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While text-centric AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and DeepSeek's R1 have become widely adopted, models specialised in generating videos and pictures represent the next frontier in the technology's potential for disruption.
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on Thursday morning, the BBC said. Read more ›
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Andhra Pradesh is planning a ‘data city’ in Visakhapatnam, aiming to anchor India’s artificial intelligence ambitions with multibillion-dollar investments, submarine cable links and six gigawatts of data centre capacity as New Delhi pushes to narrow the AI gap with the US and China. Read more ›
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New Delhi will be the epicentre of AI discussions starting today (February 16) for the next five days, as the country is hosting the AI Impact summit. Through this meet, India is looking to build on its reputation of building real-world AI solutions and becoming the leading voice on AI in the Global South Read more ›
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After years of speculation, Apple’s secretive AI wearables division is back in focus. And this time, it’s aiming to outsmart the competition with a list of wearables. Read more ›
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Thousands of people — from India to US and Canada — reported that YouTube, the popular video site, went dark on Tuesday (February 17). The company later explained that ‘an issue with our recommendations system’ caused the outage, and that the ‘homepage is back’ Read more ›
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During the ongoing AI Impact Summit 2026, Sarvam AI teased its first smart glasses, Sarvam Kaze, a home-grown answer to global AI eyewear like Meta’s Ray-Ban. Read more ›
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The summit opened on February 16 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the event in New Delhi's Bharat Mandapam. He said that India stands at the forefront of the transformation of artificial intelligence Read more ›
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At the AI Impact Summit, Sarvam AI announces partnership with three firms, namely Qualcomm, Bosch and Nokia HMD. While Qualcomm and Bosch will help Sarvam to inculcate AI in smart phones, laptops and cars, Nokia HMD will help bringing conversational AI to feature phones. Read more ›
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The viral “Orion” robot at India’s AI Impact Summit turned out to be China’s Unitree Go2 — a consumer-grade AI-powered robot dog redefining the future of affordable robotics. Here is everything you need to know about the robot. Read more ›
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While text-centric AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and DeepSeek's R1 have become widely adopted, models specialised in generating videos and pictures represent the next frontier in the technology's potential for disruption. Read more ›
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In a memo to the US House Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party, OpenAI said it found DeepSeek employees using hidden third-party routers to bypass its access restrictions. Read more ›
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