Everything posted by Vishwadeep Khatri
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AI News from ET - Using AI as my learning strategist
Overwhelmed by information, Kannan now uses AI as a weekly learning strategist, gaining concise, multi-perspective insights. View the full article
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AI News from ET - How to read (and actually retain) non-fiction using AI tools
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AI News from ET - An AIdentity crisis
AI is making it really easy to clone and tweak anyone’s likeness. ET explains how this is turning identity into a valued intellectual property and what can be done to safeguard it. View the full article
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AI News from ET - The stock shock, powered by AI
Global stocks slid last week as a sharp sell-off in software and tech erased billions in market value amid fears that rapid AI advances could put traditional software companies out of business, writes Shristi Achar. View the full article
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AI News from ET - ET Graphics: The great fake-off
From reputation damage to financial fraud, identity misuse is becoming one of the fastest-growing risks of the AI age. Tanya Pandey brings to the fore some eye-popping statistics. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Google sued by Autodesk over AI-powered movie-making software
Google has been sued by Autodesk for allegedly infringing its "Flow" trademark to market competing AI-enabled software used to make movies, TV shows and video games. View the full article
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AI News from ET - OpenAI CEO says ChatGPT back to over 10% monthly growth: Report
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that the startup's artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, was back to exceeding 10% monthly growth. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Apollo, xAI near $3.4 billion deal to fund AI chips: Report
Apollo Global Management is close to a significant deal. A roughly $3.4 billion loan is being finalised. This loan will fund an investment vehicle. The vehicle plans to purchase Nvidia chips. These chips will then be leased to Elon Musk's AI company, xAI. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Imec opens €2.5 billion chip pilot line as Europe looks to strengthen AI hand
Europe has launched NanoIC, a €2.5 billion pilot line for advanced chip development. This initiative supports the EU's Chips Act, aiming to boost Europe's role in global semiconductor production. The facility will host cutting-edge tools, including ASML's High NA EUV machine. This move strengthens Europe's industrial capabilities in the AI era. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Takeda deepens AI drug discovery push with $1.7 billion Iambic deal
Iambic and Takeda Pharmaceutical have formed a multi-year partnership valued at over $1.7 billion. This collaboration will leverage artificial intelligence to accelerate the design of small-molecule drugs for cancer and gastrointestinal diseases. Iambic's AI model, NeuralPLexer, will be utilised to predict drug molecule binding to proteins. View the full article
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AI News from ET - AI-powered apps and bots are barging into medicine. Doctors have questions.
Artificial intelligence is entering healthcare, offering advice to patients. However, AI apps are sometimes providing incorrect medical information. Doctors express concerns about AI's accuracy and potential to cause harm. Regulatory bodies allow AI for patient education but not diagnoses. Some apps have been removed from app stores due to inaccurate claims and user complaints. View the full article
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AI News from ET - AI videos create buzz for ByteDance after US TikTok deal
TikTok's new video creation model, called Seedance 2.0, has been launched in a limited test mode in China -- but hyper-realistic synthetic footage is already flooding social networks worldwide. Some compared them to the output of OpenAI's Sora 2 text-to-video app, which last year sparked copyright concerns over its depiction of characters from famous cartoons and games such as South Park and Pokemon. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Moon over Mars: Inside SpaceX’s new space strategy
Elon Musk said SpaceX is now focused on building a “self-growing city” on the Moon instead of Mars. Addressing the change in priorities, Musk explained that reaching the moon is far more practical in the near-term. Missions to the satellite can be launched every 10 days, with a journey time of just two days View the full article
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AI News from ET - Alibaba's overloaded AI chatbot stops issuing coupons, asks shoppers for patience
Since last month, Alibaba has sought to make Qwen a one-stop shop where users can access its other apps directly in the chatbot and complete payments, much like Google integrates its Gemini chatbot into apps like Maps. However, the rollout of what the ecommerce giant calls the chatbot's agentic AI strategy has been marred by technical difficulties since the start of the coupon giveaway. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Bhashini migrates to Yotta's sovereign AI cloud; sees 40% performance boost, 30% cost dip
Bhashini is an AI-powered language translation platform developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under its National Language Translation Mission. Top officials said that the move has enhanced its performance by nearly 40% and reduced operational costs by up to 30%. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Claude’s homepage throws shade at ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s ad move
Anthropic has updated Claude’s homepage to show what makes its AI different. Visitors are now greeted with a friendly intro, presenting Claude as a helper for working, imagining, and deep thinking and absolutely no ads. The update follows a cheeky Super Bowl advert that throws shade at ChatGPT’s move to show ads. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Australian AI infrastructure developer Firmus lands $10 billion debt package from Blackstone, Coatue
Australian AI firm Firmus has secured a $10 billion debt funding package led by Blackstone and Coatue. The money will support the next phase of Project Southgate to build AI training and inference data centres across Australia. Developed with CDC Data Centres and Nvidia, the project targets 1.6 gigawatts of capacity. View the full article
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AI News from ET - UAE firm G42, Vietnamese firms in deal to develop AI infrastructure in Vietnam
Abu Dhabi-based technology group G42, and a consortium comprising the FPT Corporation and the Viet Thai Group, have signed a deal to develop sovereign AI capabilities and cloud infrastructure across Vietnam, G42 said on Monday. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Learning speed most important skill in age of AI: Pearson chief
Rather than eliminating work, AI is fundamentally redesigning how jobs are done, forcing companies and workers to rethink how quickly they learn new skills, Abbosh said. “AI is not wiping out jobs. It is changing every job,” he said. “The half-life of skills is shrinking fast. Learning speed is now the most important skill anyone can have.” View the full article
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AI News from ET - 100% of Claude's code effectively AI-written: Anthropic CPO
According to Krieger, the engineering process at Anthropic has moved away from traditional manual coding faster than expected. He said staff engineers now ship pull requests ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 lines that are generated entirely by the AI. Under this system, human developers have moved toward high-level oversight and the verification of machine-generated code rather than line-by-line creation. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Avoid costly, large LLM buildouts; focus on smaller models: Sridhar Vembu on India AI strategy
The remarks come at a time when interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has peaked in India, with the country soon to host the India AI Impact Summit - the largest of the four major global AI congregations so far. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Big Tech's $600 billion spending plans exacerbate investors' AI headache
Other heavyweight technology companies, however, were trading higher: Nvidia rose 7%, Microsoft gained 1% and Tesla was up 4%. The benchmark S&P 500 added 1.6% while the Nasdaq rose 2% although both indexes are set to finish the week lower. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Qualcomm tapes out 2-nanometre chip design from India; Ashwini Vaishnaw sets fabs as next frontier
Tape-out is the point at which a chip’s final design is completed, and it is sent to a fabrication facility for manufacturing. This milestone moment follows the government’s recent announcement of the India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 in its Union Budget 2026. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Submer and Anant Raj Cloud team up to build sustainable AI data centres in India
The two companies want to build data centres across India that are ready for heavy AI work. These facilities will use high-density and energy-efficient systems. This will allow businesses and the government to run large AI programs while using less power. Europe-based Submer will provide its modular infrastructure and its "InferX" platform to help manage these tasks easily. View the full article
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AI News from ET - Elon Musk is betting another tech conglomerate to win over Wall Street
Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are merging. The plan involves building AI data centers in space for unlimited solar power. This move aims to boost SpaceX before a potential public offering this year. Investors are watching closely as Musk pushes technological boundaries. The merger could offer SpaceX a share in the booming AI market. View the full article