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India's AI compute race: Will subsidised GPUs close the capability gap?

Subsidised GPUs are helping lower AI compute costs in India, but industry experts say closing the capability gap will require much more than hardware access

India, China among markets where top firms lose market cap share in AI lag

India, China and Hong Kong are the only major markets where the largest companies account for a smaller share of overall market capitalisation than a year ago

35% of Claude users see AI doing most of their work next year: Report

Anthropic's latest Economic Index Report found that over 35% of Claude users believe AI could perform most of their work within the next year, reflecting the technology's growing integration

Samsung, SK Hynix back South Korea's $576 billion AI-chip investment plan

Samsung and SK Hynix will invest $517.87 billion with suppliers to build two new chip fabrication sites

AI can turn data blind spots into false certainty, says P K Mishra

P K Mishra warns AI can reinforce data biases in official statistics, urging stronger safeguards, transparency, and institutional independence in data governance

Technology to be central to Hindustan Zinc's next phase of growth: Chair

Vedanta group firm Hindustan Zinc Chairperson Priya Agarwal Hebbar on Monday said technology will be crucial to the company's next phase of growth, with increased investments in automation, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and intelligent mining systems to improve productivity, precision, and safety. "Our ambition is to become a future-ready energy transition company, building strength across multiple metals and critical minerals that support India's industrial growth and strengthen global supply chains," she said while addressing shareholders at the company's 60th Annual General Meeting (AGM). The company is positioning itself for the next phase of the global energy transition by expanding beyond zinc and foraying into critical minerals, downstream manufacturing and technology-led mining, according to the Chairperson. Hebbar said that shifting geopolitics, artificial intelligence, evolving global supply chains and the energy transition are fundamentally reshaping the ..

Tech Mahindra ties up with Perplexity to strengthen AI-led enterprise sales

Tech Mahindra will deploy Perplexity Enterprise Pro across its sales and customer-facing teams to improve access to AI-powered, source-backed insights and strengthen client engagement

Hynix, Samsung: Why is Chris Wood betting big on these South Korean companies?

While hyperscaler cloud providers face margin pressures, Wood views memory producers as the most leveraged way to play the relentless AI investment cycle.

India's AI ambitions hinge on overcoming regional language divide

India has over 2 dozen official languages and more than 100 dialects and if AI can't close this gap, it will just become another technology that divides the English-speaking elite and everyone else

AI's missing inclusivity: The tech revolution is amplifying gender bias

A major reason for this neglect is that women themselves are largely missing in the AI ecosystem

OpenAI appoints ex-Uber executive Prabhjeet Singh to lead India operations

The former Uber India and South Asia president will join in September as OpenAI's most senior executive in the country, overseeing growth, partnerships, enterprise adoption and regulatory engagement

Employers remain confident in MBA graduates despite AI boom: GMAC report

Employers across the globe continue to have confidence in MBA degrees amid concerns whether artificial intelligence (AI) would make business school graduates redundant, according to a new report by Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). The report is based on an annual survey of global corporate recruiters by GMAC, known for conducting the GMAT exam and an umbrella body of leading business schools from across the globe. Across industries, more than half of employers agreed or strongly agreed that a graduate business degree is more important than ever as businesses adopt new technologies. However, one area of common concern being flagged by employers, which has grown harder to ignore, is professionalism. The survey drew responses from 621 recruiters and hiring managers across 39 countries, just over half of them at Global Fortune 500 companies, among the world's largest by revenue. Everyone reported at least some confidence in graduate management education, the umbrella term

Private sector key to India-US AI, critical minerals push: MEA official

The private sector will play an indispensable role in transforming India-US cooperation in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum technologies and critical minerals into real-world outcomes, a senior Indian official said, as the two countries deepen collaboration in strategic technologies. Speaking at a roundtable on "Securing the Foundations of AI Together: USIndia Cooperation from Minerals to Microchips", Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs K Nagaraj Naidu said recent initiatives between India and the US were laying the foundation for long-term collaboration across strategic technology sectors. "India and the United States have built a comprehensive strategic partnership fit for the 21st century. Through initiatives spanning AI, quantum technologies, critical minerals, advanced energy, and trusted supply chains, we are now moving from principles to projects. The private sector will play an indispensable role in transforming these frameworks into ...

Beyond chips, IMF warns AI wealth boom could fuel inflation risks

Booming technology stocks are swelling retirement accounts and investment portfolios, leaving consumers feeling richer and more willing to spend on vacations, homes and other big-ticket purchases

Data centres to deepfakes: How AI is reshaping US politics at every level

Driven by a flood of Silicon Valley money, AI has emerged as one of the biggest financial forces in this year's US elections

Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model gets approval from Trump admin for wider use

The clearance eases a confrontation that erupted two weeks ago when the government abruptly barred Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to Mythos 5 and a related model, Fable 5

RBI's AI risk framework to strengthen governance, oversight of AI models

The central bank's draft guidelines require board-approved model risk frameworks, stronger oversight of AI models and enhanced safeguards for customer-facing artificial intelligence applications

Anthropic-Alibaba dispute puts AI distillation under spotlight: What is it?

Anthropic's allegations against Alibaba have put AI distillation in focus. Here's how the technique works, why it's controversial, and why it has become a new AI battleground

India, 34 others sign statement on AI opportunity at Pax Silica Summit

Thirty-five nations, including India, have signed on to the US initiative to build trusted and resilient supply chains to power artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. At the second Pax Silica Summit held in Washington on Thursday, 35 nations signed the Joint Statement on AI Opportunity, aligning behind a pro-growth, pro-innovation regulatory approach for the AI era, said Jacob Helberg, US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. "A commitment to trusted supply chains, to mobilising the private sector, and the infrastructure that will power the next century," he said. Argentina, Germany, the Netherlands, Chile, Costa Rica, Greece, Kazakhstan, Panama, and the European Union joined the Pax Silica initiative on the sidelines of the Summit. India is represented at the Summit by S Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Nagraj Naidu, Additional Secretary (Americas) in the Ministry of External Affairs, and representatives of the Indian industry.

Mastering the evolving insurance business

In this session, Gaurav Banka, Chief Risk Officer, Aviva India, talks about the insurance sector and provides career tips to the B-Schoolers.