Why IT May Become the HR for AI Agents in the Future
The era of AI agents has officially begun. Making way for them, NVIDIA chief Jensen Huang predicted that in the future, an organisation’s IT department would evolve into an ‘HR department for AI’. It...
View ArticleData Without Downtime: Spencer Kimball’s Pursuit of Resilience
In a field dominated by the likes of Oracle, MongoDB, and SQL Server, New York-based database company CockroachDB sets itself apart with a singular focus: resilience. Though unconventional, its name...
View ArticleFoxconn, NVIDIA Partner to Develop Humanoid Robot Service
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is teaming up with American chipmaker NVIDIA to develop humanoid robots in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Speaking at the Kaohsiung Smart City annual...
View ArticleV Narayanan to Head ISRO as New Chairman
The government of India appointed Dr. V. Narayanan as the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and secretary of Department of Space–for a period of two years. Narayanan will...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Small Language Model, Phi-4 is Now Available for Free
Microsoft has finally made its latest small language model, the Phi-4, available for free on HuggingFace. The 14 billion-parameter model can now be downloaded, fine-tuned, and deployed for free. Why...
View ArticleWhat Do the Centre’s DPDP Rules Mean for Indian AI Startups?
On January 3, the central government’s ministry of electronics and IT released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules 2025, which will be open to public feedback until next month. The...
View ArticleChennai-based ePlane, TCS Partner to Transform Urban Air Mobility
Chennai-based urban air mobility (UAM) startup ‘The ePlane Company’, which manufactures compact flying electric taxis, has entered into a strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)....
View ArticleTibet Tragedy Shows AI Can’t Predict Earthquakes—Yet
On January 7, a powerful earthquake struck Tibet near Mount Everest, claiming at least 126 lives and leaving over 180 injured. Chinese authorities measured the quake at a magnitude of 6.8, while the...
View ArticleEli Lilly to Launch GCC in Hyderabad, Plans to Employ Over 1,000 Professionals
Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), the American pharmaceutical company, has announced plans to establish a new global capability centre (GCC) in Hyderabad, India, further strengthening its presence in the...
View ArticleAMD Introduces Agent Laboratory, Transforms LLMs into Research Assistants
American chipmaking giant AMD collaborated with Johns Hopkins University to introduce a new research study titled ‘Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants’. The study focuses on...
View ArticleFree Speech, Really?
In a move that could reshape the way online speech is managed, Meta recently announced integrating large language models (LLMs) into its content moderation strategy. “We’ve started using AI LLMs to...
View ArticleCRIUS Becomes Leading AI-Driven Nutraceutical Contract Manufacturer
India’s CRIUS Group has made history in the nutraceutical industry by becoming the first contract manufacturing organisation (CMO) to fully implement AI-driven project execution. This global milestone...
View ArticleTraffic Commissioner Says Fully Autonomous Cars Are Possible in Namma Bengaluru
After debunking myths about Bengaluru’s infamous traffic, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), MN Anucheth, shared his belief that self driving vehicles and Level 5 autonomous cars could navigate...
View Article‘Indian Startups Will Define the Future of Agentic AI,’ Says Salesforce India...
Salesforce India chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, on the sidelines of AI Pitchfield, told AIM that the company witnessed a growing adoption of agentic AI in India during a recent event. “India’s startup...
View ArticleElon Musk is Using 100,000 GPUs for Grok-3 – But Why?
Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of xAI, said that the company’s Grok-3 model has finished pre-training and confirmed that the model will be launched in the next 3-4 weeks. However, the model is said...
View ArticleTCS Begins Work on AI Agents, Drug Discovery for Clients
In its latest Q3 FY25 earnings call, TCS reported that its clients are actively investing in generative AI and agentic AI while building robust data foundations. “We actively engaged with clients on...
View ArticleFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt Looking to Back Relativity Space
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, has reportedly invested in Relativity Space Inc., a California-based company specialising in 3D-printed rockets, according to Bloomberg sources familiar with the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Launches rStar-Math, Achieves Top-Level Math Reasoning
Microsoft researchers have developed ‘rStar-Math’, a method that enables small language models (SLMs) to solve challenging math problems with remarkable accuracy, matching or even surpassing larger...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of AI Upskilling in Indian IT
Indian companies are looking to upskill around 85% of their workforce with generative AI in FY25. This marks one of their largest investments in measuring the ROI of AI, yet the quality of the...
View ArticleIntel to Spin Off RealSense as a Standalone Company by Mid-2025
In a surprising development, Intel has announced plans to spin off its RealSense division as an independent company. The move, set to be completed in the first half of 2025, will make RealSense part...
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