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Bernstein says India risks dependence on US and Chinese AI systems unless it builds its own foundational model, sharpening the debate over sovereign AI, compute access and who controls the country’s next technology layer

Delhivery is taking the map it built for its own logistics network and selling it to enterprises that struggle with India’s messy address layer.

Toronto-Dominion Bank has told some employees in its financial-crimes and risk management division that it will use workplace monitoring software, raising questions over privacy, consent and the spread of employee-tracking tools.

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AI is handling 37% of entry-level tasks in India, forcing employers to rethink hiring, training and the skills they value in young workers, a Cognizant-Pearson study found.

Two studies published in Nature found that advanced AI systems performed at least as well as physicians in simulated assessments involving diagnosis, treatment planning and disease management.

India has about 920,000 AI workers but faces steep shortages in GenAI, deployment engineering, governance, machine learning operations, AI security and NLP, a Quess Corp report found.

Reliance is betting that Jio’s reach across telecom, homes and small businesses can turn AI from a data-center story into a mass-market services business.

This week brought major developments across AI policy, infrastructure and enterprise technology.

The veteran AI researcher, who returned to Google in 2024 through the Character.AI partnership, said he will join OpenAI.