Artifical Intelligence

Qualcomm bets on smaller AI models as memory costs push up phone prices

Qualcomm expects advanced AI features to reach cheaper smartphones gradually as memory price inflation pushes up costs and smaller AI models become more efficient

Of bots, watts, and water

Growing opposition to data centres in the US and Europe could create opportunities for India, but high power and water consumption, limited job creation and local resistance pose significant risks.

India is shaping how OpenAI builds products, says CTO Vijaye Raji

Applications chief Vijaye Raji says the company is building Hindi voices and courting Indian developers and enterprises

RapidCanvas raises $29 million in Series B round led by Vertex Ventures

The funding takes RapidCanvas' total capital raised to $52.5 million and will support expansion of its go-to-market teams, field AI engineering operations and partner network.

Navratri 2026: 5 best AI prompts to create stunning festive & Garba photos

Discover AI photo prompts for Navratri 2026 to create stunning festive portraits, colourful Garba looks, and traditional outfits. Try these ready-to-use prompts for quick results

AI agents accessed Indian firms' records without authorisation: Cert-In

Indian organisations failed to detect unauthorised access by AI models and agents, while AI companies voluntarily disclosed the incidents to Cert-In, the cyber agency said

Anthropic's Q3 revenue jumps to $16.8 billion ahead of planned IPO

Anthropic's third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion, up nearly 12-fold from a year earlier, as the Claude maker prepares for an IPO amid slowing growth and concerns over AI valuations.

Construction-robot startup Origin raises $20 mn to automate interior work

Accel and Zacua Ventures co-led the funding round, which will help Origin scale deployment of its OG-1 robot, expand its fleet and run customer pilots in overseas markets

Nifty sees best day in 4 months, rally remains confined to largecap stocks

Nifty gains 1.66% as IT stocks, private banks and Reliance rally despite a sell-off in Asian technology shares; broader market breadth stays weak, with smallcap indices falling.

Smallcap stocks under pressure; Sterlite, MTAR, HFCL, Netweb slide 5%

At 10:04 AM on Thursday, the Nifty Smallcap 100 index was down 0.86% at 19,218, as compared to a 1% rally in the Nifty 50.

AI gains may translate into income growth in 5 years for India: Orlik

Bloomberg Economics Chief Economist Tom Orlik said AI-driven productivity gains could add up to 0.9 percentage points to India's annual GDP growth

Next AI phase about outcomes, not experiments, says OpenAI executive

The next phase of AI will be about driving outcomes rather than experiments, with firms defining specific problems and measuring how much AI contributes to solving them, OpenAI's head of public policy and strategy for India, Pragya Misra, said on Wednesday. Citing an example, Misra said online car marketplace Cars24 used OpenAI's models for nearly a million conversation minutes a month through a customer agent that helps sellers list their cars, and it now reports that nearly 12 per cent of its lost sellers are returning because of it. "The next phase... for AI is really going to be not experiments but actually driving outcomes," Misra said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2026. She said it was no longer about just deploying ChatGPT at scale but about going to a company's board and CEO, asking what the hardest problems they were trying to solve were, and working with them to solve those specific problems so that they could report the results to shareholders and investors. "It's .

TVs, appliances could become launchpads for AI-driven attacks: Anthropic

Anthropic research finds small AI models can perform steps needed for self-replication across devices. Experts are of the view that these early warnings should not be taken lightly

Are financial risks now building?

Financial transactions and risks may be expanding faster than the regulatory perimeter designed to oversee them

IIT researchers develop new device for AI, smart computing applications

Researchers from IIT Guwahati and IIT Kharagpur have developed an ultrathin device that combines visual sensing, memory and processing, using 500 times less energy in lab tests.

Satya Nadella warns of AI insider risks, seeks stronger safety controls

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants AI agents treated as potential insider risks, with independent access controls, emergency shutdown mechanisms and stronger oversight

China vows to curb tech investment bubbles, keep AI risks under check

China will curb tech investment bubbles, strengthen core technology breakthroughs and ensure AI remains safe and controllable, holding officials accountable for major losses caused by blind investment

OpenAI fires three safety researchers over alleged breach of trust

OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for removing them. The ChatGPT maker said in a post on X that it "parted ways" with the researchers after an investigation found "they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information." The statement comes after the three researchers, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni, posted a letter to OpenAI's various safety oversight groups detailing the circumstances around their firings and their concerns about AI. The researchers said they feared that the "internal and external communications" about their dismissals have chilled the company's culture that encouraged speaking freely and disagreeing openly about safety concerns. They urged OpenAI to stick to its promise to allow third-party safety monitors inside the company and preserve the ability to monitor rapidly

AI smart mirrors to cyber games: Tech innovations previewed at IMC 2026

India Mobile Congress 2026 featured an offline AI smart mirror, Vodafone Idea's digital readiness assessment for MSMEs, and Fortinet's interactive cyber defence games

Beyond SMS: How AI is changing way Indian businesses reach customers

At IMC 2026, Authkey and Airtel showcased platforms combining SMS, WhatsApp, RCS and AI as businesses shift from one-way notifications to automated customer conversations