With the topic ‘India’s Rise in a Fractured World: Opportunities and Challenges’, the lecture was organised by the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS).
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Offbeat India: Bengaluru engineer ‘astonished’ as auto driver claims ownership of two houses, AI startup investment
A Bengaluru engineer said he was left astonished after learning that an auto driver he met owns two houses worth around Rs 4–5 crore and earns Rs 2–3 lakh per month in rental income
AI restructuring: Accenture lays off 11,000 employees
IT giant Accenture has announced that it has removed 11,000 employees in the last three months, and more layoffs could be expected in the upcoming months as part of its AI restructuring. Between May and August this year, the company’s headcount fell from around 791,000 to 779,000, reported Tech.co. The current round of layoffs is […]
Google removes over 200 AI contractors who feel they trained bots to replace them: Reports
IT major Google has laid off more than 200 contract workers who were working on its Artificial Intelligence projects, including Gemini.
Building AI for Bharat: Why Indian innovator Mitesh Khapra is on the TIME100 AI 2025 list
IIT Madras Associate Professor Mitesh Khapra, whose specialisation is in “deep learning, natural language processing, and conversation systems”, has been named in the ‘2025 TIME100 List of the World’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence’ or ‘TIME100 AI 2025’ for short. Khapra’s research lab AI4Bharat led a project that recorded thousands of hours of voices to capture all 22 of India’s official languages.
‘Reliance Intelligence’ to provide affordable AI for everyone, everywhere, says Mukesh Ambani
Reliance Intelligence will build gigawatt-scale, AI-ready data centres, powered by green energy and engineered for training and inference at a national scale, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said at the company’s AGM.
A woman gets engaged to her AI fiancé after dating for five months
A woman has moved a step further in her life and got engaged to her AI chatbot boyfriend after ‘dating’ for five months
Google begins India rollout of AI-powered Search feature
AI Mode was first introduced in India in June this year as part of Google’s Search Labs, where it was made available for early testing.
Fake Rubio messages target foreign ministers in AI scam, says US State Department
The warning came after the department discovered that an impostor posing as Rubio had attempted to reach out to at least three foreign ministers, a US senator and a governor, according to the July 3 cable, which was first reported by The Washington Post.
India launches ‘Kalaa Setu’ challenge for startups to build AI tools for multimedia content creation
In a strategic push to harness the power of AI for inclusive communication, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting through its WaveX Startup Accelerator Platform
