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Gruha Lakshmi Yojana would be able to register for free without being lured by any middleman. Under the Gruha Lakshmi scheme, women heads of households across the state would receive ₹2,000 every month. As per the minister, this scheme would benefit as many as 12.8 million families in the state.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it would charge at least 53% more to access new artificial intelligence features in its widely used office software, in a glimpse at the windfall it hopes to reap from the technology. The company also said it would make a more secure version of its Bing search engine available immediately to businesses, aiming to address their data-protection concerns, grow their interest in AI and compete more with Google. At its virtual Inspire conference, the company said customers would pay $30 per user, per month for its AI copilot in Microsoft 365, which promises to draft emails in Outlook, pen documents in Word and make virtually all an employee's data accessible via the prompt of a chatbot.

The Biden administration and major consumer tech players are launching an effort to put a nationwide cybersecurity certification and labeling program in place

HCL Group, which began decades ago as a maker of computer hardware and peripherals before establishing its software credentials globally, plans an ambitious foray into India’s fast-evolving semiconductor ecosystem, several officials and industry executives aware of the development told ET. The HCL Group is close to submitting a proposal to the Centre to set up an assembly, testing, marking, and packaging (ATMP) unit for semiconductors, they added.

The Biden administration and major consumer tech players are launching an effort to put a nationwide cybersecurity certification and labeling program in place

Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on a different tack: He's giving it away. Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, said on Tuesday that he planned to provide the code behind the company's latest and most advanced AI technology to developers and software enthusiasts around the world free of charge. The decision, similar to one Meta made in February, could help the company reel in competitors like Google and Microsoft.

Bosch said he was optimistic India could be the only region to have a substantial growth path in the next two years, at a time China faces a slowdown and economic uncertainty dogs Europe and US. Introduction of economic regulations such as GST, interventions to incentivise industrial production are key developments seen as enablers for growth, which also fuel the bullishness, said Stefan Hartung, chairman, Bosch. For Bosch, India isn't among its top markets yet. Home market Germany, and China are. However, the German major still has high stakes in the country, where its subsidiary Bosch India clocked sales of ₹1.67 billion (₹14,929 crore) in 2022-23. That's because, he said, «It has contributions far beyond that sales as it's involved in many projects globally. That gives it a special role.»

Tata has chosen to build an electric vehicle battery plant in southwest England, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, a win that would bolster the country's automotive industry against stiff global competition. Tata has chosen a site in Somerset to supply a new range of electric Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles and is set to outline its decision as soon as this week, the Bloomberg report said, citing unnamed people familiar with the plans.

AI software. Established players like OpenAI, supported by Microsoft and already offering their models to business customers through Azure, could face disruption. The initial version of Llama was already on par with models powering OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard chatbot.

New Delhi: Like most, Abhinav Srivastava, the co-founder and chief executive of Palo Alto-based unicorn Mashgin, also detests long queues at stores during checkouts. Determined to tackle the issue head-on, he and his team developed an intuitive solution—a touch-less checkout system powered by cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision.

The new version of the model, called Llama 2, will be distributed by Microsoft through its Azure cloud service and will run on the Windows operating system, Meta said in a blog post, referring to Microsoft as «our preferred partner» for the release. The model, which Meta previously provided only to select academics for research purposes, also will be made available via direct download and through Amazon Web Services, Hugging Face and other providers, according to the blog post and a separate Facebook post by Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

Gloves maker Ansell has warned a glut of unsold products following the coronavirus pandemic has now spread to surgical items, causing distributors to cut back on their orders.

The concept of co-working is becoming more well-known in India. With the economy growing big and small, entrepreneurs are looking to move away from the traditional office environment and cut expenses by moving to co-working and shared office spaces.

New Delhi: India’s online B2B marketplaces could grow to become a $200 billion market opportunity by 2030, venture capital and private equity firm Bessemer Venture Partners said in a report released Tuesday. “As India’s $3.75 trillion economy grows to $6 trillion within the next decade, we anticipate a significant portion of this growth will be driven by the digital economy, which we estimate will grow from its current $100 billion to $1 trillion.

hiring over the last two quarters was such roles, finds a new study. The hiring landscape has witnessed a significant shift towards AI-related jobs in recent years. Spectrum Talent Management's report on the trends, demand, and impact of AI-related hiring on the recruitment scenario finds that compared to the past three years, AI-related job postings have gained significant traction, with a doubling of interest.

TDS) at a specified rate from rental payment. Here is a look at when to deduct TDS from house rent payment and how to deposit.

Washington| As fears of artificial intelligence stealing jobs start turning into reality, one Florida-based Australian private investment manager predicts that there will no longer be value in paying fund mangers to invest in listed markets.

analytics software provider to business-to-business (B2B) marketing teams, said on Tuesday it has raised $3.6 million in funding led by Stellaris Venture Partners. Returning investors in this pre-Series A funding round included Elevation Capital and Emergent Ventures. Both had co-led a $2 million seed funding round in August 2021.

Investing.com — Shares in Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) rose in premarket U.S. trading on Monday as expectations grew that the video game maker's $69 billion tie-up with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) may be close after a string of key announcements over the weekend.

iPhone 15 series. The leaked images suggest that the Dynamic Island may come to non-Pro models as well. Dynamic Island is a screen feature that is currently offered on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models.

job market in doldrums? That’s what Kartik Mandeville, the CEO of an IT startup Springworks, was left wondering after he received over 12,000 resumes in a span of 48 hours, for some remote job roles. Taking to Twitter, the entrepreneur wrote, “ Received over 3K resumes in the last 48 hours just on our website — how bad is the job market?”. He further went on to add that the job postings were not shared on any popular job portals such as LinkedIn, Naukri, and Glassdoor but were only shared on the company website.