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Amazon brings Alexa+ to India with Hindi support, free early access

Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+ comes to India with English and Hindi support, an India-focused voice and integrations with services such as Swiggy, MakeMyTrip and District by Zomato

Odisha AI CoE gets MeitY nod, Blue Cloud to invest ₹4 crore in centre

STPI will implement the Bhubaneswar centre under the IndiaAI Mission, with Blue Cloud providing funding, industry leadership, mentorship and strategic support to startups

AI firm Flam raises $40 million in Series B round led by QED Investors

Flam plans to use the fresh capital for research and development of its AI models, expanding its product suite and scaling enterprise sales globally

AI slow down: US-China AI rivalry puts global AI governance at a crossroads

As the US and China race to lead AI, safety and governance face a difficult test: can the rest of the world have a say if the two powers set the pace of development?

AI is calling: How India plans to tell legitimate automated calls from spam

As AI voice agents become more common, Trai's new rules aim to separate legitimate business calls from spam, scams, and impersonation attempts

OpenAI acquires smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for over $300 million

Glass Imaging was founded in 2019 by Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, two former Apple engineers who worked on the technology behind Apple's Portrait Mode

Google DeepMind researcher quits, says AI may cause 'immense harm' in 5 yrs

Josh Engels said he left Google DeepMind three weeks ago despite enjoying his work there and turned down offers from Anthropic and OpenAI 'because of how high the stakes are right now'

Satya Nadella warns AI must stay under human control in internal memo

The Microsoft CEO's internal warning comes alongside a new code that says AI should remain a tool for humans rather than act as an autonomous entity

I'm telling you, it's a hoax: Trump to Nvidia CEO amid AI growth concerns

US President Donald Trump, who wanted to discuss AI with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, said he was not thrilled by recent discussions about the dangers of AI

Why your devices may get more security updates as AI changes cyber threats

As AI helps hackers find and exploit software flaws faster, tech companies are shortening the time between discovering vulnerabilities and delivering security updates to phones, laptops, and browsers

How AI-generated music is emerging as a threat to streaming royalties

Music companies and streaming platforms are tightening rules as AI makes it easier to create fake songs and streams, raising concerns over fraud and lost royalties for genuine artists

Sam Altman urges caution on AI; Trump says US must keep its lead over China

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said every frontier AI lab has a responsibility to demonstrate that it can develop increasingly capable systems safely

AI must help humanity or it's not worth pursuing: Microsoft CEO Nadella

Satya Nadella said that firms should be able to build their own continuous learning systems without becoming dependent on a single AI model provider

Brics bets on AI, startups as India pushes innovation-led growth agenda

Brics summit commits to AI governance, a proposed startup fund, and highlights India's AI Impact Summit and financial-hub initiatives as the bloc courts founders and investors across the Global South

SC stays Gujarat HC proceedings on PIL seeking regulation of deepfakes

The Supreme Court stayed proceedings on a Gujarat HC PIL seeking regulation of AI-generated deepfakes while considering the Centre's plea to transfer the case

AI-led pricing pressure could drive new wave of mid-tier IT mergers

Happiest Minds-ITC Infotech, Persistent-Nagarro and Coforge-Encora deals point to a consolidation cycle as AI changes delivery economics and clients increasingly favour fewer, larger technology partne

1980s ChatGPT AI photo: Top 5 prompts to turn into South Indian celebs

A social media trend uses ChatGPT to recreate the 1980s South Indian film look, featuring silk sarees and vintage hairstyles inspired by stars such as Rajinikanth and Sridevi

Tata Steel scaling up AI, connected workforce systems to boost safety

Global steel major Tata Steel is scaling up artificial intelligence, connected workforce systems and remote operations to make industrial safety more predictive, with the company already using more than 10,000 CCTV cameras and AI-enabled surveillance to identify unsafe behaviour and intervene before accidents occur, a top official said on Friday. "Most people use CCTVs for post-mortem after an incident. We want to do it proactively -- to prevent accidents. Tata Steel is scaling up AI, computer vision and remote operations to shift workplace safety from post-incident investigation to real-time accident prevention, with over 10,000 CCTV cameras across its operations," Rajiv Mangal, Vice President, Safety, Health and Sustainability, Tata Steel, told PTI. Over the past 15 years, Tata Steel has achieved a 38 per cent reduction in its lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) across the group. The company is using AI-enabled surveillance to detect unsafe acts and generate immediate alerts f

AI scaling fake newsrooms, surveillance, and online dating scams: Anthropic

Anthropic also said it identified and disrupted cases in which users attempted to use Claude models for malicious activity that could potentially support development of biological weapons

India's Gen Z shares personal issues with AI despite privacy risks: Report

Kaspersky finds 37 per cent of Gen Z users in India discuss personal issues with AI, while growing use of chatbots as friends raises concerns over privacy, trust and cyber safety