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India ranks first in adoption of GenAI across Asia-Pacific: Deloitte India

The report said that GenAI could significantly affect 17 per cent of working hours across the Asia Pacific, amounting to almost 1.1 billion work hours annually

US cites misuse of AI by China, Beijing protests Washington's restrictions

US officials raised concerns about China's misuse of AI while Beijing's representatives rebuked Washington over "restrictions and pressure" on artificial intelligence, the governments said separately on Wednesday, a day after a meeting in Geneva on the technology. Summaries of the closed-door talks between high-level envoys, which covered AI's risks and ways to manage it, hinted at the tension between Beijing and Washington over the rapidly advancing technology that has become another flashpoint in bilateral relations. China and the United States exchanged perspectives on their respective approaches to AI safety and risk management in the candid and constructive discussions a day earlier, National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement. Beijing said the two sides exchanged views in-depth, professionally, and constructively. The first such US-China talks on AI were the product of a November meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in San Francisc

Google's new project Astra represents future of AI-powered assistants

According to Google, some features of Project Astra could come to Gemini, the company's powerful AI model, toward the later half of this year

Microsoft's AI push imperils climate goal as its carbon emissions jump 30%

The Seattle-based company's total planet-warming impact is about 30% higher today than it was in 2020, according to the latest sustainability report published Wednesday

86% of executives have deployed AI to enhance revenue: Global TCS study

Companies realising that being 'AI mature is a marathon, not a sprint', it says

81% of biz leaders want global regulations, standards on AI: TCS survey

An overwhelming 81 per cent of chief executives and senior leaders have pitched for a global set of regulations and standards on artificial intelligence, a survey by TCS said on Wednesday. The survey of 1,300 leaders from companies having over USD 1 billion in revenue each was, however, not so clear on the impact of AI on jobs and showed mixed expectations. According to the survey, respondents have advocated ethical AI frameworks that guide responsible use, especially in sectors where AI decision-making impacts significant socio-economic factors like healthcare and finance. "Interestingly, an overwhelming 81 per cent of the leaders polled have asked for a more 'global' set of regulations and standards on AI," TCS chief executive K Krithivasan said in his foreword to the report. Only 4 per cent of the respondents in the survey carried out this year felt that it is too early or unnecessary to regulate AI, while 14 per cent said they prefer a "heterogeneous environment" of local ...

Govt aims to boost use of AI in food processing to improve efficiency

India plans to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the food processing sector to improve efficiency, enhance farmers' incomes and reduce the environmental impact, officials said on Wednesday. At a conference organised by NIFTEM (National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management) on using frontier technologies in the sector, senior bureaucrats and government advisors stressed the need for a roadmap to deploy AI tools, which are still at a nascent stage in the country's massive food processing industry. "As an industry, we need to create a roadmap. The MEITY secretary has come on board. I am sure he is going to be a big support in this endeavour," Food Processing Secretary Anita Praveen said, referring to the secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY). MEITY Secretary S Krishnan pitched for wider adoption of AI, saying some work was already happening in agriculture but the food processing sector was still in the ..

Google I/O 2024: Gemini AI gets new capabilities to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT

Google said Gemini AI is set to become the foundational model powering its services such as Search, Photos, Workspace, Android, and more

OpenAI's co-founder Ilya Sutskever parts ways with ChatGPT maker Altman

Microsoft-backed OpenAI makes the popular ChatGPT chatbot, which sparked a race among the world's largest tech companies for dominance in the emerging generative AI field

2 Chinese firms progress in producing high bandwidth memory for AI chipsets

CXMT and other Chinese chip firms have also been holding regular meetings with South Korean and Japanese semiconductor equipment firms to buy tools to develop HBM, said two of the people

Google introduces AI in search, raising hopes for better results for users

Google on Tuesday rolled out a retooled search engine that will frequently favor responses crafted by artificial intelligence over website links, a shift promising to quicken the quest for information while also potentially disrupting the flow of money-making internet traffic. The makeover announced at Google's annual developers conference will begin this week in the U.S. when hundreds of millions of people will start to periodically see conversational summaries generated by the company's AI technology at the top of the search engine's results page. The AI overviews are supposed to only crop up when Google's technology determines they will be the quickest and most effective way to satisfy a user's curiosity a solution mostly likely to happen with complex subjects or when people are brainstorming, or planning. People will likely still see Google's traditional website links and ads for simple searches for things like a store recommendation or weather forecasts. Google began testing A

Meta to discontinue Workplace app to focus on AI, metaverse

Workplace will be shut starting June 2026 for customers but Meta will continue to use it as its internal messaging board, the company said, adding users can continue to access it until Aug 2025

AI spending in India to reach $5 billion by 2027: Intel-IDC study

According to the report, entities in India spent $1,703.8 million on AI in 2023, where BFSI, manufacturing, healthcare, telecom, and retail were the highest spending sectors during the year

Jackie Shroff moves Delhi HC against unauthorised use of word 'Bhidu'

He said that several social media companies, stores, social media handles, as well as AI tools are using his attributes without authorisation to make money and damage his reputation in the process

Nothing to enable ChatGPT integration across audio portfolio, including CMF

Nothing announced that ChatGPT integration will be available on the additional products via a Nothing X app update on May 21

AI spending in India may triple to $5 bn by 2027; $1,703 mn spent in 2023

Spending on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the country may triple to USD 5 billion by 2027, an Intel-IDC report released on Tuesday said. According to the report, entities in India spent USD 1,703.8 million on AI in 2023. "AI spending in India is expected to increase to USD 5 billion with CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 31.5 per cent between 2023 to 2027. By 2027 AI will be everywhere," Sharath Srinivasamurthy, Associate Vice President, IDC said. He said that in 2023, major spending of USD 209 million was driven by AI infrastructure provisioning and related software. It was followed by augmented customer service agents at USD 168.8 million, digital assistance USD 113.1 million, augmented threat intelligence USD 100.1 million and program advisors recommendation systems USD 97.1 million. "The infrastructure provisioning will continue to be the biggest contributor in overall spent," Srinivasamurthy said. Intel India Region Vice President and Managing Director, Santhosh Viswan

OpenAI announces GPT-4o, ChatGPT macOS app, conversational AI in Voice Mode

OpenAI said the GPT-4o is its most advanced model that is trained end-to-end across text, vision, and audio, meaning that all inputs and outputs are processed by the same neural network

OpenAI unveils free model GPT-4o that can interact with visual, audio, text

OpenAI's chief technology officer, Mira Murati, said during a livestream event that the new GPT-4o model would be offered for free because it is more efficient than the company's previous models

Airtel to offer cloud and Gen-AI solutions with Google Cloud in India

The two companies are targeting the large and growing Indian public cloud services market, which is expected to reach $17.8 billion by 2027, according to IDC

Concentrix to expand India operations by hiring 20,000 this year: CEO

''India will probably surpass the Philippines early next quarter both from a total growth and size perspective''