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Nick Pickles, former head of global affairs at Elon Musk's X, has joined rival Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity as chief policy officer. Pickles will focus on World ID, a digital passport designed to differentiate humans from AI bots. He believes AI'...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has sparked debates as users submit sensitive medical images for analysis. While some view it as a leap forward in healthcare, experts are raising concerns about privacy and diagnostic reliability. Unlike traditional heal...

UK telecom company O2 has launched 'Daisy,' an AI-powered scambaiter, to combat the rise in phone scams. Disguised as a friendly grandmother, Daisy engages scammers in lengthy conversations, wasting their time and preventing them from targeting real...

IRB Infrastructure Trust plans to transfer five highway assets to IRB InvIT Fund. The deal is valued at Rs 15,000 crore. The transfer is part of IRB's strategy to develop and then transfer stabilized assets to the public platform. IRB will use the p...

“We are observing a rise in pay packages for creative roles, especially for professionals who can integrate Gen AI prompt engineering into their work,” said Jaideep Kewalramani, COO and head of employability business, TeamLease Edtech. “The unique c...

BookMyShow's handling of Coldplay concert tickets in India has come under scrutiny amid allegations of scalping. The incident highlights the urgent need for robust ticketing systems, as sophisticated bots and technologies are being used by scalpers ...

Facing difficulties to meet real boyfriends in real life, women in China are now turning to AI boyfriends. They feel AI boyfriends are available for them and can provide emotional support whenever they need it. Though AI is a booming industry, it co...

The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to respond to a plea seeking a regulatory framework to control the resale of concert tickets through authorized platforms and prevent illegal sales. The plea, supported by advocate Rajshekhar Rao, cites ramp...

Microsoft research reveals that Chinese-controlled social media bots are targeting voters in Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee to influence elections and denigrate Republican lawmakers, including U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and Representatives Barry Moore,...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced that the government will double the defect liability period for contractors of EPC projects from 5 to 10 years to ensure better quality roads. This move aims to address frequent road issues and enhance the cons...

Canadian pension fund CDPQ is poised to acquire five BOT toll road assets from Ashoka Concessions for ?4,500 crore. The assets will be purchased through CDPQ's infrastructure trust, IHCT. The toll projects have a strong track record and generated ?1...

Anil Makhija, COO of BookMyShow parent Big Tree Entertainment, appeared before Mumbai Police’s EOW regarding a complaint. The complaint alleges irregularities in ticket sales for Coldplay's India tour, accusing BookMyShow and Live Nation of using ti...

Anil Makhija, COO of Big Tree Entertainment, appears before Mumbai Police’s EOW in the Coldplay concert ticket scam. Allegations claim BookMyShow used bots to hinder genuine purchases, inflating the digital queue and causing fan outrage. CEO Ashish ...

The CEO of BookMyShow, Big Tree Entertainment, and the head of the company's technical department, Ashish Hemrajani, were summoned by the Mumbai Police's Economic Offence Wing (EOW) and are currently in the headlines for the wrong reasons. They must...

In the last fiscal year, proprietary traders and FIIs using algorithms made substantial profits (?32,000 crore and ?26,900 crore, respectively). A majority of FIIs and proprietary traders utilised algorithms, while only 13% of individual traders did...

On Tuesday, Indian markets rose for the second consecutive day, with the S&P BSE Sensex up over 360 points and Nifty50 above 25,000. Gains were noted in capital goods, healthcare, IT, power, and telecom, while energy and oil & gas stocks saw decline...

HGS CEO Partha DeSarkar cited examples of areas with lower productivity due to staff shortages, and mentioned that HGS is testing AI solutions with clients in areas like conversational AI, loan processing, and document processing.

Road engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) companies are expected to see a moderate revenue growth of 5-7 per cent next fiscal due to lower national highway awarding impacting their order books. Despite this, their credit profiles are exp...

India has tried to keep pace with the global artificial intelligence frenzy in the nearly two years since ChatGPT launched, but chatbots have often been limited by a lack of data on many of the country’s languages. Many who live in big cities can ty...