Artificial Intelligence

Tokens to usage: Why cheaper AI still leaves enterprises with bigger bills

Token prices have fallen sharply, but agentic workflows can consume far more of them, while data, infrastructure and governance add to costs, shifting the focus from usage to business returns

Updated On: 11 Aug 2026 | 4:05 PM IST

AI's next banking frontier is rural India, small businesses: SBI Chairman

C S Setty said banks must take AI beyond retail applications to improve credit access, risk assessment and productivity while strengthening cybersecurity and governance

Updated On: 11 Aug 2026 | 1:43 PM IST

Only AI alone can help limit AI frauds, says RBI Governor Malhotra

He said AI could become as significant to the current decade as liberalisation was to the 1990s and digitalisation to the 2010s

Updated On: 11 Aug 2026 | 12:30 PM IST

Muse Glimmer 30B: Meta bets on open AI models that can run on Macs and PCs

Meta has released the weights of Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model built for local AI agents, coding and tool use, and designed to run on a Mac or PC with a single consumer GPU

Updated On: 11 Aug 2026 | 10:39 AM IST

US House Democrats seek answers from OpenAI, Anthropic over rogue AI agents

Twenty-nine ​lawmakers, led by Representatives Greg Casar and Doris Matsui, pressed OpenAI to explain how ​its AI agents are monitored during testing

Updated On: 11 Aug 2026 | 9:31 AM IST

5 key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word manifesto on AI

Zuckerberg's letter is the latest entry in the broader genre of manifestos from AI executives laying out their visions for the emerging technology

Updated On: 11 Aug 2026 | 9:00 AM IST

Google's DeepMind team warns job seekers of unreliable HR filters

Google team is encouraging candidates for its open roles to fill out a special form alongside their application to eliminate the risk it may be automatically screened out by the company's AI systems

Updated On: 11 Aug 2026 | 8:47 AM IST

AI materials startup Discovered Materials raises $9 million seed round

The IIT Madras alumni-founded company is using AI agents to accelerate the discovery of semiconductor materials and has released hundreds of AI-discovered materials alongside a new industry benchmark

Updated On: 10 Aug 2026 | 8:54 PM IST

Shiprocket bets IPO proceeds on AI as it expands beyond core shipping biz

Shiprocket plans to invest much of its IPO proceeds in AI and emerging businesses as it seeks to offer merchants technology spanning advertising, freight and commerce

Updated On: 10 Aug 2026 | 7:01 PM IST

No AI skills gap assessment; 47.6% of PMKVY's AI candidates certified: Govt

Of 53,449 candidates enrolled in AI-related job roles under PMKVY 4.0, 39,104 were trained, 28,345 assessed and 25,466 certified as of June 30, 2026

Updated On: 10 Aug 2026 | 6:59 PM IST

How China is redesigning higher education, and should India follow?

As AI reshapes job skills, China is redesigning higher education around technology and labour-market needs. Should India adopt parts of its approach without sacrificing academic autonomy?

Updated On: 10 Aug 2026 | 2:57 PM IST

How AI is turning big tech into industrial giants

AI is reshaping more than software—it's transforming Big Tech into infrastructure giants. Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta are investing billions in data centres

Updated On: 10 Aug 2026 | 1:22 PM IST
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Chinese startup Moonshot's AI model escapes testing sandbox: Researchers

AI ​models are typically run in isolated 'sandboxes' during cybersecurity tests to block access to external information and assess their ability to solve problems independently

Updated On: 10 Aug 2026 | 10:34 AM IST

OpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model Astra

Preliminary ​evaluations over the past several days, along with outside expert assessments, indicated Astra may be capable of performing increasingly sophisticated cyber tasks autonomously

Updated On: 10 Aug 2026 | 10:18 AM IST

Blue Cloud Softech's US arm signs $150 mn AI infra deal with SpaceX Int'l

Blue Cloud's US subsidiary will provide AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, telecommunications and data centre solutions to SpaceX International under an 18-month agreement

Updated On: 10 Aug 2026 | 10:03 AM IST

AI data centres' volatile power demand strains equipment, threatens grids

As the AI boom accelerates, these technical problems suggest added costs and unforeseen reliability problems, with even a few minutes of lost uptime hitting data-center developers' revenue

Updated On: 10 Aug 2026 | 8:47 AM IST

Samsung studying consumer AI use to shape future smartphone experiences

Samsung Electronics is closely tracking how consumers are adopting and using artificial intelligence (AI) in their everyday lives, with the company relying on feedback from local markets to shape future AI experiences, a top Samsung official said. Samsung Electronics Corporate EVP, Head of Customer Experience Office, MX Division, Jay Kim said Samsung's goal is to make AI work seamlessly in the background, enabling users to complete tasks effortlessly without having to think about the underlying technology. "We are now focusing on how consumers are adopting AI, reacting to it, and using it. We are getting a lot of feedback from local markets, and we will gradually apply the learnings. I would say that we are in an early stage in terms of understanding how AI actually helps consumers' lives every day," Kim said. South Korean electronics company Samsung first launched Galaxy AI on the Galaxy S24 device in 2024 and had focused it on three principles -- meaningful features, ease of acces

Updated On: 09 Aug 2026 | 11:15 AM IST

How do you excel in tomorrow's workplace?

In this session, Gaurav Agarwal talks about AI, its impact on the future of the workplace and provides career tips to the B-Schoolers. >

Updated On: 08 Aug 2026 | 4:01 PM IST
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Centre asks Meta to act against deepfakes, probes role of algorithms

Government may seek legal opinion on further action against Meta after reviewing outcome of recent meetings; other digital platforms could also come under scrutiny

Updated On: 08 Aug 2026 | 1:31 PM IST

OpenAI pauses work on new Astra model to boost safeguards over cyber risks

The ChatGPT maker said the unreleased model may cross its 'critical cybersecurity threshold' and develop zero-day exploits autonomously

Updated On: 08 Aug 2026 | 8:41 AM IST