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AI disruptions short-lived as reskilling creates jobs: Karnataka minister

Disruptions from Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be brief and new jobs will emerge, Karnataka's IT and Biotechnology Minister Priyank Kharge has said, highlighting the state's large-scale reskilling initiatives are underway to prepare talent for new-age technologies. In an interview with PTI, Kharge asserted that Karnataka retains a comfortable lead over others in technology, with strong data and performance vectors backing its position. The state encourages innovation and collaboration, ensuring "that any entrepreneur or corporation who dreams of making it big globally, starts from Karnataka", he noted. On the issue of disruptions due to AI, the minister said, Nipuna Karnataka, the state's large-scale reskilling and upskilling initiative, aims at safeguarding and future-proofing its talent pool. "While there might be certain job losses, new jobs will be created...And that is why we need a massive reskilling and upskilling programme. So, there will be disruption, but the disrupti

Validation, loneliness, insecurity: Why young people are turning to ChatGPT

An alarming trend of young adolescents turning to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT to express their deepest emotions and personal problems is raising serious concerns among educators and mental health professionals. Experts warn that this digital "safe space" is creating a dangerous dependency, fueling validation-seeking behaviour, and deepening a crisis of communication within families. They said that this digital solace is just a mirage, as the chatbots are designed to provide validation and engagement, potentially embedding misbeliefs and hindering the development of crucial social skills and emotional resilience. Sudha Acharya, the Principal of ITL Public School, highlighted that a dangerous mindset has taken root among youngsters, who mistakenly believe that their phones offer a private sanctuary. "School is a social place a place for social and emotional learning," she told PTI. "Of late, there has been a trend amongst the young adolescents... They think th

AI will concentrate wealth; must solve social issues with it: Nilekani

IT services major Infosys' co-founder and non-executive chairman Nandan Nilekani has said that artificial intelligence (AI) is bound to lead to concentration of wealth and power in a few, but pitched for deploying new-age technologies at scale for human betterment. Smart use of AI can solve problems of healthcare and education for a billion people, Nilekani said, stressing that he is an optimist who wants to look at the positive side of technology in tackling real issues. "Obviously, there is going to be a concentration of wealth and power with AI ... we can't fight that. Forces at play are much bigger than any of us. But in our zone of influence, we have to do what we can to create a different paradigm," he said, speaking at an event hosted by the Asia Society here late on Thursday evening. "AI will be very well used in India but in a way that helps people's lives, helps them to learn languages, get better healthcare, get better education," Nilekani, who is credited for creating a

Qualcomm India eyes vehicle-linked smart glasses in under 3 yrs: President

Chipmaker in talks with Indian automakers to co-develop AI-powered glasses for two- and four-wheeler riders

Drizz raises $2.7 million to automate mobile app testing with AI

Drizz, founded by ex-Amazon and Coinbase engineers, uses AI and computer vision to enable code-free mobile app testing and has raised $2.7 million to enhance its platform

DeepSeek, Trump's plan steer agenda at China's most important AI summit

This week, US President Donald Trump unveiled his so-called AI Action Plan - a sort of call to arms to ensure the country keeps its lead in the post-ChatGPT epoch

Web traffic collapses as AI steps in: Google is changing how we click

Pew study finds AI summaries shut down curiosity and reduce link clicks, raising alarms among publishers, educators, and creators over falling traffic and shrinking visibility

AI demo firm Olto raises $5.1 mn from Nexus, The General Partnership

San Francisco-based AI startup Olto secured $5.1 mn in a pre-seed round co-led by Nexus Venture Partners and The General Partnership to automate and personalise B2B demos

Sam Altman warns of looming AI voice fraud crisis in financial sector

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the financial industry of a significant impending fraud crisis because of the ability of artificial intelligence tools to impersonate a person's voice to bypass security checks and move money. Altman spoke at a Federal Reserve conference Tuesday in Washington. A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept the voiceprint as authentication, Altman said. That is a crazy thing to still be doing. AI has fully defeated that. Voiceprinting as an identification for wealthy bank clients grew popular more than a decade ago, with customers typically asked to utter a challenge phrase into the phone to access their accounts. But now AI voice clones, and eventually video clones, can impersonate people in a way that Altman said is increasingly indistinguishable from reality and will require new methods for verification. That might be something we can think about partnering on, said Fed Vice Chair for Supervision

AI goes rogue: Replit AI platform wipes company database during code freeze

Replit's AI coding tool deleted data for over 1,200 companies during code freeze, prompting an apology from the CEO

Statsguru: India's AI engine is running, but not yet fully inventing

India is absent from the top 2 per cent of AI researchers globally. The US and China dominate, while even smaller nations like Germany and the UK find a place

Tech in sports empowers athletes and fans with emerging innovations

AI, data analytics, and sport medicine help athletes to monitor and improve their performance. Advanced technologies encourage spectator engagement at events

Adobe Firefly adds AI sound, avatars, and motion tools for video creation

Adobe enhances Firefly with AI-generated sound effects, avatars, improved motion fidelity, and new editing tools to simplify and speed up video creation workflows

EU's code of practice sets key benchmarks for regulating AI development

Most countries have still not been able to catch up. India, for instance, has no dedicated AI law

China fuelling AI goals with state backing, open source, infra funding

China is quickly closing the gap with the United States in the contest to make technologies that rival the human brain

Can China effectively compete in the artificial intelligence talent war?

The competition for AI talent prompted Meta Platforms Inc to reportedly offer sign-on bonuses of $100 million to lure senior staff from rivals

AI may now match humans in spotting emotion, sarcasm in online chats

Latent content analysis is an area of study concerned with uncovering the deeper meanings, sentiments and subtleties embedded in text

AI in currency: How it is quietly rewriting the rules of modern banking

Artificial intelligence is quietly transforming consumer-facing industries

Thinking capped: How generative AI may be quietly dulling our brains

Various experts in India, too, reiterate the concerns of overdependence on AI, to the extent where people outsource even thinking to AI

US judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training

A federal judge sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. The Wednesday ruling from US District Judge Vince Chhabria was the second in a week from San Francisco's federal court to dismiss major copyright claims from book authors against the rapidly developing AI industry. Chhabria found that 13 authors who sued Meta "made the wrong arguments" and tossed the case. But the judge also said that the ruling is limited to the authors in the case and does not mean that Meta's use of copyrighted materials is lawful. Lawyers for the plaintiffs a group of well-known writers that includes comedian Sarah Silverman and authors Jacqueline Woodson and Ta-Nehisi Coates didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday. Meta also didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. "This ruling does not stand for the ..