What if your next business partner wasn’t a human, but an AI agent that could handle operations, make data-driven decisions, and help scale your company in record time? Sounds futuristic? Not anymore. In the heart of India’s bustling startup ecosystem, a quiet yet radical transformation is underway. Artificial Intelligence, once a distant promise, is now…
Tencent Holdings Ltd. unveiled an upgraded AI reasoning model, the latest bid by China’s most valuable company to compete for leadership in the country’s crowded artificial intelligence field. The Shenzhen-based company rolled out the latest iteration of Hunyuan T1, which debuted last month in its chatbot app Yuanbao. T1 operates similarly to DeepSeek’s R1, the…
“Some Nobel Prize-winning economists estimate AI’s impact on GDP in the low single digits, while others expect double-digit growth. That’s how uncertain things are,” Chatterji told Mint in an interview during his India visit on Tuesday. The effect of AI on jobs is similarly debated. “Some studies suggest AI will affect only a small fraction…
Google Research’s tech initiative for early detection of wildfires has seen its first successful step — the launch of its first ‘FireSat’ satellite into Earth orbit on March 17. Celebrating the milestone on social media platform X, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shouted out the partners and extended a “special thanks” to Elon Musk’s…
Modern technologies are modular, radically interoperable and inter-dependent. Which is why one of the foremost challenges in regulating them is dealing with complexity. I have long argued for principle-based regulations—in the belief that, if we express it at a high enough level of abstraction, our regulatory intent will be enforceable regardless of the complexity of…
Income distribution has evolved over time, with the bottom 60% of India’s population witnessing an increase in their income share from 27% in 2004-05 to 32% in 2015-16, signalling better economic inclusion. However, this progress was disrupted during the pandemic, with their share dropping to 23% in 2020-21 before recovering to 31% in 2022-23. The…
A century ago, pocket-sized supercomputers, self-driving cars and video calls were pure science fiction. Sequencing a genome in hours or chatting across continents in real-time seemed laughable. Yet, here we are—generating AI memes while checkout machines silently scan our grocery choices. The year 2025 has seen the world tackle an unexpected climate villain (cow burps)…
Big tech giant Microsoft Corp. has decided to retire the online video conferencing platform Skype after a two-decade run as the tech major is set to focus more on the firm’s Microsoft Teams services, reported the news agency Reuters on Friday, February 28. According to the news agency’s report, the company is set to stop…
The event horizon is a boundary that marks the outer edge of black holes, the point from which nothing can escape – not even light. AI singularity refers to when artificial intelligence (AI) surpasses human intelligence, leading to rapid, unpredictable technological growth – it’s known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Hence, Musk is suggesting…
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…
