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Discord to bring age verifications from March, tightens teen safety rules

Discord will begin restricting accounts from March unless users verify their age via face or ID scans, as part of a global rollout of stricter teen safety measures

India previews AI stack progress ahead of AI Impact Summit 2026: Details

The government has detailed advances across applications, models, compute, infrastructure and energy as New Delhi prepares to host the India AI Impact Summit from February 16

TCS needs to be prepared to take advantage of AI: N Chandrasekaran

Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran asked TCS employees to embed AI into daily work, reflect on recent underperformance and focus on execution as adoption of the technology accelerates

AI-led memory shortage threatens to make phones, TVs, PCs costlier in 2026

A global supply squeeze driven by AI servers is raising costs for phones, PCs and TVs, while some brands consider Chinese memory makers as a fallback

Avoid costly, large LLM buildouts; focus on smaller models, says Vembu

India should not emulate or compete head-on with the massive Large Language Models (LLMs) currently dominating the AI landscape, Zoho founder and Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu has said, advocating that the country should focus on smaller models or other approaches that are less-energy, less capital intensive. The remarks come at a time when interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has peaked in India, with the country soon to host the India AI Impact Summit - the largest of the four major global AI congregations so far. Vembu's view also aligns with the recent Economic Survey, which noted that India's limited access to cutting-edge compute infrastructure and capital makes pursuit of foundational models as the centrepiece of an AI strategy rather "challenging". The Survey favoured a bottom-up approach to AI development saying it aligns more closely with realities. In an interview with PTI, Vembu cited the USD 50-100 billion costs and high-energy demands of large models built by the

Over 2,000 GCCs set up as India's IT moves to AI services: Vaishnaw

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said India's IT sector is moving to an AI-driven services model with coordinated efforts from industry, academia, and the government. He said AI presents a major opportunity for India to develop a new model of services for the global market. Citing examples, Vaishnaw noted that AI-based solutions could be offered to global shipping lines and retail companies through global capability centers (GCCs) in India, creating opportunities for Indian engineers. The Union Minister for Electronics and IT added that, due to the government's focus on IT services, a large number of GCCs are being set up in India. "At the last count, more than 2,000 GCCs have already come to India, which is far more than in traditional IT services," he said. Vaishnaw highlighted that the Union Budget has announced major reforms for data centers to support the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence. "Indian IT is moving from the old model to a new AI-based services

Big Tech's $600 billion spending plans exacerbate investors' AI headache

Investor worries grow as big tech plans $600 billion AI spending in 2026, sparking fears over profitability and triggering a sharp selloff in software and data analytics stocks

First made-in-India wheeled humanoid for industrial use takes centre stage

Addverb plans to build 100 robots in the first year

Explained: How Anthropic's Claude plug-ins rattled Indian IT stocks

New plug-ins let Claude automate legal, sales and analytics tasks, raising fears of AI-led disruption to traditional software and IT services

Varaha raises $45 million in Series B round led by WestBridge Capital

Climate-tech firm to use fresh capital to expand globally, deepen science capabilities and scale biochar-focused industrial partnerships

Technology Development Board issues first call of proposal under RDI fund

The statutory body invited applications on a rolling basis in priority areas such as energy transition, AI, quantum computing, robotics and space

India-US trade deal brings glimmer of hope for beleaguered IT services cos

India-US trade deal eases fears of tariff spillover into IT services, offering relief to Indian tech firms amid weak global demand and delayed client spending

Budget 2026: Focus on rare earths, tech need of the hour, says Manu Chandra

I don't see a major push in expanding export markets in this Budget

Apple MacBook Pro with M5 Pro, Max may launch this month with macOS 26.3

Apple is reportedly planning to launch new MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips between February and March, with the lineup expected to debut with macOS 26.3

Microsoft Xbox releases list of games releasing this week: Check details

Microsoft has confirmed the upcoming Xbox game releases for this week, bringing a mix of RPGs, action games, and indie titles to Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, PC, and Play Anywhere

Krafton India releases new BGMI redeem codes on Feb 02: How to win rewards

Krafton India has rolled out a fresh batch of BGMI redeem codes, valid until February 28, 2026. One of the codes from today's list will offer players a chance to win the Female Racer set

Instagram could soon let users opt out of someone's Close Friends lists

Reportedly, Instagram is developing a feature that would let users remove themselves from Close Friends lists, as Meta also plans paid subscriptions with exclusive features

Sir Tim's wondrous wired world and the mission to set the web right

Having invented the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee insisted that it be made free for anyone to access, thus denying himself, according to some accounts, a life of almost unimaginable material wealth

Eco Survey: AI strategy must be grounded in economic realities, not scale

Chasing scale, building large LLMs for own sake not useful for India

Eco Survey: Services sector a growth anchor, skill gaps creating challenges

Economic Survey 2025-26 says India's services sector continues to underpin growth, exports amid global uncertainty, but rapid technological change, AI adoption are outpacing skill adaptation