DeepSeek’s Sequel
China made the inner workings of the A.I. model open to all, and that’s starting to look like a soft-power win.
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Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?
Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cashOne morning last year, Jacobus Louw set out on his daily neighborhood walk to feed the seagulls he finds along the way. Except this time, he recorded several videos of his feet and the view as
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India’s scattered workforce: the chatbot keeping families in touch during emergencies
Covid exposed the lack of data on the country’s 140 million mobile migrant workers, but a new project in Odisha is helping to fill in the gapsRaja Pradhan is sitting cross-legged, scrolling on his phone in his village in eastern India when a green WhatsApp chat bubble pops up on the screen. “Namaskar! Apana bahare
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India Built the World’s Back Office. A.I. Is Starting to Shrink It.
Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it’s too late.
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Tech’s politics push at home and abroad
We report from California’s Silicon Valley, where billionaires pour money into midterms, and the AI Impact summit, where India pushes back on ‘AI monopoly’ held by US and ChinaHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, we’re examining the tech industry’s push for influence in two places separated by a time difference of 13 hours and
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How Amul is using AI dairy farming to put 36 million farmers first
AI dairy farming has found its most ambitious deployment yet – not in a Silicon Valley lab nor a European agri-tech campus, but in the villages of Gujarat, India, where 36 lakh (3.6 million) women milk producers are now being served by an AI assistant named Sarlaben. Amul, the world’s largest dairy cooperative, has launched
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At A.I. Summit, India Tries to Find a Way Between the U.S. and China
India is using technology as a tool of foreign policy, casting itself as a moral voice for smaller, developing countries.
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AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants’ technology at Delhi summit
Narendra Modi’s thirst to supercharge economic growth is matched by US desire to inject AI into world’s biggest democracyIndia celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same moment, “early versions of true super intelligence” could emerge, said Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, this week.It’s a looming coincidence
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OpenAI and Anthropic Rivals Share Awkward Moment at A.I. Summit
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, the chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic, respectively, avoided holding hands during a photo-op at an A.I. summit hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.
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Bill Gates cancels keynote speech in India amid questions over Epstein ties
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder pulls out of India’s AI Impact Summit to ‘ensure the focus’ remains on event’s ‘key priorities’Bill Gates has pulled out of a keynote address at the AI Impact Summit in India as he continues to face questions over his relationship with the deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The billionaire Microsoft co-founder travelled
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