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Best of BS Opinion: TCS acquisition highlights changing dynamics in AI era

Today's opinions examine TCS' AI-era dealmaking, Himalayan climate risks, women's unpaid burden in livestock, India's water use and private equity's growing role in healthcare

Companies struggle to derive real value from AI: Wipro CTO Sandhya Arun

Wipro CTO Sandhya Arun says scale, advantage, trust and adoption need to align for enterprises to derive meaningful value from artificial intelligence

Pralhad Joshi urges NCERT to step up research on responsible AI use

Education minister asks NCERT to study AI's impact on learning and creativity, ensure responsible use, complete textbooks on time and focus on student wellbeing

Data centres aren't India's water villain

India's water crisis has been created by decades of treating water as free. Prosecuting the newest useralone would be a policy failure

82% of India's Gen Z use AI tools weekly to learn new skills: Emeritus

Emeritus report finds 60 per cent of Gen Z respondents feel burned out by upskilling pressure, while interest in traditional study-abroad pathways is declining

Instagram tightens AI profile rules, targets undisclosed virtual personas

Instagram is tightening rules for AI-generated profiles, requiring clearer disclosure and limiting the reach of accounts that use AI-generated people without telling users

HDFC Bank's Puri legacy hard to match; India expensive mkt: Shankar Sharma

SIPs have been marketed as a product that can deliver 12 per cent, 14 per cent and other such fantastical figures. These claims are made by people who have a vested interest in saying so, Sharma said.

Anthropic’s Claude can now operate lab equipment: Here’s how

Anthropic is giving AI agents like Claude the ability to interact directly with laboratory equipment—from microscopes and lasers to robotic arms.

ChatGPT ads are coming to India: What will change for users?

OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT in India. Here’s who will see them, how they will work, and why the move matters.

Open-source AI models pose greatest security threat: Meerah Rajavel

Cheap open-source AI models could widen the cyberattack threat as adversaries gain access to powerful tools without the cost of frontier models

Indian telcos bet on AI networks to drive revenue growth, infras upgrades

The study found that 67 per cent of Indian respondents "strongly agree" that AI-driven network services will be the primary driver of revenue growth over the next three to five years

Cashfree rolls out AI agents for merchants to automate payment operations

Cashfree is targeting Rs 20,000 crore in lost GMV through AI agents that can follow up on abandoned carts, retry failed payments and manage disputes

AI usage by logistics firms boosts delivery timelines of startups

An analysis by Unicommerce, based on summer sales this year, found that brands were able to limit RTO rates to 17 per cent, compared with nearly 25 per cent during the corresponding period last year

IndiGo Ventures invests in AI firm Sarvam as part of Series B round

IndiGo and Sarvam are working on AI applications for customer service, employee productivity and airline operations, with successful use cases set to be scaled up

AI, OTT, gaming to drive India's media market towards $36.7 billion by 2030

PwC's latest outlook sees India's media and entertainment market expanding rapidly, with digital advertising, gaming, streaming and connectivity among key growth areas

Building a management career in healthcare

In this session, Mr. K. Chandrasekhar, Founder & CEO, Forus Health talks about the evolution of healthcare and provides career tips to the B-Schoolers.

Anthropic in talks with chip startup MatX to speed up chip design

As Anthropic scales its Claude ​family of AI models, the firm is looking to produce hardware that can fulfill its voracious appetite for data crunching and reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips

US judge blocks Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting in AI safety dispute

Hegseth's unprecedented move, which ​blocked Anthropic from certain military contracts, followed Anthropic's refusal to allow the military to use its Claude AI models ​for US surveillance

AI can augment reasoning but cannot substitute judicial conscience: CJI

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Wednesday said the judiciary's governing principle is that artificial intelligence may augment judicial reasoning, but it cannot substitute judicial conscience, and that a permanent apex body has been proposed to supervise the adoption and accountability of the new technology. Speaking at a bilateral meeting with Ulrich Herrmann, the presiding judge of the Federal Court of Justice at Karlsruhe in Germany, CJI Kant said that artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in certain defined support functions such as legal research, judgement translation into 16 languages and as a conversational interface for citizens to look for case status and procedures. He said that while these tools are designed to reduce repetitive work, they do not determine judicial outcomes. "Artificial intelligence may augment judicial reasoning, but it cannot substitute judicial conscience. Draft regulations from the Supreme Court's AI Committee permit administrative uses suc

K'taka explores voice AI pilots in skilling, healthcare, citizen services

The minister called for a clear roadmap across the identified areas and asked the teams to work towards an initial pilot that could demonstrate tangible public impact