New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Over one lakh individuals have enrolled in India’s chip design training programmes, with around 67,000 already trained, the government said on Saturday.The initiative, driven by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), aims to make India self-reliant in chip design, a sector crucial for modern electronics, green energy, defence, and emerging technologies.“Over 1 lakh individuals have enrolled in chip design training, with approximately 67,000 t…
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New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Tesla CEO and founder of AI firm xAI, Elon Musk, has said he is unaware of any instances where Grok, xAI’s chatbot, generated sexualised images of underage individuals.Musk posted on X platform that “I not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero. Obviously, Grok does not spontaneously generate images, it does so only according to user requests.”Musk’s comments come after regulatory scrutiny on reports that Grok had complied with requests …
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) National language AI platform BHASHINI has moved from rule-based systems to AI-powered inclusive engines, providing language services to all citizens and advancing towards full societal inclusivity, according to senior government officials.The Digital India BHASHINI Division at IT Ministry organised ‘BHASHINI Samudaye: Strengthening India’s Language AI Ecosystem’ here in collaboration with Wadhwani AI.According to a ministry statement, the event represented a signi…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi said that eight terror camps, of which two are near the International Border (IB), and six across the Line of Control (LoC), are still active, and security forces are keeping a close watch on them.In response to a question from IANS during the annual press conference of the Indian Army, Gen Dwivedi said, “According to our information, eight terrorist camps are still active, two of which are in IB and six are across the LoC. We do…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) General Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday stated that the Army had mobilised its personnel during Operation Sindoor and is “fully prepared” for ground operations should Pakistan commit any “mistake”. The Army chief reiterated that “Operation Sindoor remains ongoing, and a future misadventure will be resolutely responded to”.”As far as our eyes and ears are concerned, because Operation Sindoor is still on, those eyes and ears will remain open. Under this, whatever action we have…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday said India can be satisfied with the progress made in the field of security in 2025, while mentioning that Operation Sindoor demonstrated India’s readiness, precision and strategic clarity. He mentioned that India’s resolute response to the Pahalgam terror attack served as an example of the current reality of the world that “nations that stay prepared, prevail”.Addressing the annual press conference of the Indian Army,…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Tesla CEO and founder of AI firm xAI, Elon Musk, on Tuesday sharply criticised Apple’s decision to adopt Google’s Gemini models for next‑generation Siri and Apple Foundation Models, calling it “an unreasonable concentration of power” for Google.Musk posted his criticism on the social media platform X after Google confirmed the multi‑year deal would supply Gemini models and cloud infrastructure to power Apple Intelligence features.“This seems like an unreaso…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The government has refuted a report by an international news organisation that it is proposing to force smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part of a raft of security measures, prompting opposition from giants like Apple and Samsung.According to IT Ministry, these news reports have not quoted any statement from these smartphone manufacturers or the industry associations which represent them.“Instead, they have…
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Elon Musk-run X Corp has acknowledged the presence of obscene imagery on its platform, mostly created by its Grok AI, stating that it will comply with Indian laws and remove such content.According to government sources on Sunday, the platform has blocked around 3,500 pieces of content and deleted more than 600 accounts in question. Sources further said that from now on, “X will not allow obscene imagery.”Earlier, X Corp, which runs the social media platform X, submitted …
Mumbai, Jan 9 (IANS) The PARAM Rudra supercomputing facility has been inaugurated at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.The 3 Peta FLOPS high-performance computing (HPC) system has been developed and deployed under the Build Approach of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).PARAM Rudra is based on indigenously designed Rudra servers developed by the C-DAC and manufactured in India, reinforcing the government’s Make in…