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May Day in the age of AI: The new war on workers

As companies pour billions into AI, the fight for workersโ€™ rights is being rewritten as a fight for the right to work.

Rajasthanโ€™s emergence as innovation-led State highlighted in โ€˜i-Startโ€™ review

Chief Secretary V. Srinivas conducted a detailed review of the activities undertaken as part of the Service Management with Artificial Intelligence and Real Time System

Musk testifies at OpenAI trial itโ€™s not OK to โ€˜loot a charityโ€™

In his lawsuit, Musk said OpenAI cofounder and president betrayed him and public by turning into profit-seeking firm.

Kochi NGO Maithri receives distress calls via AI referrals

Calls referred by artificial intelligence-powered applications are now being directed to Maithri, says its director. Daily calls have risen to an average of 10, leading to a call for more volunteers

Underwhelming or underrated? DeepSeek V4 shows โ€œimpressiveโ€ gains

DeepSeekโ€™s long-awaited flagship V4 model has fallen short of its domestic and US rivals, according to a new analysis, as the Chinese artificial intelligence firm struggles to replicate the market-shaking success of its earlier R1 release. The companyโ€™s most advanced system, V4 Pro, ranked second among the worldโ€™s leading open-source models, behind Beijing-based Moonshot AIโ€™s Kimi K2.6, benchmark firm Artificial Analysis said in a report on Friday. While V4 Pro marked a clear improvement on its...

Whoโ€™s in control of AI?

Owner of US tech giant reveals breach of one of world's most powerful AI models.

Chinaโ€™s dark compute power could be 6,000 times higher than current estimates

China has reported a staggering amount of domestic artificial intelligence power, pointing to what some experts say could be a โ€œdark poolโ€ of compute thousands of times larger than its public reports suggest. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China has achieved 1,882 exaflops โ€“ short for exa floating-point operations per second โ€“ which translates to 1,882 quintillion, or billion billion, calculations per second. The figure is more than 6,000 times higher...

US, China seen as top AI beneficiaries in new growth forecast from โ€˜Doctor Doomโ€™ economist

The economist famously dubbed โ€œDoctor Doomโ€ for predicting the 2008 financial crisis has seemingly morphed into a bullish โ€œDoctor Boomโ€ with his latest economic outlook. Nouriel Roubini now predicts that a โ€œCambrian explosionโ€ of technological advances โ€“ including artificial intelligence โ€“ could propel the USโ€™ potential economic growth to 4 per cent by 2030, and as high as 10 per cent in less than a quarter-century, overshadowing Middle East oil shocks and other near-term headwinds. Framing AI...

China family creates AI clone to comfort elderly mum after only son dies in car accident

After a man in China was killed in a road accident last year, his family hired an artificial intelligence (AI) technology team to create a digital version of him to comfort his elderly mother. The AI creation is able to chat with his octogenarian mother online and help her live with the reality of her only childโ€™s death. The incident was exposed by the AI team leader Zhang Zewei, who is based in eastern Jiangsu province, according to the media outlet Litchi News. The family, who live in Shandong...

Chinaโ€™s next growth engine? An AI-powered intelligence dividend

As China enters its 15th five-year plan, policymakers face a structural constraint that cannot be eased with another round of infrastructure spending or property stimulus. The demographic dividend that powered four decades of expansion is fading. Industrial competition has intensified. The central economic question is no longer how fast China can grow, but how productively. Artificial intelligence, specifically the rise of AI agents, may offer part of the answer. Deployed at scale, these systems...

Punjab and Haryana High Court bars judicial officers from using AI tools to write judgments

A letter to all district and sessions judges in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh stated that the Chief Justice has asked them to direct judicial officers not to use AI tools

Gujarat HC bars AI use in decision-making, judgment drafting

AI cannot be used to author, generate, or substantially compose any judgment, final order, or binding legal ruling, even if subsequently reviewed by a judge, according to the policy document