Ai Technology

How smart home is becoming interface between AI agents and physical world

Google, Amazon, Samsung and Apple are connecting AI agents with smart home devices, making home platforms an increasingly important interface between AI and the physical world

AI wearables can listen and watch but people around them never opted in

As AI gives wearables the ability to listen, see and interpret their surroundings, the privacy question is expanding beyond the person wearing the device to everyone within its reach

AI is calling: How India plans to tell legitimate automated calls from spam

As AI voice agents become more common, Trai's new rules aim to separate legitimate business calls from spam, scams, and impersonation attempts

Brics 2026: PM Modi warns against weaponising technology, critical minerals

As the two-day Brics Summit concluded, Modi stressed resilient supply chains and inclusive technology, while Xi proposed initiatives spanning AI, trade and manufacturing

India's new-age economy to triple to nearly $300 billion by FY31: Redseer

Consumption-led sectors, including consumer goods, retail and leisure, are expected to remain the cornerstone of growth, reaching about $150 billion by FY31 at an annual growth rate of around 25%

Fortune to set up ₹60,000 cr hyperscale AI data centre park in Telangana

The proposed 170-acre campus in Ranga Reddy district will support 1,200-1,600 MW of IT load, with cumulative investment potentially rising to ₹1 trillion

NPCI launches two new agentic AI platforms: Key features explained

The platforms are designed to use AI to automate enterprise workflows and processes across India's digital payments ecosystem

Meta's Muse AI agent can book, buy, and browse for you: Here's how it works

Meta's Muse is a personal AI agent that can browse the web, book travel, send emails, make purchases and continue working on tasks in the background, while asking users to approve sensitive actions

Kenyans did college students' homework for years. Then AI arrived

Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With AI, the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline

PAIR tool from Nvidia lets you run AI agents on a personal AI data centre

Nvidia's open-source Personal AI Router (PAIR) can connect compatible PCs on a local network and use their idle computing power to run AI workloads in parallel

Perplexity may have a way to run LLMs on consumer hardware: How it works

Perplexity's experiment with a 35-billion-parameter model shows how inference engines, quantisation and memory optimisation can unlock more performance from existing hardware

AI leads salary growth in India as employers pay more for scarce skills

AI leads salary growth in India as employers pay more for scarce skills

Yotta planning to launch IPO in Q4FY27, to seek up to $1.5 bn amid AI boom

The Hiranandani Group-backed firm is looking to file draft IPO papers in October and aims to raise up to $1.5 billion to repay debt

US call for hands-off approach to AI regulation at G20 tech meeting

The US goals largely align with the thinking of the world's biggest AI companies, nearly all of which are American

OpenAI says upcoming Astra model requires stronger safety guardrails

The model, called Astra, ​can spot more security vulnerabilities than the most advanced OpenAI model publicly ​available today

OpenAI to end deal with SpaceX-owned Cursor, deepening Musk-Altman clash

We are making ‌this choice because we cannot be confident that ​SpaceX will use technology within ​our terms of service, based on our experience with Musk's companies violating contracts, OpenAI said

Anthropic's new AI tool can conduct scientific experiments: How it works

Anthropic has opened a research preview of its Model Hardware Standard, allowing AI agents such as Claude to control scientific equipment, automate experiments and manage workflows across labs

How OpenAI's AI agents found a way to coordinate and hack Hugging Face

Findings from OpenAI and METR offer a detailed account of the Hugging Face incident, revealing how hundreds of AI agents communicated and coordinated activity across separate evaluation runs

Nvidia agrees to buy open source platform Hugging Face for $12.9 bn: Report

The deal would give Nvidia control of ​Hugging Face - which hosts open-source large language models and datasets

OpenAI says it could have reacted sooner to prevent AI hack of Hugging Face

In the report, OpenAI said that it knew as far back as late May that AI models it was testing were leveraging a software vulnerability to access the open internet