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.
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.
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
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 .
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
Financial transactions and risks may be expanding faster than the regulatory perimeter designed to oversee them
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.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants AI agents treated as potential insider risks, with independent access controls, emergency shutdown mechanisms and stronger oversight
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 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
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
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
Nokia plans to bring Nvidia-backed AI-RAN technology to India, with commercial deployments potentially beginning by 2028 as 5G data use and hyperscaler demand rise.
Multilingual, integrated and outcome-focused deployments gain ground as enterprises increasingly partner with technology providers
TSMC reports record third-quarter revenue of $46.71 billion, beating market estimates as surging demand for AI applications drives chip sales.
Samsung forecasts record Q3 profit of 107.4 trillion won as AI-driven memory chip demand fuels earnings, while tight supply and rising chip costs pressure its smartphone business.
Telecom operators and network makers showcase AI-led automation, intelligent RAN and 6G technologies as India seeks a larger role in next-generation mobile standards
Meta says a dedicated language model, AI sweeps and a red-teaming agent will help detect harmful ads, identify gaps in its defences and stop banned users returning
IndiaAI Mission COO Sudeep Shrivastava calls for wider consultation on AI safety rules, while IIT Jodhpur professor Mayank Vatsa flags a lack of indigenous benchmarks
Arun Subramaniyan says Articul8's India heritage-AI venture aims to raise $30-50 million by March, and explains why enterprises need domain-specific models to control token costs and improve context