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AI fears overdone? Emkay turns 'Overweight' on IT, adds Infosys, HCL Tech

Emkay Global has turned 'Overweight' on Indian IT sector after Nifty IT fell 21 per cent in February 2026. It sees a 3-year return potential of up to 25 per cent with limited downside.

Business Standard Manthan 2026: Global flux drives new growth conversation

Through the day, the Manthan fireside chats and panel discussions sparked a unique debate on making India future-ready through the prism of energy transition, food security, technology, self-reliance

In India, AI will rise from the bottom of the pyramid: Shekhar Kapur

AI will democratise movie making, said the director who is making a sequel of Masoom

AI ecosystem opaque, needs accountability: CCI chairperson Ravneet Kaur

AI's benefits come with competition risks, CCI chair Ravneet Kaur warns, calling for greater transparency, accountability and a balanced approach to digital regulation

BS Manthan: AI tools need testing before social sector rollout, say experts

Standardised pedagogy required to scale AI-based solutions in India's health and education segments, they say

Billion-dollar AI bets shape IT narrative, says LTM executive Krishnan Iyer

Mission-critical ops remain under human oversight, says growth chief Krishnan Iyer

Samsung unveils Galaxy S26 series with agentic AI focus: Highlights & pics

Samsung unveils Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra with agentic AI features, Privacy Display and APV codec. Galaxy Buds4 series also announced. India launch soon

White House economist dismisses Citrini AI risk report as 'science fiction'

The Nasdaq Composite index tumbled more than 1 per cent Monday as tech shares got hit by negative sentiment stemming from the Citrini Research release

Building an ownership society with a universal retirement account for all

India needs a universal retirement account for every citizen beginning at birth in an era when capital, rather than labour, will dominate economic returns

OpenAI appoints Indian-origin executive Arvind KC as chief people officer

As CPO, KC will help OpenAI scale in a way that supports its workforce, from strengthening hiring, onboarding and development frameworks to building systems and policies that make collaboration easier

Global disruption not a setback, but an opening: Amitabh Kant at BS Manthan

At BS Manthan, Amitabh Kant says fractured global supply chains and AI disruption give India a strategic opening, provided it cuts the cost of doing business and builds scale in manufacturing

Nirmala Sitharaman, Pralhad Joshi to headline Day 2 of BS Manthan: Schedule

Manthan 2026: Leaders from government, top think tanks and industry will deliberate on India's food and energy security and explore how artificial intelligence can transform the creative sectors

To trade coders for AI 'Legos', India needs a smarter long-term deal

As India pivots from software services to AI token "factories" with tax breaks for global firms, questions arise over jobs, skills and the future of its $200 billion IT export engine

Hegseth warns Anthropic to let military use firm's AI tech as it sees fit

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic's CEO a Friday deadline to open the company's artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract, according to a person familiar with their meeting Tuesday. Anthropic makes the chatbot Claude and is the last of its peers to not supply its technology to a new US military internal network. CEO Dario Amodei repeatedly has made clear his ethical concerns about unchecked government use of AI, including the dangers of fully autonomous armed drones and of AI-assisted mass surveillance that could track dissent. Defence officials warned they could designate Anthropic a supply chain risk or use the Defence Production Act to essentially give the military more authority to use its products even if it doesn't approve of how they are used, according to the person familiar with the meeting and a senior Pentagon official, who both were not authorised to comment publicly and spoke on condition of ...

Citrini report author urges AI tax to cushion job losses in United States

Technology shares have slid in recent weeks on fears AI could upend business models, with the weekend report from Citrini Research adding to concerns about widespread disruption and job losses

Investors rattled as dystopian AI forecasts spark market selloff

The Citrini report has struck a chord with markets unnerved by AI's potential negative impact

AI transition will be painful; IT industry to reinvent: HCLTech CEO

C Vijayakumar says the $283 billion IT industry faces a difficult AI-led shift, but frontier model firms and services players will drive long-term value creation

Univ of Sheffield study helps AI better understand accents and dialects

AI could soon better understand people's accent and dialect, thanks to a landmark study being led by the University of Sheffield. The study, led by Dr Chris Montgomery from the University's School of English in collaboration with ICS.AI, the UK's fastest-growing, profitable AI business, is set to tackle one of the biggest challenges in public sector AI how well digital services understand people who speak with different regional accents and dialects. The collaboration is the first UK academic-industry partnership to apply sociolinguistic research to the evaluation of public sector conversational AI, focusing on how systems perform in real service interactions between citizens and public bodies - for example, when people contact their local council and conversational AI is used to answer questions and help them access the right information or services. The study is based on Dr Montgomery's systematic review of more than five decades of peer-reviewed research on accent and dialect ..

At BS Manthan 2026, leaders debate AI, trade and India's future readiness

At BS Manthan 2026, ministers, industry leaders and policy experts debated AI, trade, demographics and sustainability as India navigates geopolitical shifts and prepares for a tech-driven future

AI-led data centre boom lifts power demand in western, southern India

Year-on-year power demand has risen about 3 per cent, led by AI-driven data centres and GCC clusters in southern and western India, signalling higher peak electricity needs in 2026