systems are expected to outpace all other IT spending categories again in 2026, cementing their central role in India’s AI and cloud growth cycle

The AI circular economy just got an upgrade: Inside the Microsoft, Nvidia, Anthropic deal

The deal expands the AI industry’s increasingly intertwined “circular economy” at a time when investors are questioning whether the sector’s infrastructure binge is running far ahead of monetisation.

Microsoft India crosses $3 billion in revenue; profit grows 38% YoY in FY25

These numbers come ahead of Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella’s expected visit to India in December, where he is expected to meet the top government officials.