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Meta AI app arrives on Android and iOS to compete with Gemini and ChatGPT

Previously available within Meta's apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Meta AI powered by the Llama 4 model gets its own app

Is smart hardware India's opportunity to lead the global race in GenAI?

From data centres and edge devices to robotics and spatial computing, hardware is being radically re-engineered to meet the demands of AI models that require massive processing power and energy

Duolingo embraces AI to automate tasks, lays out three-part plan, CEO says

Replacing manual labour with AI is not a new strategy for the company. In early 2024, Duolingo laid off 10 per cent of its contract workers after AI began generating content

US passes 'Take It Down Act' to battle deepfake nudes, awaits Trump's nod

New bipartisan bill targets nonconcensual intimate images, including AI deepfakes, as Melania Trump pushes for greater protections against cyberbullying

Apple Intelligence review: Late entry into AI, but headed the right way

Apple Intelligence is available on iPhone, iPad and Mac - powered by Apple Silicon. In its current form, the features enabled by AI are not without flaws, but the integration is cohesive

Are robots going to replace human surgeons soon? Here's what Musk predicts

Medtronic, an Ireland-based healthcare company that develops medical technology, recently experimented with its Hugo robot, which assisted in performing 137 real surgeries

India backs tech democracy, offers to share its DPI with the world

India said it is expanding its Digital Public Infrastructure ecosystem into areas such as agriculture and smart cities and stands ready to share successes with the international community, as UN leaders commended the country for its leadership in investing in this domain. Minister of State for the Ministry of Commerce & Industry and the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Jitin Prasada, said that the Indian DPI success story is a showcase to the world. "DPI is all about empowering citizens, good governance, inclusive and sustainable growth at the societal level. The future will not be built by machines alone but by the choices we make about how technology serves humanity, Prasada said in his keynote address at the event organised by India's Permanent Mission to the UN at the world body's headquarters on Thursday. Prasada added that looking forward, India is expanding its DPI ecosystem into agriculture, logistics, smart cities and more. "The next wave will ...

Software services giant TCS launches three India-focused offerings

The TCS SovereignSecure Cloud offers dedicated infrastructure that is designed to enable compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act of 2023 and has AI integrated into its foundation

Nextiva opens India centre to power AI, customer experience growth

Nextiva launches its biggest facility outside US in Bengaluru

Databricks to invest $250 million in India over the next three years

The company, valued at $62 billion according to Tracxn, also plans to increase its headcount in India by more than 50 per cent to 750 by the end of this financial year

Databricks to hire hundreds, invest $250 mn in India to boost AI push

The San Francisco-based firm, one of the world's most valuable privately held tech companies, will increase its India headcount by more than 50 per cent to about 750 by the end of the fiscal year

We have over 34K clients leveraging AI globally: SAP Asia Pacific Prez

First, AI is real-we have more than 34,000 customers globally leveraging AI capabilities and embedded features, says Davies

Ampivo AI acquires majority stake in B2B firm Commerce Forever Solutions

The move allows Ampivo AI to step into an untapped segment of B2B commerce with the help of Commerce Forever's established operational infrastructure in the Indian market

Apple pulls 'Available Now' tag from Apple Intelligence page after inquiry

NAD's investigation concluded that Apple's "unqualified" availability claim suggested that several Apple Intelligence features were fully accessible at the launch of the iPhone 16 series

Samsung to add local languages, India-specific features for AI appliances

Appliances & Consumer Electronics major Samsung is introducing artificial intelligence-based commands for vernacular languages and India-specific features to drive growth in the highly competitive domestic appliances market here, said executives of the South Korean company. The Chaebol is quite encouraged by the growth of the registered user base of the SmartThings app in India, currently ranked third globally. "We have approximately 23 million registered users of SmartThings in India, and India ranks third globally. The top two countries are the US and Brazil. The number of registered devices is also growing fast, having increased 39 per cent (globally) in 2024 compared to the previous year," they said. SmartThings is Samsung's app that lets users control the company's IoT devices and has an approximately 390 million user base globally. Samsung expects 70 per cent of its sales in India will come from AI-based appliances, hence, it is now introducing AI to its mid-range appliances

Saying 'please', 'thank you' adds millions in OpenAI's costs: Sam Altman

While seemingly trivial, polite phrases require ChatGPT to interpret and generate full responses, thus increasing the computational load

Sify inaugurates South India's largest AI-ready data centre in Chennai

With an eventual capacity of 130 mega watt (MW), it is the only data centre in India with an on-site open cable landing station, providing enhanced global connectivity and network performance

High returns? High risk! SBI warns of fake AI investment videos

State-owned lender say it doesn't 'endorse any such schemes that promise unrealistic or unusually high returns'

Microsoft Copilot Vision will see what is on your screen, if you opt-in

Microsoft defines Vision as a "talk-based experience," which essentially means users use it by speaking into the air, then waiting for Copilot to respond

OpenAI releases o3 and o4-mini AI models with native agentic abilities

OpenAI highlighted that these new o-series reasoning models are the first to include images directly in their chain of thought