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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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    • Why Nazara is spending $100 million to acquire a controlling stake in Spain’s Bluetile

      Nazara’s purchase of Bluetile and its in-house rewards-driven gaming platform, BestPlay, is the company’s largest acquisition to date. The total deal size could rise to $340 million

    • EU moves to ban AI that creates nonconsensual sexual images

      The ban wouldn’t apply if a company has imposed measures restricting the creation of such deepfakes.

    • US govt says Anthropic AI an 'unacceptable risk' to military

      Anthropic's Claude AI model has been in the spotlight in recent weeks both for its alleged use in identifying targets for US bombing in Iran and the company's refusal that its systems be used to power mass surveillance in the United States or lethal fully autonomous weapons systems.

    • Nazara's AI push: Plans to acquire 50% stake in Europe's Bluetile, BestPlay for $100 million

      Nazara Technologies founder Nitish Mittersain said the acquisition of Bluetile and BestPlay is an important step towards the firm's strategy to build AI-enabled, globally scalable gaming businesses.

    • IT committee flags funding cuts, delays in MeitY’s AI, semiconductor push

      Parliamentary committee raises concerns over halved AI funding, weak R&D spend and gaps in execution

    • Microsoft backs Anthropic, urging judge to halt Pentagon's actions against AI company

      Microsoft, in a legal filing, is challenging Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's action last week to shut Anthropic out of military work by labelling its AI products as a national security threat.

    • Nvidia taps Sarvam, Thinking Machines Lab, Mistral AI for a coalition to advance open frontier models

      Nvidia's Nemotron Coalition members, including Perplexity and Cursor, will build open, frontier-level foundation models through shared expertise, data and compute

    • AI firms are offering huge pay to hire researchers and academia is feeling the strain

      Top AI talent is being pulled into industry with multi-crore salaries, and Indian researchers are part of this high-stakes hiring race

    • 'If you don’t help yourself, neither can the company': KPIT CEO urges staff to be AI-ready

      With AI disrupting job functions and coding requirements, KPIT is now hiring 30-40% fewer freshers, Kishor Patil tells Moneycontrol

    • Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over AI training

      The case is one of many high-stakes lawsuits filed by copyright owners including authors and news outlets against tech companies for using their material to train AI systems without permission

    • Accel, Google AI Futures Fund pick five startups for 2026 Atoms AI cohort

      The startups, selected from over 4,000 applicants, will receive up to $2 million in funding and $350,000 in compute credits across Google Cloud, Gemini and Google DeepMind.

    • AI solves 20-year math challenge that researcher thought machines could not crack

      A Polish mathematician spent two decades crafting a problem meant to test the limits of artificial intelligence. A new AI model managed to solve it once after multiple attempts.

    • From mastering complex tools to AI prompts: Adobe's Govind Balakrishnan on reimagining content creation

      Adobe Express is Adobe’s answer to the wave of AI tools from startups and tech giants that have made content creation faster and more accessible than ever.

    • How AI is speeding up the way US fights wars

      New battlefield software can sift through vast amounts of intelligence and help commanders choose targets within minutes, but the same technology is also raising uncomfortable questions about oversight and mistakes in war.

    • OPINION | AI-led transformation is inevitable, but its social costs are not

      We may be on cusp of a phase when AI-led automation squeezes openings for young members of the workforce. Learning from earlier technological disruptions, it’s the right moment to craft an AI Transition Scheme to mitigate social costs

    • 81% of Vietnamese travellers likely to use AI for trip planning, highest in Asia: Report

      According to the Agoda 2026 Travel Outlook Report, 81% of Vietnamese travellers are likely to use AI to plan their next trip, the highest adoption rate in Asia, highlighting growing interest in AI-powered travel planning.

    • Wall Street is optimistic that worst of software wipeout is over

      A Goldman Sachs software basket is trading for 22 times forward earnings, compared with 21 for the S&P 500 Index.

    • Google Cloud partners Prime Focus' Brahma AI to scale interactive digital humans for global enterprises

      Google Cloud has signed a multi-year partnership with Brahma AI to accelerate the enterprise AI content platform's plans to deliver Hollywood-grade digital humans to large enterprises across a range of sectors

    • Nursing exam prep startup NPrep bags $1.5 million seed funding from Lumikai, others

      NPrep is an AI-powered education platform designed for nursing students and professionals, helping them prepare for nursing entrance examinations and global healthcare careers.

    • OPINION | India’s global ambitions demand stronger diplomatic machinery and networks

      India’s rising economic power requires stronger diplomacy, global lobbying networks, and specialised expertise to assert influence and shape emerging domains like AI

    • Private equity firms expect funding strategy shifts amid West Asia war concerns, AI impact

      The ongoing geopolitical risks have become more consistent than sporadic, and PE strategies should build that in while thinking about underwriting as long-term investors, said Simrun Mehta, Managing Director, KKR.

    • Nvidia to invest in Thinking Machines Lab and supply AI chips

      Thinking Machines will use Nvidia’s forthcoming Vera Rubin AI accelerators as part of a multiyear agreement, the companies said

    • Anthropic vs Trump government: A timeline of how the standoff on AI guardrails led to a lawsuit

      Anthropic's dual lawsuits against the United States government mark the latest escalation in the intensifying battle between the Claude maker and the department of defense

    • Anthropic sues to block Pentagon blacklisting over AI use restrictions

      Anthropic said in its lawsuit that the designation was unlawful and violated its free speech and due process rights

    • MakeMyTrip sees uptick in voice searches, higher traction in regional markets

      Across several query categories, early data points show voice being used noticeably higher than text.

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