The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill), NC State University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are collaborating on a US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded initiative to establish a nationwide network of AI-enabled automated laboratories for chemistr...
Genpact, an agentic and advanced technology solutions company, announced Genpact Banking Analyst Suite, an enterprise solution that applies agentic AI to regulated banking operations. Its first module, Genpact Transaction Monitoring Analyst, is now generally available to help banks complet...
Researchers have outlined a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered framework that could accelerate the discovery of advanced materials for clean energy technologies while reducing the time and cost associated with conventional research and development.
The findings were published in Digital Disco...
UNESCO's Regional Office for South Asia launched the Outlook Study on Artificial Intelligence and Gender in South Asia, the first regional assessment of women's participation in artificial intelligence (AI) across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Produced by the UNESCO Women...
UPES, a multidisciplinary university and one of India’s leading institutions for future-focused education, announced a strategic collaboration with IIT Guwahati’s Technology Innovation & Development Foundation (IITG TIDF) and its incubation arm, IIT Guwahati BioNEST, to lau...
ANNAM.AI, India’s first Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, hosted at IIT Ropar under the Ministry of Education, Government of India has launched HACK CORE 2026, a National AI hackathon in collaboration with Syngenta and Google, invit...
A new global study by the IBM Institute for Business Value finds that as enterprises embed AI deeper into core business operations, most surveyed organisations remain locked into AI systems they cannot easily change, reinforcing the growing importance of AI sovereignty to maintain business continuit...
A key outcome of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's historic visit to Slovakia was the announcement of an India Chair on Artificial Intelligence at a Slovak university, underscoring the growing importance of technology, innovation and digital cooperation in bilateral relations.
The initiative forms par...
The University of Mary Washington has opened enrollment for a new Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence in Business (MS in AI in Business), an innovative graduate program designed to prepare professionals for a rapidly evolving, AI-driven economy.
The graduate degree is the first of its kind...
A new study from the MIT Media Lab has raised concerns about the long-term impact of relying on artificial intelligence tools for fact-checking and news verification, finding that frequent use of AI assistants may reduce users’ ability to independently identify misinformation.
The open-access...
Two numbers, published weeks apart in early 2026, frame the whole story. The first: India is now the single largest market for AI hiring on the planet, with a global-capability-centre workforce of 2.36 million and the world’s second-deepest bench of AI researchers, behind only the United State...
Cornell researchers are teaming up with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) as part of a new phase of the institute’s collaborative University Research Program focused on advancing artificial intelligence and robotics, among other research areas.
Research projects spanning 31 universities wer...
Researchers from the Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with Engineering Ingegneria Informatica and the Institute of Health and Society, have developed an artificial intelligence-powered system that transforms fragmented disaster-related news reports into structured, actionable knowledge for sc...
IBM and MIT announced the launch of the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, advancing their long-standing collaboration to shape the next era of computing. The new lab expands its scope to include quantum computing, alongside foundational artificial intelligence research, with the goal of unlocking new ...
Arizona State University is expanding its artificial intelligence research capabilities following a multimillion-dollar technology donation from Intel.
The donation, part of ASU's Changing Futures campaign to advance technology for good, supports a larger university priority to strengthen...
Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced Nexus Connect, an AI gateway to universities' academic resources and services. Nexus Connect is designed to meet users wherever they work as a connector inside leading general-purpose AI chat agents, such as ChatGPT o...
Meta Platforms Inc. has initiated a structured user survey across India to evaluate demand for potential paid features on WhatsApp, signalling a strategic shift toward subscription-led offerings in one of its most critical growth markets.
The survey is designed to capture user sentiment, willingnes...
Marking a decade since the landmark AlphaGo match in Seoul 2016, Google DeepMind has announced a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) to advance artificial intelligence capabilities in the Republic of Korea and support its national innovation agenda.
The collaboration, ...
