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The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish Nobel laureate, I found myself wanting to stop and find out more about the author, the city of Istanbul, the Bosphorus, and many other things. I started asking Gemini, which soon became my reading companion for this interesting book.As I progressed past a chapter or two, I became consumed with curiosity about Füsun, the beautiful young girl with whom Pamuk’s main character Kemal became obsessed with. She was described in such detail that she seemed entirely real, and I couldn’t help wanting to see her.“Show me Füsun,” I asked Gemini.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Two centuries and a half ago, Adam Smith used the example of a pin factory in The Wealth of Nations to explain how capitalism uses division of labour to boost productivity by splitting production into specialized tasks done by workers paid to work in close coordination for efficiency. But what happens to this model if AI agents run factories and companies?Andon Labs, a US-based startup, runs a cafe where tasks like inventory control, hiring, scheduling and operations are supervised by Mona, an AI agent powered by Google Gemini, even as human baristas brew and serve coffee.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.The AI hack we unlocked today is based on a capability- Gemini's File Generation.Here is a pain point most professionals quietly endure: you have a great session with AI, you've structured a report, drafted a proposal, built a budget breakdown and then spend 30 minutes doing the one thing AI was supposed to eliminate: copy, paste, reformat, fix spacing, redo headers. The AI gave you the content.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Over the past three decades, Google has used its engineering hubs in cities like Bengaluru to develop technologies specifically for the Indian market—such as Google Pay and Google Maps features—which it then exported globally, the company’s global chief scientist Jeff Dean told Mint in an exclusive interview.Today, Google India remains vital to the $4.1-trillion tech giant and its frontier research unit Google DeepMind, Dean said, adding that the region continues to drive the development of AI applications that are marketed worldwide.He cited three key examples, including a global flood prediction model developed in collaboration with India's central government. By gathering data from flood-prone Indian states, Google trained AI models that are now used to predict and mitigate flood risks in other nations.A second major contribution from Google’s Bengaluru hub is the "long context window" for its AI app Gemini.

What problem does it solve? Every week, teams across marketing, L&D, and communications hit a similar invisible wall: they have great content, maybe a training video, a product launch reel, an internal town hall recording, but no budget, no time, and no expertise to give it a soundtrack that actually fits. So they either pay for stock music that sounds generic, spend weeks coordinating with a composer, or simply ship the content with no audio at all.None of these options is good enough. A mid-sized company produces dozens of internal videos, client-facing presentations, and social media assets every month.

chat assistants themselves what their favourite words were. Gemini used to favour ‘Delve’, but this has faded as AI feeds on new content and training. Similarly, ‘Tapestry’, ‘Leverage’, and the em dash.

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Chatbots don’t sound human by accident. Lots of work has gone into shaping that tone. Systems are trained to detect mood from text, infer context in a conversation and even respond with something resembling empathy or understanding.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Sarvam AI, the IIT Madras-incubated artificial intelligence startup that launched three foundational models on Wednesday, will seek commercial success with a ChatGPT-like application, which it plans to launch soon. This application, Sarvam cofounder Vivek Raghavan told Mint in an interview, is part of the company’s long-term monetization efforts as it looks to start generating revenue.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Work is full of time-sucking, tedious or annoying tasks, particularly when you’re on a computer. I used to spend hours on stupid chores like reorganizing someone else’s messy spreadsheet.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Fears of disruption have gripped Indian information technology (IT) stocks amid the growing focus on artificial intelligence (AI). In February alone, the Nifty IT index has declined by 14%.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Google’s chatbot Gemini began piloting artificial intelligence (AI)-led joint entrance examination mock tests on 28 January, marking its first clear step into India’s vast test-prep market. Students preparing for the highly competitive JEE exams for entry into top engineering institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) can now access practice tests directly on the Gemini platform for free as part of that pilot.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The AI hack we unlocked today is based onGoogle Gemini's nanobanana. Executives receive 30-page market analyses that sit unread on their desks.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. What could go wrong if an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is asked for the “best restaurants in New Delhi"? At worst, you waste an evening. But ask the same chatbot for the “best mutual funds to invest in", and the consequences can be far more serious—your retirement, child’s education, or long-term wealth goals could take a hit.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. All over the world, millions of people have been doing something in private that’s now spilling into public spaces, on our sidewalks and in our open-plan offices alike. They’re…talking to their gadgets.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Email overload has always slowed down workplace, personal productivity. Consider these examples: You're hunting for the plumber's quote from last year, buried in hundreds of emails.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Here's what caught our eye this week: Apple, the company that prides itself on building everything in-house, just handed over the keys to Siri's brain to its longtime frenemy, Google. Yes, you read that right.

Mint review of usage practices and public policies across X, Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT found that safeguards on such content are not uniform across companies.As MeitY’s notice put X under scrutiny, policy and AI experts pointed to a key policy gap that appears to have placed Grok in the government’s firing line even as other platforms have so far avoided similar action.On 2 January, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) issued a notice to X seeking details on how the platform acts against objectionable content and how it plans to address sexual content. The move followed concerns over how Grok, which is embedded within X (formerly Twitter), can be used to modify photographs into content that could be deemed sexual, obscene, or violative of a user’s privacy.Mint has seen a copy of the notice which had set time until Monday for X's reply.X has sought more time to respond to Meity's notice, meanwhile.

Agentic AI.The seeds for Agentic AI were sown in 2025. We saw Google Gemini access (with permission) Gmail to triage inboxes and draft context-aware replies, link to Calendar. and keep and manage agendas and to-do lists.

How to access: https://slides.new (requires Google Workspace or Google AI Premium plan)• Generate professional infographics from your data: Turn your existing content and data into polished infographics using simple prompts—no external design tools needed.• Create custom images that match your content: Generate contextually relevant visuals connected to Google Search for accurate real-world representations.• Edit images without leaving Slides: Remove backgrounds, replace backgrounds, or expand image backgrounds directly in your presentation.You've created a basic slide with bullet points about Q4 sales targets. Prompt “Beautify this slide” and Gemini instantly transforms it into a professionally designed visual with enhanced layouts, colors, and graphics all while keeping your text intact and matching your deck's overall style.You need to present customer satisfaction trends.

faced unexpected challenges earlier this year while preparing to roll out a new model, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to build an AI dream team, offering top executives and researchers multimillion-dollar paydays.The company acquired a 49% stake in startup Scale AI that valued Scale at $29 billion, and Scale founder Alexandr Wang joined the social media giant as its chief AI officer.The Manus acquisition appears to be Meta’s first major purchase of an AI startup operating an frontier AI model. Manus’s capabilities are regularly tested by top benchmarks and compared against those of AI models including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and DeepSeek’s R1.Earlier this year, Manus raised $75 million in a fundraising round led by venture firm Benchmark.