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Global funds view Indian stocks as top hedge against AI risks in 2025

Aberdeen Group Plc sees Indian stocks staging a rebound next year, while Principal Asset Management Co. and Eastspring Investments view the market's low correlation with AI trade

Militant groups test AI tools as experts warn of growing security risks

As the rest of the world rushes to harness the power of artificial intelligence, militant groups also are experimenting with the technology, even if they aren't sure exactly what to do with it. For extremist organisations, AI could be a powerful tool for recruiting new members, churning out realistic deepfake images and refining their cyberattacks, national security experts and spy agencies have warned. Someone posting on a pro-Islamic State group website last month urged other IS supporters to make AI part of their operations. One of the best things about AI is how easy it is to use, the user wrote in English. Some intelligence agencies worry that AI will contribute (to) recruiting, the user continued. So make their nightmares into reality. IS, which had seized territory in Iraq and Syria years ago but is now a decentralised alliance of militant groups that share a violent ideology, realised years ago that social media could be a potent tool for recruitment and disinformation, so

AI chatbots are becoming dangerously effective at political persuasion

When language models like GPT-4o were told to try persuading someone about healthcare funding or immigration policy, they'd generate around 25 claims during a 10-minute interaction

Copyright protection: Better framework is needed for AI training

A central government-appointed body will collect and distribute these royalties while a separate committee will set rates, subject to judicial review

India to showcase gender-responsive AI solutions at February 2026 summit

Compendium of case studies to be showcased at India-AI Impact Summit, focusing on ethical, empowering AI for women and girls

Trump signs order seeking to limit state-level AI regulation via lawsuits

Trump said the measure was necessary to bolster the emerging technology and counter a patchwork of state-level rules the industry worries will hamper its growth

Harness raises $240 million to speed up AI-driven software delivery

Goldman Sachs Alternatives leads $200 million investment, valuing the platform company at $5.5 billion as demand surges for automated code-to-production workflows

Royalty norms: AI firms may need to pay global revenue share to creators

India plans to mandate global AI firms to share revenue as royalties for using Indian creators' content to train LLMs, under a proposed statutory licensing and royalty framework

$70 bn and rising: Amazon's $35 billion bet lifts India's AI tide

Amazon's mega 5-yr plan tops announcements made by Microsoft, Google

Adopt fast or fall behind in AI, Microsoft CEO Nadella tells India

Rate of diffusion will decide winners of next tech wave, Microsoft CEO says in Delhi

TCS signs pact to buy Coastal Cloud for $700 million in all-cash deal

Tata Consultancy Services has signed an agreement to buy 100% of Coastal Cloud for $700 million in cash, adding 400+ Salesforce professionals and strengthening its advisory

New warfare era: AI, bioweapons escalate US-China security fears

Deterrence will be necessary. The biggest reason to build a military that can win the wars of the future is to prevent those wars from ever happening

Trump's nod for Nvidia's advanced chip sales to China draws scrutiny in US

Nvidia has received approval to sell its H200 chips to China, with the US government set to receive a 25 per cent share of all sales

OpenAI hires Slack CEO Dresser as 1st revenue chief to drive profitability

OpenAI on Tuesday said it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology. OpenAI said Dresser will oversee global revenue strategy and "will help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations." Dresser had already spent more than a decade at Salesforce when the software pioneer announced in 2020 it was buying work-chatting service Slack for USD 27.7 billion. She helped integrate Slack into the software company before Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff picked her as CEO in 2023. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman earlier this month set off a "code red" alert in an internal email to employees to improve its flagship product, ChatGPT, and delay other product developments. OpenAI first released ChatGPT just over three years ago, sparking global fascination and a commercial boom in generative AI technology and giving the San Francisco-based star

Half of our AI roadmap is being driven by our team in India: Diligent CEO

Stafford on building AI-powered compliance tools in Bengaluru and the future of governance technology

Tata Electronics, Intel sign MoU to explore chip making, packaging in India

Tata Electronics and Intel have signed an MoU to explore making Intel products at the Dholera fab and packaging chips at the Guwahati OSAT facility for the India market

Why ByteDance's AI phone is getting blocked by China's biggest apps

ByteDance's Doubao-powered AI phone is facing app blocks over broad permissions and data risks; the episode is exposing a bigger fight among China's tech giants for users and control

India makes its bets as AI chip race hots up; startup costs may fall

The country is expanding computing power for its AI mission. That's happening as rising competition between Google, Nvidia and other technology giants may lead to lowering costs for domestic startups

Deloitte to launch AI platform 'Tax Pragya' for faster client insights

Deloitte will this week launch an AI-powered platform 'Tax Pragya' to make tax research and insights accessible to its clients faster, a company official said on Sunday. Deloitte India Partner Sumit Singhania said Tax Pragya, which is set to be launched on December 9, has been built with direct and indirect tax-related data on over a million court cases and Deloitte's knowledge solution papers so that access to the insights is quicker and accurate. Tax analysts currently have to spend hours doing research on various court judgments before giving their feedback to clients. Tax Pragya will convert that time to just a few minutes and provide solutions from Deloitte's privately curated database, and not open source data. "Tax Pragya is an AI-powered tax, research and insight platform. It is enriched with two decades of Deloitte tax knowledge, perspective and jurisprudence. The goal is to move from a knowledge-intensive platform to an insightful platform. It's an agentic solution where w

Why does AI write like that? Exploring strange patterns of machine text

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive - and grating - voice