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Govt not asking creators to restrict AI content, but to label it: Meity

The government is not seeking to control or restrict online content but rather to ensure transparency by requiring creators to label AI-generated content so that audiences can make informed choices, Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said on Thursday. The government proposed changes to IT rules on Wednesday, mandating the clear labelling of AI-generated content and increasing the accountability of large platforms, such as Facebook and YouTube, for verifying and flagging synthetic information to curb user harm from deepfakes and misinformation. "All that we are asking for is to label the contentYou must put in a label which indicates whether a particular piece of content has been generated synthetically or not. We are not saying don't put it up, or don't do this and that. Whatever you're creating, it's fine. You just say it is synthetically generated. So that once it says it's synthetically generated, then people can make up their minds as to whether it is good, bad, or whatever,

Explained: How Google's own inventions now threaten its search monopoly

Google's 2017 Transformer paper and its open-source Chromium project powered a tech revolution that is now reshaping, and possibly eroding, the company's long-held search dominance

Snapchat's Imagine Lens brings text-to-image AI to all users: How it works

Snapchat expands its AI-powered Imagine Lens to all users in the US for free, letting them create creative Snaps from text prompts. Here's how the feature works

Meta to cut about 600 roles in Superintelligence Labs AI division

The job cuts will affect Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) unit, as well as teams focused on product-related AI and AI infrastructure, the company said

Mandatory labelling for AI-generated social media content coming soon

The IT ministry has proposed amendments to the IT Rules 2021 to make labelling and disclosure of AI-generated content mandatory for users and online intermediaries

Anthropic in talks with Google for multibillion-dollar cloud deal

The plan, which has not been finalized, involves Google providing cloud computing services to Anthropic, according to the people

AI talent demand accelerates; job postings rise 11.7% in Sep: Report

With demand for AI skills continuing to grow across India, a report on Wednesday showed that AI-related job postings increased to 11.7 per cent this September from 8.2 per cent in the same month a year ago. In September, 11.7 per cent of Indian job postings explicitly mentioned AI in their job descriptions, up from 10.6 per cent three months earlier and 8.2 per cent a year ago, global hiring platform Indeed said in a report. "India ranks highly against other Indeed markets. Apart from India, only Singapore has a higher share of postings mentioning artificial intelligence. It's clear that many employers across India have gone all-in on artificial intelligence," Indeed's APAC Senior Economist Callam Pickering said. The findings in this report are based on job posting data on the Indeed platform, which tracks real-time hiring activity across India's formal economy. Job posting trends were measured as of September 2025, with comparisons made against both the previous months and ...

WhatsApp to block ChatGPT, Perplexity as Meta bans AI bots: What it means

Meta will ban general-purpose AI chatbots from WhatsApp Business API starting January 15, 2026, forcing ChatGPT and others like Perplexity off the platform

YouTube rolls out likeness-detection tech: What is it and how it works

YouTube launches likeness-detection tech for creators to identify and remove AI-generated videos that clone their face or voice, protecting against fake content

What is AI 'superintelligence' and why are global voices seeking to ban it

From Steve Bannon to Meghan Markle, over 800 global figures have issued an open warning to stop the race to build 'superintelligence' or artificial intelligence that would surpass humans

Retain the Human Edge in an AI Age: Master the art of learning to learn

How mastering the art of learning to learn will determine your success in the AI age

India surpasses $20 bn in cumulative, new investment commitments in AI

Stanford AI Index Report in 2025 said India's cumulative private investment in AI from 2013 to 2024 was at $11.1 billion in 2024 (adding the government's, it is $12.3 billion)

Samsung Galaxy XR headset launches on October 21: Watch livestream here

Samsung's "Worlds Wide Open" event on October 21 will mark the debut of its Galaxy XR headset, based on Project Moohan. You can watch the event livestream here

Google Meet adds AI-powered makeup filter to enhance your on-screen look

Google Meet now offers an AI-powered makeup filter with 12 customisable looks to help users appear polished and natural on video calls across web and mobile

Regulation on deepfakes soon, two semicon units operational now: Vaishnaw

The government is going to bring a regulation on deepfakes soon that will take help of technology for efficient implementation, Union electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday. Speaking at the NDTV World Summit, the minister said that chips are key for building AI infrastructure and two semiconductor units, CG Semi and Kaynes, have started production in the country. Vaishnaw said that there are six Ai models getting developed in the country, out of which two will use around 120 billion parameters and will be free from biases like western models have. He said that AI in several cases is being used in a positive way and for fun that must be encouraged, but there is need to save the society from the significant harms which can be caused by using deepfakes where one's voice and face can be presented to give out a message which is absolutely disconnected with the person. "It's your right to make sure that your face and your voice should not be used in a harmful way f

Perplexity CEO warns iPhone users to avoid installing Comet from App Store

Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas alerts users that the Comet app on iOS is fake and spam, urging them to wait for the official release

Google's Veo 3.1 update enhances Flow with smarter AI video tools: Details

Veo 3.1 adds lifelike visuals, richer audio, and smarter Flow tools, giving creators more cinematic control and flexibility in AI-generated videos

IIIT-Delhi's 'Ratatouille' uses AI to reimagine the science of cooking

What happens when artificial intelligence meets the art of cooking? At IIIT-Delhi, professor Ganesh Bagler has been exploring that intersection for more than a decade, giving birth to what he calls 'computational gastronomy' -- a pioneering field that uses data science and AI to decode and recreate the science of taste. "It all started as a curiosity-driven classroom exercise when I was teaching at IIT Jodhpur," Bagler recalled in an interview with PTI. "We were studying patterns in global cuisines -- Indian, Italian, Mexican -- and I realised that no one really looked at food through the lens of data and computation. That's how the journey began, around 10 years ago. Since then, Bagler's lab at IIIT-Delhi has been at the forefront of blending two seemingly contrasting worlds -- the artistic, cultural side of cooking and the quantitative precision of data science. No one had tried to merge these two domains before, he said. Over the years, Bagler and his team have built structure

AI tops investment priority for Indian CEOs amid global uncertainty: KPMG

Technology integration, especially AI, is driving short-term decisions, with CEOs citing cyber risks, talent, and ESG alignment as key to future growth

Ray-Ban Meta Glasses tests UPI payments, adds support for Hindi: What's new

Meta brings new features to Ray-Ban smart glasses in India, including the capability to hold full interaction in Hindi, make Diwali-themed photo effects, UPI Lite payments, and more