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The Consumer Affairs Ministry is planning to develop machine-readable, SMART standards using artificial intelligence tools to reduce compliance burden on industry, a senior official said on Thursday. Machine-readable standards translate regulatory requirements into structured digital rules that computer systems can process directly, enabling automatic compliance verification without manual intervention. SMART (Standard Machine Accessible, Readable and Transferable) formats go a step further by being dynamic, constantly updated and integrated into software and manufacturing lifecycles. Addressing a FICCI-organised event here, Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare said the department was looking at ways to leverage emerging technologies, particularly AI, to modernise the country's standards ecosystem. "We also understand that the emerging technologies which are coming up in a big way, especially the AI, it may be creating a lot of disruption, and it could be creating more challenges
Qualcomm has outlined its vision for an AI-driven future where autonomous AI agents will perform tasks independently across devices and eventually become the centre of users' digital lives, reducing the pivotal role currently played by smartphones. Addressing Computex 2026 in Taipei on Monday, Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano R Amon said 2026 would be "the year of agents" as artificial intelligence evolves beyond responding to prompts and starts taking actions on behalf of users. Qualcomm, which has a significant presence in India and has one of its largest employee bases outside the US in the country, is betting big on Agentic AI. It also operates major research, software and hardware design centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai. "2026 is the year of agents and it's now how AI is really evolving," Amon said in his keynote address at the global technology event organised by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council. Amon said AI is evolving from being a tool that ass
Leading AI platform for business transformation ServiceNow Vice Chairman Nick Tzitzon said there's an opportunity to shape AI-native government in India as it aims to enhance the quality of life while reducing costs and strengthening data privacy. An AI-native government is a model of governance where artificial intelligence is an intrinsic, trusted component, built naturally into all public services and administrative processes. "An AI-native government will protect the identity of its citizens, and ultimately help the people who serve them to get a better outcome for the quality of life at a lower cost to deliver the services," Tzitzon told PTI on the sidelines of the Knowledge 2026 AI conference, underway in Las Vegas. Asked how ServiceNow will drive AI use in India's public sector, Tzitzon spoke of the need to maximize the quality of the services to the public in a way that minimizes the need to consistently raise tax revenue. "If you were going to sit with me next year or two