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16.02 / 01:11

markets COST UPS Digital security Research country Mint Primer | Why is there the hype around AI summit in India?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s big-ticket push for global prominence in artificial intelligence begins on 16 February. The AI Impact Summit has driven hotel prices higher across New Delhi, and attendance rates for global heads of state match those seen when India hosted the G20 summit in 2023.

16.02 / 01:11

COST Digital Aware CEO film Experts social Is budget push to develop animation, VFX, gaming talent in AI era pragmatic?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As the government allocated funds to develop talent in the animation, visual effects, gaming, and comics (AVGC) ecosystem in the country, experts say the sector faces serious disruption from artificial intelligence, which may shrink job opportunities in some of these categories. In the organized sector, including feature films and OTT series, the impact will be incremental but irreversible as AI will increasingly be embedded into pipelines to reduce turnaround time, manage costs, and optimize post-production, particularly in VFX-heavy projects, according to experts.

15.02 / 10:55

Digital Platform social electronic information testing gatherings Are India’s AI rules future-proof? Let’s test them against 2030 scenarios of an evolving internet

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Starting Monday, India will host the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi with heads of state, global tech leaders and policymakers in attendance. Just days earlier, the ministry of electronics and information technology had notified a legal framework to govern synthetically generated or AI-driven content.

13.02 / 01:17

Digital Platform wellness country social reports Courts Mint Explainer | India’s AI rules and the elusive quest for online safety

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India notified its artificial intelligence (AI) rules this week, cutting the deadline for taking down sexual content to within two hours of reporting. For other content, the time given is three hours.

12.02 / 00:35

markets UPS Waves Target Digital Gap inclusion Nandan Nilekani's Fundamentum targets more fintech investments as ecosystem matures

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani’s venture firm Fundamentum is preparing to sharpen its fintech bets in its upcoming third fund, banking on India’s digital public infrastructure and a widening financial inclusion gap to drive the next wave of growth, according to a top executive at the firm.

11.02 / 12:09

COST Digital Platform Instagram social reports Destinations AI rules: 2-hour deepfake takedown timeline lands Big Tech in compliance furore

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: India’s first-ever artificial intelligence (AI) law, notified on Tuesday, may set Big Tech scrambling to put in place adequate content moderation teams after New Delhi drastically shortened timelines for taking down deepfake posts with nudity, defamatory and other illicit content. The Centre has maintained that most technology firms are well-equipped to automate scanning and curb harmful content online.

11.02 / 09:55

markets UPS Waves Digital show Stellar Q3 shows Eicher Motors is in cruise mode

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The stock of Eicher Motors Ltd soared around 7% on Wednesday, hitting a new 52-week high of ₹7,805 following its stellar December quarter (Q3FY26) results. Consolidated Ebitda rose 30% year-on-year to ₹1,556.7 crore, backed by 21% growth in bike volumes, sold under the brand, Royal Enfield (RE).

11.02 / 09:55

markets Digital Trade President show reports International Andy Mukherjee: Is China’s interest-paying e-CNY going to challenge the almighty US dollar?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The highest US tariffs in almost a century have had a muted impact so far on global growth, but Asian policymakers aren’t lulled by the calm. They’re taking their cues from jumpy markets and plotting what appears to be a mutiny against King Dollar.

11.02 / 05:37

markets Citi Digital Food Healthcare track Headlines India's CPI overhaul: What the new basket reveals about how we spend today

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) is finally getting a reset. On Thursday, the statistics ministry will roll out a revised CPI series with a new 2024 base year, replacing the 2012 base year that has measured inflation prints for over a decade.

11.02 / 01:37

markets Digital ETF Software Puzzle Bitcoin Why this is the coldest crypto winter yet

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chill winds have been battering America’s eastern seaboard for weeks, driving temperatures in places to their lowest in decades. But that has nothing on the deep freeze into which investors have shoved crypto assets.

10.02 / 08:29

MET BLOCK Digital Platform Gap show recommendations Trai weighs tougher spam rules as operators flag nearly 400 million calls daily

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With telecom operators now blocking or flagging nearly 400 million suspected spam calls and messages every day, India’s telecom regulator is looking to widen its current enforcement framework alongside a willingness to tighten the rules if gaps persist, while moving toward a full rollout of a digital consent system for commercial communications. In an interview with Mint, Anil Kumar Lahoti, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), said the regulator is reviewing the existing framework governing telemarketers to identify areas where responsibilities are not being met and is open to strengthening the rules if required.

10.02 / 03:11

UPS Digital Citizens Aware wellness stage Should RBI compensate victims of digital fraud—or leave such policy matters to the government?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. It is not often that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor’s statement on monetary policy includes an announcement that directly touches the lives of Indians at large. Repo rate changes and liquidity measures—the stuff that such statements are usually made of—are one stage removed, as their impact plays out through the banking system.

10.02 / 01:53

UPS Digital Action students ROBO Schools rights Why AI chatbots can’t be trusted for financial advice: They’re sociopaths

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Should you use AI for financial advice? Andrew Lo, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, says not yet. Large language models like Copilot or ChatGPT aren’t suited to being used as financial advisers because they are the digital equivalent of sociopaths—smooth, persuasive and devoid of empathy.

10.02 / 00:31

markets COST Digital Aware Healthcare prevention Vaccines HPV vaccines gain traction in India, though cost keeps reach limited

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru/Mumbai: India’s HPV vaccine market is seeing a clear revival after years of low uptake, with digital health platforms and private healthcare providers reporting a sharp rise in demand amid growing awareness of cervical cancer prevention. On PharmEasy, a digital-first diagnostics and pharmacy company backed by Prosus and Temasek, HPV vaccines now account for nearly 25% of total vaccine sales, making it one of the fastest-growing segments within its preventive healthcare portfolio.

09.02 / 01:25

UPS Target Digital information reports Department Tax dodgers beware: I-T is searching GST data to widen tax base

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Income Tax department may soon start drilling into goods and services tax (GST) data in an effort to widen India's direct tax base and improve compliance, two people familiar with the plans said. The idea is to tap into the indirect tax system's technological prowess and data trove, which are widely credited with encouraging the informal sector to join the formal economy.

08.02 / 07:33

markets COST Digital Food Trade love travelers Ajit Ranade: We should welcome the India-US trade agreement but need to parse the fine print

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Markets love certainty, or rather its appearance. That is why our equity market cheered the announcement of an interim India-US trade deal framework even though the ‘fine print’ is still not fully in the public domain.

08.02 / 05:51

Provident Digital pandemic Virus outbreak reports prevention Govt taps private sector, academia to build India’s AI pandemic warning system

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Facing a surge in zoonotic threats, India is set to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect emerging pathogens that jump from animals to humans, according to officials and documents reviewed by Mint. The initiative, led by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) under the National One Health Mission (NOHM), marks a shift from reactive reporting to predictive surveillance.

07.02 / 07:05

markets FIVE Digital Election Bill Trade Bitcoin A new crypto winter is here and even the biggest bulls are worried

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bitcoin just suffered its largest weekly decline in more than three years. But the worst part for some of crypto’s permabulls is that they aren’t sure what exactly caused the crash.

06.02 / 01:37

markets COST Digital Progressive rights Mint Quick Edit | Should digital currencies redesign banking and AI agents take over human jobs?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Any radical change enabled by technology demands careful deliberation, but two potential shifts especially so.

05.02 / 08:35

Blockchain UPS Provident Digital Trade Bitcoin Inside The great crypto reckoning: Wake up and get real about this class of pseudo assets

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A year ago, the most pro-crypto president in US history had just returned to power after pandering to clueless retail crypto investors and receiving massive financial backing from semi-corrupt crypto insiders. Donald Trump’s second coming was supposed to be a new dawn for crypto, leading various self-dealing evangelists to predict that Bitcoin would become ‘digital gold,’ reaching at least $200,000 by the end of 2025.

05.02 / 08:01

COST Digital Citizens Manufacturing wellness rights Why RBI should permit a kill-switch for phones bought on loans: It will aid credit expansion

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. After saying that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is evaluating whether to bring back the policy of allowing loan-financed phones on which repayments are interrupted to be locked as a method of enforcing credit discipline, the central bank has not moved on the subject.

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