Tag: Artificial Intelligence

Google Pay app adds AI with ‘Ask Google Pay’ and new co-branded credit cards with SBI Card. (Official photo)
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Exclusive | Bringing Gemini AI to a world of money: Google Pay’s Sharath Bulusu

Google India is embarking on a journey underlining the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and personal finance, something no other standalone digital payments and UPI…

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Google confirms that Gemini Spark is underlined by the Gemini 3.6 Flash model and the Google Antigravity harness. (Official photo)
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From assistant to agent: Google brings Gemini Spark personal AI agent to India

Google is embarking on a fundamental pivot for its consumer artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, in India. The launch of the Gemini Spark agentic AI tool…

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FILE PHOTO: Tesla CEO Elon Musk holds a mobile phone as he arrives to attend a state banquet with U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, May 14, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci/File Photo (REUTERS)
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Elon Musk’s vision of the future

ELON MUSK, in his telling, is a modern-day Cassandra—better than most at predicting the future, but doomed to be disbelieved. “People don’t realise that what…

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The Browser Choice Alliance, and Mozilla Research, have again highlighted Microsoft’s attempts to engineer an illusion of choice. (iStock photo)
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Microsoft’s tactics with Edge face renewed scrutiny over browser choice

Even though Microsoft attempts to focus on an artificial intelligence (AI) conversation that also includes the Edge web browser, industry bodies and researchers are calling…

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Mehran Gul says timing of Chinese AI Company Zhipu releasing a powerful open weight GLM-5.2 model “couldn’t have been better”. (Official photo)
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‘The AI rationale is shifting, to cost and trust’: Mehran Gul

For much of the past three years, the artificial intelligence (AI) race appeared deceptively straightforward. The fastest, strongest and most powerful will likely win. The…

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Sysdig does not name the specific victim of the JadePuffer ransomware attack. (Sysdig)
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World’s first agentic AI ransomware attack, and an unchartered territory

The first ever documented fully autonomous agentic ransomware attack has happened, a few days ago. Cybersecurity researchers Sysdig have identified an artificial intelligence (AI) agent…

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The first UN first Global Dialogue on AI Governance starts in Geneva from July 6. (Official image)
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Innovation exists everywhere, opportunity does not: UN pushes for AI governance

Even as the conversation towards regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) gathers pace, the United Nations believes a global dialogue is crucial, building on the momentum…

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HCL Technologies (Representational Photo/REUTERS)
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HCLTech signs massive $1.14 billion deal with Europe-based Fortune Global 50 firm to develop AI model

Indian tech firm HCLTech has signed a major deal with a Europe-based Fortune Global 50 firm to establish an artificial intelligence model for the latter….

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Emerging technologies will define next phase of India-US ties: Ambassador Kwatra

Emerging technologies would define the next phase of India-US cooperation, India’s Ambassador to the US Vinay Mohan Kwatra said, listing out biotechnology, artificial intelligence and…

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Whether or not Silicon Valley’s AI labs become white-collar advisers, they have a great deal to learn from studying them. (PEXEL)
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Silicon Valley has much to learn from the spreadsheet jockeys it despises

The most important question in financial markets can be put thus: will companies like JPMorgan Chase and Walmart find artificial-intelligence models useful enough to buy…

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