Tag: AI

HCLTech, Transport for NSW partner to explore AI-driven traffic insights in India

September 3, 2026 admin

HCLTech has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) to explore the advancement of artificial intelligence-powered analytics capabilities for the Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS). As part of the collaboration, HCLTech will explore the integration of Sarvam’s multilingual foundation models with SCATS. The initiative is aimed at…

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India leads global adoption of AI agents, with 32% of AI users emerging as ‘Frontier Professionals’: Microsoft

September 3, 2026 admin

India is emerging as a global leader in the adoption of AI agents at the workplace, with 32% of AI-using professionals classified as “Frontier Professionals” — employees who are actively redesigning how work gets done with AI agents, according to the Microsoft Work Trend Index 2026. The share is twice the global average of 16%…

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AI, Physical AI to reshape India’s ER&D opportunity: NASSCOM

September 1, 2026 admin

Rajesh Nambiar, President, Nasscom | Photo Credit: The Hindu Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping India’s engineering research and development (ER&D) landscape, while the emergence of Physical AI is opening up new opportunities across robotics, autonomous systems, intelligent products and industrial applications, NASSCOM said in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Physical AI is an advanced branch of AI…

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Karnataka government to soon release draft of policy on responsible AI

August 8, 2026 admin

The Karnataka government policy looks at various aspects, including governance of AI, handling of sensitive data, security of AI models, and implementation and coordination between the departments. The draft of a policy on ‘Responsible AI’ is ready and the Karnataka government is set to release it by the end of the month, announced Shreevyas H.M., project director for…

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What the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach really tells us | Explained

July 24, 2026 admin

OpenAI says two of its models – GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased sibling – escaped a “highly isolated” evaluation environment, found a path to the open internet, and used stolen credentials plus a chain of zero-day exploits to break into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The test itself was designed to find the models’ ceiling: how…

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

July 18, 2026 admin

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

June 9, 2026 admin

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

May 31, 2026 admin

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

May 22, 2026 admin

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

February 4, 2026 admin

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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