Artifical Intelligence

US job cuts hit two-decade October high as AI and costs reshape firms

Companies announced 153,074 job cuts last month, almost triple the number during the same month last year and driven by the technology and warehousing sectors

Updated On: 06 Nov 2025 | 11:05 PM IST

Lenskart AI smartglasses to get Gemini AI, Snapdragon chip: What to expect

Lenskart's AI-powered smartglasses "B by Lenskart" will feature a Google Gemini 2.5-based assistant, Qualcomm's AR1 Gen 1 chip, built-in camera, UPI payments, and more

Updated On: 06 Nov 2025 | 3:42 PM IST

Google Maps gets Gemini as AI navigator and trip assistant: What's new

Google Maps is getting its biggest AI boost yet - with Gemini now handling navigation, voice assistance, landmark-based directions, and visual search

Updated On: 06 Nov 2025 | 11:49 AM IST

Paytm founder Sharma bets on AI-led revenue growth, cost-efficiency

Vijay Shekhar Sharma says AI will fuel Paytm's next phase of growth after cost efficiencies, as company eyes revenue opportunities from smart devices

Updated On: 05 Nov 2025 | 11:52 PM IST

MeshDefend raises $2.3 million to bring AI intelligence to enterprise data

Kalaari Capital leads the pre-seed round as the startup, founded by former Dell executives, builds an AI-native platform to secure and automate enterprise data infrastructure

Updated On: 06 Nov 2025 | 6:05 AM IST

AI ads: Blurring the line between information, recommendation and promotion

Google's decision to try out advertisements within its Gemini AI experience could change both revenue structures as well as how advertising is targeted, but it also raises several ethical questions

Updated On: 05 Nov 2025 | 5:38 PM IST

Google launches Project Suncatcher to test AI data centres in space

The project envisions a network of small satellites, each equipped with Google's custom-designed Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips

Updated On: 05 Nov 2025 | 5:35 PM IST

AI marketing firm MoEngage secures $100 mn funding for global growth

Customer engagement platform plans to expand its technology suite and teams

Updated On: 05 Nov 2025 | 12:46 PM IST

India needs to find vocations least impacted by AI: CEA Nageswaran

He further added that AI is moving in an automation-centric direction, which is likely to replace labour, instead of taking a human-centric approach

Updated On: 04 Nov 2025 | 11:23 PM IST

OpenAI's IndQA to deepen focus to contextualise Indian languages

OpenAI's IndQA evaluates AI reasoning across 12 Indian languages and 10 cultural domains, marking its first benchmark tailored to India's linguistic and cultural diversity.

Updated On: 04 Nov 2025 | 10:59 PM IST

As work is redefined and hiring resets, more turmoil may hit the job market

As work gets redefined and companies reset hiring, expect more turmoil in the job market

Updated On: 04 Nov 2025 | 10:03 PM IST

Japanese publishers urge OpenAI to stop using their work for training AI

After ChatGPT's image generator was released, a viral trend emerged in which users recreated photos of themselves or their pets in the Ghibli art style and shared them widely online

Updated On: 04 Nov 2025 | 2:04 PM IST

Apple's revamped Siri could tap Google Gemini for AI features, web search

Apple is reportedly developing a new version of Siri powered in part by Google's Gemini AI, adding advanced search, contextual understanding, and deeper integration with Apple Intelligence

Updated On: 04 Nov 2025 | 1:02 PM IST

Alibaba's AI model leads global crypto trading test, outperforms GPT-5

Alibaba's Qwen3-Max AI model earned top spot in a real-market crypto trading test, while DeepSeek AI came second with nearly 5 per cent gains

Updated On: 04 Nov 2025 | 12:31 PM IST

ChatGPT Go now available free in India for 1 year: Here's how to get it

OpenAI has announced that its paid ChatGPT Go plan will be free for all users in India for a year starting November 4, as part of a limited-time promotional offer tied to its DevDay event in Bengaluru

Updated On: 04 Nov 2025 | 9:46 AM IST

Microsoft plans $15 bn UAE investment, secures US Nvidia chip licence

Microsoft invested $1.5 billion last year to take a minority stake in Abu Dhabi AI company G42, giving the U.S. tech giant a board seat, which is filled by Smith.

Updated On: 03 Nov 2025 | 8:01 PM IST

Infosys launches composable stack of AI agents, services, and models

IT services major Infosys on Monday launched the Infosys Topaz Fabric -- a composable stack of AI agents, services, and models designed to accelerate value from enterprise AI investments. The enterprise services delivered through Infosys Topaz Fabric include IT operations, transformation services, quality engineering services, and cybersecurity services, the company said in a regulatory filing. "This is a stack of layered, composable, open and interoperable data infrastructure, models, agents, flows, and AI apps that help unify and accelerate IT service delivery across the enterprise landscape. Infosys Topaz Fabric makes it simple for enterprises to access services-as-software -- both integrated and modular -- through a comprehensive one-shop. "It unlocks enterprise value by reimagining IT processes, building on existing IT investments, and bringing together AI-led capabilities out-of-the-box while avoiding vendor lock-ins," it said. AI agents deliver services alongside humans in t

Updated On: 03 Nov 2025 | 7:37 PM IST

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic step up fight against rising AI cyber threats

Leading global AI leaders are racing to fix security flaws in chatbots that hackers are exploiting to steal data and launch cyberattacks

Updated On: 03 Nov 2025 | 6:02 PM IST

Microsoft signs nearly $9.7 billion contract with IREN for Nvidia chips

The move is the latest attempt by Microsoft to boost AI and data center infrastructure at a time when AI demand is outstripping cloud capacity at Big Tech companies

Updated On: 03 Nov 2025 | 5:07 PM IST

Zico Kolter leads OpenAI safety panel with power to block unsafe AI

If you believe artificial intelligence poses grave risks to humanity, then a professor at Carnegie Mellon University has one of the most important roles in the tech industry right now. Zico Kolter leads a 4-person panel at OpenAI that has the authority to halt the ChatGPT maker's release of new AI systems if it finds them unsafe. That could be technology so powerful that an evildoer could use it to make weapons of mass destruction. It could also be a new chatbot so poorly designed that it will hurt people's mental health. Very much we're not just talking about existential concerns here, Kolter said in an interview with The Associated Press. We're talking about the entire swath of safety and security issues and critical topics that come up when we start talking about these very widely used AI systems. OpenAI tapped the computer scientist to be chair of its Safety and Security Committee more than a year ago, but the position took on heightened significance last week when California an

Updated On: 02 Nov 2025 | 11:10 PM IST