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New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) The session on “Global Dialogue on AI Usage – Data for Labour Market Resilience” held on the second day of India AI Impact Summit 2026 highlighted that strengthening labour market resilience in the AI era will require better measurement of technology adoption, anticipatory governance, and coordinated investments in skills, social protection, and institutional capacity so that productivity gains translate into broad-based economic and social benefits.​ The session…

Ahmedabad, Feb 17 (IANS) The Adani Group on Tuesday announced one of the world’s largest integrated energy-compute commitments, a direct investment of $100 billion to develop renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres by 2035.The initiative will establish a long-term sovereign energy and compute platform designed to position India as a global leader in the emerging Intelligence Revolution.The investment is expected to catalyse by 2035 an additional $150 billion across server ma…

New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Indian IT companies will remain focused on profits rather than employment, as AI threatens to disrupt industries across the spectrum, former HCL Technologies CEO Vineet Nayyar said here on Monday while speaking at the ‘AI Impact Summit 2026’.Speaking at a session on the opening day of the AI Summit, Nayyar said that from an employment point of view, “I think it is very important for us to understand that Indian companies, including Indian IT companies, are going to…

New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Sam Altman-run OpenAI has removed access to GPT-4o AI model in its ChatGPT app — a move which has left several users worldwide, especially in China, mourning the loss, as they treat their chatbot as an “emotional or romantic companion”, according to a report in Wired.In August 2025, OpenAI first tried to retire GPT-4o, the specific model that helps many users believe is “more affectionate and understanding than its successors”. The decision to pull the plug was…

Washington, Feb 13 (IANS) Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future opportunity for India — it is an immediate strategic test, said Anupam Govil, Chief Tech and AI Evangelist and Managing Partner at global management consulting firm Avasant, adding that the country must lead in AI and must “reinvent how AI is being leveraged”.“India is at a pivotal point in its evolution as a technology hub,” Govil said in an interview with IANS ahead of the ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’ i…

New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Chief of artificial intelligence at Microsoft, Mustafa Suleyman, has warned that most white‑collar roles that rely on computers could be automated within the next 12 to 18 months.He informed that the company is building a “professional‑grade AGI”, that could automate majority of works done by lawyers, accountants, project managers and marketers.In an interview with the Financial Times, Suleyman said Microsoft is racing to develop “professional‑grade AGI”, A…

Gurugram, Feb 12 (IANS) In a crackdown against call centre frauds targeting US nationals, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached immovable properties worth Rs 90.21 crore in Gurugram and other areas and filed a charge sheet against eight accused, an official said on Thursday. The ED’s Gurugram Zonal Office, filed a charge sheet on February 10 before a Special Court (PMLA) in Gurugram against the accused under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, following the…

Washington, Feb 10 (IANS) The US–India Strategic Partnership Forum has announced to lead the largest-ever American industry delegation to India as an official partner of the India AI Impact Summit 2026.The summit will be held in New Delhi from February 16 to 20 in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.USISPF said more than 120 US chief executives and senior technology leaders will take part, calling the initiative a decisive step in advancing cooperation on …

Kolkata, Feb 7 (IANS) The Cyber Crime branch of Kolkata Police on Saturday busted an international cybercrime racket targeting American citizens, which was operating from the Maheshtala area of West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, and arrested eight people in this connection.A large amount of digital data, incriminating documents and several electronic devices were seized.According to police sources, five laptops, 12 mobile phones and two routers were seized from the arrested individuals.Ca…