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IT services major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Thursday announced a global partnership with AI major Anthropic to help customers scale enterprise artificial intelligence adoption. As part of the collaboration, TCS will set up a dedicated business unit focused on developing joint industry solutions and AI expertise on Anthropic's Claude family of AI models through early access. TCS will equip 50,000 of its associates across engineering, finance, legal, marketing, and sales with Claude through enterprise-wide licensing, the company said in a regulatory filing. "TCS and Anthropic will jointly go to market with AI solutions and services across industries, including highly regulated sectors, such as financial services, public services, life sciences, healthcare, aviation, telecom, and medtech. "Together, they will co-innovate solutions for domain-specific workflows, modernisation, and customer experience transformation, backed by TCS' consulting, engineering, and managed services
Anthropic on Wednesday joined growing calls for the artificial intelligence industry to find ways to cushion people from the technology's disruptions, announcing an initial USD 200 million investment to research AI's impact on jobs and the economy. Alongside new policy proposals from the maker of the Claude chatbot, Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei published an essay on his personal website that expanded on his position that the government should promise economic support for those financially impacted by AI. The technology could produce much larger disruptions to the labour market than previous technological advancements, Amodei wrote, and those disruptions could last longer. "The key challenge in such a world won't be incentivizing growth, but finding a way for everyone to share in the benefits," Amodei wrote. The announcement comes on the heels of Anthropic rival OpenAI on Monday outlining goals that included ensuring gains from the technology are "widely shared". OpenAI
Reliance Industries Limited and social media major Meta Platforms have partnered to develop a 168-megawatt data centre in Jamngar, Gujarat, within two years, a joint statement said on Wednesday. This is the first built-to-suit data centre capacity in India for Meta and represents a significant milestone in India's emergence as a global hub for AI infrastructure, the statement said. "RIL will develop a data centre with 168 MW capacity to be delivered within two years, with an option to scale. Meta will lease capacity from the facility," the statement said. The data centre will be powered by renewable energy and cooled with desalinated seawater. Meta is also separately partnering with two leading clean energy providers in India, CleanMax and Fourth Partner Energy, to back nearly 1GW of renewable energy, the statement said. "This partnership with Meta marks a transformative moment for India's digital infrastructure. Building India's first built-to-suit data centre for a global techno