Artificial Intelligence

AI usage by logistics firms boosts delivery timelines of startups

An analysis by Unicommerce, based on summer sales this year, found that brands were able to limit RTO rates to 17 per cent, compared with nearly 25 per cent during the corresponding period last year

IndiGo Ventures invests in AI firm Sarvam as part of Series B round

IndiGo and Sarvam are working on AI applications for customer service, employee productivity and airline operations, with successful use cases set to be scaled up

AI, OTT, gaming to drive India's media market towards $36.7 billion by 2030

PwC's latest outlook sees India's media and entertainment market expanding rapidly, with digital advertising, gaming, streaming and connectivity among key growth areas

Building a management career in healthcare

In this session, Mr. K. Chandrasekhar, Founder & CEO, Forus Health talks about the evolution of healthcare and provides career tips to the B-Schoolers.

Anthropic in talks with chip startup MatX to speed up chip design

As Anthropic scales its Claude ​family of AI models, the firm is looking to produce hardware that can fulfill its voracious appetite for data crunching and reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips

US judge blocks Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting in AI safety dispute

Hegseth's unprecedented move, which ​blocked Anthropic from certain military contracts, followed Anthropic's refusal to allow the military to use its Claude AI models ​for US surveillance

AI can augment reasoning but cannot substitute judicial conscience: CJI

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Wednesday said the judiciary's governing principle is that artificial intelligence may augment judicial reasoning, but it cannot substitute judicial conscience, and that a permanent apex body has been proposed to supervise the adoption and accountability of the new technology. Speaking at a bilateral meeting with Ulrich Herrmann, the presiding judge of the Federal Court of Justice at Karlsruhe in Germany, CJI Kant said that artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in certain defined support functions such as legal research, judgement translation into 16 languages and as a conversational interface for citizens to look for case status and procedures. He said that while these tools are designed to reduce repetitive work, they do not determine judicial outcomes. "Artificial intelligence may augment judicial reasoning, but it cannot substitute judicial conscience. Draft regulations from the Supreme Court's AI Committee permit administrative uses suc

K'taka explores voice AI pilots in skilling, healthcare, citizen services

The minister called for a clear roadmap across the identified areas and asked the teams to work towards an initial pilot that could demonstrate tangible public impact

Yotta to order 50,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs for $7.5 billion

The deal will also include ordering another 45,000 of Nvidia's GB-300 GPUs (part of the Blackwell family architecture), which are currently the latest on offer by the company

SaaSpocalypse premature: Salesforce S Asia head Arundhati Bhattacharya

Arundhati Bhattacharya believes the company has made sure to tackle customers' concerns

Turbulent AI era needs urgent global plan for transition: Bill Gates

The Microsoft co-founder says artificial intelligence could transform health, education and prosperity, but warns job losses, security threats and social harms demand coordinated action now

Expert's take on environmental and social strategy

In this session, Amit Patjoshi, CEO, Palladium India, talks about consulting , environmental sustainability, and provides career tips to the BSchoolers.

Runable raises $21 million to help small businesses grow with AI agents

The AI agent platform has reached 1.5 million users and $2 million in annual recurring revenue, and will use the funds to expand growth channels, its free academy and team

Octave Intelligence opens GCC in Hyderabad, plans workforce expansion

Octave Intelligence has inaugurated a 2-lakh-sq-ft technology centre in Hyderabad and plans to scale its workforce to 2,000 engineers across software, AI, data and cloud

AI handles 35 per cent of all NoBroker conversations: Founder Akhil Gupta

NoBroker founder Akhil Gupta says the firm's AI agent ConvoZen now handles 35 per cent of customer conversations, a number that may go up to 60-70 per cent in two quarters

Moonshot AI in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, Google over K3 revenue sharing

Any deal could mark the first big revenue-sharing pact between a Chinese AI firm and a major US cloud company

Bill Gates seeks meeting with Xi Jinping to push global AI safety efforts

Gates' staff are working to finalize a meeting with Xi for his next China trip, his spokesperson said, scheduled tentatively ​for November

Wipro adds AI agent to personalise skilling for over 240,000 associates

Wipro has added an AI agent to its skilling platform for over 240,000 associates, with personalised course recommendations based on roles, skills and past learning

AI can lower price of IT projects by up to 25%, says Hexaware CEO

As AI helps to improve efficiency, customers could demand 20%-25% lower fees for some of the work Hexaware accomplishes currently, CEO Srikrishna Ramakarthikeyan said

AI-led startups face takeoff hiccups as overreliance poses challenges

AI is helping Indian founders build prototypes faster, but scaling these startups is proving harder as technology costs, bugs and weak product understanding emerge