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Source: Live Mint The Indian information technology (IT) sector has been trying to make a meaningful comeback for a while. The good news is there’s some respite on the horizon at last. The Indian rupee is depreciating against the US dollar and other developed-market currencies, hurt by the ongoing turmoil in global markets. The rupee…
Source: Live Mint China, a closed economy, has already achieved a generative AI breakthrough with DeepSeek’s model. US president Donald Trump is vying to retain America’s dominance in global technology by instituting curbs on AI and high-tech exports. Indian industry stakeholders said an agreement with France can give the country a significant international partner—both as…
Source: Live Mint South Korea’s industry ministry has become the latest government to restrict access to the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, citing security concerns. The ministry issued a temporary ban on employee access to the AI service, urging ministries and agencies to exercise caution when using generative AI technologies like DeepSeek and ChatGPT. This…
Source: Live Mint The dense clouds over DeepSeek are not clearing anytime soon. After bans on government resources in Italy, France, the US Congress, and elsewhere, new research suggests that DeepSeek’s ties to the Chinese state may be deeper than previously thought. Security analysts have reportedly uncovered an obfuscated code within the chatbot’s web login…
Source: Live Mint The landscape of generative AI is evolving rapidly, with companies racing to build more efficient, capable, and accessible models. Among the latest entrants, Mistral Small 3, Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max, and DeepSeek R1 are vying for dominance alongside OpenAI’s established ChatGPT. Each model presents a unique approach to AI and used cases. Mistral Small…
Source: Live Mint The battle of AI has taken the world by storm when DeepSeek became the topic of discussion across the globe. However, the latest move by Mistral AI with the release of Mistral Small 3 has added yet another layer of competition, offering a powerful open-source alternative to some of the leading proprietary…
Source: Live Mint 1. Smarter AI models will intensify AGI fears “Lata has three apples and buys five more. How many does she have now?” Even a 5-year-old can answer eight. Similarly, GenAI models solve this using ‘chain of thought’ reasoning: “Lata starts with three apples. She buys five more, so 3 + 5 =…
Source: Live Mint Dig deeper, though, and the situation is more nuanced. Generative ai appears to be one of those innovations, such as email or smartphones, whose the most eager early adopters are individuals. Companies are being far more tentative. In the two years since OpenAi unveiled ChatGPT, generative AI has had a faster rate…
Source: Live Mint AFTER DECADES of blue-collar jobs being snatched up by machines, advanced chatbots are now breathing down white collars. “Generative” artificial-intelligence (AI) tools, such as ChatGPT, have made significant progress in crafting human-sounding language and grasping context. So much so that they have leapfrogged humans in some tasks. This could make as many…
Source: Live Mint NEW DELHI : Since the 1990s, Photoshop, an image-editing software, has become a colloquial verb for photo retouching. However, over the past two years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the way photo editing has worked so far, automating most of the steps into one-click commands. This, though, hasn’t affected Photoshop’s ubiquity—in…
