Vishwadeep Khatri

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, created and shared over 1.8 million sexualized images of women and children. This surge of disturbing content, generated in just nine days, sparked global outrage and investigations by governments. The scale and public nature of these AI-generated images surpassed previous online collections. X has since implemented restrictions on Grok's image creation capabilities. View the full article

Terming technology as a great enabler, Aggarwal told PTI that AI itself can be leveraged and deployed to minimise and prevent much of the harms generated by its use. Instead of regulations reacting to users' harms, there is an increasing emphasis now on setting 'technology-led guardrails', he noted. View the full article

The ChatGPT maker is looking to raise $50 billion or more in the round at a valuation of about $750 billion to $830 billion, the people said. The talks are early, and the amount could change. OpenAI has also recently held talks with Amazon.com Inc. to raise at least $10 billion, Bloomberg News has reported. View the full article

Seoul is hoping that the new AI Basic Act will position the country as a leader in the field. It has taken effect in South Korea sooner than a comparable effort in Europe, where ‌the EU AI ‌Act is being applied in phases through 2027. View the full article

Google this month began rolling out a suite of new tools relying on generative AI, the technology driving chatbots, to help users manage their bloated inboxes and speed up the process of writing email. Some of the features are free, while others require paying a subscription. View the full article

The lawsuit filed on Tuesday is the first in the U.S. to accuse an AI hiring company of violating the Fair ‌Credit Reporting Act, according ‌to the law firms that filed the case, and shows how consumer advocates are seeking to apply existing law to AI systems capable of drawing inferences about individuals ‌based on vast amounts of data. View the full article

Despite the brouhaha, most artificial intelligence projects in Indian IT services firms are failing to deliver sustained results. Research firm Forrester says only 10-15% of AI projects make it into long-term production use, though companies claim rapid adoption across their operations. View the full article

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw rejected being called a second-tier AI player, claiming leadership across application, model, chip, infrastructure, and energy layers. Vaishnaw highlighted domestic AI models meeting 95% of national needs and stressed effective deployment over sheer scale. In addition, the minister pointed out that Stanford rankings place India third globally in AI penetration and preparedness. View the full article

Speaking to BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink at a World Economic Forum session, Huang emphasised that AI has become as essential to national development as traditional utilities like electricity and transport networks. He stated that the technology represents a fundamental shift in how countries manage their natural resources of language and culture. View the full article

Global companies are eyeing Karnataka for significant investments. CFI Technologies and Bharti Enterprises plan new data centres. Carlsberg Group confirms a Rs 350-crore bottling unit. Bharat Forge explores manufacturing opportunities. Mistral AI intends to build a Global Capability Centre. Philip Morris International seeks to manufacture smoke-free products. Imperial College London considers an R&D centre. View the full article

At a press briefing on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's ‌annual meeting ‌in Davos, CTO Andrew Bosworth said the models built by its Meta Superintelligence Labs team, formed last year, showed a ‌lot of promise. View the full article

For teams gathering at Atlassian Team on Tour Bengaluru, Shamik Sharma’s message was both pragmatic and ambitious. AI is already delivering “way over 50% resolution rates” on some service workloads, yet the true prize lies in redesigning work so that “a ticket never needs to get created,” security becomes a “productivity tool,” and agents are orchestrated as thoughtfully as people. Here are the key takeaways. View the full article

The initiative - called OpenAI for Countries - will expand the reach of its products and help close the gap between countries with broad access to AI technology and nations that do not ‌yet have ‌the capacity, the company said. View the full article

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said during an interview in Davos that Google has "no plans" to introduce ads into its Gemini chatbot. Commenting on OpenAI’s move to monetise its free and low tiers, Hassabis said, “It’s interesting they have gone for that so early. Maybe they feel they need to make more revenue.” View the full article

The partnership, called Horizon1000, plans to work with ‌African leaders ‌to work out how best to use the technology, starting ‌with Rwanda. View the full article

OpenAI is asking that to a small pool of advertisers for less than $1 ‌million in ‌spending commitments each over a several week trial period, with ‌ads launching in early February, the report said. View the full article

Stargate is a $500 billion, multi-year initiative to build AI data ‌centers for ‌training and inference, backed by major investors including Oracle. U.S. ‌President Donald Trump supported the initiative when it was first announced in January 2025. View the full article

The $330 billion fund ‌has been expanding its technology portfolio in recent years, with stakes in companies spanning semiconductors, data centres and AI infrastructure. View the full article

Speaking at a session at Davos during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Nadella said it will be a "tell-tale" sign of a bubble if all the AI talk focused only on the supply side or the technology companies. View the full article

The Brazilian ‌consumer protection agency Senacon, data protection authority ANPD and the Office of Federal Prosecutors said they can take further administrative or judicial measures if X does not ​comply. View the full article

San Francisco-based startup Cartesia, which builds real-time voice AI agents, is launching operations in Bengaluru with a $2.5 million investment. The India office will hire researchers and support clients, helping build solutions for Indian business needs. Cartesia’s platform powers enterprises and startups with low-latency, scalable voice AI infrastructure. View the full article

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, believes AGI will revolutionize science and medicine, leading to radical abundance. He noted China's significant progress in AI, now trailing the West by only six to twelve months. However, Hassabis stated that groundbreaking innovations like AlphaGo have so far originated from US companies. View the full article

Former Anthropic researcher Andi Peng left to cofound Humans&, rejecting AI that replaces workers. Backed by Nvidia and Jeff Bezos, the funded startup pursues human-centric systems that collaborate with users, signaling investor confidence in alternative AI visions despite bubble fears. View the full article

OpenAI on Tuesday said it has concluded its India edition of the 'Nonprofit AI Jam', a multi-city series bringing together leaders and professionals for a hands-on working session on using artificial intelligence (AI) to drive effective, scalable outcomes. View the full article

AI startup Humans& has secured a massive $480 million in seed funding. This significant investment values the company at $4.48 billion. The funding round was led by SV Angel and saw participation from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and Alphabet's GV. Humans& aims to develop advanced AI systems that can plan, learn, and collaborate over extended periods. View the full article