Washington, July 25 (IANS) The Trump administration this week defended an ambitious overhaul of America’s scientific research enterprise, arguing that artificial intelligence, quantum computing and advanced manufacturing will be central to keeping the United States ahead of China in technologies that will shape the coming decades, a strategy with implications for key partners such as India.Appearing before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, White House Office of Science and Te…
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Washington, July 24 (IANS) President Donald Trump said technology companies developing artificial intelligence must bear the cost of building the massive energy infrastructure needed to support the industry’s rapid expansion, arguing that the policy would protect American consumers from rising electricity bills while accelerating investment in the United States.Speaking at an event highlighting his administration’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge, Trump said soaring electricity demand from AI data c…
New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) US-based technology giant IBM’s Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna has admitted that the company underestimated the scale of customers’ shift in spending towards artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and failed to adapt quickly enough, saying we faltered in the second quarter as the trend weighed on its revenue.In a letter to investors released alongside selected preliminary second-quarter results, Krishna said IBM had expected some supply chain-related disruption bu…
Mumbai, July 14 (IANS) IBM shares plunged 23 per cent in pre-market trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday after the technology giant reported preliminary second-quarter results that fell short of market expectations, triggering a broad sell-off across software and IT services stocks.The sharp decline erased nearly $55 billion from IBM’s market capitalisation and, if sustained through the trading session, would mark the company’s steepest intra-day fall since the 1980s.International B…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) India’s rapidly expanding data centre industry is emerging as one of the country’s biggest employment generators, with demand for nearly one lakh skilled professionals by 2030, a report said on Tuesday. The data compiled by NLB Services showed that India’s installed data centre capacity is projected to grow from around 1.5 GW currently to nearly 6.5 GW by the end of the decade, while the market is expected to exceed $22 billion.Cumulative investment commitments in the s…
Gandhinagar, July 9 (IANS) Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi on Thursday drew parallels between India’s unsuccessful attempts to establish a semiconductor industry in previous decades and Gujarat’s latest push to build a data centre ecosystem, saying the state intends to avoid repeating past mistakes through the newly launched ‘Viksit Gujarat – Data Centre Policy 2026-29’.Speaking after Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel launched the policy in Gandhinagar, Sanghavi said India had witnessed earlie…
Washington, June 23 (IANS) Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella has issued a sharp warning against the growing concentration of power in the artificial intelligence industry, arguing that a handful of companies should not dictate the future of a technology that is reshaping economies, workplaces and societies.In an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal, Nadella outlined a vision for the next phase of the AI boom that centres on lower-cost models, greater user control and broader ac…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) India needs a coordinated national strategy combining resilient power system, competitive semiconductor market and computing supply chain for large‑scale AI infrastructure deployment, a new report said on Monday.The report from Applied Materials and AMCHAM India advocated a framework with three pillars — a stronger, more resilient electricity grid for AI workloads, an energy‑efficient computing supply chain from algorithms to materials, and development of globally c…
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) US-based Alphabet Inc.-backed technology firm Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said that more than 8.5 million developers are now building apps and experiences every month using its artificial intelligence (AI) models.On the AI infrastructure investment front, Pichai said Google expects its capital expenditure to reach nearly $190 billion this year, largely directed toward AI data centres, custom silicon and model training.Pichai further said the company is witnessing rapid …
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Worldwide spending on artificial intelligence is projected to jump 47 per cent year-on-year to $2.59 trillion in 2026, driven largely by rising investments in AI infrastructure and AI-optimised servers as enterprises and cloud providers accelerate adoption of generative AI and agentic workflows, a report said on Tuesday. The report from Gartner said AI‑optimized infrastructure including AI‑optimized IaaS, servers, network fabric, processing semiconductors and devices…