China’s DeepSeek releases an update to its R1 reasoning model

China’s DeepSeek releases an update to its R1 reasoning model

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released an update to its R1 reasoning model in the early hours of Thursday, stepping up competition with U.S. rivals such as OpenAI. DeepSeek launched R1-0528 on developer platform Hugging Face, but has yet to make an official public announcement. It did not publish a description of the model or […]

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Telegram, Musk-owned xAI partner to distribute Grok to messaging app’s users

Telegram, Musk-owned xAI partner to distribute Grok to messaging app’s users

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI will pay Telegram $300 million to deploy its Grok chatbot on the messaging app, aiming to tap the platform’s more than one billion users and sharpen its competitive edge in the booming artificial intelligence market. Under the one-year deal, xAI will also give Telegram half of any subscription sales made […]

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Google is much more than an advertising company…privilege to have users trust in us: Sundar Pichai

Google is much more than an advertising company…privilege to have users trust in us: Sundar Pichai

“We are much more than an advertising company,” Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai underlined in an interaction with global media on the sidelines of the Google I/O event on Wednesday. “We are probably the third largest enterprise software company… We have Waymo, you can think about Android, you can think about Google Play… YouTube […]

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Silicon Valley is ready for a makeover: Why time is running out for iPhone, Google Search and Facebook

Silicon Valley is ready for a makeover: Why time is running out for iPhone, Google Search and Facebook

If someone asks you about the common thread among the iPhone, Google Search, and Facebook, it’s that all three have changed the tech landscape, and have lasted far longer than the average product. The iPhone debuted in 2007, Google in 1998, and Facebook in 2004. All three tech giants and their core products still dominate […]

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The next tech challenge is to prove you are a human: Srikanth Nadhamuni, Founder CTO, Aadhaar

The next tech challenge is to prove you are a human: Srikanth Nadhamuni, Founder CTO, Aadhaar

Srikanth Nadhamuni is the founder CTO of Aadhaar. He set up the technology centre for the development, design, and operations of the Aadhaar system. He is also the Managing Trustee of the eGovernments Foundation, which he co-founded with Nandan Nilekani in 2003, working on improving governance and public service delivery in Indian cities. He is […]

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DeepMind predicts arrival of Artificial General Intelligence by 2030, warns of an ‘existential crisis’ for humanity

DeepMind predicts arrival of Artificial General Intelligence by 2030, warns of an ‘existential crisis’ for humanity

DeepMind, a leading AI research organisation within Google that focuses on AI technology has hinted that Artificial General Intelligence, popularly referred to as AGI, could arrive by as early as 2030. In a 145-page document co-authored by DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, the authors have warned that AGI could do “severe harm” and shared some alarming […]

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Margazhi with an AI twist: What does Madrasana have up its sleeve this year for the music season?

Margazhi with an AI twist: What does Madrasana have up its sleeve this year for the music season?

Singer Abhishek Raghuram, and a cryptic AI-generated version of an image of artiste | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “Try it with me once…just once. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.” I don’t know if Madrasana founder Mahesh Venkateswaran is convincing me or himself, but colour me intrigued. He goes on, as if he’s […]

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Big announcement in few weeks, says IT Minister Vaishnaw on conversational AI tool

Big announcement in few weeks, says IT Minister Vaishnaw on conversational AI tool

File photo of Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw. | Photo Credit: ANI IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on March 27 hinted at a “big announcement” in a few weeks in the context of conversational AI tools. To a specific question on whether India can build something equivalent to the conversational AI tool ChatGPT, the minister […]

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AI and the future of work: will Artificial Intelligence affect the workforce?

AI and the future of work: will Artificial Intelligence affect the workforce?

Experts thought that Artificial Intelligence (AI) would first automate the menial tasks. Driving, grocery delivery, and the like. For eight straight years, Elon Musk has promised full self-driving capabilities in his Tesla cars. There has been significant progress towards this goal, mostly by companies other than Tesla. But sipping chai as an autopilot drives us […]

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‘Copying is part of the process’: NFN Kalyan on AI and art

‘Copying is part of the process’: NFN Kalyan on AI and art

“AI in art represents a democratisation of process,” says No-First-Name Kalyan, a Miami-based artist. Besides investigating NFTs, he has recently started creating on Midjourney, and his AI experiments — especially a sci-fi ‘History of India’ series, where he envisions what would have happened to India if it had been occupied by aliens rather than the […]

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