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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 ..

Samsung unveils Smart Monitor M9 with QD-OLED, adds AI perks to M8 and M7

Samsung's 2025 Smart Monitor line-up debuts QD-OLED on the M9 and brings AI enhancements like 4K upscaling, picture optimisation, and smart content search

Data analytics firm Tredence bets on GenAI to fuel growth over next 5 yrs

Backed by Advent International and Chicago Pacific Founders, Tredence raised about $205 million in two founding rounds till 2022

Google rolls out experimental AI Mode in Search for Indian users

Google launches AI Mode in Search via Labs for select users in India with advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities for handling complex and nuanced queries

We want to be a people-first organisation: Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti

Engineers need to think about the problem first and not the solution, says Argenti

SoftBank pitches $1 trillion AI, robotics hub in US to TSMC, Trump team

SoftBank officials are keen to have the Taiwanese maker of Nvidia Corp.'s advanced AI chips play a prominent role in the project

Amazon steps up anti-counterfeit drive in India with AI and policing

India is a focal point in Amazon's global brand protection strategy, using AI tools, stricter seller checks and law enforcement partnerships to fight counterfeits

Meet Alexandr Wang, Meta $15 billion bet to catch up in global AI race

Meta is bringing on Scale AI's CEO Alexandr Wang in a deal worth up to $15 billion to lead a new superintelligence lab and reboot its AI ambitions with cutting-edge data expertise

Clients not scaling back on pure GenAI projects, says Infosys CTO

Companies flagged slowdown during Q4 earnings

AMD sees AI chip market topping $500 bn by 2028, unveils MI350 GPU series

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Chief Executive Lisa Su has said that the chipmaker sees the artificial intelligence processor market topping USD 500 billion by 2028. The Silicon Valley company said the market is likely to grow at over 60 per cent annually to exceed USD 500 billion, from being a USD 45 billion opportunity in 2023. Addressing the company's flagship Advancing AI 2025 conference here on Thursday, Su said the growth will be led by the inferencing work, which is a shift from training. "What I can tell you based on everything that we see today is that that number is going to be exceeding USD 500 billion by 2028," Su said. The company unveiled the "MI350 Series GPUs (graphic processing units)" at the flagship event along with a host of other products. Su said opting for the newly launched chips may be beneficial for customers, claiming that they issue up to 40 per cent more tokens per dollar. It can be noted that Nvidia is generally considered an entrenched player in the G

Meta seals $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, hires its CEO Alexandr Wang

Wang will join Meta's 'superintelligence' unit working on human-level AI, known as artificial general intelligence, while remaining on Scale's board as the company's co-founder

Disney, Universal sue AI firm Midjourney for copyright infringement

Disney and Universal have filed a copyright lawsuit against popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have enter the legal battle over generative AI. Filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, the complaint claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios to generate and distribute "endless unauthorised copies" of their famed characters, such as Darth Vader from Star Wars and the Minions from Despicable Me. "Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism. Piracy is piracy, and whether an infringing image or video is made with AI or another technology does not make it any less infringing," the companies state in the complaint. The studios also claimed the San Francisco-based AI company ignored their requests to stop infringing on their copyrighted works and to take technological measures to halt such image generation. Midjourney did not .

India's AI market set to triple, may cross $17 billion by 2027: Report

The Indian AI market is expected to grow to over USD 17 billion by 2027, more than tripling its current size, driven by increased investments in enterprise technology, a flourishing digital ecosystem, and a strong pool of skilled professionals, according to BCG. The nation makes up 16 per cent of the world's AI talent, placing it behind only the US, reflecting both its demographic advantage and strong STEM education system. Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in a report titled "India's AI Leap: BCG Perspective on Emerging Challengers", said India has a thriving AI ecosystem with over 600,000 AI professionals, 700 million internet users, and a surge of AI startups with over 2000 launched in the past three years. "India's domestic AI market is projected to more than triple to USD 17 billion by 2027, making it one of the fastest-growing AI economies globally. This momentum is fuelled by rising enter-prise tech investments, a thriving digital ecosystem, and a robust talent base," the report

Use of AI likely to help enhance sugarcane production by 30%, say expert

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) could bring down the need of water in sugarcane farming by 50 per cent and increase the per acre produce by nearly 30 per cent, an expert in the field said on Wednesday. Notably, a meeting was recently held in Pune in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and former Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar where the use of AI in sugarcane farming was discussed. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Vasantdada Sugar Institute and Agricultural Development Trust was signed to explore ways to ensure this technology reaches as many farmers as possible. "Microsoft has already worked for a long time on the use of AI for sugarcane cultivation and is assuring 30 per cent growth in sugarcane production and curtailing water usage (in its farming) to half. This will help to run the sugar mills for a longer time (more than 110 days) and losses will also be less," Maharashtra State Co-Operative Sugar Factories Federation Ltd

UK PM Keir Starmer calls on Nvidia's Huang to train up Britons on AI

The Labour leader will hold an in-conversation event in London with tech billionaire Huang to mark an agreement in which Nvidia helps the UK train more people in AI

The four key startups leading the race to build India's first LLM

With the government's support, work begins on foundational models for AI services

Genpact acquires AI solutions provider XponentL Data to boost capabilities

Genpact buys XponentL Data, gaining domain-led data strategy, AI engineering skills and partnerships with AWS, Microsoft and Databricks to accelerate AI transformation

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai expects to keep hiring engineers as AI advances

Speaking at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, Pichai said he will continue to invest in engineering in the near future

India doubles down on AI with Rs 10,000 crore fund, 50,000 GPU ambition

With another round of bidding closing in early June, Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary at the MeitY anticipates an additional 15,000 to 16,000 GPUs will be secured

Bessemer names Pankaj Mitra as partner to bolster India investments

Tech veteran to focus on AI, enterprise software, and cybersecurity amid growing regional push