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AI
HCLTech has introduced HCLTech Pulse, a dedicated business unit for enterprises with annual revenues of $500 million to $5 billion. It will combine AI, data, cloud, cybersecurity, engineering and business-process transformation services to help these organisations modernise technology foundations and expand AI initiatives safely and responsibly.
AI
India’s software and business services exports are gaining weight in the economy despite concerns that generative AI could automate outsourced work. ING says demand is moving toward analytics, software development, risk management, engineering design and research, while digitally delivered services exports have grown faster than the global market since 2022.
India
A video aired by Russia’s Rossiya one presents additional footage of an exchange between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit, suggesting that a translation earpiece issue—not a health emergency—was behind Modi’s question.
AI
PitchFly uses an open-source fruit-fly connectome to remix patterns from popular WIRED headlines into strange story pitches. The experiment does not understand language or meaning, but it highlights how biological brain maps can support playful AI projects, while offering a glimpse into research on intelligence, neural circuitry and specialized models.
AI
Beijing and Chinese AI researchers agree that advanced artificial intelligence creates serious risks, but they reject a strategy that seeks to limit China while preserving a US lead. The disagreement could complicate efforts to build narrowly focused safety agreements between the 2 countries.
World
Geologists have identified 2 substantial groundwater sources beneath the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, including one at its southern edge and another in the desert interior. The findings could support sand-control projects and farming, while researchers are testing brackish water for irrigation and desertification control.
AI
Researchers in China have developed the Xtomo-Cube, a portable CT scanner weighing 6kg and consuming about 200 watts. The device is designed to create detailed internal s of small fossils, archaeological relics and other objects in the field, while its open settings and raw data could support teaching and laboratory research.
Trending
The official India sale of Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max began with customers lining up outside the Apple Store at DLF Mall in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The queue was organised through barriers inside the mall as buyers waited to purchase the latest devices.
Cinema
A disagreement over cooking chicken and adding potatoes escalated into a heated exchange between Mahi Vij and Amrapali Dubey inside the Bigg Boss house. The argument moved beyond the kitchen, with comments about behaviour, identity and career, leaving Amrapali visibly emotional during the confrontation.
Technology
Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei is proposing a 3-step framework to pace frontier AI development rather than halt it. He argues that recursive self-improvement and a recent OpenAI-Hugging Face incident show why capability gains may be outpacing efforts to understand, align and control advanced systems.
Trending
A debate over how quickly artificial intelligence should advance has widened into a dispute between leading US technology executives, the Trump administration and China. The argument centres on chip controls, model security and whether slowing development would reduce risks or allow China to close the gap.
India
Hong Kong plans an AI City Brain to analyse departmental data, improve responses to severe weather and major events, and warn residents about traffic jams and long queues. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu says the platform will not use personal data, addressing concerns raised about privacy and surveillance.
