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Project Vaani steps up inclusivity with dataset for atypical speech in three languages

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Project Vaani steps up inclusivity with dataset for atypical speech in three languages

Project Vaani aims to capture India’s diverse languages, dialects, and speech patterns and build a corpus of 150,000 hours of natural speech data from around 1 million people across nearly 800 Indian districts. It was while working on this project that the team began exploring technology for atypical speech. | Photo Credit: Getty Images While…

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CFTRI-Mysuru leverages AI for food safety, post-harvest management

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CFTRI-Mysuru leverages AI for food safety, post-harvest management

CSIR–CFTRI Director Giridhar Parvatham addressing a press conference in Mysuru on Tuesday. He spoke on the integration of artificial intelligence into CSIR–CFTRI research. PHOTO CREDIT: M.A. Sriram / The Hindu. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram Artificial intelligence is making its way into the research laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research–Central Food Technological…

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The Hindu Huddle panel to throw light on AI and its impact

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The Hindu Huddle panel to throw light on AI and its impact

Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Artificial Intelligence is the flavour of the times. It is not the preserve of technology geeks anymore, and it is impacting all our lives in ways known and unknown. Many of us already use AI models in our jobs and in our homes. The…

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As tech hiring hits a pause

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As tech hiring hits a pause

The demand for the Indian tech talent, predominantly concentrated in Bengaluru, seems to be on a downward slope | Photo Credit: PHOTO FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PURPOSE Abeed (name changed), an M.Tech student from IISc, is one month away from finishing his course. After doing his B.Tech in mechanical engineering, Abeed decided to pursue a master’s in an AI-related course at the prestigious institute. Between 2022 – when he finished his undergrad from an engineering college –…

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Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu Warns Of AI Disruption In SaaS Sector

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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has warned that the software-as-a-service (SaaS) sector is approaching a turning point, with rapid advances in artificial intelligence likely to upend traditional development models and trigger a wave of consolidation. Addressing claims that AI systems such as Clawdbot could make conventional programming redundant within two years, Vembu pointed to an increasingly…

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Why Former Tesla AI Chief Is Obsessed With This ‘Terrifying’ AI-Only Network

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Ever heard of a social media platform where humans are merely observers? This is what Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network exclusively for AI agents, is all about. Andrej Karpathy, former director of AI at Tesla, said things currently going on at the platform are “genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing” he has witnessed in…

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Anthropic CEO’s ‘Existential Danger’ Warning Vs DeepMind Rival’s ‘Golden Era’ Projection

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has issued one of the strongest warnings yet about the direction of artificial intelligence, arguing that humanity is entering a period of extraordinary technological danger that could determine the future of civilization. In his 38‑page essay, “The Adolescence of Technology: Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI”, Amodei described the…

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Meta Halts Teens’ Access To AI Characters Worldwide Until Updated Experience Is Ready

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Meta on Friday, Jan. 23, informed that it is halting teens’ access to its artificial intelligence (AI) characters worldwide across all its apps.  In a blog post, the owner of WhatsApp and Instagram said that this will start in the “coming weeks” and teenagers will no longer be allowed to access its AI characters “until…

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Youth skills vital for India’s future, says Lokesh

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Youth skills vital for India’s future, says Lokesh

HRD Minister Nara Lokesh attending CII–VIT Andhra Pradesh Higher Education Conclave 2025 in Amaravati on Wednesday | Photo Credit: HANDOUT India is swiftly moving toward a $5 trillion economy, but the long-term vision is to build a $30 trillion economic powerhouse, said Andhra Pradesh Minister for Education, IT, and Electronics Nara Lokesh. Addressing the CII–VIT…

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Digital tools are changing how we remember and forget information

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Digital tools are changing how we remember and forget information

When our memory starts to feel strained, we instinctively turn to the world around us — writing, sorting or rearranging things to help us think better. This is known as cognitive offloading. While humans are good at this and have been doing it for a long time, a new review in Nature has reported that…

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