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    Artificial Intelligence or AI as the name suggests refers to machines capable of thinking or demonstrating human-like intelligence as opposed to natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals. The scientific community refers to AI as any system that can account for its environment before taking any action, to maximise its chances of achieving its goals, whatever they may be. AI is a blanket term that is also used for describing artificial machines that can mimic learning capabilities found in humans, aka cognitive functions. AI is used in a variety of fields like web-search engines, recommendation systems that recommend content based on your interests, voice assistants that can react to and understand human language, self-driving cars or even automated decision-making in strategic games like chess. The academic study of artificial intelligence began in 1956 and has evolved over the years as the technology advanced. The traditional goals of any research in the field consider reasoning capabilities, the use of knowledge in making decisions, the ability to plan and execute an action, natural language processing, perception, and the ability to manipulate physical objects. The end goal is to create machines that can simulate general intelligence to solve a variety of problems, in the same capacity as humans. More

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    • OPINION | The new AI equation and India’s role in shaping the future of leadership

      India and Silicon Valley represent two ends of the same spectrum - one defined by scale and inclusion, the other by speed and capital. The next era of AI leadership will depend on uniting these strengths to build a model that combines innovation with inclusion, and speed with soul

    • LTIMindtree builds 1,500 AI 'digital employees' as CEO Lambu bets on agentic future

      Each agent has a human mentor responsible for training and supervising and at some point, some of them might even be 'retired' or 'fired' if they do not learn well enough, Venu Lambu tells Moneycontrol

    • Elon Musk predicts AI evolution will force money as concept to disappear, working to be optional in less than 20 years

      Musk agrees that there are dangers associated with artificial Intelligence (AI), and believes that developers should ensure that the technology values truth, beauty, and curiosity.

    • Elon Musk predicts work will be optional in 10-20 years: What that means for India’s future of jobs | Explained

      Only two weeks before the podcast, at the US–Saudi Arabia Investment Forum, Musk repeated the claim that work would become “optional” because AI and robots would take over most forms of production.

    • Disclaimer drama: Influencers thrown for a loop over AI labelling guidelines; compliance far off

      Brands that were excited about AI-powered campaigns are now slowing down to understand what qualifies as AI content and what does not, industry official told Moneycontrol.

    • How Google reclaimed the AI crown

      From ‘Code Red’ to the top of the AI race, a look at how Google engineered its resurgence

    • Inside India’s AI data-centre boom: What it takes to build one

      India generates nearly 20% of the world’s data, yet hosts only about 3% of global data centre capacity

    • OpenAI partners amass $100bn debt pile to fund its ambitions

      Cloud companies and developers rely on lossmaking start-up to repay huge loans

    • OpenAI discloses Mixpanel 'security incident'; says no API data or credentials exposed

      The breach occurred within Mixpanel’s systems and exposed only limited analytics-level data linked to API accounts, OpenAI has said in an email to users

    • Huge opportunity for sports industry to rethink media distribution with AI, says Nielsen’s Jon Stainer

      AI will be a key enabler for content consumption in the future, driving deep personalisation, according to Nielsen Sports global GM Jon Stainer

    • The drone that sees like a bird: AI system sets a new standard for turkey monitoring

      The strongest version detected 87% of behaviours. It identified specific actions with 98% accuracy.

    • 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.

    • Google, the sleeping giant in global AI race, now ‘fully awake’

      Google owner Alphabet Inc.’s shares rose as much as 3.22% in New York on Tuesday.

    • Xoriant acquires Latvia’s TestDevLab to strengthen European footprint, boost AI-led quality engineering

      The deal marks Xoriant’s fourth acquisition in three years, as the ChrysCapital-owned firm expands aggressively across global markets. Xoriant currently operates 28 offices across India, the US and Europe.

    • 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

    • 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 

    • How Kantara, Baramulla gave visual effects firm Identical Brains Studios a new lease of life

      The NSE SME debut should’ve been a high, especially with Rs 20 crore raised, but celebrations were muted. Then Kantara and Mahavatar Narsimha changed the script.

    • Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | TCS Bets Big on AI Infrastructure—But is India still playing catch-up?

      Moneycontrol's Pro Panorama November 24 edition: IT sector continues to navigate uncertainty, reasons behind Rupee’s slide and implications for stakeholders, strong market momentum meets weak sentiment, and more

    • 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.

    • AI image of Musk smoking with other tech giants as the “$1 trillion squad” goes viral

      A series of AI-generated images of Elon Musk smoking a cigar alongside tech titans like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella has taken social media by storm. The fictional "$1 trillion squad" is the internet's new meme, inspiring laughter, debate and even a more serious reflection on AI's capacity for emulating power.

    • Greed, leverage & complacency: Signs the next market domino may be ready to fall

      History’s greatest investors made their fortunes not by predicting peaks, but by respecting cycles. Today’s environment of easy money, high leverage, and AI euphoria may look unstoppable but so did every bubble before it.

    • 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?

    • 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

    • Nvidia’s earnings surge renews confidence in AI theme, CLSA says fears 'overstated'

      Nvidia’s strong Q3 results, upbeat guidance and CEO Jensen Huang’s rejection of AI bubble fears reinforced confidence in the AI rally.

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