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Fluidic intelligence can boost efficiency by nearly 20%, says Nagarro CTO

Digital product engineering company Nagarro says its fluidic intelligence framework can lift client efficiency by up to 20 per cent by aligning AI, engineering and talent with business outcomes

Zuckerberg's $14 bn AI hire Alexandr Wang makes Forbes 40 Under 40 list

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appointed Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang to head Meta Superintelligence Labs following a $14 billion investment, as the 28-year-old enters Forbes' 40 Under 40 list

This Indian YouTube channel earned ₹38 cr through AI-generated videos

India's AI channel 'Bandar Apna Dost' tops global YouTube charts with 2.07 billion views and estimated annual earnings of ₹38 crore, showing AI content's huge reach

China moves to curb AI chatbots' influence on suicide, gambling, abuse

China has proposed new rules to stop AI chatbots from emotionally influencing users or encouraging self-harm, with strict safeguards, human intervention in crises and special protections for minors

Meta set to buy Chinese startup Manus for $2 bn to boost advanced AI

Earlier this year, Manus launched its AI agent and claimed its performance outpaced OpenAI's DeepResearch

PM Modi to inaugurate AI summit in Feb; Bill Gates, Hassabis to attend

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the AI Impact Summit in February 2026, with global tech leaders such as Bill Gates and Demis Hassabis confirming participation

Intel completes $5 bn share sale to Nvidia following Sept agreement

The deal follows an agreement in September under which both companies agreed to collaborate on the co-development of custom chips for data centres and personal computing

Two more Chinese AI players prepare for IPOs, but the burn rate is high

Zhipu and MiniMax are planning Hong Kong IPOs as filings show high cash spending and US chip limits, with pressure to list early before US AI giants go public in 2026 and attract global investors

Year-ender 2025: How smartphones quietly transformed into AI-first devices

AI quietly reshaped smartphones in 2025, shifting them from feature-driven tools to context-aware companions that anticipate intent, reduce friction and fade into everyday use

Govt prepares to showcase IndiaAI Mission LLM progress at AI Impact Summit

The government will ask departments to demonstrate AI use cases and IndiaAI Mission LLM progress at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, scheduled for February 16-20, sources said

Coforge announces $2.35 billion acquisition of US-based AI firm Encora

The acquisition will be funded through a preferential issue of equity shares worth about $1.89 billion, following which Encora's shareholders are expected to own around 20% of Coforge's share capital

Crisil Analysis: IT sector revenue growth to remain modest in 2026-27, too

AI, GenAI to drive growth in the medium term; GCCs, global uncertainties pose key risks

Domain-led growth key as AI blurs line between engineering, IT: Tata Tech

In a changing industrial environment where artificial intelligence is blurring the lines between engineering and information technology, Tata Technologies is adopting a "domain-led" strategy to drive growth, according to its CTO Sriram Lakshminarayanan. In view of the changes, the global product engineering and digital services firm is prioritising its service portfolio while maintaining its core strengths in engineering research and digital enterprise solutions, he told PTI in an interaction. Lakshminarayanan noted that major technological shifts keep happening over time, such as the cloud and blockchain, which had an impact on industries. "Now, there is a new wave that is coming, AI, (which is now) at the heart and front and centre of anything that we do. Specific to an automotive or industrial setting, we always looked at it in terms of a siloed approach of engineering, which looked different. IT is looked at differently," he said. He further said, "What we are seeing now is tha

Inside Nvidia's biggest deal: The $20 billion Groq AI asset acquisition

Nvidia will buy most of Groq's AI chip assets in a $20 billion cash deal, excluding its cloud business, as it moves to strengthen low-latency inference and real-time AI workloads

Year-ender 2025: How agentic AI quietly took over phones, PCs and browsers

In 2025, AI moved beyond answers. Agentic systems began handling multi-step tasks across phones, PCs and browsers, quietly reshaping how everyday technology works

AI threatening Party rule in China? Here's what Xi Jinping's govt is doing

China's worried that Chatbot's ability to generate independent responses could lead people to question Communist Party rule and official narratives

OpenAI says AI browsers may never be safe from prompt injection: What it is

OpenAI warns that prompt injection attacks are a long-term risk for AI-powered browsers. Here's what prompt injection means, why it matters, and how it can affect AI agents on the web

Sensex can hit 100,000 in 2026 if earnings pickup: Chris Wood

The key uncertainty remains the currency, but if that stabilises and growth improves, India can deliver respectable returns, says Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies.

India can offer a blueprint for universal, trustworthy AI agents at scale

India should provide every citizen a free, privacy-first AI agent, built on digital public infrastructure, to ensure safe, inclusive access to information, services and decision-making tools

Discussions on labelling AI content over, rules to follow soon: IT secy

The government has completed consultations with the industry on the proposed mandatory labelling of AI-generated content, and the related rules are set to be issued shortly, IT Secretary S Krishnan has said. Krishnan told PTI in an interview that the industry has been "fairly responsible", understands the logic behind labelling of AI content and that, as such, there has not been serious pushback against it. The primary feedback from the industry is around wanting clarity on the degree of modification to make clear distinctions between substantive, material changes through AI, and routine technical enhancements. "Based on the inputs we have received, we are just consulting the other ministries within government, saying that these are the changes which have been suggested... so which changes we accept, which changes we make and what tweaks we make... that portion is on right now, and I think we should come out with the new rules very shortly," Krishnan said. About the feedback and ..