Artificial Intelligence And Robotics

Govt sector, BFSI, and pharma key business drivers, says Qlik India MD

The major business growth drivers for data analytics and artificial intelligence player Qlik are the government sector, Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI), and pharma, according to the US-based firm's Managing Director (India), Varun Babbar. "We see a lot of initiatives by various state governments as well as central governments where they are revamping their whole data ecosystem and building the right data foundations to build AI-driven projects," Babbar told PTI. Banking and financial services have been early adopters of technology, and they were the first ones to build data warehouses and data lakes, he said, adding that there is a lot of innovation being done by them. Besides, he said, pharma is another vertical where a lot of traction is taking place. On the government side, he said, the company is working with three states apart from various public sector companies, including Indian Oil Corporation. "We see a lot of initiatives built by various state governmen

How an immunologist is turning India's chaos into an investment play

Natasha Malpani of Boundless Ventures argues that robots and drones trained under Indian conditions develop resilience no US lab can replicate - and her fund is placing early bets on that hypothesis

DeepSeek rolls out new flagship AI model a year after breakthrough

The Chinese startup unveiled the V4 Flash and V4 Pro preview series, touting top-tier performance in coding benchmarks and big advancements in reasoning and agentic tasks

Tesla to bring humanoid robot Optimus to India at 'appropriate' time

American electric carmaker Tesla will bring its humanoid robot, Optimus to India at the right time, a senior company official said on Wednesday. The company will also look at bringing its vertically integrated energy solution business to the country at an appropriate time, Tesla chief for APAC region Isabel Fan told reporters here. She said Tesla will start volume production of Optimus later this year in the US. "Humanoid robots will be big part of our life in the future, " Fan said. Humanoid robots would have several uses, including as a companion or to execute "dangerous task" that a human would not prefer to do, besides providing home medical requirement support, she noted. "I have a commitment when it (time) comes right on the things (as) you have seen (in) other markets, we want to bring to India. That's the goal," Fan said referring to the company's humanoid robot. With the help of robots human lives will be much easier, she added. "This is a good option for humans to have a

Amazon to invest another $5 bn in Anthropic as part of $100 bn cloud deal

Anthropic, which makes the Claude chatbot and coding tool, plans to spend more than $100 billion over the next 10 years on Amazon's cloud technologies and chips

Humyn Labs commits $20 mn to scale human intelligence layer for Physical AI

Humyn Labs will deploy $20 million to expand human data collection and voice capabilities across global markets, supporting next-generation AI models and robotics systems

Anthropic accidentally releases source code for its popular Claude AI agent

The leak of basic source code - the second slip-up in just a week - triggered a discussion in the community around new revelations of how Anthropic's popular coding agent works

AI Impact Summit Day 4: Modi redraws AI roadmap; Ambani pledges ₹10 trn

Day 4 of AI Impact summit saw India unveiling sovereign AI models as PM Modi pitched the MANAV framework, Reliance committed ₹10 trn, and global leaders positioned India at the centre of AI's future

RIL smartly deploying cash war chest to ride AI boom; analysts remain bullish

Meanwhile, at the bourses, in the last one year, RIL stock has outperformed the market by rising nearly 17 per cent compared to the 12 per cent rise in the Nifty 50 index, data shows

Galgotias faces backlash after showcasing Chinese robodog as own creation

India AI Impact Summit 2026: The university also claimed that it is the first private institution to invest over ₹350 crore in artificial intelligence

Big Tech bets, Galgotias robodog row shape day 3 of India-AI Summit

AI infrastructure bets, startup model launches and global funding commitments marked day three of the AI summit, while Galgotias University faced backlash over displaying Chinese robodog as their own

India AI Expo to remain closed on Feb 19, to get extra day on Feb 21

IndiaAI Expo Summit 2026 will remain closed on February 19 and will instead get an extra day on February 21, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the summit on February 19. "The expo will remain closed on February 19. It has been extended by a day due to huge enthusiasm. It will remain open on Saturday, February 21," Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said. Krishnan said 20 heads of states, including French President Emmanuel Macron, will be present at the inaugural session. "We don't want any inconvenience to public due to restrictions that is why it has been decided to not open expo tomorrow," he said.

India seeks role in shaping AI with summit of world leaders, tech chiefs

World leaders, tech moguls, AI founders and investors are expected to arrive in New Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit, potentially the largest gathering of AI luminaries to date

Govt to provide AI infrastructure, GPUs to universities for skilling

AI tools, GPUs and indigenous datasets will be provided to 500 universities as the Centre steps up efforts to boost AI skills, research and innovation

CES 2026: LG to unveil CLOiD, its home robot built to handle daily chores

The new LG CLOiD robot is designed to assist with household tasks using articulated arms, onboard sensors and AI-based interaction

Cybersecurity hasn't kept pace with tech adoption: ESET's Parvinder Walia

Indian MSMEs often believe they are too small to be targeted and skip cybersecurity measures, making them the first victims of such digital attacks

China's space station taikonauts now have an AI assistant: Meet Wukong

China's Tiangong station has deployed Wukong AI, its first large-scale artificial intelligence assistant, to support taikonauts during missions and spacewalks

Silicon Valley needs to get over its obsession with superhuman AI

In 1950 the computing pioneer Alan Turing proposed the imitation game, a test in which a machine proves its intelligence by how well it can fool human interrogators into believing it's human