Vishwadeep Khatri

Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Friday said artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories are being set up in nine Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) of the state. View the full article

AI dominated CES 2026, from voice-controlled espresso machines by Bosch using Amazon Alexa, to personalised perfumes from DigitalScent. Tennis robots from UBTech and Tenniix showcased AI-driven realism in sport and lifestyle tech. View the full article

At the Consumer Electronics Show, gadget makers warned of a global DRAM shortage driven by booming AI demand. Memory prices are soaring, boosting revenues at Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology. IDC says shortages may last into next year, forcing higher prices and fewer device features. View the full article

xAI, the startup behind Grok, said on Thursday it was restricting image generation and editing to paying subscribers as it tried ​to fix safeguard lapses that ​had allowed sexualised outputs including depictions of scantily ‌clad ‍children. View the full article

OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy to support the energy firm’s growth as a data center developer and operator, the companies said in a statement Friday. OpenAI also said it has selected SB Energy to build and operate its 1.2 gigawatt data center in Milam County, Texas. A single gigawatt is enough to power roughly 750,000 US homes at any given moment. View the full article

The average age of newbies starting up is coming down to 20s with teens, native to disruptive tech, becoming part of conversation. View the full article

The parent company of Facebook on Friday announced agreements with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra for nuclear power for its Prometheus AI data center that is being built in New Albany, Ohio. Meta announced Prometheus, which will be a 1-gigawatt cluster spanning across multiple data center buildings, in July. It's anticipated to come online this year. View the full article

Late Thursday, the Grok account on X started limiting requests for AI images to site subscribers who pay for certain premium features, according to posts from the chatbot. The change followed a "backlash over its ability to create sexualized deepfakes without consent," the AI chatbot added, but users can "subscribe or switch to the standalone Grok site for similar functions." View the full article

Germany's justice ministry plans to present measures in the ‍near future that would allow ​authorities to more effectively combat the use of artificial ⁠intelligence to manipulate images in ways that violate personal rights, a spokesperson said. View the full article

A Dutch couple had ‍their marriage annulled after ​the person officiating used a ChatGPT-generated ⁠speech that was intended to be playful but failed to meet legal requirements, according to a court ‌ruling published this ‌week. View the full article

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek is reportedly preparing to release its new V4 model next month. This advanced AI is expected to excel in coding tasks, possibly surpassing competitors. A key feature is its ability to process very long coding instructions. This development could significantly benefit developers working on complex software projects. View the full article

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy added that the company is making investments in the country to build an AI-ready workforce, noting that it has a large team in Pune and offices in Delhi and Bengaluru. View the full article

AI will be one of the most transformative developments for India, he said adding that focused investments in research and development, as well as support on this front, will be critical to this journey. View the full article

ChatGPT has seen daily visits drop 22% in six weeks, while Google’s Gemini remained steady, highlighting growing competition. Sam Altman ordered a “code red” to focus on ChatGPT as Gemini gains traction. Analysts say Google’s wide distribution, not just technology, is helping Gemini close the gap quickly. View the full article

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI surged over 12% in its Hong Kong debut, raising $558 million ahead of rival MiniMax’s listing. But analysts said profits were unlikely any time soon from either company, the first two IPOs among China's so-called "six tigers", generative AI providers competing with tech giants such as Alibaba and ByteDance. View the full article

AI is transforming online search, with startups like OpenAI innovating faster than legacy firms, said Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. AI-powered browsers and tools are reshaping how users access information. While cloud giants compete, Snowflake remains confident in its specialised analytics platforms and long-term relevance in the market. View the full article

Elon Musk’s AI firm xAI posted a net loss of $1.46 billion for the September quarter, despite revenue almost doubling to $107 million, according to a report by Bloomberg. However, when contacted ‌by ‍Reuters for comment, xAI ‍replied with the message, "Legacy Media Lies." This comes as xAI announced a $20 billion funding round to expand its AI capabilities. View the full article

Will help firms navigate language barriers, regulatory regimes, says senior AWS exec View the full article

Grievances filed with social media platform X in India against synthetic or manipulated media surged to an estimated 983 in September 2025, comprising more than half the total 1,959 complaints it received, up from zero in each of the preceding three months. View the full article

As India accelerates efforts to build a sovereign AI stack, a dozen startups and institutions backed by the government’s IndiaAI Mission are preparing to launch indigenous foundation models. Many of these launches are timed around the India AI Impact Summit next month. View the full article

The EU executive on Thursday said it ordered Elon Musk's Grok to keep data related to the AI chatbot after the tool sparked a backlash for generating sexualised deepfakes of minors. The order means the EU executive can ask X for access to the documents as it looks into the platform and Grok. View the full article

The agreement enables the ministry's armed forces, directorates, services, ​and affiliated ​public entities - such ‌as the ‍Atomic Energy ‍Commission, the National Office for ‌Aerospace Studies and Research, and the Navy's Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service - to utilise AI ‍models, software, and services developed ‍by Mistral ⁠AI. View the full article

In the Thursday report, researchers from Microsoft said global adoption of generative AI tools reached 16.3% of the world's population in the three months to December, up from 15.1% in the previous three months. View the full article

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a roundtable discussion with 12 shortlisted startups under the foundational model pillar of the India AI Impact Summit 2026. View the full article

In a statement, Snowflake said the Observe platform will be integrated directly into its AI data cloud so that enterprises can easily ingest and retain all of their telemetry data, including logs, metrics, and traces, while lowering observability costs by up to 60%. View the full article