Artifical Intelligence

An AI-generated lung medicine may also 'cure' ageing, trial shows

The company says that data from the same trial shows a more intriguing possibility: that the drug could also slow the ageing process.

ER&D firms need new playbook: Nasscom Vice-Chairperson Kishor Patil

Indian ER&D companies need to focus more on products and outcome-based models as AI squeezes traditional revenue streams, says KPIT co-founder Kishor Patil

Fintechs race to deploy AI agents, but revenue payoff remains elusive

Paytm, Pine Labs, Razorpay, Cashfree and Juspay are deploying AI agents across merchant and internal workflows, but monetisation remains nascent as most offerings are still being tested

Kenyans did college students' homework for years. Then AI arrived

Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With AI, the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline

AI reshapes non-tech GCC jobs as routine roles see sharp declines: Report

Procurement roles saw the sharpest decline at 41.7% in 2025, while analytics, customer support, and finance and risk roles also recorded steep falls

ARCs turn to AI, analytics as retail recovery business gains scale

Arcil and other asset reconstruction companies are exploring AI across compliance, collections and recovery analytics as larger retail portfolios increase data volumes and operational complexity

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra revives AGI debate as autonomy, cyber skills improve

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shows stronger autonomy, computer use and cyber capabilities, but benchmark caveats and monitoring concerns complicate claims that AGI has arrived

STL hits 5% upper limit on Growth Roadmap FY27-29; up 786% from CY2026 low

Sterlite Technologies is targeting ₹20,000 crore revenue by the FY29 vs ₹4,750 crore FY26 - roughly 4x growth and EBITDA margin targeted to rise from 13% in FY26 to >27% in FY29.

PAIR tool from Nvidia lets you run AI agents on a personal AI data centre

Nvidia's open-source Personal AI Router (PAIR) can connect compatible PCs on a local network and use their idle computing power to run AI workloads in parallel

OpenAI launches 'most intelligent' model, says it beat Anthropic: Report

OpenAI says its latest AI model has moved ahead of rival Anthropic in software, science and cybersecurity, as the two companies compete for the AI industry's top spot

Broadcom raises AI chip sales forecast to $115 billion by 2028

Broadcom, whose custom AI chips are used by companies including Meta Platforms, Google and OpenAI, ​said it now expects AI chip revenue of about $115 billion in the fiscal year ending Oct 2027

Companies not cutting jobs due to AI: Microsoft Indi's Puneet Chandok

Microsoft India and South Asia President Puneet Chandok says the transition to AI requires new skills, ways of working and organisational structures across companies

Perplexity may have a way to run LLMs on consumer hardware: How it works

Perplexity's experiment with a 35-billion-parameter model shows how inference engines, quantisation and memory optimisation can unlock more performance from existing hardware

Adobe acquires Indian AI automation startup Rilo to boost agentic push

The deal marks Adobe's second known acquisition of an Indian firm as it expands its push into agentic marketing and AI-powered automation

Juspay rolls out platform to improve brand discovery across AI interfaces

Breeze Universal connects brands' product catalogues with AI interfaces, allowing shoppers to discover, compare and purchase products within a single conversation

Yotta planning to launch IPO in Q4FY27, to seek up to $1.5 bn amid AI boom

The Hiranandani Group-backed firm is looking to file draft IPO papers in October and aims to raise up to $1.5 billion to repay debt

Sonos 27 puts AI at centre of how you control its audio devices: What's new

Sonos 27 lets AI assistants such as ChatGPT interact with its audio system, while adding new controls, a redesigned app and multi-room features

US call for hands-off approach to AI regulation at G20 tech meeting

The US goals largely align with the thinking of the world's biggest AI companies, nearly all of which are American

Copyright Office rejects AI system DABUS as author under Indian law

Registrar rules AI system cannot be an author under Indian copyright law, but finds DABUS-generated artwork meets the statutory threshold for originality

AI literacy: As AI goes mainstream, India's workforce faces new skills test

AI is becoming a basic workplace skill in India as professionals use it for research, writing, data analysis and routine tasks, raising the need for judgement, privacy awareness and reskilling