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NITI Aayog calls for AI-led overhaul of India's tech services industry

NITI Aayog says India's tech sector must shift to AI-driven, IP-led and outcome-based models, warning that the traditional labour-heavy IT services approach will not sustain future growth

IBM to triple entry-level hiring in US in 2026 with roles recast for AI era

While the company declined to disclose specific hiring figures, it said the expansion will be 'across the board', affecting a wide range of departments

India's next Cloud layer could orbit above Earth as AgniKul prepares AI hub

Chennai-based space tech start-up will use its patented upper-stage platform to host AI data modules in orbit, with NeevCloud as its first customer

Cybersecurity as priority: Indian enterprises must prioritise preparedness

Cybersecurity now defines business resilience in India, as rising AI risks, insider threats and escalating attacks push firms to embed security into core strategy

IIT Bombay, Columbia Univ to set up AI centre for manufacturing innovation

Joint centre, initiated by Union Education Ministry, will build scalable, human-centric AI systems for manufacturing sectors including semiconductors and robotics

BharatGen to launch 17B-parameter multilingual AI model at AI Impact Summit

The government-backed BharatGen programme will showcase its 17-billion-parameter 'Param2' model at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, focusing on Indian languages and public-sector use cases

Saaras V3 beats Gemini, GPT-4o on Indian speech benchmarks, says Sarvam AI

Sarvam said that its new speech recognition model recorded lower word error rates on IndicVoices and Svarah benchmarks, extending its earlier benchmark results in document and language tasks

Nifty IT index tumbles over 4%; TCS, Wipro, Cyient, Hexaware hit 52-wk lows

TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Coforge, Tech Mahindra, Persistent Systems, HCL Technologies, LTIMindtree and Mphasis were down in the range of 4 per cent to 5 per cent in intra-day trade on Thursday.

China's ByteDance to launch AI chip, negotiating production with Samsung

The information about ByteDance's in-house chip project is inaccurate, a spokesperson for the company said in a statement, without elaborating

India's enterprise AI boom is driving surge in data leakage risks: Report

India is a major source of enterprise AI traffic, but with rapid growth in data volumes comes parallel rise in data leakage incidents tied to AI tools, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz 2026 AI Security

ChatGPT caricature trend 2026: Why these 3D-style images are everywhere

Social media is being suddenly overtaken by a new AI trend that is more individualised than the usual photo filters. The trend's rapid spread can be attributed to this mix of familiarity and fun

Anthropic AI engineer quits to pursue career in poetry: 'World in peril'

Mrinank Sharma's work included studying AI sycophancy and its causes, developing safeguards to reduce risks from AI-assisted bioterrorism, and implementing those safeguards

Alphabet issues rare $11 billion 100-year bond to fund AI: What it means

Alphabet has raised over $11 billion through global bond sales, including a rare 100-year bond, as it ramps up spending on artificial intelligence and long-term technology investments

AI Summit 2026: Here are the seven chakras guiding India's AI roadmap

As India prepares to host the AI Impact Summit 2026, seven chakras will guide global leaders on building safe, inclusive and sustainable AI systems

xAI co-founders Jimmy Ba, Tony Wu join exodus from Musk's AI startup

Wu announced his exit Monday in a post on X, without saying in the statement what he would be doing next. Ba followed a day later, saying it was his last day at xAI

Govt directs platforms to label AI content, deploy checks on misuse

Platforms must also ensure that AI-generated material is clearly labelled and carries identifiers indicating its synthetic origin

India's Sarvam AI reportedly beats ChatGPT, Gemini in key benchmark tests

Indian AI startup Sarvam AI reports strong benchmark results in document OCR and Indic language understanding, outperforming several global models on layout and multi-script tests

What makes India AI Impact Summit different from earlier global AI meetings

Previous global meetings were shaped by safety concerns, but the India AI summit is framed around real-world impact, deployment and how emerging economies fit into the global AI ecosystem

India AI Impact Summit: Govt migrates BHASHINI to Indian cloud platform

The government has migrated the BHASHINI AI platform to India-based Yotta cloud infrastructure, keeping data, models and GPU workloads within India's jurisdiction

AI-led memory shortage threatens to make phones, TVs, PCs costlier in 2026

A global supply squeeze driven by AI servers is raising costs for phones, PCs and TVs, while some brands consider Chinese memory makers as a fallback