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BharatGen to finish AI models on 22 languages by month-end: Jitendra Singh

The government's sovereign multilingual AI engine BharatGen is expected to complete text-based service by the end of this month, Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said on Thursday. The minister said the work for developing BharatGen AI is a dynamic process and may add more languages as well as dialects. "We have already completed 15 languages. We will be completing 22 (official languages) in this month itself. So all the 22 will have text completed by this month and 15 will also have the speech and the vision module," Singh said in the Rajya Sabha. The minister was replying to a question of BJP member Bhubaneswar Kalita. Launched in October 2024, BharatGen is a government project to develop a sovereign AI model which will provide services like Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models, Text-to-Speech (TTS) models for Indian languages.

Fractal Analytics IPO opens Feb 9: GMP at 10%; 5 key risks you should know

Fractal Analytics IPO will be offered at a price band of ₹857 to ₹900 per share, with a lot size of 16 shares

Amazon plans AI use in film and TV production to cut rising studio costs

Amazon plans to use AI to speed up film and TV production, rein in rising studio costs and enhance creativity, while keeping writers, directors and actors at the centre of the process

White House adviser Kratsios to lead US delegation to AI summit in India

The India-AI Impact Summit will be held from February 16 to 20 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, marking the first global AI summit to be hosted in the Global South

IT shares in focus as ADRs slide overnight; why are tech stocks falling?

ADRs of Wipro and Infosys fell by up to 3.3 per cent on Wednesday, extending losses after declining around 6 per cent amid rising concerns about the global tech sector

Tech stocks sink as Anthropic AI triggers global selloff; Nifty IT skids 6%

The Nifty IT index plummeted 5.9 per cent, the steepest intraday fall since April 7, 2025, with the fall led by Persistent Systems, LTIMindtree, and Infosys

ElevenLabs raises $500 million in Series D, valuation jumps to $11 bn

Sequoia-led funding round triples voice-AI startup's valuation as it expands beyond speech into full audio stack

Anthropic's upgraded AI tool may intensify competition in tech world

Anthropic's update to its agentic AI tool Claude Cowork is fuelling concerns over disruption in software and IT services, as AI agents begin to replace legacy workflows

Technology Development Board issues first call of proposal under RDI fund

The statutory body invited applications on a rolling basis in priority areas such as energy transition, AI, quantum computing, robotics and space

Most of our users have never seen a line of code in their life Mukund Jha

Emergent CEO Mukund Jha explains how Emergent went from zero to $50 million in seven months by letting business owners build their own software

Fractal Analytics sets IPO price band, eyes ₹14,450 crore valuation

Fractal will launch its IPO for retail investors on February 9, while anchor investors can bid on February 6

Musk's xAI merger with SpaceX poses bigger threat to OpenAI, Anthropic

Musk is attempting to supercharge his efforts to build more powerful AI systems with help from one of his most successful ventures

OpenAI fills safety job listed at $555,000 with hire from rival Anthropic

Altman named Dylan Scandinaro, who was previously listed as being on an AI safety team at Anthropic, in a post on the social media platform X

Infosys to help US bank Citizens set up AI innovation hub in India

Infosys will work with US-based Citizens to launch an AI-first innovation hub in Bengaluru to drive AI-led transformation across banking operations and services

From aspiration to action: The promise of the India AI Impact Summit

The India summit seeks to bridge this divide by emphasising measurable results in healthcare, agriculture, education, climate action and governance

Adobe Firefly offers unlimited AI image, video generations to subscribers

Adobe has removed monthly credit limits in Firefly, allowing subscribers to generate unlimited images and videos across AI models, with early sign-ups open until March 16

Talent crunch deepens as 74% recruiters struggle to find right hires

Nearly 74% of recruiters in India are struggling to find qualified candidates even as hiring remains well above pre-pandemic levels, with AI-generated applications and skill shortages adding pressure

Oracle plans 20,000-30,000 job cuts to fund data centre expansion

Employees linked to data centres and non-core units are likely to be most at risk

New Google AI tool can study DNA changes and predict disease risk

Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome can analyse long stretches of DNA to predict how hidden genetic changes affect gene regulation, offering new clues to cancer, heart disease and mental illness

Amazon, other firms cite AI for layoffs, real reason remains unclear

The one thing N. Lee Plumb knows for sure that being laid off from Amazon last week wasn't a failure to get on board with the company's artificial intelligence plans. Plumb, his team's head of "AI enablement," says he was so prolific in his use of Amazon's new AI coding tool that the company flagged him as one of its top users. Many assumed Amazon's 16,000 corporate layoffs announced last week reflected CEO Andy Jassy's push to "reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company." But like other companies that have tied workforce changes to AI - including Expedia, Pinterest and Dow last week - it can be hard for economists, or individual employees like Plumb, to know if AI is the real reason behind the layoffs or if it's the message a company wants to tell Wall Street. "AI has to drive a return on investment," said Plumb, who worked at Amazon for eight years. "When you reduce headcount, you've demonstrated efficiency, you ..