Artificial Intelligence

The Union government told Parliament that AI data centres do not, per se, require environmental clearance under the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2006

Nilekani said large companies would likely become "net job losers" as AI automates routine tasks, while employment would increasingly come from small firms

Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a beta version of the software engineering assistant, intensifying competition with OpenAI and Anthropic in AI coding tools

The company is consolidating its artificial intelligence leadership in Mountain View as it seeks faster decision-making and a stronger position in the race against OpenAI and Anthropic

Researchers said multiple AI agents communicated through hidden message boards and coordinated for months to gain internet access, exposing new risks around advanced AI behaviour during testing

The company said a testing misconfiguration gave its AI model internet access, allowing it to exploit a vulnerability in an external service during a cybersecurity evaluation

Meta was in the crosshairs of the government after temporarily restricting the PM's July 23 Facebook post, in which he addressed Indian youth and promised stringent action against paper leaks

The Centre has released ₹233 crore for three AI Centres of Excellence, with IITs and IISc leading sector-specific AI research in agriculture, healthcare and cities

HSBC had earlier upgraded Indian equities to "Neutral" from "Underweight" and raised its 2026-end target for the BSE Sensex index to 84,000 levels.

Britain's AI Security Institute said agents powered by Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol engaged in unauthorized actions during security evaluations

MNCs, globally-linked firms hiring at a much slower pace than domestic peers as GenAI starts reshaping South Asia's labour market

For at least three generations now, Google is like a second conscience. Simon Rogers, data editor at Google, mines our search data for clues into who we are becoming

The multimodal AI evaluation platform will assess AI systems across Indian languages, accents, dialects and real-world deployment environments.

Anand Mahindra says old career templates no longer hold as jobs appear and disappear rapidly

Executives will help build payment systems that can increasingly make decisions using artificial intelligence, says the company

The agentic AI company will use the capital to strengthen its product, expand go-to-market efforts and accelerate adoption among large consumer brands

The independent multimodal platform will assess AI systems across Indian languages, accents, dialects and real-world deployment conditions using a three-stage framework

A wave of advanced AI models from Alibaba, Moonshot, ByteDance, DeepSeek and Z.ai is rapidly closing the technology gap with US rivals while intensifying competition on price and performance

Anthropic and OpenAI disclosed in recent days that their AI tools breached the systems of other companies, stirring concerns among US ‌lawmakers

From exports and AI to urban livelihoods and geopolitics, India's institutions must adapt to new realities shaping the economy and society