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AI adoption to influence salary growth within 2-3 yrs: TeamLease Edtech CEO

As organisations increasingly recognise that artificial intelligence boosts productivity, employees using AI are likely to gain an edge in increments over the next 2-3 years, particularly in sectors such as technology, GCCs and BFSI, TeamLease Edtech founder and CEO Shantanu Rooj said. Companies in India are no longer treating AI skills as optional experimentation - they are moving into the core capability stack, Rooj told PTI. "Recent employer and workforce studies show that 92 per cent of Indian knowledge workers already use AI at work, and 80 per cent of leaders in India say they would prefer a less experienced candidate with AI skills over a more experienced one without them," he stated. At the same time, Rooj said national industry estimates suggest India's demand for AI professionals could cross 1 million by 2026, which means companies are now thinking about AI not just as a tool, but as a workforce strategy. "Organisations are set to increasingly move toward AI-influenced ..

Meta, Microsoft have joined tech layoff tsunami, but is AI really to blame?

The workers most at risk are not necessarily those whose tasks can be replicated by AI. They are those who wait for pressure to arrive from outside rather than getting ahead of it now

AI talent hiring jumps 59.5% in India amid rising adoption across sectors

AI hiring in India rose 59.5% year-on-year, driven by rapid adoption across sectors, with demand expanding beyond metros to Tier-II and Tier-III cities

Why China is moving to regulate AI firms bringing the dead back digitally

As AI enables affordable digital clones of the deceased, China tightens rules to address ethical concerns, data misuse, and risks to its political and social ecosystem

AI key to India's $30 trillion economic goal: Bharat1.AI's Umakant Soni

A three-to-five-year window will decide whether India builds its own AI ecosystem or becomes a consumer, says Bharat1.AI chief Umakant Soni, warning of growth risks

How do teens use AI companions? With more creativity than you might think

The American Academy of Paediatrics recently shifted screen-time guidelines from set time limits to a framework that accounts for the individual child, their use, family relationships and their enviro

Doctor-led AI platform offering 24x7 remote monitoring launched in Chennai

In a move to expand its footprint in southern India and bolster preventive healthcare, a doctor-led, AI-enabled ecosystem offering real-time medical supervision beyond hospital settings was launched in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The initiative aims to improve clinical outcomes for patients with chronic conditions preventing their escalation into serious illness and reduce the risk of sudden cardiac events. At the core of the ecosystem -- iLive Connect -- is a small wireless biosensor patch paired with a wearable wristband, which monitors vital parameters such as heart activity and blood pressure in realtime. As part of the system, data is tracked 24x7 by experienced doctors at a remote command centre, who alert patients and their families in case of any abnormality. Around 40 doctors, including Dr Thillai Vallal, Managing Director of Venkateswara Hospitals; Dr MA Raja, Director and senior consultant in Medical Oncology at MGM Healthcare; Dr Amit Kumar, critical care physician; Dr Prashan

Emergent takes VibeCon hackathon to India, eyes next wave of founders

Bengaluru event offers direct Y Combinator access to winners after highly selective application process

Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.7 with gains in coding and reasoning

Anthropic's new AI model improves instruction accuracy, memory usage and multimodal inputs, while introducing safeguards for cybersecurity-related use cases

Firefly AI Assistant can make prompt-based edits across Adobe apps: Details

The Firefly AI Assistant lets users describe edits across Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom and more. The update also adds new video and image editing features

MCA's AI model to score, sift company name approvals in less than a day

MCA plans AI-based green channel for company name approvals with confidence ratings, aiming to reduce processing time to under a day and improve transparency

'Pro-Iran groups used AI to troll Trump, tried to control war narrative'

Pro-Iran groups have used artificial intelligence to create slick internet memes in English to try to shape the narrative during the war against the U.S. and Israel and foster opposition to it. Analysts say the memes appear to be coming from groups linked to the government in Tehran and are part of a strategy of leveraging its limited resources to inflict damage on the U.S., even indirectly. That includes how Iran has used attacks and threats to control the flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and maintain a stranglehold on the world's economy. A ceasefire raised hopes Wednesday of halting hostilities, but many issues remained unresolved. "This is a propaganda war for them," Neil Lavie-Driver, an AI researcher at the University of Cambridge, said, referring to Iran. "Their goal is to sow enough discontent with the conflict as to eventually force the West to cave in, so it is massively important to them." It's not the first time memes have been used in a conflict, and they ha

US court rebuffs Anthropic in latest round of AI battle with Trump admin

A US federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to block the Pentagon from blacklisting artificial intelligence laboratory Anthropic in a decision that differed from the conclusions reached in another judge's ruling on the same issues. The US Court of Appeals in Washington rejected Anthropic's request for an order that would shield the San Francisco company from the fallout stemming from a dispute over how the Pentagon could deploy its Claude chatbot in fully autonomous weapons and potential surveillance of Americans while the panel is still collecting evidence about the case. But the setback in Washington came after Anthropic had already prevailed in a separate case focused on the same issues in San Francisco federal court. In that case, a judge forced President Donald Trump's administration to remove a label tainting the company as a national security risk. Anthropic filed the two separate lawsuits in San Francisco and the Washington appeals court last month, asserting the Trump

AI investment hits $800 billion, India emerges as key applications hub

SenseAI report shows capital concentrating in mega-rounds, with Indian startups scaling AI applications rapidly and reaching revenue early as value shifts to the application layer

Britain woos Anthropic to expand after clash with Pentagon: Report

The US government blacklisted Anthropic,designating the company a national-security supply-chain risk after it refused to allow the military to use AI chatbot Claude for US surveillance

Foxconn Q1 revenue jumps on strong demand, company cautions on geopolitics

Operations are expected to grow both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year in the second quarter, with AI racks maintaining a continued growth trend, the company said

AI inferencing to drive India data centre growth: Iron Mountain's Tapadia

AI inferencing will be the key driver of data centre demand in India, overtaking LLM training as companies scale AI applications, says Iron Mountain CEO Rajesh Tapadia

AI health chatbots won't make you better at diagnosing yourself: Study

People who used chatbots were less likely to identify the correct condition than those who didn't. They were also no better at determining the right place to seek care

UP govt scraps ₹25,000 cr MoU with Bengaluru-based startup Puch AI

The Uttar Pradesh government has cancelled a proposed Rs 25,000 crore Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with Bengaluru-based startup Puch AI for developing artificial intelligence infrastructure in the state, citing lack of financial credibility on the part of the firm. In a statement issued on the official handle of InvestUP on Thursday, the government said the decision was taken after a review conducted as per standard operating procedures revealed that the company did not possess the requisite net worth or credible financial linkages to execute a project of such magnitude. "As per standard protocols laid by the state government, the MoU signed with Puch AI on March 23, 2026, was reviewed. Necessary details were sought from the investor, but they were not provided in a timely manner. Due-diligence showed lack of net worth and credible financial linkages for the project's scale," the statement said. It added that the agreement stands cancelled with immediate effect and no ..

Apple gives iPhone designers rare bonuses to fight OpenAI poaching

The company granted out-of-cycle bonuses worth several hundred thousand dollars to many members of its iPhone Product Design team