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Aakash Educational plans to invest up to Rs 1,000 crore in AI, digital push

New Delhi-based education provider, which started in 1988, is now ramping up its presence in smaller Indian towns, betting on the growing demand for quality coaching in Tier 3 and Tier 4 cities

India may face an AI talent shortfall of over 1 million by 2027: Report

India is poised to become a global AI talent hub, but a looming skill gap threatens to hinder its progress, with a new study by Bain & Company revealing that the country's AI sector could face a shortfall of over a million skilled professionals by 2027. The report highlighted the urgent need for India to reskill and upskill its workforce to meet the growing demand for AI expertise. "India has a unique opportunity to position itself as a global AI talent hub. However, by 2027, the job openings in AI are expected to be 1.52x of the talent availability. The challenge -- and opportunity -- lies in reskilling and upskilling a significant portion of the existing talent base on emerging technology tools and skillsets," said Saikat Banerjee, Partner and leader in Bain & Company's AI, Insights, and Solutions practice in India. India's AI sector could surpass 2.3 million job openings by 2027 while the AI talent pool is expected to grow to around 1.2 million, presenting an opportunity to

AI-enabled handheld X-ray machines helping in early TB detection: Experts

AI-enabled hand-held X-ray machines are emerging as game changers in the early detection of Tuberculosis enabling the state to diagnose and notify 6.8 lakh patients -- the highest it has achieved in a calendar year, experts said. Of the 6.8 lakh cases notified in 2024, 4.29 lakh of these patients were notified from the public sector, and 2.5 lakh from private sector. These AI-enabled hand-held X-ray machines are helping in intensified screening under the ongoing pan India 100-Day Intensified Campaign to Eliminate TB aimed at accelerating efforts for the elimination of the disease from the country. According to the National TB Prevalence Survey in India (2019-2021) by ICMR in collaboration with the Union Health Ministry, X-rays are a critical screening tool for Tuberculosis, as close to 42.6 per cent cases of the disease would be missed had they not been screened through an X-ray. Even when the patient is at a very early stage of the disease and does not have conventional symptoms o

Microsoft conducts ground breaking ceremony of proposed Noida campus

With the proposed Noida campus, Microsoft will continue its momentum of strengthening India's AI capabilities and supporting engineering talent and digital innovation

Hiring in the AI Era: What Companies Look for in Leaders

Kester Scrope, Global CEO of Odgers Berndtson, shares leadership insights, hiring trends, and tips for Indian professionals in top multinational roles. A must-watch for aspiring leaders!

Ashwini Vaishnaw launches AI compute portal & dataset platform AIKosha

Marking a year of the IndiaAI Mission, Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday launched the IndiaAI compute portal and dataset platform AIKosha, among a slew of other initiatives under the IndiaAI Mission, aimed at improving access to AI and fostering innovation. The compute portal will provide access to compute more than 18,000 GPUs, cloud storage and other AI services to students, startups, researchers, academia, and government departments. The platform aims to streamline access to high-quality non-personal datasets for AI innovation. The Minister for Electronics and IT also launched AIKosha -- an all-in-one dataset platform providing resources, tools, and expert mentorship to help transform potential ideas into industry solutions. Datasets will be available for model builders and developers to work with and launch India-specific AI models. The compute portal will be used to develop India's own foundational model, Vaishnaw said, adding that the preparedness for India's ow

AI's 'hedonistic' machines earn Barto, Sutton top computer science prize

Two pioneers in the field of reinforcement learning, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, are the winners of this year's A M Turing Award, the tech world's equivalent of the Nobel Prize

Indian economy could gain $1 trillion from AI, says Nishikant Dubey

Nishikant Dubey said the panel at its meeting on Wednesday deliberated on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on banking, revenue and other related sectors

Google reports 250+ AI deepfake terrorism content to Australian regulator

The Australian eSafety Commission called Google's disclosure "world-first insight" into how users may be exploiting the technology to produce harmful and illegal content

Perplexity CEO announces Rs 1 cr contest for ICC Champions Trophy final

Perplexity AI hinted that the contest might involve using its platform during the match, much like its 'Million Dollar Question' campaign during the Super Bowl

Samsung to expand agentic AI experience to more phones in Apr with One UI 7

Samsung said that One UI 7 enhances the mobile experience by integrating agentic AI with multimodal capabilities

India to set up LLM for AI research: PM Modi at post-Budget webinar

The Prime Minister was addressing a post-Budget webinar. His statement comes at a time when India is trying to compete with the top global forces in the field of artificial intelligence

Coforge signs $1.56 billion IT deal with Sabre to boost AI-driven solutions

The deal is significant at a time when large IT services players have noted that deal sizes from clients are getting smaller with shorter time frames

AI chatbot joins Blue Tokai's HR to brew a better workplace culture

The AI chatbot, which has been named the Chief Listening Officer of the firm, will leverage real-time analytics to assess employee sentiment and generate data-backed insights for the company's HR team

TurboML plans to initiate $12 million AI foundational model in India

Bhatia says the investment cost accounts for the current commercial rate for one hour of GPU usage, though this could decrease under the Meity subsidy scheme to $1 per hour

Nvidia, Broadcom testing chips on Intel manufacturing process: Report

The two tests, which have not been reported previously, indicate the companies are moving closer to determining whether they will commit hundreds of millions of dollars' contract to Intel

AI to bridge cybersecurity talent gap: Google Cloud's Steve Ledzian

Most organisations, he said, discover cyberattacks through external entities like a law enforcement agency or a security vendor despite significant investment in internal security controls and tools

Why are enterprises reluctant to adopt GenAI despite the hype around it?

Reluctance to adopt AI at scale boils to fear of change; while technical factors include inadequate training, client hesitation over security

Investment firm Prosus may turn to artificial intelligence to shape biz

In India, Prosus has investments in Swiggy and owns payment technology (tech) company PayU, Rapido, a ride-hailing aggregator, and ecommerce platform Meesho

Target is to double organisations' AI adoption rate: TCS CTO Harrick Vin

Less than 15-25 per cent of all use cases going into production