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14.12 / 15:23

UPS Waters Platform Software Experts medicines Job apocalypse? Humbug! AI is creating brand new occupations

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A mock job advertisement that has done the rounds recently calls for a “killswitch engineer" for OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. The description requires the successful applicant to stand by servers all day and unplug them “if this thing turns on us".

13.12 / 08:51

CEO Software Highways Research show Courts AI can make decisions better than people do. So why don’t we trust it?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you happen to be on a Texas highway sometime this summer, and see a 50,000-pound semi truck barreling along with nobody behind the wheel, just remember: A self-driving truck is less likely to kill someone than one driven by a human. At least that’s what Chris Urmson, chief executive of autonomous-vehicle software maker Aurora Innovation, insists.

09.12 / 12:13

Analysis Software Persona voice information reports Meet the bot collector: How AI is rewriting India’s debt recovery playbook

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: As he prepared to call a debtor, Manoj, an adviser at Bengaluru-based debt collection startup DPDzero, saw a message flash across his screen. Borrower sentiment: distressed.

09.12 / 03:37

COST security Software track cover Are you adequately insured? Why most families don’t have enough cover until it’s too late

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A term insurance plan offers more than a sense of security, it creates a financial cushion that protects your family in case of your absence. With the recent goods and services tax (GST) rate overhaul making term insurance products 18% cheaper, many people focus on simply "having" a policy.

08.12 / 11:55

markets Software Research wellness Trade President performer AI stocks are a bet on the future. Markets are ignoring the now.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The case for the artificial-intelligence trade is the technology is so revolutionary that eventually it will be well worth the trillions that have been invested to develop it. But that argument means many investors don’t bother to distinguish between AI-related companies with solid fundamentals and those on shakier ground.

08.12 / 11:55

UPS Manufacturing Platform Software wellness Everest Interviews Mint Interview: Speed of value creation in India will be much faster next decade, says Peak XV’s Mohit Bhatnagar

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MUMBAI : Fresh from its success of recently-listed Pinelabs, Groww and Meesho, their funder and one of India's top venture capital fund Peak XV believes the speed of value creation in India is likely to be much faster in the coming decade than it was in the past, its managing director Mohit Bhatnagar said in an interview. The firm wants to double down on bets in consumer, fintech and software sectors even while scouting for opportunities in sunrise sectors such as space tech, precision manufacturing, and semiconductors.

08.12 / 10:39

markets Digital Assurant Software Enterprise Bill Updates Businesses need reliable software: Taming AI for enterprises could spell business for India’s IT sector

Enterprise technology has long rested on a basic assumption: determinism. When a system gets identical inputs, it must yield identical outputs. Business and tech leaders rely on this expectation.

08.12 / 07:25

markets Airlines Software wellness information prevention Boardrooms must not be caught dozing over risks: The IndiGo fiasco ought to splash them awake

Large corporations are not governed for profitable quarters alone, but for business continuity. And when a company that carries a majority share of national air traffic suffers a system-wide breakdown, questions must be asked beyond operational factors. In particular, of board accountability.True, boards do not run a business’s daily operations.

08.12 / 01:23

markets Provident Platform Software Healthcare reports patient Health-tech shines as India’s $283-billion IT sector battles slowing demand

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Health-tech providers have emerged as the only bright spot in India's $283-billion IT sector, with companies such as Sagility, Inventurus Knowledge Solutions (IKS) and Indegene recording steady growth despite a sluggish demand environment. Tier-1 information technology (IT) services providers, mid-caps, engineering research and development (ER&D) firms and health-tech companies reported an average sequential growth of 1.6%, 2.7%, 2.89%, and 4.2%, respectively, during the July-September quarter.

05.12 / 14:15

Digital Platform security Software Healthcare information Courts Ex-Cognizant chief D’Souza back into healthcare software, this time with a former rival

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Francisco D’Souza, the former Cognizant chief who had once helped secure the $2.7-billion TriZetto healthcare software deal and locked horns with its rival HealthEdge in court, is now betting big on that very competitor. This time, steering its next chapter with Bain Capital.

05.12 / 01:15

UPS Aviat Software BlackRock Research trends voice Startups shake up IIT placements with high-skill AI roles and sky-high salaries, but in small numbers

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In this season’s race for top brains at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), artificial intelligence (AI) startups—both domestic and Silicon Valley-based—are pulling away from traditional recruiters, offering far higher compensation packages, plus bonuses and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).

04.12 / 14:23

Maxim Manufacturing Software awards wellness electronic reports Tata, Cyient and Applied Materials win ₹4,500 crore mandate to modernise India’s lone chip fab

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI: Two homegrown firms, including a Tata Group company, along with a US chip design major, have bagged a ₹4,500 crore project to enable India’s sole semiconductor fabrication plant, Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, to make more modern industrial chips used in critical sectors like power and energy. On Thursday, Tata Semiconductor Manufacturing Pvt.

03.12 / 12:59

Software NVIDIA Simulation Synopsys Cycling performer testing How Nvidia's $2 billion bet on Synopsys could reshape the AI revolution

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Nvidia Corp. just wrote a $2 billion check to Synopsys.

03.12 / 12:25

Aviat Manufacturing Airlines Software Department Investigations Mint Explainer | How Air India blundered by missing a routine airworthiness review for an aircraft

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's aviation regulator is investigating how Air India operated an aircraft for two days in November without a valid Airworthiness Review Certificate (ARC), a document that ensures compliance with safety standards. The regulator did not name the aircraft type but referenced the registration code of an Airbus A320 (VT TQN), implying that it was a single-aisle (narrow body) jet.

03.12 / 10:53

Action Strategy Software Enterprise performer Features Interviews Amazon releases AI agents it says can work for days at a time

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Amazon Web Services on Tuesday unveiled a host of new artificial intelligence tools and features designed to help companies nab more value from generative AI. Included is a new category of AI agents that can carry out tasks for hours or days without getting stuck and asking users for help, AWS said.

03.12 / 07:09

Digital Citizens Platform Mobile Software wellness reports Mint Explainer | Is Sanchar Saathi India's anti-fraud shield or a surveillance overreach?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The department of telecommunications (DoT), on 28 November, issued notifications to mobile phone brands, asking them to pre-install the Centre’s cybersecurity app, Sanchar Saathi, on devices, without an option to disable it.

03.12 / 01:19

IPO Career Google security Software Trade students IIT placements bring startups into a hiring war with the bigwigs, who wins?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Startups are offering higher salaries, bigger bonuses and more employee stock options (Esops) at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) this year, but despite securing first-day slots too, they are struggling to attract top talent as campus hiring shifts from mass hiring to picking a few high-quality candidates amid an AI-led productivity boost.

06.04 / 13:49

UPS Software Interface Boxing cover social Why AI can't take over creative writing

In 2022, 74 years after Shannon's proposal, ChatGPT appeared, which caught the attention of the public, with some even suggesting it was a gateway to super-human intelligence. Going from Shannon's proposal to ChatGPT took so long because the amount of data and computing time used was unimaginable even a few years before. ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) learned from a huge corpus of text from the internet. It predicts the probability of the next word given the context: a prompt and the previously generated words.

06.04 / 08:07

Career Software Enterprise IBM innovations Schools Wipro Ventures heads into new decade with a fresh pair of hands at its wheels

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: Wipro Ventures’ new co-managing partner Ali Wasti is expected to drive a deeper focus on artificial intelligence at the $500-million corporate venture arm of Wipro Ltd. The investment firm recently appointed Wasti, a veteran investor in deep-tech startups, to replace Venu Pemmaraju, who retired from the company last week.

06.04 / 04:03

Platform Software Meta Platforms show voice information reports Videos Meta releases new AI model Llama 4

Meta Platforms on Saturday released the latest version of its large language model (LLM) Llama, called the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Meta said Llama is a multimodal AI system. Multimodal systems are capable of processing and integrating various types of data including text, video, images and audio, and can convert content across these formats. Meta said in a statement that the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick are its «most advanced models yet» and «the best in their class for multimodality.»

05.04 / 08:39

COST UPS Citi security Software social ₹1.8 crore a year and still in debt? Bengaluru engineer’s viral budget sparks outrage

Posting on LinkedIn, a user identified as Aas Vora Jain described how, even with a take-home pay of ₹8.3 lakh a month, he ends up in a monthly deficit of ₹57,000. His claim instantly set off a flurry of reactions across social media, with some sympathising and many more ridiculing what they saw as an exaggerated account of luxury gone wrong. “I make ₹1.8 crore per year in Bangalore as a principal software engineer, and it's utterly unlivable,” Jain wrote. “Let's break it down. After taxes, my take-home is approximately ₹1 crore or ₹8.3 lakh/month.”

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