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'India on extraordinary AI trajectory': Pichai outlines Google's big bets

The Alphabet and Google CEO outlined the company's investment, skilling and connectivity initiatives for India as part of its broader artificial intelligence expansion plans

Optimism for AI in India, anxiety in West, says Rishi Sunak at AI Summit

In a fireside chat with Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, Rishi Sunak described India as 'a country with huge digital ambitions and capacity'

India must focus on literacy to reap benefits of AI, says Vishal Sikka

At the AI Impact Summit, Indian-American entrepreneur Vishal Sikka called for large-scale AI literacy to empower over a billion Indians, saying the technology holds vast potential for new applications

NPCI teams up with Nvidia to build AI layer for payments: What it means

NPCI says the effort builds on its FiMI model and UPI Help Assistant, and is aimed at creating a payments-native AI foundation aligned with India's data sovereignty and regulatory needs

Google Pixel 10a to launch on Feb 18, pre-orders to begin today: Details

Google will unveil the Pixel 10a on February 18, with pre-orders opening the same day, and reports hinting at flagship-grade camera features

Google expands Quick Share-AirDrop interoperability beyond Pixel 10 series

Google Pixel 9 series (except Pixel 9a) smartphone users can now send and receive files with iPhones, iPads and Macs using native AirDrop support via Quick Share

'Urgent need to bridge global AI divide': Microsoft President at AI Summit

At the India AI Impact Summit, Microsoft's Brad Smith said there is an urgent need to close the AI divide between the global north and south, calling for infrastructure, skills and investment

L&T, Nvidia to set up gigawatt-scale AI data centre infrastructure in India

L&T said that the partnership will work on developing AI-ready data centre infrastructure to support large-scale workloads across sectors such as manufacturing and infrastructure

Apple's AI hardware line to include smart glasses, pendant, more: Report

Apple is reportedly working on smart glasses, a wearable AI pendant, and camera-enabled AirPods, all designed to work with Siri and expand its AI-powered hardware lineup

OpenAI ties up with Aiims, IIT Delhi, others to build AI-ready talent

The initiative will support over 1 lakh students, faculty and staff over the next year, moving beyond basic access to AI tools toward campus-wide integration anchored in responsible use

Why an AI video of Tom Cruise battling Brad Pitt spooked Hollywood

A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far

India has gained momentum in creating opportunity for AI: Zscaler CEO

Chaudhry said India has been able to attract investments citing examples of how many multinationals are setting up their global capability centres in the country

AI to enhance human skills, not replace expertise: Airbus executive

At Airbus, he said Al is used as a responsible enabler designed to support its people

AI Impact Summit: Startup's stolen devices recovered after Day 1 chaos

A day after an AI startup reported theft at the India AI Impact Summit, its wearable devices were recovered, with the founder crediting Delhi police for quick action after day one chaos

Exploring multilateral routes to globalise UPI: NPCI on AliPay+ integration

Speaking at the AI Impact Summit, NPCI's Executive Director-Growth said that the Corporation is pursuing both bilateral and multilateral models, including work with other countries' payment systems

India may be faster in AI adoption than America in 10 yrs: Sridhar Vembu

Like how UPI became mass-scale in India, AI could also be the same, Vembu said while speaking at the AI Impact Summit

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6 model, highlighting these improvements

Anthropic rolls out Claude Sonnet 4.6 across plans, highlighting gains in coding, spreadsheet navigation, long-term reasoning, and resistance to prompt injection attacks

Tech leaders hail AI Impact Summit, echo PM Modi's 'force multiplier' view

The tech leaders were echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for the diffusion and deployment of AI in India

India needs to ramp up AI investment; tax holiday a big opportunity: Nvidia

In the Union Budget 2026-27, a tax holiday of 20 years up to 2047 was announced to any foreign company that procures data centre services in India

Makemytrip ties up with OpenAI, to use APIs for new app features

Online travel major MakeMyTrip will integrate OpenAI's APIs into its GenAI assistant Myra to convert conversational travel queries into personalised, bookable options