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How a day started by an Elon Musk admirer who camped outside Space X became India Inc.'s platform to benchmark national AI readiness.

Google Deep Mind CEO Demis Hassabis publishes a concrete FINRA-style regulatory blueprint, accelerating his AGI timeline to 'a few short years' as the US government already moves against Anthropic...

Nasscom chairman Srikanth Velamakanni tells India Today's Smart Money Financial Conclave that India must scale AI spending from Rs 10,300 crore over five years to Rs 10,000 crore annually, citing...

Swiss fabless semiconductor company Kandou AI opens its India Chip Design Headquarters in Hyderabad at Krishe Emerald, Kondapur, deepening India's chip-design ecosystem with advanced AI...

A Hacker News proposal for flagging AI-generated articles highlights the growing tension between community-driven moderation and the global regulatory push for mandated AI content labels — led by...

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw positions Hyderabad as central to India's Viksit Bharat 2047 vision with AI-as-a-Service pivot, three bullet train corridors, and 12 semiconductor plants including...

India’s semiconductor push under ISM 2.0 and its AI Governance Guidelines under the India AI Mission are converging.

Apple has begun testing DRAM chips from China's state-backed Chang Xin Memory Technologies for devices sold in China while lobbying the US government for broader approval, the Financial Times reports.

Apple announced on Wednesday a landmark multiyear agreement with Broadcom valued at over $30 billion to design and produce custom silicon components and cutting-edge wireless connectivity...

AI hiring in India's IT sector surged 16% year-on-year in June while overall tech jobs declined 3%, according to Naukri's Job Speak report, as companies rush to reorient workforces for the artificial.

US-based startup Orbital has asked the FCC for permission to deploy up to 100,000 data centre satellites in low Earth orbit, aiming to deliver 10 gigawatts of AI computing power from space as demand...

Anthropic has entered preliminary talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI inference chip, marking the company most concrete step yet toward reducing its reliance on Nvidia hardware.

Open AI launches GPT-5.6 in three tiers — Sol, Terra, and Luna — with Terra matching GPT-5.5 performance at half the cost, introducing the first multi-tier frontier model family.

India signals a major AI policy shift as Meit Y Secretary S Krishnan says the time has come for a dedicated AI law, moving away from the light-touch regulatory approach that relied on existing IT...

Virginia's amended Consumer Data Protection Act took effect on July 1, 2026, banning the sale of consumers' precise geolocation data within a 1,750-foot radius.

Tech layoffs in 2026 have already exceeded the full-year total of 2025, with India accounting for 7.

The European Court of Justice dismissed Google's final appeal against a record €4.

India and Japan signed sweeping agreements on AI, defence, semiconductors, energy, and critical minerals at the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit, targeting ¥10 trillion in Japanese investment over a...

India's AI talent market is pivoting from prompt engineering to orchestration as agentic AI hiring surges 180%, with recruiters seeking engineers who can build and deploy autonomous AI systems at...

Gujarat government partners with IBM and IAIRO to establish India's first Industrial AI Centre of Excellence, a living lab for manufacturing, energy and supply chain AI innovation using sovereign AI..

India is racing to build sovereign AI capabilities but faces a fundamental infrastructure challenge.

South Korea’s Boldest Industrial Bet Yet South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday unveiled the country’s most ambitious industrial investment plan in history — a 1,350 trillion won...

Ford publicly admitted it overestimated AI's capabilities and has rehired over 350 veteran engineers after its automated quality systems failed to meet expectations, a costly lesson that ultimately...

India's vast linguistic diversity of 22 official languages and over 100 dialects remains a critical barrier to democratising AI, with current models achieving only 45% accuracy on Indic language...

As Chinese AI models undercut Western rivals by 5-30x on pricing while matching frontier quality, investment banks Bernstein and Jefferies warn India faces a strategic choice: build sovereign...

Compunnel has launched a dedicated AI startup incubator at its Noida and New Jersey facilities, offering funding, workspace, enterprise customer access, and mentoring to pre-seed and seed-stage AI...

Within two weeks of the US export ban on Anthropic's frontier AI models, China's 360 Security and Japan's Sakana AI have launched competing Mythos-class alternatives, reshaping the global AI...

Princeton researchers have developed AI that can design radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) from scratch, producing chip layouts that look like QR codes but achieve record performance.

India and the US are moving from AI and semiconductor policy frameworks to concrete projects, with the private sector leading execution, investment, and innovation.

In May 2026, an internal Open AI reasoning model disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry — the Erdős unit distance problem — that had remained unsolved for 80 years.