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Source: Live Mint India, with all its diversity, faces significant challenges when it comes to achieving social equity and inclusion. Despite constitutional guarantees, there is a lot of disparity between the haves and have nots, for marginalised communities and even women across domains of education, employment and property ownership, to name a few. AI can…
Source: Live Mint Agriculture contributes to 17 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and is the single largest source of employment in India, making innovations in this space critical for growth of the nation. The country’s smallholdings farmers face significant challenges owing to pest infestations, shrinking yields, financial constraints and the increasing impact…
Source: Live Mint As the world’s third-largest consumer of energy, India is taking giant strides towards sustainability and has set an ambitious target to achieve net zero emissions by 2070. Towards this, a slew of measures has been initiated to reduce emission levels and an enhanced target 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based energy has been…
Source: Live Mint Trojan threats – malware disguised as legitimate programmes – continue to plague India, but sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) attacks are increasingly rearing their heads. This combined force will continue to pose a huge risk to the so-called endpoints that include Internet of Things (IoT) devices, laptops, smartphones, servers,…
Source: Live Mint This marks the first such case in India, but the lack of clear policies on AI’s use of public data has sparked similar conflicts globally. At the core of the issue is AI tools’ relentless demand for high-quality data. However, their reliance on readily available online information is nearing its limit. Without…
Source: Live Mint OpenAI has announced the launch of a new subscription tier, ChatGPT Pro, offering exclusive access to advanced features, including the latest AI model, OpenAI o1. Priced at $200 per month (approximately £158), ChatGPT Pro provides users with unlimited access to GPT-4o, advanced voice mode, and an enhanced version of o1, known as…
Source: Live Mint Sony is celebrating 30 years since the launch of the original PlayStation, the iconic console that shook up the gaming world and turned the company into a major player in the industry. Since its debut on 3 December 1994, the PlayStation has sold over 450 million units across its five generations. To…
Source: Live Mint Artificial intelligence could play a pivotal role in addressing the global climate crisis, according to Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, in a compelling discussion with Nikhil Kamath on theWTF Podcast. The episode, part of the series WTF is Really A.I.?, delved into how AI’s transformative power can be harnessed to…
Source: Live Mint As Artificial Technology (AI) gets more advanced by the day, so much so that single individuals start forming a bond with it, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, has raised concerns. Referring to AI as the “perfect” girlfriend or boyfriend, Schmidt warned that young individuals forming emotional attachments to AI chatbots…
Source: Live Mint Amazon is set to invest a further $4 billion in Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup, as major technology firms continue to vie for dominance in the generative AI sector. This latest investment will bring Amazon’s total funding in Anthropic, which began last year, to $8 billion. Despite the substantial…
