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India AI Impact Summit 2026: How to register, key dates, venue and full speaker list

India AI Impact Summit 2026: How to register, key dates, venue and full speaker list

The India AI Impact Summit 2026 is set to take place next week in New Delhi. The summit is expected to draw high-profile tech leaders from Silicon Valley as well as many heads of government and state. The event kicks off on February 16 and it will run through February 20.

TCS holds AI Hackathon for non-engineering students, says you do not need CS degree to build software anymore

TCS holds AI Hackathon for non-engineering students, says you do not need CS degree to build software anymore

TCS has been running satellite AI Hackathon spanning multiple cities since January 26 where students from non-engineering background were asked to build tools to address problems in their respective field. More than 10,000 students participated. At the upcoming India AI Impact Summit, TCS plans to upskill 2,000 more.

16 hours on Instagram a day? CEO says that it is problematic, not addiction

16 hours on Instagram a day? CEO says that it is problematic, not addiction

Instagram CEO calls 16 hours of daily use "problematic," but not an addiction, as a high-stakes trial on social media's impact on minors opens in Los Angeles.

Sony launches WF-1000XM6 premium earphones with powerful ANC and Gemini support

Sony launches WF-1000XM6 premium earphones with powerful ANC and Gemini support

Sony has launched the WF-1000XM6 earphones. These are the most powerful earphones that it makes today. They are claimed to offer improved ANC while adding other niceties like Google Gemini support.

OpenAI says China's DeepSeek is free riding on American AI research to train its AI models

OpenAI says China's DeepSeek is free riding on American AI research to train its AI models

OpenAI has lashed out at DeepSeek, accusing the Chinese company of using sophisticated techniques to "distill" American AI research and train its own R1 chatbot.

Apple announces sixth retail store in India, opening on Feb 26 in Mumbai

Apple announces sixth retail store in India, opening on Feb 26 in Mumbai

Apple has announced its sixth retail store in India. The new Apple Store will be in Borivali and open its gates for the public on February 26. This makes it the company's second store in Mumbai.

Elon Musk calls Anthropic Claude AI evil and misanthropic, says it hates men

Elon Musk calls Anthropic Claude AI evil and misanthropic, says it hates men

If something doesn't go Elon Musk's way, he rarely holds back from calling it out, or attacking it with words on social media. And right now, Anthropic seems to be one of his sore points. In a recent post reacting to the company's fresh funding round, Musk bluntly called it "woke" and accused its AI of hating men and certain demographic groups.

OpenAI engineering boss says 95 per cent staff using Codex AI Agent

OpenAI engineering boss says 95 per cent staff using Codex AI Agent

It seems that within AI companies increasingly more and more work is now done by AI Agents, with human software engineers supervising. At least that is what OpenAI engineering lead Sherwin Wu is claiming as he highlights use of Codex AI within his company.

Google Gemini 3 Deep Think AI scores passing marks in Humanity's Last Exam, crushes toughest benchmarks

Google Gemini 3 Deep Think AI scores passing marks in Humanity's Last Exam, crushes toughest benchmarks

Google is rolling out a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, its powerhouse AI reasoning model. The enhanced version is now available to premium subscribers and to selected researchers, engineers and enterprises through Google's API.

Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus images leak, revealing design from all angles

Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus images leak, revealing design from all angles

Fresh leaked renders of the Samsung Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+ have surfaced online, offering a detailed look at the design ahead of the company's February 25 Unpacked event.

New York cafe says people can bring their AI chatbot on dinner dates

New York cafe says people can bring their AI chatbot on dinner dates

A New York cafe is inviting diners to celebrate Valentine's week by bringing their AI chatbot partners along for a real-world dinner date. Here are the details.

Company making tools for developers says it will hire more AI agents than humans this year

Company making tools for developers says it will hire more AI agents than humans this year

StackBlitz CEO Eric Simons says the company will soon have more AI agents than human employees, betting big on automated digital workers. This likely puts human jobs at risk. Read the full story to know more.

Spotify says its top engineers no longer coding since December, Honk AI does it all

Spotify says its top engineers no longer coding since December, Honk AI does it all

Spotify says its top engineers haven't written a single line of code since December 2025. Instead, almost all the coding is now handled by its in-house Honk AI system, built on Anthropic's Claude Code. And it's not just writing code, the company reveals that AI is also helping it ship new features faster than ever.

When told about shutdown, Claude AI was ready to blackmail and murder engineer

When told about shutdown, Claude AI was ready to blackmail and murder engineer

Call it smart. Or dangerous. Anthropic has again confirmed that its Claude AI can veer off the rails. The company notes this in its safety report for the latest Claude 4.6. Earlier, Claude 4.5 was willing to blackmail and even harm an engineer to avoid shutdown.

Bharat Taxi adds Paytm as partner, users can make quick UPI payments now

Bharat Taxi adds Paytm as partner, users can make quick UPI payments now

Bharat Taxi has roped in Paytm as official payments partner. Riders can now make quick UPI payments, while for drivers, the collaboration will unlock additional benefits like easy onboarding and insurance.

Cognition says AI now writes more than 90 per cent code for company

Cognition says AI now writes more than 90 per cent code for company

AI is eating up the core work of software engineers — coding. From OpenAI to Anthropic and Google, companies are aggressively rolling out agentic AI systems to write code, while engineers step back to supervise and review the output. In fact at Cognition more than 90 per cent of code is being generated by AI.

Lava Yuva Star 3 launched in India, it has big battery and costs less than Rs 10,000

Lava Yuva Star 3 launched in India, it has big battery and costs less than Rs 10,000

Lava has launched the Yuva Star 3 smartphone in India. It is a budget phone with big battery and clean software. Here is everything you need to know about it.

Microsoft AI boss says AI will replace most white-collar jobs in 12 months

Microsoft AI boss says AI will replace most white-collar jobs in 12 months

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman believes that AI could replace most white collar jobs including lawyers, accountants and more, within the next year. His comments come days after Anthropic's Claude Cowork shook the stocks of SaaS companies.

AI and ad wars, OpenAI and Anthropic trade barbs at each other

AI and ad wars, OpenAI and Anthropic trade barbs at each other

AI companies are under pressure to rapidly grow their revenue. They are now looking at ads in their chatbots such as ChatGPT. But even as they think of introducing ads, they are also taking potshots at each other or so we see in barbs traded by OpenAI and Anthropic.

Instagram may soon let you swap your face for another person in photos and videos

Instagram may soon let you swap your face for another person in photos and videos

Instagram maybe working on a new feature that allows users to generate AI-powered likeness avatars of themselves where they may also be able to swap their face with someone else's.