Over 15% of all global capability centre (GCC) employees in India are involved in the healthcare and life sciences sector, reflecting the sector’s growing importance within the country’s global services landscape, according to recent reports.… Read more: 5 GCCs Driving Pharma and Healthcare Innovation

Every year, thousands of students take courses that teach them how to deploy artificial intelligence models that can help doctors diagnose disease and determine appropriate treatments. However, many of these courses omit a key element:… Read more: 3 Questions: How to help students recognize potential bias in their AI datasets

Study utilises handwriting-generated electrical signal to measure tremor in tandem with AI machine learning It won’t be much good for taking down notes, but a 3D-printed pen filled with magnetic ink could help identify people… Read more: Magnetic 3D-printed pen could help diagnose people with Parkinson’s

The Indian startup ecosystem is set to face a stark reality as the country’s net foreign direct investment (FDI) dropped by a whopping 96.5% in FY2025. According to the RBI, it fell from $10.1 billion… Read more: As India’s FDI Plunges 96%, Startup Ecosystem Enters Reset Mode

The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they’ve made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a… Read more: Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions

Last month, I wrote an article about how schools were not prepared for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, based on thousands of pages of public records I obtained from when ChatGPT was first released.… Read more: Teachers Are Not OK

The Industrial Revolution mechanized production. Today, there’s a similar risk with the automation of thought. kutaytanir/E+ via Getty Images Artificial Intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it now in the… Read more: Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?

Aethir provides better computing efficiency with its Instant Play streaming solution for Doctor Who: Worlds Apart.Read More

Holshouser brings two decades of government and public affairs experience, including policy leadership positions at TechNet and Visa CoreWeave (Nasdaq: CRWV), the AI Hyperscaler, today announced it has appointed Carl Holshouser as Vice President, Government Affairs. Holshouser was most recently… Read more: CoreWeave Appoints New VP for Government Affairs Carl Holshouser

Move sends shock waves through traditional media industry by posing threat to advertising agencies Business live – latest updates The owner of Facebook and Instagram is to help advertisers to fully create and target campaigns… Read more: Facebook and Instagram owner Meta to enable AI ad creation by end of next year

Since the establishment of the Paris Agreement in 2015, 196 countries have adopted a legally binding treaty addressing climate change. This treaty seeks to limit global temperature increases to well below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels,… Read more: How AI is Becoming the Backbone of ESG Compliance

Deutsche Bank has named Stefan Schaffer as the new chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank India on Monday. He will also serve as the global CIO for corporate functions and head of the bank’s global… Read more: Stefan Schaffer Appointed CEO of Deutsche Bank India

For over a decade, Intuit has quietly been preparing for a generative AI revolution that a large part of the world only began to comprehend in the last couple of years. “We were already working… Read more: Why Intuit Decided to Build GenOS Instead of Onboarding 11,000 AI Models

Exploring the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Typography: Type Trends Re:Vision 2025  Insights from Leading Creatives: Sina Otto of Monotype, Matthieu Salvaggio of Blaze Type, and Matteo Bologna, founder of Mucca and muccaTypo Monotype Imaging Inc. announces the launch… Read more: Monotype Unveils Human Types and AI Project

Infosys BPM, the business process management arm of Infosys, recently announced the launch of AI agents for invoice processing within its flagship Infosys Accounts Payable on Cloud solution.  Powered by Infosys Topaz, the innovation redefines… Read more: Infosys BPM Launches AI Agents in Invoice Processing

Samsung Electronics is reportedly negotiating a sweeping partnership with Perplexity AI to integrate its search and assistant technologies into upcoming smartphones.  A Bloomberg report, citing people familiar with the matter, revealed that the proposed tie-up… Read more: Samsung in Talks With Perplexity for AI Feature Integrations: Reports

Advanced AI and NLP applications are in great demand in today’s modern world, wherein most businesses rely on data-driven insights and automation of business processes. All applications of AI or NLP have a requirement for… Read more: Building efficient data pipelines for AI and NLP applications in AWS

AI is here to automate and simplify tasks for humans. Its inherent traits even enhance performance, boosting business outcomes. The results surprised many.  In a recent months-long experiment, a pizza brand tested AI-powered virtual agents,… Read more: AI-Powered Virtual Agent Sells More Soft Drinks Than a Human Agent

Enterprises should experiment with MCP where it adds value, isolate dependencies and prepare for a multi-protocol future.Read More

Netflix held its Tudum Global Fan Event in Los Angeles this weekend to showcase its upcoming slate of programming. Among the highlights: the official trailer for the third and final season of Squid Game, the… Read more: Squid Game trailer anchors Netflix Tudum event

Author tells Hay festival AI has no sense of humour but when it writes a funny book ‘we’re screwed’ Salman Rushdie has said that authors are safe from the threat of AI – until the… Read more: Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh

A teen tech entrepreneur is working to retrofit robots with simulated artificial bodily functions like a virtual heart rate, body temperature, and sweating response — a bong-rip idea to make them better emulate human emotional states… Read more: New AI Startup Giving Robots Virtual Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Sweating Response So They Can Better Emulate Human Emotions Like Fear and Anxiety

Sexual relationships with AI chatbots have become all too common — but for some real-life partners, it still feels like cheating when it’s happening behind their back. That’s the takeaway from a recent HuffPost column… Read more: Hanky Panky With Naughty AI Still Counts as Cheating, Therapist Says

Every time I write an article about the escalating advertising and tracking on today’s TVs, someone brings up Apple TV boxes. Among smart TVs, streaming sticks, and other streaming devices, Apple TVs are largely viewed… Read more: Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device

Generative AI draws from limited datasets, often reproducing errors and bias. (Shutterstock) What does it mean to think, act and work as a Jewish professor when human freedoms are under siege and authoritarian power gains… Read more: Experimenting with generative AI to kibbitz and futz towards more inclusive futures

Claude 4’s “whistle-blow” surprise shows why agentic AI risk lives in prompts and tool access, not benchmarks. Learn the 6 controls every enterprise must adopt.Read More

Rose Yu has drawn on the principles of fluid dynamics to improve deep learning systems that predict traffic, model the climate, and stabilize drones during flight.

An internal OpenAI document somehow ended up in the discovery process for an antitrust trial against Google — and the revelations about the company’s plans for ChatGPT are illuminating and, depending on your point of… Read more: Secret OpenAI Memo Describes Plans to Make Users Rely on “Entity”

Big tech sharing economy platforms like Airbnb and Uber are marketed as trustworthy, but a new book by a South African media scholar argues that they are highly vulnerable to scammers who spread delusive speech… Read more: Airbnb scams: new book explores thriving criminal activity on big tech platforms

The Trump administration has confirmed that it is pulling the nomination of private astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead NASA. First reported by Semafor, the decision appears to have been made because Isaacman was not politically… Read more: Trump pulls Isaacman nomination for space. Source: “NASA is f***ed”

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we (almost) missed.… Read more: Research roundup: 7 stories we almost missed

Richard Bednar apologized after Utah appeals court discovered false citations, including one nonexistent case The Utah court of appeals has sanctioned a lawyer after he was discovered to have used ChatGPT for a filing he… Read more: US lawyer sanctioned after caught using ChatGPT for court brief

The shoehorning of AI into everything has programmers at Amazon feeling less like the tedious parts of their jobs are being smoothly automated, and more like their work is beginning to resemble the drudgery of… Read more: Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark

As we look ahead, the relationship between engineers and AI systems will likely evolve from tool and user to something more symbiotic.Read More

Tech giant Google has heavily invested in the Indian tech startup ecosystem, supporting them through its Google for Startups Accelerator program.  In 2024, the company announced its plan to train 10,000 AI startups in India… Read more: How Google Is Helping AI Startups Scale in India

Lovable, a so-called “vibe coding” app that allows practically anybody to build websites and apps by using natural language by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, has a huge cybersecurity problem. As Semafor reports, a… Read more: Companies Are Discovering a Grim Problem With “Vibe Coding”

Micro Center, an electronics retailer, has opened a store in Silicon Valley in California And so the nerd kingdom has returned.Read More

For years, members of the Russian cybercrime cartel Trickbot unleashed a relentless hacking spree on the world. The group attacked thousands of victims, including businesses, schools, and hospitals. “Fuck clinics in the usa this week,”… Read more: Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement

If you use Google’s apps and AI, it’s worth looking at this all-inclusive service. We break down the plans and how much they cost.

Welcome back to the Abstract!  This week, scientists accidentally discovered a weird thing in space that is like nothing we have ever seen before. This happens a lot, yet never seems to get old.  Then,… Read more: Weird Signals from Space Are ‘Unlike Any Known Galactic Object’

Since Google released its Veo 3 AI model last week, social media users have been having fun with its ability to quickly generate highly realistic eight-second clips complete with sound and lip-synced dialogue. TikTok’s algorithm… Read more: Real TikTokers are pretending to be Veo 3 AI creations for fun, attention

From a radio host replaced by avatars to a comic artist whose drawings have been copied by Midjourney, how does it feel to be replaced by a bot? Mateusz Demski, 31, journalist, Kraków, Poland Continue… Read more: ‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI

We’re living in times when research in AI is at its highest level ever.  While arXiv offers access to an enormous volume of research papers globally, it presents two challenges for beginners: choosing which paper… Read more: arXiv Is Great. But What If You Deserve Better? 

Students recently unveiled their invention of a robotic actuator — the ‘muscle’ that converts energy into a robot’s physical movement — that has the ability to detect punctures or pressure, heal the injury and repair… Read more: Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots

Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby’s mood, according to a recent study. Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new findings support that… Read more: Singing to babies improves their mood

Researchers proposed a novel strategy for using a magnetic field to boost the efficiency of single-atom catalysts — thus speeding up helpful reactions used for ammonia production and wastewater treatment.

Alibaba’s QwenLong-L1 helps LLMs deeply understand long documents, unlocking advanced reasoning for practical enterprise applications.Read More

A new method for predicting underwater landslides may improve the resilience of offshore facilities.

A series of studies sheds light on the origins and characteristics of intermediate-mass black holes.

Amazon Fire Sticks are enabling “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy, according to a report today from Enders Analysis, a media, entertainment, and telecommunications research firm. Technologies from other media conglomerates, Microsoft, Google, and… Read more: Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy

From its humble beginnings in the late 20th century, Google has come to dominate online searches, putting it squarely in the US government’s antitrust crosshairs. The ongoing search antitrust case threatens to upend Google’s dominance,… Read more: Google and DOJ tussle over how AI will remake the web in antitrust closing arguments

With Conversational AI 2.0, ElevenLabs aims to provide tools and infrastructure for truly intelligent, context-aware enterprise voice agents.Read More

College graduates were left speechless after officials at New York City’s Pace University deployed an AI model to read out their names during a commencement event this month. A video that has since gone viral on… Read more: College Grads Furious After an AI Butchers Their Names During Commencement

It came to light this week that a new government report from the “Make America Healthy Again” Commission led by Robert F Kennedy Jr. contained botched citations for scientific papers that didn’t exist. This is… Read more: The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse

Twenty-eight-year-old Nathan Laatsch was, until yesterday, a cybersecurity employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He had a Top Secret clearance and worked in the Insider Threat Division. Laatsch spent his days—you’ll understand the past… Read more: Spy-catcher saw “stupid” tech errors others made. FBI says he then made his own.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday updated its immunization schedules for children and adults to partially reflect the abrupt changes announced by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier… Read more: CDC updates COVID vaccine recommendations, but not how RFK Jr. wanted

The online incel (“involuntary celibate”) subculture is mostly known for its extreme rhetoric, primarily against women, sometimes erupting into violence. But a growing number of self-identified incels are using their ideology as an excuse for… Read more: Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care

Hugging Face is best known as a platform for machine learning and AI development, but it has also been dabbling in the world of robotics. This week, the company revealed two new robots it plans… Read more: Want a humanoid, open source robot for just $3,000? Hugging Face is on it.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has failed to reverse a preliminary injunction currently blocking him from probing Media Matters for America (MMFA) in defense of Elon Musk’s social media platform X. On Friday, a US… Read more: Texas AG loses appeal to seize evidence for Elon Musk’s ad boycott fight

Broadband lobby groups asked the Trump administration to block state laws that require Internet service providers to offer cheap plans to people with low incomes. The biggest lobby groups for the cable, telecom, and mobile… Read more: After Supreme Court loss, ISPs ask Trump admin to block state affordability laws

Europa and Enceladus are two ocean moons that scientists have concluded have liquid water oceans underneath their outer icy shells. The Europa Clipper mission should reach Europa around April of 2030. If it collects data… Read more: NASA robot for drilling on icy moons tested on Alaskan glacier

This architecture lets Token Monster tap into a range of models from different providers without having to build separate integrations for each one.Read More

On Thursday, a Google Maps glitch accidentally made it appear that the most desirable routes on German autobahns and highways were shut down, The Guardian reported. It remains unclear what unleashed a flood of stop… Read more: Google Maps can’t explain why it falsely labeled German autobahns as closed

Using Google products in 2025 means using (or avoiding) AI features, which are becoming a core part of the experience across the board. Last year, Gmail gained the ability to summarize emails on demand. Now,… Read more: The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not

DeepSeek’s latest AI model, R1 0528, has raised eyebrows for a further regression on free speech and what users can discuss. “A big step backwards for free speech,” is how one prominent AI researcher summed… Read more: DeepSeek’s latest AI model a ‘big step backwards’ for free speech

The surveillance company Flock told employees at an all-hands meeting Friday that its new people search product, Nova, will not include hacked data from the dark web. The announcement comes a little over a week… Read more: Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss an exciting revamp of The Abstract, tech… Read more: Behind the Blog: Lighting Money on Fire and the Meaning of Vetting

Once hailed as a triumph of public health, water fluoridation is now under intense attack in the US. Despite decades of data proving its efficacy at protecting teeth from decay—particularly children’s teeth—two states have now… Read more: RFK Jr.‘s fluoride ban would ruin 25 million kids’ teeth, cost $9.8 billion

In this week’s newsletter: Millions have watched the AI-generated singer’s sob story on social media – even weirder, many don’t even mind if it’s fake Have you heard Ernesto’s story? It’s a real tearjerker. You… Read more: The Guide #193: Meet Ernesto, the viral America’s Got Talent contestant … who doesn’t exist

Databricks, the Data and AI company, today celebrated the opening of its new office in the America Free Zone (AFZ) in Heredia, Costa Rica, marking a significant milestone in its ongoing investment in Latin America. The company’s Costa… Read more: Databricks Grows Costa Rica Ops with New Office, Deepens LatAm Investment

Believe in your own decision-making. Feodora Chiosea/Getty Images Plus The Little Engine That Could wasn’t the most powerful train, but she believed in herself. The story goes that, as she set off to climb a… Read more: The biggest barrier to AI adoption in the business world isn’t tech – it’s user confidence

As CEOs trip over themselves to invest in artificial intelligence, there’s a massive and growing elephant in the room: that any models trained on web data from after the advent of ChatGPT in 2022 are… Read more: AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data

Elon Musk’s four-month blitz through the US government briefly made him Washington’s most powerful businessman since the Gilded Age. But it has done little for his reputation or that of his companies. Musk this week… Read more: Elon Musk counts the cost of his four-month blitz through US government

Intapp’s 2025 Tech Perceptions Survey finds a surge in AI adoption among accounting, consulting, finance, and legal professionals — with half using AI tools not authorized by their firm Intapp (NASDAQ: INTA), a leading global… Read more: 72% of professionals report using AI at work, compared to just 48% in 2024

LTIMindtree, a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, announced Venu Lambu, the current CEO designate, as the CEO and MD of the company with effect from May 31, 2025. According to the company, Debashis… Read more: LTIMindtree CEO Debashis Chatterjee Retires, Venu Lambu Takes Charge

Two years after Sam Altman pitched Congress on AI guardrails, he’s back in Washington with a new message: To beat China, invest in OpenAI.

Chevrolet provided flights from Los Angeles to Austin and accommodation so Ars could drive the ZR1. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. AUSTIN, Texas—By just my third lap in the top-spec 2025 Chevrolet Corvette… Read more: 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 first drive: Engineered for insane speed

AI hardware maker Cerebras announced on Wednesday that its systems have outperformed NVIDIA’s DGX B200 with 8 Blackwell GPUs’ [Graphic Processing Units] output token speed on Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick Model.  Cerebras achieved an output… Read more: We Smoked NVIDIA’s Blackwell, Says Cerebras

The photo gallery app in Honor’s latest midrange phones has an image-to-video generative AI feature powered by Google. It’ll probably come to your phone soon.

The US-based Resemble AI, a voice cloning platform, has open-sourced Chatterbox—its model that includes both text-to-speech and voice conversion capabilities—the company announced on X. A recent test conducted through Podonos was designed to assess the… Read more: Resemble AI Open-Sources Its Voice-Cloning Model, Chatterbox

Hugging Face, a leader in open-source AI, announced the release of two open-source humanoid robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The unveiling occurred as part of the company’s ongoing expansion into robotics, following its acquisition of… Read more: Hugging Face Introduces Two Open-Source Humanoid Robots

Wiles’ contacts on her personal cellphone were purportedly hacked and AI used to communicate with lawmakers US politics live – latest updates The FBI is investigating an apparent impersonator who pretended to be the White… Read more: FBI investigating efforts to impersonate White House chief of staff Susie Wiles

Welcome to Edition 7.46 of the Rocket Report! As I write this, the date is May 29. From a meteorological standpoint, “spring” ends in fewer than three days. Summer lasts from June 1 through August… Read more: Rocket Report: Northrop backs Firefly and names its rocket; Xodiac will fly no more

Eighteen months after leaving his job as a vice president at Amazon to take over as Blue Origin’s chief executive, Dave Limp has some thoughts on how commercial companies and government agencies like NASA should… Read more: Blue Origin boss: Government should forget launch and focus on “exotic” missions

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Singapore’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME), under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on semiconductor research and talent… Read more: IIT Kharagpur, Singapore’s IME Sign MoU for Semiconductor Research

These latest partner additions extend Beghou’s proven track record in adding top talent and investing in new technology to remain agile and responsive to both client and market needs Beghou Consulting, a leading provider of… Read more: Beghou Consulting Adds New Partners

New Ponemon Institute Report Commissioned by GuidePoint Security Reveals IAM Programs Are Underfunded, Underdeveloped and Misaligned with Cybersecurity Threats A new report released today by GuidePoint Security, in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, found that most… Read more: IAM Maturity Lagging Across Most Organizations, GuidePoint Security Finds

Grammarly, the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, today announced the closing of $1 billion in financing from General Catalyst. This underscores General Catalyst’s longtime commitment to Grammarly, which has evolved into an AI… Read more: Grammarly Announces $1 Bn Growth Financing With General Catalyst

New Live Debugger purpose-built for developers and enterprises to secure production environments, optimize troubleshooting, and accelerate problem resolution Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, today announced positive customer adoption of the general availability… Read more: Dynatrace Unveils Live Debugger

IndiaAI Mission on Friday announced the selection of three more startups, Soket AI, Gnani.ai, and Gan.AI, to develop indigenous foundation models. This brings the number of startups under the foundation model development initiative to four,… Read more: With 34000 GPUs, IndiaAI Mission Backs Soket AI, Gnani.ai, Gan.AI for Foundation Models

Your current AI strategy is likely costing you more than you think. The rapid, uncontrolled adoption of various AI tools has created a costly “AI tax” across the enterprise, stifling true innovation. This report explores… Read more: Future trends of AI adoption in enterprises 2025 Report

The world today is becoming increasingly connected, yet paradoxically lonelier than ever. Alongside mental health concerns, this has emerged as one of the most pressing issues of our time.  With the advent of conversational AI,… Read more: Seeking Therapy from an AI Bot? Think Again

Google DeepMind announced SignGemma, its most capable model yet for translating sign language into spoken text. This open model will join the Gemma model family later this year, a step towards inclusive artificial intelligence. SignGemma… Read more: Google DeepMind announces SignGemma: AI for Sign Language

The AI search engine startup Perplexity AI introduced “Labs,” a new feature that transforms user prompts into fully developed projects. The feature is available starting Friday for Pro subscribers on the web, iOS, and Android.… Read more: New Perplexity Labs Feature Turns Prompts into Reports, Apps, and More

Until recently, most of India’s data infrastructure was concentrated in metro hubs like Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Chennai. However, this centralised model created latency issues for users in non-metro areas and left vast regions underserved.… Read more: India’s Data Transformation Finds Its Edge in Tier 2 Cities

Lovable, a Sweden-based AI-powered coding platform, reportedly contained critical security vulnerabilities.  Matt Palmer, who handles developer relations at Replit, a competing AI coding platform headquartered in the United States, and his colleague discovered the vulnerability… Read more: When Replit Employees Found a Critical Security Vulnerability in Lovable

Over the past two years, powerful AI models—both open source and proprietary—have successfully provided a wide range of use cases for individuals and organisations. However, deploying these models in production-ready environments involves several challenges, particularly… Read more: Kubernetes Native llm-d Could Be a ‘Turning Point in Enterprise AI’ for Inferencing

FLUX.1 Kontext from Black Forest Labs aims to let users edit images multiple times through both text and reference images without losing speed.Read More

The fossils of ancient salamander-like creatures in Scotland are among the most well-preserved examples of early stem tetrapods — some of the first animals to make the transition from water to land. Thanks to new… Read more: Long shot science leads to revised age for land-animal ancestor