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Business Standard
10 hours ago
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- Business Standard
Days on, Ahmedabad plane crash weighs heavy on minds of pilots, crew
New DGCA norms call for MORE rest for pilots, revision of night duty RULEs, and directions to airlines to submit fatigue reports Ajinkya Kawale Aashish Aryan Mumbai/New Delhi Listen to This Article While investigations are on to ascertain what caused the London-bound Air India flight AI171 to crash soon after takeoff on June 12, the aviation disaster continues to weigh on the minds of pilots, cabin crew, and their families. Several of whom Business Standard spoke to said they and their family members felt an undeniable sense of anxiety. The crash had left 241 of the 242 people on board dead, including both the pilots and all cabin crew. It also killed 34 people on the ground. 'This (crash) is one of those times where there is no concrete explanation yet for
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Business Standard
09-06-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Bundled consent mechanism likely to end as Meity plans stricter rules
DPDP Act may also ask intermediaries to keep detailed meta data records Aashish Aryan New Delhi Listen to This Article The government is likely to direct data fiduciaries, such as social media platforms and internet intermediaries, to obtain separate user consent for optional and mandatory services, doing away with the 'bundled' consent mechanism, according to people in the know. The move, expected as part of the administrative rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, would mean that consent management systems must not include options that allow users to agree to all purposes simultaneously. 'The idea here is that both the data principal (users) and data fiduciaries are clear about the limitations. A user must know what they are
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Business Standard
08-06-2025
- Science
- Business Standard
The four key startups leading the race to build India's first LLM
With the government's support, work begins on foundational models for AI services Aashish Aryan Avik Das New Delhi/Bengaluru Listen to This Article India will be ready with its first indigenously developed artificial intelligence large language model (LLM) in six to eight months, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, on January 30 this year. The move was seen as India's response to DeepSeek, an open-source LLM developed in China, reportedly at a fraction of the cost it took to create other models globally. (LLMs are AI programmes trained on vast amounts of text data to understand, generate, and process human language.) But Indian government officials say they are not merely reacting to events elsewhere. A plan to develop indigenous
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Business Standard
04-06-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
IndiaAI Mission: Large IT, AI firms may not get govt nod to make LLMs
Meity says these firms can obtain GPUs on their own Aashish Aryan New Delhi Listen to This Article The government is unlikely to consider the applications submitted by large information technology service providers and well-funded artificial intelligence (AI) companies to build indigenous large language models (LLMs), sources told Business Standard. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology which is the nodal ministry overseeing the ₹10,372 crore IndiaAI Mission, believes that larger IT service providers or even AI companies can obtain the requisite graphics processing units (GPUs) or access funds on their own. 'Taxpayers' money cannot be given to these companies which can access the market and buy GPUs at a competitive price from any vendor. They are welcome
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Business Standard
04-06-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Indian PC market to get a booster shot from Tamil Nadu's free laptop scheme
Industry experts say the million-unit tender is likely to give the personal computer market a good bump, but could push value down since the government will want a special prices for such a large orde Shivani Shinde Aashish Aryan Mumbai/New Delhi Listen to This Article The Tamil Nadu state government's announcement last month to distribute 1 million free laptops for college students - the largest such scheme as well as single tender so far - is expected to lift growth in the PC market. India's traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) grew 8.1 per cent year-over-year (YoY) in the January-March quarter of calendar year 2025, with 3.3 million units shipped, according to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. This marks the seventh consecutive quarter of growth.
