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HCLTech Bets on Google Gemini to Build AI Agents Across 2,000 Client Projects
The company will deploy Gemini-powered AI agents and scale talent as firms target over 2,000 GenAI projects.
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Zendesk Moves to Acquire Forethought to Expand Self-Learning AI Agents for Customer Service
The acquisition aims to strengthen Zendesk’s AI agents, which automate customer service interactions across multiple channels.
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IBM Says the Future Lies in Quantum-Centric Supercomputing
IBM’s new reference architecture outlines how quantum processors can work with classical systems to tackle complex scientific problems.
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Perplexity Takes On Claude Cowork With Personal Computer, an Agentic AI Platform for Mac Mini
Perplexity unveiled the Personal Computer on Wednesday as an extension to the last month's Perplexity Computer platform. Unlike what the name suggests, it is not a hardware system, but a dedicated tool for Apple's Mac Mini that connects Perplexity Computer to a device, and allows it to access the local apps and files. With that, the multi-model agentic system can perform a wider range of complex tasks autonomously. The company's new offering also competes with other automation tools available in the market, such as Anthropic's Claude Cowork, Microsoft's Copilot Cowork, and OpenClaw.
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Google is using old news reports and AI to predict flash floods
Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They’re also among the most difficult to predict. But Google thinks it has cracked that problem in an unlikely way — by reading the news. While humans have assembled a lot of weather data, flash floods are too short-lived and localized to be measured comprehensively, the way the temperature or even river flows are monitored over time. That data gap means that deep learning models, which are increasingly capable of forecasting the weather, aren’t able to predict flash floods. To solve that problem, Google researchers used Gemini — Google’s large language model — to sort through 5 million news articles from around the world, isolating reports of 2.6 million different floods, and turning those reports intoa geo-tagged time seriesdubbed “Groundsource.” It’s the first time that the company has used language models for this kind of work, according to Gila Loike, a Google Research product manager. The research and data set wasshared publiclyThursday morning. With Groundsource as a real-world baseline, the researcherstrained a modelbuilt on a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network to ingest weather global forecasts and generate the probability of flash floods in a given area. Google’s flash flood forecasting model is now highlighting risks for urban areas in 150 countries on the company’sFlood Hubplatform, and sharing its data with emergency response agencies around the world. António José Beleza, an emergency response official at the Southern African Development Community who trialed the forecasting model with Google, said it helped his organization respond to floods more quickly. There are still limitations to the model. For one, it is fairly low resolution, identifying risk across 20-square-kilometer areas. And it is not as precise as the US National Weather Service’s flood alert system, in part because Google’s model doesn’t incorporate local radar data, which enables real-time tracking of precipitation. Part of the point, though, is that the project was designed to work in places where local governments can’t afford to invest in expensive weather-sensing infrastructure or don’t have extensive records of meteorological data. “Because we’re aggregating millions of reports, the Groundsource data set actually helps rebalance the map,” Juliet Rothenberg, a program manager on Google’s Resilience team, told reporters this week. “It enables us to extrapolate to other regions where there isn’t as much information.” Rothenberg said the team hopes that using LLMs to develop quantitative data sets from written, qualitative sources could be applied to efforts to building data sets about other ephemeral-but-important-to-forecast phenomena, like heat waves and mud slides. Marshall Moutenot, the CEO of Upstream Tech, a company that uses similar deep learning models to forecast river flows for customers like hydropower companies, said Google’s contribution is part of a growing effort to assemble data for deep learning-based weather forecasting models. Moutenot co-foundeddynamical.org, a group curating a collection of machine learning-ready weather data for researchers and startups. “Data scarcity is one of the most difficult challenges in geophysics,” Moutenot said. “Simultaneously, there’s too much Earth data, and then when you want to evaluate against truth, there’s not enough. This was a really creative approach to get that data.”
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Kris Gopalakrishnan to Lead Karnataka’s Responsible AI Committee
Panel of industry, policy and academic experts to frame Responsible AI policy in 90 days; interim report due in 60 days.
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Razorpay Launches AI-Native Agent Studio to Automate Payments
Razorpay’s Agent Studio simplifies payment processes through natural language interactions.
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IITM Pravartak Ties Up With SRIT to Expand Sovereign Database Infrastructure
The initiative backed by MeitY seeks to strengthen India’s sovereign digital infrastructure across government and enterprise environments
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Google Finalises Multi-Billion-Dollar Wiz to Amp Up AI Cloud Security
The Wiz acquisition is reportedly worth $32 billion and will enable Google Cloud to protect AI-driven workloads.
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Equinix Launches Distributed AI Hub to Simplify & Secure Enterprise AI Infrastructure
The platform is designed as a vendor-neutral ecosystem, allowing enterprises to build customised AI stacks without being locked into a single hyperscaler.
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Why Synopsys is Onboarding ‘Agentic Engineers’ in Semiconductor Design
Synopsys is embedding AI across its design software to accelerate chip development as semiconductors grow vastly more complex.
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Data Centres Are a ‘Necessary Evil’, Karnataka Reviewing Policy: Priyank Kharge
The Karnataka government is considering a new sustainable data centre policy due to heavy water consumption patterns.
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