India can be a sandbox for ethical, affordable AI, says WBG's ZhangWorld Bank managing director and chief administrative officer Wencai Zhang was on a visit to Chennai last week to commemorate 25 years of t...
14 Sep, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Chinese President Xi announces open-source AI ecosystem in 5-point BRICS planXi's announcement at the concluding session of the BRICS summit is widely seen as an effort to position Beijing as a central technology par...
13 Sep, 2026, 11.22 PM IST
Trump says 'very negative forces' raising exaggerated concerns over AI"We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it that way because whoever win...
13 Sep, 2026, 11.18 PM IST
Chinese President Xi announces open-source AI ecosystem in 5-point BRICS planChinese President Xi Jinping announced plans for an open-source AI ecosystem for BRICS nations. This initiative aims to boost cooperation i...
13 Sep, 2026, 09.58 PM IST
FM Sitharaman pushes RBI to sharpen digital rupee as tokenisation takes offFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urged the Reserve Bank of India to advance digital rupee pilots. She highlighted tokenisation's role in...
11 Sep, 2026, 10.21 PM IST
Sitharaman calls AI a ‘double-edged sword’, urges soft-touch regulation and faster digital rupee pushFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted artificial intelligence as a double-edged sword for financial systems. She advocated for a ...
11 Sep, 2026, 10.08 PM IST
Meet Henry Xie, the 17-year-old Portland student who found a way to make smaller AI models more empathetic using ChatGPT and Gemini without massive computing powerHenry Xie, a 17-year-old Portland student developed a way to transfer empathy from large AI models to smaller models for his Regeneron Scie...
11 Sep, 2026, 09.04 PM IST
FM Sitharamran says AI researcher's resignation raises questions over safeguardsFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday questioned whether safeguards being developed by frontier artificial intelligence companies...
11 Sep, 2026, 05.37 PM IST
GFF 2026: AI adoption is no longer a choice; responsible adoption is, says FM SitharamanFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed responsible AI adoption over avoidance. Institutions must manage AI risks and avoid legacy sys...
11 Sep, 2026, 05.07 PM IST
GFF 2026: FM Sitharaman on India’s tech leap, demographic dividend, AI risks and road to global scaleGlobal Fintech Fest: Sitharaman said that India was experiencing its demographic dividend in real time, with the country’s young population...
11 Sep, 2026, 04.16 PM IST
Global Fintech Fest: Kissht’s Next Phase of Growth Means Becoming a Broader Financial-Services Company, Not Just a LenderA customer base of more than 12 million, rapidly diversifying product suite, and AI integration at enterprise scale perfectly positions dig...
10 Sep, 2026, 08.56 PM IST
ET AI Hackathon: Agentic Edition - Accenture joins The Economic Times to champion the next generation of AI innovatorsAs AI systems move from generating responses to taking action, the skills required to build them are changing. With Accenture joining The E...
10 Sep, 2026, 01.19 PM IST
Paytm bets on workplace AI agents in pivot beyond paymentsIn an exciting new venture, Paytm is venturing beyond its established digital payments realm to launch Pi, an innovative service offering a...
09 Sep, 2026, 02.40 PM IST
China's DeepSeek taps CITIC Securities for domestic IPODeepSeek's engagement of CITIC, which has not been reported so far, is an indication that the startup is moving along in its IPO plan. Comp...
09 Sep, 2026, 11.46 AM IST
OpenAI offers AI for chip design, touts cost advantage over open-source, CFO saysSpeaking at Goldman Sachs' Communacopia + Technology Conference in San Francisco, Friar said OpenAI is focusing on sectors including chip d...
09 Sep, 2026, 08.11 AM IST
AI may accelerate anti-competitive practices in digital markets: CCI chiefCompetition Commission of India chairperson Ravneet Kaur warned about artificial intelligence risks. AI adoption could accelerate anti-comp...
07 Sep, 2026, 04.46 PM IST
If Europe's AI sovereignty relies on Mistral, 'we're doomed': French finance ministerEuropean sovereignty in artificial intelligence (AI) cannot depend on a single startup like Mistral, France's Finance Minister Roland Lescu...
03 Sep, 2026, 12.07 PM IST