Artifical Intelligence

Funds will be used to expand in the US and other markets, invest in product development, and scale the team of the real estate-focused AI platform

India has a "unique" position in AI enablement due to its deep technology foundation and large pool of people who understand digital systems and processes, according to Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer at Cognizant. Hodjat told PTI that while AI tools are increasingly generating more and more codes, developers will still be needed to build modular systems and evaluate the quality of outputs produced by AI. "So this is not going to go to waste...A coder using AI is going to be well ahead of a non-coder using AI," he said. Artificial Intelligence is empowering more professionals across fields, even though core tech expertise remains valuable, Hodjat believes. The recent India AI Impact Summit, held in New Delhi, showed the extent to which the country is prioritising artificial intelligence. "India has a unique position because they have a starting point that is ahead of everyone else. Because you have a tech-savvy population and you are building on solid grounds which is the technolog

AI chatbots sometimes agree with users expressing delusional or harmful ideas, including suicidal thoughts, raising concerns about how such systems respond to vulnerable users

CEO Jensen Huang said the company has resumed production of H200 chips after earlier pausing output due to uncertainty around regulatory clearances

Instagram now lets users add AI voice effects to voice notes in DMs, making chats more interactive by allowing recipients to reuse the same effects in replies

Infosys's stock price has corrected 25 per cent thus far in the calendar year 2026, as against 11.4 per cent fall in Nifty 50, on likely threat to revenue growth.

Competition Commission is getting ready to take action against anti-competitive practices that might emerge in the artificial intelligence front, including algorithmic collusion, the regulator's chief Ravneet Kaur said on Monday. She said the watchdog is also looking at anti-trust issues in sports, civil aviation, paints and varnishes, and liquor sectors. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) keeps a tab on unfair business practices in the market place. "... we are getting ready to take action even on any anti-competitive practices which might emerge in the AI front. "So, we've identified potential anti-competitive conduct... which would be concentration in the AI value chain. It could be algorithmic collusion, targeted price discrimination, self-preferencing, or any opaqueness in the AI," Kaur said. Last year, CCI came out with a market study in AI and competition. Speaking at the 11th National Conference on Economics of Competition Law in the national capital, the CCI ...

Early-stage companies selected from more than 4,000 applicants will receive up to $2 million each and access to Google's AI models and computing resources

Report flags sharp rise in AI-generated deception, with women disproportionately targeted and cybercrime complaints climbing sharply

Artificial intelligence is accelerating the pace of warfare, reshaping targeting, surveillance and military strategy while spurring new defence technologies

A month after the India AI Impact Summit, startups report partnerships, product launches and global leads as India positions itself as a source of AI solutions

AI Safety Connect co-founders say safety frameworks must evolve as fast as tools built on large language models, warning that gaps between capability and control create systemic risks

A PSA white paper says India must develop small language models alongside large language models to ensure linguistic inclusion, affordability, energy efficiency and public-sector suitability

Regulator proposes lowering complaint threshold for action on AI-flagged spam and seeks compliance with spam regulations from call management apps and phone diallers

Accenture has announced a new leadership team for its Reinvention Services division led by Manish Sharma as the company reorganises services to deliver AI-driven solutions

Anthropic has updated its AI assistant Claude with the ability to generate interactive charts, diagrams and other visuals directly within conversations

Google Ads Vice President Dan Taylor says agentic AI could transform shopping journeys and advertising by simplifying decisions and enabling seamless commerce across the web

From analysing drone footage to selecting targets, AI tools are now playing a growing role in modern warfare, helping the US military carry out strikes faster during the ongoing conflict in Iran

Company plans to use proceeds from the Navi Mumbai asset sale to prepay debt and strengthen investments in artificial intelligence-led proptech platforms

Canva introduces Magic Layers, a feature that transforms flat images into editable designs, allowing users to move objects, change text and refine layouts directly in the editor