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AI agents, new ally for CFOs to bolster finance automation: Xalts COO

As Indian companies evolve into global entities with increasingly complex finance operations, AI-powered intelligent solutions are driving measurable outcomes, turbo-charging speed, insights and efficiency that CFOs urgently need, says Supreet Kaur, chief operating officer at Singapore-based fintech platform Xalts. The platform has assisted clients in shortening trade finance cycles by as much as 10 days, and providing headcount efficiency of 30-40 per cent, all without replacing core systems, she told PTI. In her view, the next phase of finance transformation won't be driven by generic automation but by vertical AI agent platforms that solve real operational challenges. It will free CFOs to focus on decision-making, not data wrangling, she said. Given the multi-jurisdictional mandate of corporate finance teams in today's globalised world, handling of intricate banking relationships, payments, liquidity, compliances, and many other complex finance and treasury tasks can no longer re

Nova Reel AI by Amazon now generates 2-min videos using text, image inputs

According to Amazon, users will be able to provide a prompt of up to 4,000 characters to generate a video of up to two minutes, which will essentially be a compilation of multiple six-second shots

Google adds multimodal search to AI mode, rolls out image-based search

Google said this new enhancement will let users upload an image, ask questions about it and receive detailed, context-rich answers, complete with helpful links for further exploration

Meta releases open-weight Llama 4 AI models to rival DeepSeek, Google Gemma

Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick are Meta's first open-weight AI models that are natively multimodal and built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture

Meta launches new Llama 4 AI models 'Scout', 'Maverick' to power innovation

Meta said in a statement that the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick are its 'most advanced models yet' and 'the best in their class for multimodality'

India ranks 10th with $1.4 billion private investment in AI: UN report

India ranks 36th out of 170 nations on a global index measuring a country's readiness for frontier technologies, improving its ranking from last year, according to the report

India leads in Agentic AI adoption, 80% firms onboard: Deloitte report

India is emerging as a global leader in Agentic AI adoption, with over 80 per cent of businesses actively exploring the development of autonomous agents, a Deloitte report says. Autonomous agents are AI systems that can act independently to achieve specific goals without constant human guidance. Agentic AI refers to the broader concept of using these agents to automate tasks and processes. The growing interest in this technology reflects a significant shift in how Indian organizations are leveraging AI for innovation and efficiency. The findings are part of Deloitte's State of GenAI (Fourth Wave) report, which provides an India-specific perspective on the adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) and Agentic AI. "Over 80 per cent of Indian organisations are actively exploring the development of autonomous agents, indicating a substantial shift towards Agentic AI," the report said. The report also highlighted the increasing focus on multi-agent workflows, where sub-agents collaborate under

OpenAI to release new 'open-weight' AI model soon: All you need to know

OpenAI is organising a series of developer events in the coming weeks to gather feedback and showcase early prototypes of the new open-weight language model

Amazon unveils new AI model for automating online shopping, web search

Positioned as a direct competitor to tools like OpenAI's Operator agent, Nova Act is capable of executing scheduled actions, processing complex instructions, and performing contextual tasks

Perplexity AI to soon bring new feature akin to Google's Circle to Search

While the Perplexity CEO confirmed that this functionality is on the way, no further details-such as a release timeline or official name-were shared

Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro model is now available for free users: What's new

Released last week for paid subscribers, the Google Gemini 2.5 Pro model's experimental version brings advanced reasoning and coding capabilities

'Our team needs sleep': Sam Altman on ChatGPT's Ghibli image art frenzy

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged the surge in demand for ChatGPT-4o's new image generation feature, admitting that the company's infrastructure was under significant strain

Teachmint Introduces AI-Powered Interactive Flat Panel with Google EDLA to Reinforce Classroom Security

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Google rolls-out custom chatbots 'Gems' for free-tier Gemini users: Details

Gems are customisable chatbots within Gemini, which can be created and personalised with a custom set of instructions

Google releases Gemini 2.5 model with focus on reasoning, code capabilities

Google said that it plans to incorporate "thinking" capabilities into all its models going forward, enabling them to handle more complex problems and support context-aware AI agents

Apple to train AI models using images collected for 'Look Around' on Maps

Apple will blur faces and license plates photographed in Maps' Look Around images to protect the privacy of any individuals caught in its survey efforts

China's DeepSeek releases AI model upgrade, intensifies rivalry with OpenAI

The latest model demonstrates significant improvements in areas such as reasoning and coding capabilities compared to its predecessor

What are AI hallucinations and why AIs sometimes make things up: Explained

Hallucinations often occur when the AI model fills in gaps based on similar contexts from its training data, or when it is built using biased or incomplete training data

Tech Wrap March 24: Samsung Galaxy A26, Google Project Astra, Claude AI

Samsung launches Galaxy A26. Google will let Gemini Live see your screen and camera. Anthropic adds web search to Claude. WhatsApp will let you share 'motion photos'

Anthropic adds web search to Claude chatbot for real-time answers: Details

Claude AI has added a web search feature, which will let the chatbot scan the web to offer better answers to users