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Anthropic’s latest consumer policy update has left many users feeling more puzzled than reassured. On August 28, the company announced that chats and coding sessions from Claude’s Free, Pro and Max plans may now be used for model training, unless individuals…

When Palantir embedded engineers inside military command centres, assigning them to integrate and provide support for the company’s data analytics platforms into classified workflows and mission-critical operations, it appeared like an expensive anomaly,…

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi called semiconductors as the future in his Independence Day address, it was more than symbolism.  He said that India’s early attempts to establish semiconductor factories nearly five to six decades ago were, as many experts…

AI is no longer simply automating tasks. It is reshaping the landscape of the workforce. The key divide is not between humans and machines, but between workers skilled in using AI and those who are not.  The exponential growth of AI has created a sharp mismatch…

When people think of trillion-dollar companies, names like Apple, Microsoft, or NVIDIA usually come to mind. But halfway across the world, Taiwan has been building a tech giant of its own.  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) isn’t just a story…

Apple has made two of its latest vision-language and image-text models, FastVLM and MobileCLIP, publicly available on Hugging Face, highlighting its quiet but steady progress in AI research. The release caught wider attention after Clem Delangue, CEO and…

A handful of tech giants, with their massive datasets, billion-dollar GPU clusters, and global reach, seemed to control the Artificial Intelligence space, as they built the most powerful AI systems and dictated the rules of engagement. But only until decentralised…

Building reinforcement learning (RL) environments is quickly emerging as the next big thing in AI. OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy recently noted in his post on X that the evolution of AI training can be broken down into three distinct eras—pretraining…

The Indian government’s focus on developing a robust semiconductor industry has been an ongoing journey. Multiple initiatives like the DLI scheme, PLI scheme, and RDI scheme have been initiated to assist startups and companies working with semiconductors…