Artificial Intelligence

HCLTech Pulse will target enterprises with annual revenues of $500 million to $5 billion, offering AI, data, cloud, cybersecurity and engineering services

Software services exports now account for 5.2 per cent of GDP, up from 3.3 per cent before the pandemic, while business services have more than doubled their share to 3.3 per cent

Meta has launched Meta One, bringing paid features for Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook into individual subscriptions and bundles, while core services and everyday Meta AI use remain free.

The cases include models hiding mistakes, fabricating data and moving files online without permission as OpenAI says AI safety and monitoring remain unresolved

The United Nations chief urged global competitors in artificial intelligence on Wednesday to cooperate in addressing threats from the technology, warning that "the world cannot afford a race to the bottom on AI safety." Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said concerns raised by those on the frontlines of AI technology that its development "is racing ahead of our understanding of the risks" can't be ignored. Governments must assume their first responsibility to protect civilians from AI threats, which means "national action is essential," Guterres told UN reporters. "But global coordination is also indispensable." "We need guardrails to build trust - and that make AI safe, transparent, accountable, with human dignity at the center." Guterres was referring to a proposal from Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, to ensure AI safety by coordinating a slowdown in its development by leading technology companies and governments. OpenAI's Sam Altman, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk and other prominent ..

CBIC Chairman Vivek Chaturvedi says AI, machine learning and real-time analytics can lower transaction costs and help create a near-touchless customs system for businesses

The results of a simulation called Emergence World 2, purport to show what happens when autonomous agents are confronted with black swan events, including phishing attacks and misinformation campaigns

Zuckerberg says AI labs have strong incentives to make models safe and aligned, pointing to Meta's delayed Muse release and support for independent evaluators as a recognised industry best practice

The people building and governing AI increasingly fall into camps: Those who want to slow down and regulate development, those racing to speed it up and those in between or with shifting stances

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A policy framework is needed to prevent India from becoming dependent on others and to retain some control over AI

Jack Clark has said that major AI labs already have mechanisms to shut down their systems, but adds that governments may need to mandate independently verifiable safeguards as safety concerns grow

Air India is expanding use of Salesforce's Agentforce artificial intelligence platform to streamline customer service processes, including automated email resolution, name change processing and an AI-powered knowledge assistant for customer service teams, Salesforce has said. Air India has built a cloud-based digital ecosystem covering more than 140 enterprise systems and has more than 30 agentic AI initiatives underway, Salesforce said on Monday. The name change automation system handles eligibility checks, validations and ticketing actions, including initiating ticket reissuance and sending the updated ticket to the customer, it added. Under the automated email resolution system, Agentforce can identify multiple requests in a single customer email, gather and validate information across systems, take the required actions and generate a consolidated response using Air India-approved templates. For eligible cases, responses are generated only when the system's confidence level exce

The technology industry's increasingly urgent warnings about the potential harm of artificial intelligence are slamming into political intransigence in Washington, offering a fresh test of the federal government's willingness and ability to confront what may become a defining issue of the era. President Donald Trump is leading the opposition to recent calls by tech leaders seeking greater government oversight, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk. The president dismissed efforts to limit the technology on Monday as a "conspiracy." Other leading Republicans including Vice President JD Vance have expressed caution. House Speaker Mike Johnson has largely deferred to the White House. Democrats, meanwhile, are pressing for a more robust response, convening in private on Tuesday in the House to discuss AI. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is hosting his colleagues for a briefing with experts on Wednesday. Top candidates on the ballot this year such as Sen

Meta has suspended an employee data collection programme for AI training after workers protested and an internal leak exposed collected information across the company in recent months

Indian IT stocks have been one of the biggest casualties of AI boom, having lost 21 per cent on a year-to-date basis.

Bill Gates warned governments are lagging behind the rapid changes AI could bring, while his foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion to expand access to AI

Bilal is the latest AI researcher to voice grave concerns in recent days about the new technology's evolving but misaligned capabilities that could eventually destroy humankind

The former president criticized the hands-off approach to AI regulation championed by President Donald Trump, though he did not mention his successor by name

The bank boss warned about the potentially destabilizing impact of AI adoption on society should mass job losses emerge, and didn't rule out the possibility of sweeping cuts at ANZ due to AI