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Airbound aims to build a 10,000-flight-a-day drone delivery network across Andhra Pradesh.
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Biocon's chief technology officer says artificial intelligence is being deployed across drug development and manufacturing, but insists human accountability remains intact.
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Gartner forecasts that expenditure on AI coding tools will exceed software developer salaries by 2028 due to rising token consumption.
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As agentic AI compresses the value of traditional consulting work, Deloitte is betting that its new SAP-focused delivery centre in Bengaluru can operationalise AI inside core business systems.
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The new chip could deliver up to 50% higher performance or 70% greater energy efficiency than its 2nm technology, depending on operating conditions.
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OpenAI on Thursday unveiled its first custom-designed artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator called Jalapeño. It has been developed in collaboration with California-based semiconductor giant Broadcom. Instead of training, the San Francisco-based company describes it as an “Intelligence Processor” that is purpose-built for large language model (LLM) inference. It is claimed to deliver better performance per watt than current state-of-the-art solutions around compute, memory, and networking requirements.
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The IT services major will help US-based healthcare provider Sentara build an enterprise AI framework spanning IT systems, hospital operations and clinical support.
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