Vishwadeep Khatri

India is now designing advanced semiconductor chips for global leaders like Nvidia and Intel. Over 300 universities are teaching chip design. India aims to become a major semiconductor design and manufacturing hub. The nation is focusing on the entire ecosystem, including manufacturing machines and chemicals. This strategic push is attracting global attention and investment. View the full article

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is nearing a massive $7.4 billion funding round, with tech giants Tencent and CATL leading the investment. DeepSeek’s fundraising would mark a new level of ambition from China’s AI leaders as they seek to compete with their American counterparts in the field. View the full article

Google has placed a significant order with Intel for over three million tensor processing units to be manufactured in 2028. This move signals a potential shift in the chip manufacturing landscape. Nvidia is also exploring Intel's technology for its own processor needs. This development is seen as a positive sign for Intel's ongoing turnaround efforts. View the full article

Britain is investing over a billion pounds to boost its AI computing power. A new national supercomputer is planned for 2030. The country is also backing its own chip companies with significant funding. This initiative aims to strengthen Britain's independent AI hardware capabilities. The plan includes investments in next-generation processors and skills development. View the full article

Cerebras shares saw a rise on Monday. Several Wall Street firms initiated coverage with positive outlooks. They are backing the chip designer's unique AI strategy. This comes after a strong debut. Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are among the firms. They see substantial upside potential for Cerebras. The company designs large chips to speed up AI processing. View the full article

Enterprises in India are increasingly adapting AI, with a sense of urgency. However, the bottlenecks are many which tend to stifle the transition from pilot to scale. The strategic hurdles are known though, which will make the way ahead a little smoother. Read what ET-Cisco Data Infrastructure and AI Readiness Survey has found! View the full article

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In the meantime, the survey of 214 tech leaders across companies reveals that 38% are still experimenting through isolated pilots and another 32% have deployed AI in select use cases. View the full article

Global demand for data centres continues to significantly outpace available supply, creating a structural shortage that is expected to persist for years as artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates, according to a report by Jefferies. View the full article

The developer of the Kimi chatbot has held early talks with prospective investors to raise more than $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said. The discussions have begun just as Moonshot is on the verge of closing a round led by Meituan that valued the AI firm at $20 billion after the investment, the people said. If Moonshot hits its latest funding target, that would mark a seven-fold increase in capitalization from December, when the startup was valued at just over $4 billion. View the full article

The project is aimed at ‌serving growing global demand ​for ​AI ⁠services and physical AI applications, Nvidia ​said. View the full article

Siri debuted in 2011 and is accessible through the bulk of ​Apple's installed base of 2.5 billion devices, but hundreds of millions of consumers have been chatting with apps from OpenAI and Anthropic instead. In China and elsewhere, consumers are turning to AI agents - bots that can carry out complex tasks on behalf of human users - to manage daily schedules and take care of rote tasks. View the full article

Speaking to reporters in ​Seoul, Huang's remarks ​underscored Nvidia's continued cooperation with SK Hynix, ‌a leading supplier of high-bandwidth ​memory (HBM) chips ​used ⁠in AI servers. View the full article

The Supreme Court has released a draft framework for AI in courts, aiming to balance innovation with judicial safeguards. The proposed regulations emphasise AI as an assistive tool, strictly prohibiting its use for decision-making, adjudication, or sentencing, while encouraging its adoption for administrative efficiency and access to justice. View the full article

Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-origin AI policy adviser, is departing the White House after an 18-month tenure. He announced his exit on X, stating he will focus on addressing major AI challenges facing America. Krishnan described his time as a privilege, working at the core of US government AI policy development. View the full article

OpenAI has launched Lockdown Mode to combat prompt injection attacks, a security feature designed for users handling sensitive data. This mode restricts live web browsing and image retrieval from the internet, aiming to prevent data exfiltration by limiting outbound network requests. It is available to eligible personal and business accounts. View the full article

For the first time, artificial intelligence agents have generated more web traffic than humans globally, according to Cloudflare. This shift, driven by the rapid growth of AI agents, means over 57% of HTTP requests now originate from bots, surpassing human activity. View the full article

The ​changes ​are part ⁠of a broader reorganisation at ​OpenAI, as it shifts ​resources to target lucrative enterprise clients and intensify competition ‌with rival Anthropic, the report said, ​citing ​more ⁠than a dozen current and former employees. View the full article

Kerala Electricity Minister Sunny Joseph has refuted claims that Artificial Intelligence was used to create the state's financial White Paper. He stated the document was prepared using human intelligence after examining records. The opposition had alleged AI tools were employed, questioning the speed of its creation. The minister asserted the opposition could not prove the White Paper's figures incorrect. View the full article

US national security agencies are now required to work with multiple artificial intelligence providers. This directive follows a dispute with Anthropic PBC. Agencies must avoid companies that interfere with the chain-of-command. The move aims to ensure government operations continue smoothly. This policy change seeks to diversify AI vendors for national security systems. View the full article

David Sacks, chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and former White House AI and Crypto Czar, has criticized US Senator Bernie Sanders' proposal to give the public a 50 per cent ownership stake in major American AI companies, warning that government control of artificial intelligence could lead to a "CCP-style social credit system" in the United States. View the full article

Trump has embraced government investment in private companies in his second term, scrambling his party's politics. His administration last year secured a 10 per cent stake in the struggling Silicon Valley company Intel, and it considered a government takeover of Spirit Airlines earlier this year, although the airline couldn't reach a deal and ultimately closed. View the full article

The package, one of the biggest private credit transactions in history, highlights the race by top-tier financiers to fund data center construction and the chips they use. Tech companies are tapping every corner of the credit markets to meet AI’s unprecedented capital demands, forcing Wall Street to engineer novel debt structures to keep pace. View the full article

The company will replace swimming pool equipment distributor PoolCorp on the benchmark index before the start of trading on ‌June 22. Marvell ⁠shares ⁠jumped nearly 6% in extended trading. View the full article

As part of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million monthly ‌from October ⁠this ⁠year to June 2029, with capacity ramping up through September at a reduced ​fee, Elon Musk's space venture said in a regulatory filing. View the full article