The acquisition will add $600 million to AGC’s revenue, taking the company’s combined revenue to over $750 million, and global headcount to more than 4,000 people.

IBM inventors from India received over 800 of patents, the second highest contributor to the global record tally, it added.

The company plans to build on the platforms to help come up with solutions that lets commodity businesses stay future ready

Google says the virtual tools can approximate the precision of natural human hand motion and the sensor can be embedded in wearables, phones, computers and vehicles.

Users of Nokia Series 40 device will no longer be able to create new WhatsApp accounts and some features of the app could stop functioning on the device at any time.

Last year, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Researchers (FAIR) had to shut down one of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems after chatbots started speaking in their own language, defying the codes provided.

The dedicated AI infrastructure and Internet of Things (IOT) hub programme will equip selected research and higher education institutions with AI infrastructure

Global download speed also rose 15% in the same period. Fixed broadband download speed in India rose 50% to 23Mbps, which was half the global level.

Indian Navy had awarded a Rs 3,500-crore contract to Sterlite Tech in February for designing, building and managing its communications network.

The IBM India Advisory Board — which also includes Bajwa, Harriet Green, chairman of IBM Asia Pacific, and senior members from IBM Global.

Pranav Pandya, Co-founder, and Chairman of Dev IT Ltd. is the new Secretary and Director, and Umesh Rateja of Sums Corp Solutions is the Joint Secretary & Director.

​​Indian enterprises would adopt more systems to collaborate, for content workflow and management, and customer engagement software as they look at improving business process efficiency.

According to the market research firm, applications (in the software market) contributed the bulk of the spending with a 58.8 per cent share, followed by AD&D and SI software with shares of 23.5 per cent and 17.7 per cent, respectively, in the first half of 2018.

AI is not new, but critical factors such as massive data generation and increased processing power, connectivity and speed have combined to present significant potential.

A senior government official told ET that NITI Aayog has collaborated with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna, under director Pushpak Bhattacharyya to develop a natural language processor (NLP) for commercial use.