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Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said the talent shortage in the semiconductor industry is estimated at one million globally, and the IT industry in the country should seize the opportunity. Speaking at an interaction with IT industry representatives, he said that because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focused push on the semiconductor industry, 12 … Read more
Ever come back to your phone after a couple of hours and wonder how there are suddenly 243 unread WhatsApp messages? Someone’s got engaged. Someone’s forwarded an old Rajinikanth clip. Your uncle and cousin have somehow turned a discussion about mangoes into a political debate. And you’ve got absolutely no idea how the conversation got … Read more
Apple on Friday sued OpenAI and two former employees, alleging misappropriation of its trade secrets to benefit the ChatGPT-owner’s foray into consumer hardware, a dramatic escalation of already simmering tension between the two companies. The complaint accuses OpenAI of orchestrating a broad effort to systematically acquire and exploit Apple’s confidential information through former employees, recruiting … Read more
A new AI detection tool from Meta, which the tech company previewed this week alongside the launch of its image-generation model, Muse Image, failed to identify some of its own AI-generated images once they were cropped, according to a Reuters analysis. The finding highlights the challenges of verifying AI-generated images after common alterations, a limitation … Read more
The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable “key addictive features” like infinite scrolling. The EU’s executive arm issued a fresh set of charges against Meta Platforms as part of its investigation under the 27-nation bloc’s strict … Read more
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a planet in a way it was never designed to. For the first time, the mission identified a planet orbiting a distant star using ripples in space-time, rather than its usual planet-hunting technique, NASA reported. Unlike the close-in transiting planets that TESS typically discovers, the newly identified … Read more
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled ChatGPT Work, an agent in its popular chatbot designed to execute tasks across different applications and files, marking the startup’s latest push into workplace automation. ChatGPT Work, powered by GPT-5.6, can gather context from apps, files and workflows to create finished documents, spreadsheets, presentations, reports and websites, the company said. The … Read more
Meta-owned WhatsApp has submitted its reply to the government’s notice on the “username” feature and the response is being examined, sources said on Thursday. The Center issued a notice to Meta last Wednesday, questioning the proposed username feature on WhatsApp, flagging concerns that it could materially increase incidents of online fraud, phishing, digital-arrest scams and … Read more
Meta Platforms plans to start manufacturing an artificial intelligence chip from September as part of its plan to boost overall computing power to 14 gigawatts next year, showed an internal memo reviewed by Reuters. The tech firm’s data center chip, code-named “Iris”, is part of a four-generation project for Meta Training and Inference Accelerators (MTIA) … Read more
HSBC India expects the Indian IT sector to remain under pressure in FY27 as artificial intelligence-led pricing pressure weighs on earnings, but believes valuations have already factored in much of the weakness, limiting the downside for stocks. According to Yogesh Aggarwal, Head of Research at HSBC India said, “FY27 is likely to be the worst … Read more
