Fires like those are bound to become more common and vicious in a warming world, says Mr Poddi, walking through the forest of Santu Lussurgiu, one of the areas hit that summer. So the island is preparing. As part of those preparations, Mr Poddi’s team at MEDSEA, a Sardinia-based environmental non-profit organisation, has installed 20…
Scientists looking to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air cleanly and cheaply have long been interested in metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs: gigantic, sponge-like molecules that can be precisely engineered to capture the gas and then release it on command. Made of metal ions held together by compounds containing carbon, MOFs come in a dizzying…
The move may pose a challenge to Google’s significantly larger technology ecosystem, which saw the Android operating system platform power over 92% of the new phones that were sold in India last year. Between them, Apple and Google cumulatively control more than two out of every three consumer gadgets in the world. And, for the…
New Delhi: The Indian government is expected to sign a multi-nation treaty by Tuesday at the ongoing Paris AI Action Summit being jointly chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and France’s President Emmanuel Macron. The agreement is expected to see India align with nations in the European Union, as well as others, on aspects…
After DeepSeek talking the AI limelight, Google stepped back in by rolling out the second generation AI model, Gemini 2.0 for everyone. In recent announcements, the tech giant announced the Gemini 2.0 Flash model in the Gemini AI app for everyone and rolled out the flagship Gemini 2.0 Pro model for Gemini Advanced subscribers. There…
South Korea’s industry ministry has become the latest government to restrict access to the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, citing security concerns. The ministry issued a temporary ban on employee access to the AI service, urging ministries and agencies to exercise caution when using generative AI technologies like DeepSeek and ChatGPT. This move reflects growing…
The dense clouds over DeepSeek are not clearing anytime soon. After bans on government resources in Italy, France, the US Congress, and elsewhere, new research suggests that DeepSeek’s ties to the Chinese state may be deeper than previously thought. Security analysts have reportedly uncovered an obfuscated code within the chatbot’s web login page that appears…
On Saturday, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a fiscal outlay of â‚ą2,000 crore ($230 million) for the Mission. The move succeeded the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) announcing last Thursday that a repository of 18,693 graphic processing units (GPUs), provided by private sector companies, was ready to be used as an on-cloud supercomputing…
The landscape of generative AI is evolving rapidly, with companies racing to build more efficient, capable, and accessible models. Among the latest entrants, Mistral Small 3, Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max, and DeepSeek R1 are vying for dominance alongside OpenAI’s established ChatGPT. Each model presents a unique approach to AI and used cases. Mistral Small 3 Mistral AI’s…
DeepSeek has challenged big tech, proving AI can be efficient without costly graphics processing units (GPUs) or massive data centres. Now Microsoft is probing possible unauthorized access to OpenAI data by a group linked to DeepSeek. Are Chinese AI models just illegal copies? Can you explain this fuss over DeepSeek? AI lab DeepSeek shocked big…
