New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) The United States imports nearly 40 per cent of its generic medicines from India because of the trust it has in the country’s pharmaceutical capabilities, US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said on Friday.Speaking at the Advancing Partnership in Research and Innovation event at Indian Institute of Technology here, Gor said India-US ties have expanded significantly across sectors including trade, defence, technology, health and space cooperation.“On pharmaceuticals, we…
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New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) India-based founders are building AI for global customers in close collaboration with partners and investors worldwide, Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft said on Tuesday.India combines developer velocity and scale, rapid enterprise adoption of AI and digital public infrastructure that uniquely position the country to deploy AI at population scale, Parikh said.He mentioned GitHub’s community in India of over 27 million developers, with over 2 m…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) US-based technology firm Microsoft has begun scaling back access to Anthropic’s Claude Code among its employees and is redirecting engineers towards GitHub Copilot CLI as surging AI usage drives up enterprise computing costs, according to multiple reports.Reports said the technology company had earlier expanded access to Claude Code across thousands of employees, including developers, project managers and designers, to encourage experimentation with AI-assisted coding …
Washington, May 21 (IANS) The global technology community is mourning the death of S. “Soma” Somasegar, the Indian American former Microsoft executive and Madrona Venture Group managing director who was widely credited with shaping Microsoft’s developer ecosystem and mentoring a generation of engineers, founders and investors.“With heavy hearts, we share the passing of beloved husband and father, S. Somasegar (fondly known as Soma), on May 19th, 2026,” a family memorial message said Tu…
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) India is steadily improving in terms of industrial depth to become a global superpower, a report has said.”The challenge before India is to become a more technologically capable, industrially mature and structurally resilient one. It will have to enhance its ability to manufacture precision and high-end industrial machinery that can produce other machines, the report from India Narrative said.It further highlighted that it has a long way to go in developing dense, vertic…
Gandhinagar, May 11 (IANS) Gujarat has identified and initiated more than 40 artificial intelligence (AI) use cases across over 14 government departments covering agriculture, healthcare, urban development, energy and governance, as the state expands the use of AI-driven systems in public administration and citizen services. Details released by the state government on ‘National Technology Day’ showed that Gujarat has launched the “Gujarat Future Technology Initiatives” (GFTI) programme to en…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Gautam Adani, Chairman of the Adani Group, on Monday said India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution must ultimately be measured by its ability to empower ordinary citizens, workers and small businesses across the country.Addressing the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) ‘Annual Business Summit 2026’ here, Gautam Adani said India must reject the idea that AI should primarily be used to eliminate workers and automate livelihoods.“India must build AI as a fo…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) From green energy to data centres, the Adani Group is creating the physical foundation on which the country’s digital and clean future will stand, its Chairman Gautam Adani said on Monday.At Khavda in Gujarat, the Adani Group has already commissioned 35 per cent of what will become the world’s largest single-site renewable energy plant, a 30-gigawatt-project that will fundamentally alter India’s energy geography.“Our total commitment towards the energy transition sta…
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Organisations are failing to keep pace with workers using artificial intelligence to expand the scope of their work, creating a widening gap between AI-enabled capabilities and organisational structures, a report has said.The report from US tech giant Microsoft noted that its 2026 Work Trend Index found that 58 per cent of users said they are producing work with AI that they could not have a year ago, and it rose to 80 per cent of respondents among Frontier Professionals….
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) India has the potential to give the US a further edge in the race for AI adoption, with American tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon already committing billions of dollars in investments to build AI hubs across India, according to an article in Arab News.These investments are aimed to ensure that US-designed technology forms the backbone of the Global South’s largest economy. If the future of the digital world is built on US-Indian infrastructure, the world…