Siddharth Pai: Arm employees against sophisticated cyberattacks

A hacker group known as Scattered Spider is being probed for breaching M&S’s systems through a third-party IT services contractor. The attackers may have used impersonation techniques to gain unauthorized access to internal systems, resulting in leaked customer data, operational disruptions and an estimated financial hit of over ÂŁ400 million. Also Read: Rahul Matthan: Brace…

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What is Mistral Small 3? French rival to DeepSeek claims to outperform Qwen, GPT4o Mini and others as AI war intensifies

The battle of AI has taken the world by storm when DeepSeek became the topic of discussion across the globe. However, the latest move by Mistral AI with the release of Mistral Small 3 has added yet another layer of competition, offering a powerful open-source alternative to some of the leading proprietary AI models. Mistral…

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India must wake up on basic R&D for technology before it gets too late

Within days, another Chinese firm announced a model capable of handling inputs 20-32 times larger than any current global counterpart—equivalent to processing a 16,000-page pdf file.  These developments pose a sobering question for us: why aren’t such innovations emerging in India? Also Read: India requires a specialized AI cadre for effective governance of this technology…

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AI may not steal many jobs after all, it may just make workers more efficient

Alorica, a company in Irvine, California, that runs customer-service centers around the world, has introduced an artificial intelligence translation tool that lets its representatives talk with customers who speak 200 different languages and 75 dialects. So an Alorica representative who speaks, say, only Spanish can field a complaint about a balky printer or an incorrect…

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