PUNE: School students will soon receive the first designed in India, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled education tablet. The tablets were recently launched by S. Krishnan, secretary, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and funded by EPIC Foundation. Designed by VVDN Technologies in collaboration with MediaTek India and CoRover.ai, the tablets come embedded with unique…

Meet Sora - OpenAI's new text-to-video generator. The tool, which the San Francisco company unveiled Thursday, uses generative artificial intelligence to instantly create short videos based on written commands.Sora isn't the first to demonstrate this kind of technology. But industry analysts point to the high quality of the tool's videos displayed so far, and note…

​New Delhi: India has seen a transition from jobless to job-led growth under the central government, minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in an interview. Around 45 million youth have been trained under various government schemes between 2014 to the time before the pandemic, he said. The focus will now…

A group of 20 tech companies announced on Friday they have agreed to work together to prevent deceptive artificial intelligence content from interfering with elections across the globe this year. The rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI), which can create text, images and video in seconds in response to prompts, has heightened fears that the…

Microsoft-backed OpenAI has completed a deal that values the artificial intelligence company at $80 billion or more, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the deal. The company would sell existing shares in a so-called tender offer led by venture firm Thrive Capital, the report said. Under the deal, employees…

Open data, open compute, open models — these are the key ingredients for India’s success in the global artificial intelligence race, and there is no way forward but for the Indian government to step up and invest to create these enabling conditions, according to experts and industry representatives.Abhishek Singh, president and CEO, National eGovernance Division,…

A dashcam for cars. Is it really worth it? More than being a novel piece of tech that you may do without, dashcam footage is gaining acceptance as evidence of the sequence of events that led to an incident on a road. Or thereafter. An accident. Road rage. A traffic violation. The footage a dashcam…