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Large number of Indians quit pursuing career goals due to hurdles: Study
The study was conducted to understand Gen AI adoption, potential, and impact among people in India in which over 8,000 people across 18 cities covered
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DeepSeek demand shrinking: Baidu founder notes shift away from text-only AI
Chinese tech major Baidu launched Ernie 4.5 Turbo and X1 Turbo, which feature multimodal capabilities including text, image, audio and video
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Perplexity rolls out conversational AI assistant to iOS devices: Features
Tool can do a range of tasks for daily life, fetch real-time information and content
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Global chip design giant Qualcomm sees mid-tier AI mobiles in India in 2026
Value phones to follow in two years as consumer use cases expand
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How American accents, artificial intelligence can save India's outsourcing
A softening of accents could help many young people who may not be otherwise considered for international call-center jobs
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Adobe adds AI models from OpenAI, Google to its Firefly app: Details here
Adobe said that Firefly users will be able to generate images with OpenAI's GPT image generation, Google Imagen 3, Google Veo 2 and Flux 1.1 Pro, in addition to a new version of its own image model
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Indian IT firms use AI to drive sales growth with fewer new hires
HCL Technologies Ltd. and LTIMindtree Ltd. are among companies saying they need fewer new staff to keep revenue increasing
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Ray-Ban Meta Glasses will debut in India soon: Here is what it can do
Ray-Ban Meta Glasses offer hands-free live translation, seamless messaging across major platforms, and voice-controlled music playback with real-time song recognition
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Growth capital firm Playbook Partners targets 2025 to raise $250 mn fund
Playbook Partners aims to invest in 12-15 companies in two years, with an average ticket size of $20 million
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Elon Musk's DOGE slashes $135 mn funding to fight deepfakes, misinformation
The cuts impact dozens of active grants, including several programmes focused on combating misinformation and AI deepfakes, according to the document
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We're building a newsroom that's not afraid to play with tech: Kalli Purie
A digital persona can do funny hours. If I could have an anchor in the studio when the newsroom has woken up to a big event like an earthquake, it can be fed in, says Purie
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IT companies using AI, GenAI to reduce client costs as budgets squeeze
This marks a shift in how cost savings are achieved in traditional IT projects, popularly known as the run-side
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Instagram tries using AI to identify teens pretending to be adults
Meta has been using AI to determine people's ages for some time, the company said
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Street signs: Nifty eyes 24,000, AI to vet IPO documents, and more
Hyundai Motor India and Waaree Energies are among the stocks likely to come into focus this week as their lock-up periods expire
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Samsung, Motorola to boost AI capabilities on phones through Perplexity AI
Reportedly, Perplexity AI's partnership with Motorola is expected to be announced this month, whereas discussions with Samsung are still in early stages
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TCS partners with AI firm Vianai Systems, founded by Vishal Sikka
TCS will customise the hila platform to meet the specific needs of financial institutions and other key sectors
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US House panel calls China's DeepSeek AI a 'profound threat' to security
DeepSeek, which is the latest AI offering, grabbed the global attention for its low-cost model. Also, DeepSeek overtook ChatGPT as the top-ranked free app on Apple's Appstore
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Google offers another Gemini paid feature for free on Android: Details here
Initially, the on-screen awareness and camera sharing features of the Gemini Live were offered in free-tier model only to select Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones
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AI, data science engineers getting paid up to Rs 50 lakh: Quess report
Jobs in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), platform engineering and UI/UX have reported growth of 32 per cent, 26 per cent and 25 per cent, respectively
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India tops AI hiring charts, but is it enough to compete with US and China?
India recorded the world's highest Y-o-Y growth in AI hiring and became the second-largest contributor to AI-related GitHub projects in 2024, but still lags behind in private investments
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