Category: software

Alarmed at a possible misuse of an upcoming global username feature by Meta's WhatsApp, the government is considering issuing a notice to the Mark Zuckerberg-run social media giant. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India's technology-driven solutions are creating prosperity at the grassroots level, highlighting how innovations in agriculture, fisheries, healthcare, and digital services are transforming lives across the country. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday invited global businesses, innovators and startups to partner with India, highlighting that his country offers one of the world's largest talent pools, affordable data, low-cost green energy, and a supportive policy environment for innovation and growth. 

Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday said India is moving towards becoming a trusted global partner in electronics manufacturing, as he inaugurated global manufacturing company Jabil’s new advanced manufacturing facility in Maharashtra that will produce components for AI data centres. 

Reliance Industries Limited (“RIL”) today announced a partnership with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) for a data centre project in Jamnagar, Gujarat. RIL will develop a data center with 168 MW capacity to be delivered within two years, with an option to scale.

Australian data centre firm AirTrunk's Rs 3 lakh crore investment will strengthen India’s position as a global hub for cloud computing and AI, while generating employment opportunities, supporting local supply chains and accelerating innovation-led growth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. 

More than 700 employees of Pune-based IT company ThynkTech India were left without jobs after the firm allegedly shut operations abruptly, leaving staff locked out of offices and struggling to recover pending salaries and deposits, according to multiple reports. 

India’s three leading IT services providers -- Infosys, TCS and Wipro -- have collectively expanded deployment of '365 Copilot' to more than 3 lakh employees within six months, marking one of the world’s largest enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) rollouts, Microsoft said on Wednesday. 

India’s digital payment system Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is set to mark its 10th anniversary on April 11, after growing 12,000-fold in volume and over 4,000 times in terms of value. 

Around 47 per cent of the digital transactions are in India and the unified payments interface (UPI) has gone global in its scope, Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia has stressed.

Tech major Google on Tuesday announced to acquire Wiz, a leading cloud security platform headquartered in New York, for $32 billion in an all-cash transaction.

Sam Altman-run OpenAI on Saturday rejected billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to buy the nonprofit company for $97.4 billion.

India is developing AI applications for the public good and has one of the world’s largest AI talent pools, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Tuesday, adding that the country is ready to share its experience and expertise to ensure that the "AI future is for Good, and for All".

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now writing codes of humanity in this century and its potential in transforming millions of lives is absolutely amazing to see and perceive, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Tuesday.

ChatGPT, one of OpenAI’s most popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools on Thursday faced a global outage as millions of users were unable to access the service.

As the race to build new and better artificial intelligence (AI) models heats up, Google has announced to make the updated Gemini 2.0 AI generally available to all.

As the artificial intelligence (AI) race heats up globally, India has devised an exhaustive strategy to create a full AI stack and OpenAI is willing to collaborate with the country on this mission, Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday.

Mark Zuckerberg-run Meta on Thursday said it welcomes the decision of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) to stay the ban imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) on WhatsApp and will evaluate next steps.

The xAI owner Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous infrastructure project to build data centres for OpenAI across the US.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to issue an executive order delaying a looming ban on the widely popular app to allow time to "make a deal" and called for the US to take part-ownership in TikTok.

TikTok, headquartered in Los Angeles, warned Friday that it would be forced to shut down its services for the 170 million users in the United States on Sunday unless U.S. President Joe Biden provides a "definitive" assurance.

India leads Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption with 30 per cent of companies in the country having maximised AI’s value potential -- surpassing the global average of 26 per cent, according to a report.

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) saw 41 per cent growth (year-on-year) at record 14.96 billion transactions in the month of August, as total transaction amount touched Rs 20.61 lakh crore -- a 31 per cent YoY growth, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) data showed on Sunday.

Surpassing world’s leading digital payments platforms, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) processed nearly Rs 81 lakh crore transactions in the April-July period this year, which is a staggering 37 per cent increase (year-on-year).

Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the social media platform X to be blocked nationwide after the company refused to appoint a legal representative in the country.