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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 New Delhi: Google on Wednesday launched Gemini 2.0, its new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models, that it says is equipped to break down complex queries, burnishing the tool’s appeal as a more useful, practical product for businesses to adopt. “Over the last year, we have been investing in developing more agentic…
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 CEO Sam Altman has announced a series of livestream events over the next 12 days, beginning today, 5th December, at 10 a.m. PT (11:30 p.m. IST). These events are set to introduce a range of innovative tools and features, with Altman teasing that viewers can expect “some big ones and some…
Source: Live Mint DeepMind has introduced Genie 2, an innovative artificial intelligence model capable of generating playable and immersive 3D worlds. Building on its predecessor, Genie, which could transform single images into interactive environments, Genie 2 takes this concept further by crafting dynamic and realistic virtual worlds from text prompts or images. In a recent…
Source: Live Mint -Zoom Video Communications raised its forecast for fiscal 2025 revenue and adjusted profit on Monday, anticipating robust demand for its online video conferencing software as it expands its product portfolio, and clients embrace hybrid working models. Zoom also said it would expand its share repurchase plan by $1.2 billion. The company expects…
Source: Live Mint In less than four years the share price of Chegg, an online education service, has dropped by 99%. A post-pandemic slump in digital learning is partly to blame for its tumble. A bigger problem for the company, though, is artificial intelligence (AI). Its customers are mostly students who want help answering their…
Source: Live Mint Daksh Gupta, CEO and co-founder of Greptile, a Y-Combinator-backed AI start-up based in San Francisco, shot to fame recently for a long post he wrote on the ‘X’ platform where he wrote about his start-up’s culture of long working hours. He mentioned that typical workdays start at 9 am and end at…
