Life and general insurers are expanding AI deployment across underwriting, claims, fraud detection and customer service to improve efficiency, productivity and turnaround times
Apple briefly overtakes Nvidia in intraday trade as investors broaden their focus beyond AI chipmakers, narrowing the gap in the race for the world's top valuation
Xi Jinping uses China's premier AI conference to promote open-source technology, strengthen ties with the Global South and position Beijing as an alternative to US-led AI governance
The Chinese startup said its 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model delivers performance approaching Anthropic's frontier systems while supporting a 1 million-token context window
The Tech Mahindra chairman said AI will transform rather than replace IT services and called for India to build sovereign AI capabilities through trusted innovation
SoftBank-backed auto-tech firm processed more than 1.1 trillion AI tokens in the June quarter as AI expanded across engineering, customer support, inspections and lending
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged global cooperation on artificial intelligence at the World AI Conference and announced AI research, training and cooperation initiatives for developing countries
China's cyberspace regulator has approved Apple Intelligence for use on iPhones, with AI capabilities set to be powered by Alibaba's Qwen and Baidu's models for users in the country
Named Inkling, the open-weight model allows developers to download, run and customise its underlying systems; the 975-bn-parameter model is the first general-purpose AI release from Thinking Machines
AI assistants are beginning to remember users' conversations, preferences and digital context. Here's how AI memory works, why companies are adopting it, and what it means for privacy
More than half of Indian users now rely on AI assistants and chatbots for information, with many using them alongside traditional search methods, a YouGov survey has found
Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis says AGI could arrive within years and proposes a US-led Frontier AI Standards Body as the basis for an international framework to govern advanced AI models
The AI hardware company will use the funding to expand its design and engineering teams, develop new device formats and strengthen the Pocket product platform
Apple claims OpenAI targeted engineers working on Apple's hardware programmes and encouraged them to share confidential information after they joined the AI company
Meta's Muse AI let users generate images using public Instagram profiles. Days after launch, the company withdrew the feature following criticism over consent, privacy and impersonation risks
The Bengaluru facility will help manufacturers and mobility firms test and deploy AI applications before rolling them out at scale
The lawsuit claims company used internal AI systems, keystroke & activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards & algorithmically assisted performance rankings to determine who would be laid off
As consumers increasingly ask AI assistants what to buy instead of searching Google, India Inc faces a new challenge
As companies build AI-powered in-house systems, India's IT services firms risk losing lucrative software maintenance contracts that have long underpinned the country's outsourcing industry
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