Artificial Intelligence

AI for all: Global Summit in India offers a path to take the world forward

The India AI Impact Summit 2026 positions New Delhi as a global AI convenor, blending ethics, inclusion and $250 billion in investments to shape the future of artificial intelligence

What AI summit means for India: Driving faster innovation and execution

India's ambition to ensure AI-led economic growth and social good rests on accelerated innovation and execution

Agentic commerce must be transparent and accountable, says InMobi CEO

InMobi Group CEO Naveen Tewari says agentic commerce can reshape buying behaviour, supply chains and commerce journeys, but warns these AI-driven systems must stay transparent and accountable

BFSI, retail have seen big AI adoption in India, says ServiceNow COO

ServiceNow, which provides AI solutions to several top Indian companies, is looking to expand further in the country as it sees more sectors and centres joining the AI bandwagon. The US-based firm has partnered with top IT sector companies, such as TCS, Cognizant, LTIMindtree and Tech Mahindra, among others, and will look to have more such collaborations in the near future, according to a top company official. Speaking with PTI on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in the national capital, ServiceNow President, Chief Product Officer, and Chief Operating Officer Amit Zavery said, "If you look at BFSI (banking, financial, services and insurance), that's been a big growth area for AI now. Similarly, things around retail are big as well... And our public sector is starting to become another area where people are likely to use AI to improve how they operate their citizen services, and their organisations as well." The company also sees players in the manufacturing space picking up AI

Need one common standard on AI regulation: Mastercard's Caroline Louveaux

Mastercard's chief privacy officer calls for principle-based, tech-neutral global AI rules to build trust, cut regulatory fragmentation and enable AI adoption at scale

Take Solutions adopts Anthropic's Claude to boost AI healthcare

Global AI-driven healthcare company Take Solutions on Saturday said it has adopted Anthropic's artificial intelligence assistant, Claude. The company, in an exchange filing, said that the strategic technology adoption marks a significant milestone in its ongoing mission to build scalable, intelligent, and preventive healthcare platforms. "The integration of Anthropic's Claude advanced AI capabilities will strengthen Take Solution's upcoming platforms, including its AI-driven Preventive Healthcare Platform, One Minute Clinic, and its Unified AI Marketplace," the filing said. These platforms are being designed to transition healthcare from a reactive treatment model to a predictive and preventive care ecosystem, it added. "Artificial intelligence is becoming the foundation of next-generation healthcare. The integration of advanced Claude AI capabilities significantly enhances our technology stack," Take Solutions Chairman Parmeshvar Dhangare said.

86 nations, two int'l organisations sign AI Summit declaration: Vaishnaw

As many as 86 countries and two international organisations have signed the AI Impact Summit declaration, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said, adding that the US, UK, Canada, China, Denmark, and Germany are among the signatories. The strong global backing for the declaration comes at the conclusion of the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. Vaishnaw told reporters that nations across the world have formalised and upheld principles of 'welfare of all, and happiness of all'. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi's human-centric AI vision been accepted by the world. Democratising Artificial Intelligence resources so AI facilities, services and technology can reach everyone in society has been accepted by all," the minister said. Balancing economic growth with social good has been prioritised, he added. "Not just economic growth, even social harmony has to be kept in mind. Safety and trust are at the centre, they have been brought among the main points," Vaishnaw said, adding that

AI will augment, not replace human judgment, says Cisco's Jeetu Patel

Fears that artificial intelligence could render humans redundant are misplaced, with the real breakthrough lying in combining human judgement with machine-scale automation, Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer of Cisco, said. "I don't see a scenario where humans are completely extinct of contribution of value to society. It just seems like a very far-fetched thing," Patel said, arguing that concerns about humans becoming obsolete overlook the complementary role AI is set to play. "The magic truly happens when you take human instinct and judgement and you combine it with an AI scale of automation." In an interview with PTI, Patel said while AI systems are advancing rapidly - from chatbots to autonomous agents capable of taking actions - they are tools designed to augment, not replace, human capabilities. Citing the example of his mother being hospitalised for about eight weeks before she passed away three years ago, he said no AI is taking a nurse's job. "There is a des

Surprise coding breakthrough that made Anthropic into an AI juggernaut

Claude Code, released publicly a year ago, quickly took off with software developers around the world, cementing Anthropic as a leader in lucrative, emerging market for so-called vibe coding products

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales sees no threat from Musk's Grokipedia

We would not consider for a second today letting an AI just write Wikipedia articles because we know how bad they can be, Jimmy Wales added

AI-driven coding delivering real productivity gains, says Zoho's Vembu

Sridhar Vembu says AI-driven coding is making dramatic productivity gains and transforming software work, even as Zoho broadens its ambitions into deep-tech fields such as hardware and quantum sensing

Need to be alert about AI for transparency: CCI chairperson Ravneet Kaur

CCI Chairperson Ravneet Kaur says regulators must stay alert as AI adoption accelerates, stressing transparency, accountability and competition safeguards to prevent unfair conduct in digital markets

TryfactaConnex to invest $7.7 bn in UP for AI infra, 1-GW data campus

TryfactaConnex has signed an MoU with the Uttar Pradesh government to launch a large-scale India AI infrastructure platform, investing $7.7 bn to build a 1-GW hyperscale data centre campus

AI applications to drive cash flows in India: 3one4 Capital's Siddarth Pai

India's AI opportunity lies in applications solving real-world problems, not costly foundational models, says 3one4 Capital's Siddarth Pai

AI agents to replace OS, apps in mobile phones: Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon

Cristiano Amon says AI agents will sit at the centre of mobile devices, reshape 6G networks and power smart manufacturing as India eyes a larger global tech role

Grads with AI skills 60% of TCS' fresher hiring: HR head Sudeep Kunnumal

TCS is rapidly increasing hiring of engineering graduates with specialised AI and digital skills, with high-skill cadres now accounting for 60% of fresher intake as it pursues an AI-first strategy

Invest in AI with care: India's summit controversies raise hard questions

While being especially blatant, the incident of the robodog ties in with the history of gold rushes and technological breakthroughs

Regaining trust in the era of AI requires stronger norms and oversight

A Graphite study of 65,000 English-language web articles found that before ChatGPT, about 5 per cent of those were primarily AI-generated

Mospi secy seeks federated global AI infra with consumers as co-creators

Mospi Secretary Saurabh Garg urges a trusted, federated global AI infrastructure that gives citizens agency as co-creators, backed by shared resources and the proposed MAITRI platform

India's use of ChatGPT for technical tasks nearly 4x global average: OpenAI

OpenAI says India's use of ChatGPT for technical tasks is nearly four times the global average, with Codex adoption also strong, as it launches the Signals initiative to track AI usage