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BMC launches AI-based CivitTwin to speed up Mumbai building approvals

The AI-powered platform will conduct virtual pre-scrutiny of building proposals, helping reduce delays, improve transparency and streamline approvals in Mumbai

Gemini app users in India can now edit videos using Omni AI model

Google's Gemini Omni is now available in India, allowing users to upload and transform videos through conversational AI prompts without traditional editing tools

Foxconn has immense confidence in growth momentum due to AI: Chairman

The traditional mid-year seasonal slump for tech suppliers no longer happens, Liu told an annual shareholders meeting in New Taipei, adding that he was very optimistic about the second half of year

Anthropic upgrades Claude AI with Opus 4.8: What's new in flagship model

Claude Opus 4.8 arrives with benchmark improvements, enhanced AI agent capabilities, and new features designed for developers, enterprises, and everyday users

Anthropic valued at $965 bn after latest funding round, eclipsing OpenAI

Alphabet Inc.'s Google contributed several billion dollars to the round as part of a previously announced commitment to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic over time

Starbucks to weigh AI usage into account in tech workers' bonuses

A quarter of bonuses paid to tech employees will be pegged to department-wide goals that include AI adoption

Google Cloud India growth to be driven by agentic AI, data: MD Sreedharan

Google Cloud India MD Sashikumar Sreedharan says sectors such as financial services are likely to be among the early adopters of agentic AI-powered cloud services

YouTube will now auto-detect and label AI-generated realistic videos

YouTube is introducing automatic AI-generated video detection, clearer AI labels, and new personalised discovery feeds built around users' moods, interests, and prompts

Global firms use AI at Indian hubs to cut ad costs, bring work in-house

Content creation two years back took 24 days but now it "only takes two hours" due to AI, Kimberly-Clark India head Deena Dayalan said at a summit in Bengaluru

Bajaj Finserv launches group-wide AI and deep-tech research initiative

Bajaj Finserv has launched Finserv Intelligence, an AI-focused innovation platform, and plans to invest up to Rs 2,000 crore in AI-led startups over the next five years

Privacy isn't dead, it has just been made inconvenient by tech companies

When you trade privacy for convienence by giving an app access to your data, it's import to know what you're giving away - and who is sharing it

Tata Consultancy Services inks multi-year AI transformation deal with SKF

The country's largest IT services company TCS on Wednesday announced that it has bagged a multi-year deal from Swedish bearings maker SKF. The financial details were not shared, but people in the know called it a multi-year, multi-million dollar engagement. The deal, which comes at a time when concerns are being raised about the IT sector story following the advent of AI, involves modernisation of SKF's existing IT landscape. TCS will enable SKF to build a future-ready digital enterprise, leveraging AI to reimagine industrial manufacturing business, a statement said. The Indian IT major will provide end-to-end managed services across applications, infrastructure, data, end-user services, security, and connectivity for SKF across the globe. "Together, we are applying data-driven intelligence and AI to create an agile enterprise that can adapt to technological and market change while supporting long-term sustainable growth and competitiveness," TCS' chief executive and managing dire

AI spending to continue amid geopolitical uncertainty, says Gurnani

AIONOS Co-Founder C P Gurnani said companies will continue investing in AI and digital technologies despite geopolitical uncertainty and rising operational costs.

Nvidia to raise Taiwan spend to $150 billion annually: CEO Jensen Huang

Huang was speaking at a launch celebration in Taipei for the chip company's planned Taiwan headquarters, which he said will break ground this year and aims to become operational in 2030

India's AI data centres may deploy up to 700,000 GPUs in 5 years: Report

A report by Avendus Capital estimates that India's data centre capacity will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 26% over the next five years, driven by AI infrastructure demand

Mythos threat: Govt, tech firms test their softwares for vulnerabilities

Technology giants Infosys Ltd. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. are among companies carrying out the tests of their software for vulnerabilities in a secure environment to Mythos

Best of BS Opinion: Quad drift, EV push, FTA push, and consumer demand

From the Quad's strategic uncertainty and India's EV transition to trade reform challenges and AI's impact on education, today's BS Opinion examines key global and domestic shifts

Beijing curbs overseas travel for top AI talent at private firms

In China, state-owned enterprises are known to hold the passports of their senior executives and Communist Party officials

Taiwan, Nvidia overtake India market capitalisation amid AI frenzy

Taiwan has become the world's fifth-largest stock market while South Korea narrows the gap with India amid a global rally in AI-linked technology stocks

'Pronto's use of customer data early test of DPDP Act implementation'

India's data-protection framework offers some guardrails but leaves wide room for interpretation in how those rules apply to AI training