Artifical Intelligence

Opera's Neon browser goes public with AI agents, premium models at $19.90/m

Opera has opened public access to its AI browser Neon, offering advanced agentic AI tools and early access to leading AI models through a monthly subscription

Google Photos in India gets 'AI Remix' to turn images into comics, sketches

Google has expanded its AI-based Remix feature in Google Photos to India, giving users a simple way to turn regular pictures into stylised, shareable artwork

DPIIT's second paper on copyrighted content in AI likely in two months

The DPIIT committee on the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright is expected to release its second working paper, on copyrightability of AI-generated content, in about two months, a senior government official said on Thursday. The committee's first paper was released on December 8, in which it proposed to give a mandatory blanket licence to artificial intelligence developers for using all legally accessed copyright-protected works to train AI systems. However, the licence should be accompanied by a statutory remuneration right for the copyright holders, according to the committee's recommendation. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has sought stakeholders' views on this paper. Recognising the growing need for deliberations on emerging issues pertaining to AI (artificial intelligence) systems and copyright, the DPIIT formed a committee on April 28, 2025. The eight-member panel was headed by additional secretary in the department, Him

Spotify tests AI 'Prompted Playlists' for custom music mixes: What's new

Spotify's new Prompted Playlists feature lets users create customised mixes using text prompts, blending AI with their full listening history for more personal results

China turns to domestic AI chips, looks to cut dependence on US firms

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology added AI processors from Huawei and Cambricon to its government-approved list of suppliers

Now you can edit with Adobe Photoshop, Express, Acrobat inside ChatGPT

Adobe brings Photoshop, Express and Acrobat tools to ChatGPT, letting users edit images, create designs and handle PDFs directly through simple text prompts

Huge healthcare collaboration potential between India-US: Dr Naresh Trehan

India and the US have a "huge potential" for collaboration in healthcare across segments such as AI and technology, drug development and medical hardware, world-renowned cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Naresh Trehan said. "We are now in a stage where I think the time has come... It's India's time. I'm gung-ho myself, I would say that anybody... looking at India should move, don't waste anymore time because the opportunities are huge," Trehan, Chairman and Managing Director of Medanta and a Padma Bhushan awardee, said during a conversation here last week. The event was hosted by the Consulate General of India in New York here last week titled 'Healthcare in a Developed India 2047'. The Consulate said that the key highlights of the event included a vision to make high quality healthcare universally accessible and affordable; India's rising corps of highly trained medical and allied-health professionals. Strong emphasis on pharma innovation and research; transformative ro

$70 bn and rising: Amazon's $35 billion bet lifts India's AI tide

Amazon's mega 5-yr plan tops announcements made by Microsoft, Google

BYT Capital launches ₹180 crore deep-tech fund to back frontier innovation

BYT Capital has launched a ₹180 crore Category II AIF focused on deep-tech, targeting 18-20 startups with ₹3-6 crore initial cheques and a 55 per cent follow-on reserve

Microsoft, Google, Amazon bet big on India: What's driving the AI rush?

Amazon's $35 bn commitment comes as global tech firms deepen their India focus, accelerating AI, cloud and data-centre expansion while strengthening links with a growing, skilled workforce

World's first AI-planned high-speed rail tunnel tested in China's Wufeng

China is trialling an AI system that selects excavation methods for each section of a new high-speed rail tunnel in Wufeng, marking the world's first such project

YouTube's Neal Mohan is TIME's 2025 CEO of the Year: All you need to know

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has been named TIME's 2025 CEO of the Year for his 'calm leadership' and 'big role in shaping what billions watch daily'

Centre recommends mandatory AI licence, royalties for copyrighted works

DPIIT has floated a proposal for a blanket licence for AI training, aiming to simplify access to copyrighted works while ensuring creators receive statutory compensation for the use of their content

AI investment in auto industry may collapse by 2029, warns report

A new Gartner report has predicted that by 2029, only 5 per cent of automakers will maintain strong AI investment growth, starkly less than the 95 per cent currently engaged

Academic AI seldom reaches mkt: Wadhwani AI CEO Shekar Sivasubramanian

Shekar Sivasubramanian of Wadhwani AI says many AI pilots fail to scale because solutions lack real-world fit. He urges deeper work on data, languages and social sector deployment

Emergent secures strategic investment from Google's AI Futures Fund

Agentic vibe-coding platform lets anyone build professional software, no coding skills required

Why ByteDance's AI phone is getting blocked by China's biggest apps

ByteDance's Doubao-powered AI phone is facing app blocks over broad permissions and data risks; the episode is exposing a bigger fight among China's tech giants for users and control

Deloitte to launch AI platform 'Tax Pragya' for faster client insights

Deloitte will this week launch an AI-powered platform 'Tax Pragya' to make tax research and insights accessible to its clients faster, a company official said on Sunday. Deloitte India Partner Sumit Singhania said Tax Pragya, which is set to be launched on December 9, has been built with direct and indirect tax-related data on over a million court cases and Deloitte's knowledge solution papers so that access to the insights is quicker and accurate. Tax analysts currently have to spend hours doing research on various court judgments before giving their feedback to clients. Tax Pragya will convert that time to just a few minutes and provide solutions from Deloitte's privately curated database, and not open source data. "Tax Pragya is an AI-powered tax, research and insight platform. It is enriched with two decades of Deloitte tax knowledge, perspective and jurisprudence. The goal is to move from a knowledge-intensive platform to an insightful platform. It's an agentic solution where w

Why does AI write like that? Exploring strange patterns of machine text

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive - and grating - voice

New York Times sues Perplexity AI for 'illegal' copying of content

The Times also claimed that the startup's generative AI products created fabricated content