Artificial Intelligence

Infosys Finacle is using AI to reduce sales process time by 60-70 per cent, while deploying multiple language models to improve banking efficiency and control costs

Alibaba's new Qwen Glasses N1 series starts at $450 and features improved cameras, AI integration and eye-tracking capabilities as the company expands its consumer hardware portfolio

A CII-ISB study finds 65.8 per cent of surveyed MSMEs use AI tools, but just 21 per cent deploy ERP or customised software, highlighting gaps in technology adoption and productivity.

No form of technology should be "artificially paused" and the need is to stay vigilant and think ahead on how to work with AI, so that innovation isn't stifled while the right governance and usage are built around it, IBM India and South Asia Managing Director Sandip Patel said on Tuesday. In an interview to PTI, Patel said IBM India has always been a critical part of global operations, not only because the company continues to participate in the growth market here, but also because it is a "hotbed of innovation". Innovations from India can be scaled and applied anywhere in the world, he said, pointing to Indian innovations such as UPI. Citing a specific IBM innovation, Patel said the company was "very privileged" to be a part of the creation of YONO, the digital platform run by SBI. He called it a fairly unique proposition that has emerged from India and can be applied around the world. As AI scales, IBM expects to keep participating in the growth story with India as a strong base

The Nandan Nilekani-backed growth-stage fund plans to invest ₹100-200 crore each in 12-15 AI and deeptech companies over the next two to three years, with a hard cap of ₹3,500 crore

Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla says businesses are taking a measured approach to AI investments, focusing on tangible returns, productivity and capital allocation

NTT Data and Brookfield executives expect strong data centre demand amid rising AI adoption, but warn that power infrastructure, skilled talent and capacity constraints pose challenges

AI upstarts challenge India's cost-led IT model as innovation takes centre stage

Founder Sridhar Vembu says a fourfold rise in server prices, higher AI expenses and an uncertain software market have forced Zoho to cut marketing spending and freeze annual pay hikes

Microsoft's Maia 300 joins custom AI chips from Google, Amazon and OpenAI as technology companies seek to reduce inference costs, improve efficiency and gain control over infrastructure

While tasks such as coding can increasingly be handled by artificial intelligence, other roles will emerge to manage the technology's deployment and its risks, Nilekani said

Homegrown technology firm Zoho Corporation has paused its annual pay hikes and pruned its marketing expenditure, citing sharply escalating Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure costs and an uncertain outlook for the software sector, founder Sridhar Vembu said on Tuesday. In a post on social media platform X, Vembu described the global employment landscape for the software sector as "grim" and said that the company has kept its headcount flat for the past 18 months while making efforts to avoid mass layoffs. "The business outlook for software is uncertain, and AI has raised costs dramatically with a) A massive 4-fold increase in server prices which we need for data centres and b) AI usage increasing rapidly, leading to much higher expenses, which we are trying to control," Vembu said. He added that a "challenging geopolitical backdrop" has further compounded these operational pressures. Outlining the internal measures taken to navigate the headwinds, Vembu stated that the comp

In its experiments, Anthropic looked at whether AI models could find vulnerable devices, copy themselves into ‌those devices, and continue spreading without ​human help

In a report, Anthropic detailed how Yemen-based Houthis used Claude Code to work on three weapons development programmes.

Known as Muse Wonder, the new model is the company's most capable since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg overhauled his AI operation through an aggressive hiring push that put new talent at the helm

Anthropic said ​it had made it harder to use proxy networks to repeatedly probe Claude's protected reasoning, blocking extraction attempts and hindering large-scale ‌distillation efforts

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI infrastructure investment is supporting global growth despite an energy supply shock

The new EI Lab will showcase AI-native factories, digital twins and autonomous systems, while LTTS plans a similar facility in the US by the end of FY27

HCLTech will set up a dedicated business unit and centre to develop AI solutions using Anthropic's Claude models and support their enterprise adoption

A top Google executive has addressed concerns over the tech giant's $15 billion AI data centre in Visakhapatnam, which has faced massive protests from locals. Here's what he said