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AI Deflation is Beginning to Hollow Out India’s IT Revenue Engine
Artificial intelligence, by making the work faster and cheaper, is compressing contract values even before they are signed.
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Delhi Govt Looks to Partner With AI Startups to Enhance Governance, Public Services
The Delhi government will collaborate with technology companies, startups, and research institutions to develop AI-driven solutions.
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How India’s 50th Largest City Plans to Become a Global Quantum Hub
IIIT Dharwad’s CoE aims to bring quantum access, training, and industry links to tier-2 regions within months.
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Oscars Revise Eligibility Rules, Ban AI Actors and Scripts From Winning Awards
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are tightening the rules for artificial intelligence (AI). New rules, released on Friday, specifically highlight that AI actors or screenplays written using an AI tool will not be eligible to be nominated or win the award starting next year. Additionally, the organisation behind the Oscars can also request more information from filmmakers about the usage of the technology and human authorship. The development comes as AI actors such as Tilly Norwood have gained popularity in the mainstream.
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How Neoclouds Are Finally Unlocking AMD’s AI GPUs
AMD is leaning on highly specialised neocloud startups like MangoBoost and TensorWave to make its chips enterprise-ready.
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Applied Materials to Expand Chip Packaging with NEXX Acquisition
The deal aims to strengthen panel-level packaging capabilities for AI chip production and accelerate the adoption of large-format technologies.
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Pixxel, Sarvam Partner to Launch Orbital Data Centre Satellite
The Pathfinder satellite, in the 200 kg class, will carry data centre-grade GPUs typically used in terrestrial AI systems.
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15 Indian Govt Leaders Leading AI-Backed Public Sector Transformation
From Cabinet ministers to mission CEOs — the officials shaping IndiaAI, defence tech, digital health, and the nation's ₹10,372 crore artificial intelligence ambition.
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In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors. The study waspublished this week in Scienceand comes from a research team led by physicians and computer scientists at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The researchers said they conducted a variety of experiments to measure how OpenAI’s models compared to human physicians. In one experiment, researchers focused on 76 patients who came into the Beth Israel emergency room, comparing the diagnoses offered by two internal medicine attending physicians to those generated by OpenAI’s o1 and 4o models. These diagnoses were assessed by two other attending physicians, who did not know which ones came from humans and which came from AI. “At each diagnostic touchpoint, o1 either performed nominally better than or on par with the two attending physicians and 4o,” the study said, adding that the differences “were especially pronounced at the first diagnostic touchpoint (initial ER triage), where there is the least information available about the patient and the most urgency to make the correct decision.” In Harvard Medical School’spress releaseabout the study, the researchers emphasized that they did not “pre-process the data at all” — the AI models were presented with the same information that was available in the electronic medical records at the time of each diagnosis. With that information, the o1 model managed to offer “the exact or very close diagnosis” in 67% of triage cases, compared to one physician who had the exact or close diagnosis 55% of the time, and to the other who hit the mark 50% of the time. “We tested the AI model against virtually every benchmark, and it eclipsed both prior models and our physician baselines,” said Arjun Manrai, who heads an AI lab at Harvard Medical School and is one of the study’s lead authors, in the press release. To be clear, the study didn’t claim that AI is ready to make real life-or-death decisions in the emergency room. Instead, it said the findings show an “urgent need for prospective trials to evaluate these technologies in real-world patient care settings.” The researchers also noted that they only studied how models performed when provided with text-based information, and that “existing studies suggest that current foundation models are more limited in reasoning over nontext inputs.” Adam Rodman, a Beth Israel doctor who’s also one of the study’s lead authors,warned the Guardianthat there’s “no formal framework right now for accountability” around AI diagnoses, and that patients still “want humans to guide them through life or death decisions [and] to guide them through challenging treatment decisions.” Ina post about the study, Kristen Panthagani, an emergency physician, said this is an “an interesting AI study that has led to some very overhyped headlines,” especially since it was comparing AI diagnoses to those from internal medicine physicians, not ER physicians. “If we’re going to compare AI tools to physicians’ clinical ability, we should start by comparing to physicians who actually practice that specialty,” Panthagani said. “I would not be surprised if a LLM could beat a dermatologist at an neurosurgery board exam, [but] that’s not a particularly helpful thing to know.” She also argued, “As an ER doctor seeing a patient for a first time, my primary goal isnotto guess your ultimate diagnosis. My primary goal is to determine if you have a condition that could kill you.” This post and headline have been updated to reflect the fact that the diagnoses in the study came from internal medicine attending physicians, and to include commentary from Kristen Panthagani.
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‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art
You’ve seen this comic before: An anthropomorphic dog sits smiling, surrounded by flames, and says, “This is fine.” It’s become one ofthe most durable memesof the past decade, and now AI startupArtisanseems to have incorporated it into an ad campaign — an ad for whichKC Green, the artist who created the comic, said his art was stolen. A Bluesky postseems to show an ad in a subway station featuring Green’s art, except the dog says, “[M]y pipeline is on fire,” and an overlaid message urges passersby to “Hire Ava the AI BDR.” Quoting that post,Green saidhe’s “been getting more folks telling me about this” and that “it’s not anything [I] agreed to.” Instead, he said the ad has “been stolen like AI steals,” and he told followers to “please vandalize it if and when you see it.” i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it. When TechCrunch sent Artisan an email asking about the ad, the company said, “We have a lot of respect for KC Green and his work, and we’re reaching out to him directly.” In a follow-up email, the company said it had scheduled time to speak with him. Artisan has courted controversy with its ads before, specifically withbillboards urging businesses to “Stop hiring humans”— although founder and CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack insisted that the message was about “a category of work,” not “humans at large.” “This is fine” first appeared in Green’s webcomic“Gunshow”in 2013, and while he hasn’t disavowed the smiling-melting dog entirely (he recentlyturned the comic into a game), it’s clearlyescaped from his control. And of course, Green is far from the only artist to see his meme-able art used in ways he finds objectionable. But some artists have still taken action when their art is monetized or used in commercial ways without their permission, for example when cartoonist Matt Furie sued right-wing conspiracy theory site Infowars for using his character Pepe the Frog in a poster. (Furie and Infowars eventually settled.) Green told TechCrunch via email that he will be “looking into [legal] representation, as I feel I have to.” Still, he said it “takes the wind out of my sails” that he has to take “time out of my life to try my hand at the American court system instead of putting that back into what I am passionate about, which is drawing comics and stories.” Green added, “These no-thought A.I. losers aren’t untouchable and memes just don’t come out of thin air.”
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Bengaluru-based GalaxEye Launches Mission Drishti, ‘World’s First’ OptoSAR Satellite
The satellite weighs 190 kg and is the largest privately developed Earth observation satellite from India.
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When Kids Stop Playing Games and Start Coding Them
Children are moving from playing games to creating immersive experiences, thanks to the ease of Luau scripting offered by platforms like Roblox.
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