Artificial Intelligence

The BIS warns that the AI boom is becoming a macrofinancial risk, with concentrated investment and rising debt posing potential threats to global financial stability

Tech firms shift focus from labour arbitrage to outcomes as AI does most of the work

The month-long, fully funded programme has selected 43 students from more than 11,000 applicants to help transform AI-led startup ideas into validated ventures

India is building a first-of-its-kind AI-powered platform for official economic statistics. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (Mospi) is developing a Common Data Platform

Industry experts say the next stage of AI development in India will depend on investments in compute infrastructure, data centres, energy, and connectivity

The official manufacturing PMI rose to 50.3 in June, exceeding market expectations and signalling renewed growth in the sector

Apple acknowledged that artificial intelligence is reducing the time hackers need to exploit vulnerabilities, prompting a faster update cycle

The push for sovereign AI comes at a time when India's AI hiring market is undergoing a broader shift-from building AI models to deploying them at scale

Subsidised GPUs are helping lower AI compute costs in India, but industry experts say closing the capability gap will require much more than hardware access

India, China and Hong Kong are the only major markets where the largest companies account for a smaller share of overall market capitalisation than a year ago

Anthropic's latest Economic Index Report found that over 35% of Claude users believe AI could perform most of their work within the next year, reflecting the technology's growing integration

Samsung and SK Hynix will invest $517.87 billion with suppliers to build two new chip fabrication sites

P K Mishra warns AI can reinforce data biases in official statistics, urging stronger safeguards, transparency, and institutional independence in data governance

Vedanta group firm Hindustan Zinc Chairperson Priya Agarwal Hebbar on Monday said technology will be crucial to the company's next phase of growth, with increased investments in automation, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and intelligent mining systems to improve productivity, precision, and safety. "Our ambition is to become a future-ready energy transition company, building strength across multiple metals and critical minerals that support India's industrial growth and strengthen global supply chains," she said while addressing shareholders at the company's 60th Annual General Meeting (AGM). The company is positioning itself for the next phase of the global energy transition by expanding beyond zinc and foraying into critical minerals, downstream manufacturing and technology-led mining, according to the Chairperson. Hebbar said that shifting geopolitics, artificial intelligence, evolving global supply chains and the energy transition are fundamentally reshaping the ..

Tech Mahindra will deploy Perplexity Enterprise Pro across its sales and customer-facing teams to improve access to AI-powered, source-backed insights and strengthen client engagement

While hyperscaler cloud providers face margin pressures, Wood views memory producers as the most leveraged way to play the relentless AI investment cycle.

India has over 2 dozen official languages and more than 100 dialects and if AI can't close this gap, it will just become another technology that divides the English-speaking elite and everyone else

A major reason for this neglect is that women themselves are largely missing in the AI ecosystem

The former Uber India and South Asia president will join in September as OpenAI's most senior executive in the country, overseeing growth, partnerships, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement

Employers across the globe continue to have confidence in MBA degrees amid concerns whether artificial intelligence (AI) would make business school graduates redundant, according to a new report by Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). The report is based on an annual survey of global corporate recruiters by GMAC, known for conducting the GMAT exam and an umbrella body of leading business schools from across the globe. Across industries, more than half of employers agreed or strongly agreed that a graduate business degree is more important than ever as businesses adopt new technologies. However, one area of common concern being flagged by employers, which has grown harder to ignore, is professionalism. The survey drew responses from 621 recruiters and hiring managers across 39 countries, just over half of them at Global Fortune 500 companies, among the world's largest by revenue. Everyone reported at least some confidence in graduate management education, the umbrella term