Tag: Technology

Healthcare is entering a phase where the boundaries between medicine, technology, and data are rapidly dissolving. Digital health, once confined to electronic medical records and teleconsultations, now underpins diagnostics, drug development, population health management, chronic disease care, and patient engagement. This has not only transformed how care is delivered, but also significantly widened the range...

Quantum computing is in a nascent stage of development and therefore this is a time that experts in the field and scientists should be engaging with diplomats to be able to form governance frameworks, partnerships, coalitions, international collaboration,  and be “concretely ready” when the technology matures, Marilyne Andersen, director general, Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator...

Quantum computing is in a nascent stage of development and therefore this is a time that experts in the field and scientists should be engaging with diplomats to be able to form governance frameworks, partnerships, coalitions, international collaboration,  and be “concretely ready” when the technology matures, Marilyne Andersen, director general, Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its wholly-owned subsidiary xAI ​are competing in a secret new Pentagon contest ‌to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology, Bloomberg ​News reported on Monday, citing people ⁠familiar with the matter. SpaceX, xAI and the Pentagon’s defense innovation unit did not immediately respond to requests ‌for comment. Reuters could not independently verify...

In a world where data are extracted from individuals with or without informed consent, data and AI experts have called for building awareness and underscored the importance of extracting only relevant data at The Hindu Tech Summit 2026, hosted by The Hindu, presented by VIT, and co-presented Sify Technologies, in Chennai on Friday. The session,...

Large enterprises have to unravel business processes to make them AI-first and to rewire business processes in terms of AI-ready, Virtusa COO Venkatesan Vijayaraghavan said on Friday (February 13, 2026) at The Hindu Tech Summit 2026. In a conversation with John Xavier, Tech Editor, The Hindu, on the topic, ‘Managing the post Anthropic Plug-in Era’, Mr. Vijayaraghavan...

1. What is it about Claude’s latest release that has spooked markets and hurt Indian IT stocks? On January 30, Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins for Claude Cowork, its AI workplace suite. Unlike conventional chatbots, Cowork functions as an autonomous digital colleague: it reads files, drafts documents, reviews contracts, and executes multi-step workflows across legal,...

Indonesia will restore access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after the billionaire’s social media platform X promised to comply with the country’s laws, a government official said on Sunday. Grok has faced a global backlash after it emerged that its image creation feature allowed users to sexualise pictures of women and children using simple...

Elon Musk’s social ​media platform X ‌was back ​up after a brief outage affected more than 19,000 U.S. users on Sunday, according ​to outage tracking ⁠website Downdetector.com. The outage lasted about 45 minutes ​and ⁠was largely resolved by 12:04 p.m. ET, the website ‌said. X did not ‌immediately respond to a ‍request for comment. The...

A U.S. federal judge signaled on ‌Friday she may dismiss a lawsuit by Elon ​Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI accusing Sam Altman’s rival OpenAI of stealing trade secrets to gain an unfair advantage in developing AI technology. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco said her “tentative view” is to grant OpenAI’s motion to...