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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

Fundamentum spins up AI, deep-tech investing platform with ₹2,000 cr fund

New vehicle, backed by anchor investor Nandan Nilekani, will target frontier technologies across consumer, enterprise and physical AI and oversee up to ₹1,000 crore in co-investments

Emotional bonding with AI can lead to social isolation: IIM study

An IIM Lucknow study warns that excessive reliance on AI companion applications for emotional support may harm real-world relationships and mental well-being

Pope Leo seeks strict AI rules, warns against profit-driven race

Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. "Magnifica Humanitas" (Magnificent Humanity), Leo's first encyclical, has been eagerly awaited ever since history's first US-born pope announced days after his election that he considered AI to be the biggest challenge facing humanity today. In the text, Leo denounced the "culture of power" driving the AI race, especially in developing ever more sophisticated methods of remote warfare. He declared that it was "not permissible" to entrust irreversible, lethal decisions to AI systems, setting up another flash point between the American pope and the Trump administration, which has worked aggressively to deregulate AI development. Experts in the tech industry, academia and Catholic morality said the document will likely become a ...

HMD Vibe2 with Sarvam's Indus AI assistant to go on sale starting May 26

HMD Vibe2 5G goes on sale May 26 on Flipkart with Android 16, a 6000mAh battery, 50MP camera, and India's first Indus by Sarvam AI integration

ASUS launches first AiO PC powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon X chip: Details

ASUS has launched the VM441 AiO in India with a Snapdragon X processor, 24-inch touchscreen display, Copilot+ AI features, Dolby Atmos speakers and up to 45 TOPS NPU performance

Pronto admits to recording household tasks for AI training after backlash

A report citing investor documents claimed that Pronto was recording household activities inside homes to help train physical AI and robotics systems, triggering privacy concerns among customers

Schneider Electric sees India data centre business outpacing core growth

India's ‌data center market is projected to reach $31.36 billion by 2035, growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 13.37 per cent, according to Astute Analytica

AI-fuelled rally drives global momentum stocks to record performance

Bulls say the AI frenzy can continue luring money into the market's biggest winners, though some caution that the scale of the outperformance is a warning sign