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Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra attributes the Indian Cricket Team’s semi-final victory to not watching the match, stating that his absence led to the win.Anand Mahindra did not watch the India vs Australia match.Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra claims that the Indian Cricket Team won the semi finals on Tuesday as he did not watch the match.And as a result, we won…” Mahindra wrote.First Published:5 Mar 2025, 07:27 AM IST Source link

A top official of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had signed off on a decision to recommend Asheesh Pandey as the next chief executive of Indian Bank, even as the central bank reportedly raised concerns against his candidature. RBI deputy governor Rajeshwar Rao was among the signatories to the proposal of recommending Pandey for the post, as per a document accessed by Mint under a Right to Information (RTI) query. Pandey is currently an executive director at state-owned Bank of Maharashtra, and was so when he had appeared for the job interview in April 2024. While Rao was part…

Bengaluru: India is seeing the largest amount of artificial intelligence (AI) skilling in India, according to Coursera’s managing director for India and Asia Pacific, Raghav Gupta. “We’ve seen a lot of good momentum, whether it’s an individual coming to learn or its companies saying we want to invest in this space,” he said while speaking in a panel discussion at the Mint AI Summit 2025.Gupta alongside Adecco Group’s India country manager Sunil Chemmankotil, RPA2AI Research chief executive officer Kashyap Kompella, and upGrad Enterprise president Neeraj Gera were part of a panel discussion at the summit on whether AI will take…

Bengaluru-based Jewelbox has nearly doubled its marketing budget in the last year and now incurs nearly 20% of its online expenditure on awareness campaigns, its co-founder Nipun Kochar said. “About a fifth of our online digital spends goes towards awareness campaigns. There’s a mental block around lab-grown diamonds compared to mined diamonds, and brands need to put in resources to disseminate the right information,” Kochar added. Jewelbox’s other co-founder—Vidita Kochar—routinely posts videos on Instagram and YouTube sharing information about how lab-grown diamonds are made, how different they are from regular stones, and how one can pick the right one. The…

OpenAI founder Sam Altman on Wednesday said he was proud of his team for achieving what he called the most ‘impressive’ scientific breakthroughs of recent times.“Very proud of the openai team for what is perhaps the most impressive scientific/technical breakthrough of recent decades,” he said in a post on X. Source link

Bengaluru: Prime Venture Partners, which has backed Indian startups such as MyGate and Niyo, has launched its fifth fund with a size of $100 million to continue investing in early-stage companies across sectors.  The development comes almost four years after it raised $100 million for its fourth fund, which was later oversubscribed to $120 million. While there is strong demand for the new fund, which may also be oversubscribed, this range is the preferred fund size, co-founder and managing partner Sanjay Swamy told Mint in an interview. “This is the right cruising altitude for an early-stage fund in India and…

New Delhi: A panel of top artificial intelligence (AI) leaders in India said making the technology in the most populous country can aid in creating it for the world as such models are relatively easy to scale up.Manish Gupta, senior director, Google DeepMind, indicated that developing AI models in India would make the models robust, as they would work for a large and diverse population. “Google started its AI research lab in India about five and a half years ago. So, we consciously picked this theme of ‘inclusive AI’…How do we develop AI in a manner that benefits everyone. And we…

Artificial intelligence (AI) became a household topic of discussion after the launch of ChatGPT, the GenAI tool that could make content by adding a prompt, in November 2022. The Mint AI Summit 2025 held in Bengaluru had experts across sectors including banking, manufacturing, and even gaming, give their insights into AI adoption.The ball started rolling with the real-estate sector, where an expert representing the sector spoke on the reliance of AI to address customer queries.Akhil Gupta, representing NoBroker, a Bengaluru-based real estate company, said the biggest challenge in his company was for multiple service providers to work on a standard…

India’s digital health market has seen a sharp rise in the past decade, and is expected to grow tenfold in the next decade. Now in its second leg of growth with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), industry experts believe that the focus will be on accessibility and making healthcare more curated for the patients. A panel discussion at the Mint AI Summit 2025 in Bengaluru deliberated on the subject in detail.Jayanth N. Kolla, founder and partner, Convergence Catalyst, who moderated the discussion, started proceedings by saying that in the space of healthcare, a lot of data is being created and…

India must democratize AI to establish itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence, AI experts deliberated at the Mint AI Summit 2025. They highlighted the need for collaboration across multiple sectors, including public-private partnerships, universities, and scholars.Currently, India lags in AI PhD holders and faces significant infrastructure challenges, particularly in energy supply and scaling AI development. Experts stressed that building a robust AI ecosystem requires thoughtful planning, workforce development, and infrastructure expansion.“The democratization of AI is essential for it to be taken seriously,” said Prasad Balakrishnan, COO of MiPhi. “Universities, scholars, the government, and enterprises all have vital roles…