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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence or AI as the name suggests refers to machines capable of thinking or demonstrating human-like intelligence as opposed to natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals. The scientific community refers to AI as any system that can account for its environment before taking any action, to maximise its chances of achieving its goals, whatever they may be. AI is a blanket term that is also used for describing artificial machines that can mimic learning capabilities found in humans, aka cognitive functions. AI is used in a variety of fields like web-search engines, recommendation systems that recommend content based on your interests, voice assistants that can react to and understand human language, self-driving cars or even automated decision-making in strategic games like chess. The academic study of artificial intelligence began in 1956 and has evolved over the years as the technology advanced. The traditional goals of any research in the field consider reasoning capabilities, the use of knowledge in making decisions, the ability to plan and execute an action, natural language processing, perception, and the ability to manipulate physical objects. The end goal is to create machines that can simulate general intelligence to solve a variety of problems, in the same capacity as humans. More

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  • Cognizant joins peers in warning of AI impact on legacy services

    Cognizant joins peers in warning of AI impact on legacy services

    Within that framework, Cognizant flags AI as a structural transition risk rather than an immediate earnings warning.

  • Foolish to think large enterprises will dump legacy IT systems overnight to use AI: Former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai

    Foolish to think large enterprises will dump legacy IT systems overnight to use AI: Former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai

    AI adoption will be hit by the hidden cost and legacy hurdles in large enterprises

  • Less a collapse, more a transition: IT sector long term outlook remains stable amid stocks rout

    Less a collapse, more a transition: IT sector long term outlook remains stable amid stocks rout

    Growth metrics like revenue per employee and margin per employee will now increasingly depend on how effectively firms embed AI into delivery.

  • Tencent’s AI lag fuels $173 billion stock rout as rivals thrive

    Tencent’s AI lag fuels $173 billion stock rout as rivals thrive

    Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. have slumped nearly 11% in Hong Kong this year, trailing a broader tech gauge

  • ByteDance's new AI video model goes viral as China looks for second DeepSeek moment

    ByteDance's new AI video model goes viral as China looks for second DeepSeek moment

    ByteDance, which officially unveiled Seedance 2.0 on Thursday, said in a statement that the system was designed for professional film, e-commerce, and advertising productions

  • Anthropic clinches $380 billion valuation after $30 billion funding round

    Anthropic clinches $380 billion valuation after $30 billion funding round

    The company has differentiated itself by focusing its model training on coding, with Claude Code gaining strong traction among developers

  • Asian stocks drop after AI jitters hit Wall Street

    Asian stocks drop after AI jitters hit Wall Street

    The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped 0.7%, its first fall in six sessions, with losses in Japan and South Korea

  • AI startup nabs $100 million to help firms predict human behavior

    AI startup nabs $100 million to help firms predict human behavior

    The startup said it aims to use its technology to anticipate the decisions a person might make in any given situation

  • Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli explains why India is in perfect position to leverage AI | Read full Q&A

    Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli explains why India is in perfect position to leverage AI | Read full Q&A

    AI's biggest potential is in the democratization of science, says Kohli

  • AI's biggest potential is in democratization of science: Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli

    AI's biggest potential is in democratization of science: Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli

    Pushmeet Kohli and his teams have developed many path-breaking innovations on AI, including the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold model for protein structures

  • OPINION | AI Impact Summit 2026: India at the centre of a changing AI world

    OPINION | AI Impact Summit 2026: India at the centre of a changing AI world

    As global AI power consolidates, India advances an inclusive governance model that bridges divides, promotes fair competition, and positions the Global South as co-architects

  • Wall Street’s new trade is dumping any stock in AI’s crosshairs

    Wall Street’s new trade is dumping any stock in AI’s crosshairs

    The advances in AI have been at the forefront of Wall Street over the past few years, with tech stocks leading the charge

  • Oracle optimistic about India-US trade deal, to launch 3 multi-cloud data centres by April: India head Shailender Kumar

    Oracle optimistic about India-US trade deal, to launch 3 multi-cloud data centres by April: India head Shailender Kumar

    Oracle is set to offer its multi-cloud services with three new data centres in India by April, two with AWS and one Google Cloud, Kumar told Moneycontrol in an interview.

  • India’s AI summit and the hard work ahead

    India’s AI summit and the hard work ahead

    India’s AI summit is a geopolitical milestone, but milestones do not equal tech-mastery. The harder test is whether summit diplomacy can translate into the long, difficult work of building real technological capability at home

  • Alphabet’s 100-year bond gets highest demand in sterling sale

    Alphabet’s 100-year bond gets highest demand in sterling sale

    The 100-year note is part of a broader financing spree for Alphabet, which raised funds in US dollars and is now tapping Swiss francs and the sterling market across different maturities.

  • Anthropic vs Anthropic in India: Karnataka startup fights for its name against US giant

    Anthropic vs Anthropic in India: Karnataka startup fights for its name against US giant

    Belagavi startup Anthropic Software files petition in a Belagavi court, which issues notice to Anthropic. The case will now be heard on February 16

  • Watch China’s humanoid robots practice kung fu with Shaolin monks in viral temple video

    Watch China’s humanoid robots practice kung fu with Shaolin monks in viral temple video

    Humanoid robots practising kung fu beside Shaolin monks inside a historic Chinese temple have gone viral, raising questions about how artificial intelligence is stepping into spaces once defined by tradition.

  • Inside Sarvam AI’s rapid-fire launches ahead of the India AI Impact Summit

    Inside Sarvam AI’s rapid-fire launches ahead of the India AI Impact Summit

    From live AI dubbing of the Union Budget to speech, vision, and state-backed compute infrastructure, Sarvam AI is rolling out a broad stack of products in the run-up to the India AI Impact Summit.

  • India AI Impact Summit to push for global consensus on curbing harmful use of AI: MeitY's Abhishek Singh

    India AI Impact Summit to push for global consensus on curbing harmful use of AI: MeitY's Abhishek Singh

    The additional secretary in IT ministry cites recent coordinated action across jurisdictions on AI misuse, such as on Grok, as evidence of growing global alignment on safety norms.

  • VCs with AI focus triple in India as investors earmark more capital for the sector

    VCs with AI focus triple in India as investors earmark more capital for the sector

    A total of 16 funds, with an AI focus, secured fresh capital of about $1.8 billion, compared with five funds that raised $358 million in 2024, according to Venture Intelligence data sourced by Moneycontrol.

  • Rs 30-lakh rooms, sold-out hotels: Delhi sees demand boom as Pichai, Altman headline AI summit

    Rs 30-lakh rooms, sold-out hotels: Delhi sees demand boom as Pichai, Altman headline AI summit

    Events of this scale drive not just short-term occupancy but also reinforce Delhi’s positioning as a global Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) and policy hub, said hoteliers.

  • Two companies planning AI server manufacturing units amid data centre push: IT minister Vaishnaw

    Two companies planning AI server manufacturing units amid data centre push: IT minister Vaishnaw

    Globally, AI server manufacturing is dominated by Taiwanese Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) such as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron, along with branded players like Dell, HPE, and Lenovo, while platforms are largely Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.

  • Fewer calls, better conversions, leaner sales teams: How AI is becoming the new front desk of the travel business

    Fewer calls, better conversions, leaner sales teams: How AI is becoming the new front desk of the travel business

    Executives of travel platforms say AI takes care of mundane jobs, freeing up sales teams to focus on high intent travel queries for better conversion rates.

  • LinkedIn’s India user base grows 20% YoY to 167 million

    LinkedIn’s India user base grows 20% YoY to 167 million

    LinkedIn is betting big on its AI skilling, assisting tools and solutions, to drive sales through its B2B talent solutions business. India remains one of its core markets for AI adoption and revenue generation.

  • AI race sends Big Tech’s capital spending to stratospheric high

    AI race sends Big Tech’s capital spending to stratospheric high

    The spending planned by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all in pursuit of dominance in the still-nascent market for AI tools, is a boom without a parallel this century

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