Indian Railways' AI chatbot, AskDisha 2.0, powered by CoRover.AI, offers a range of services like booking tickets, refunds, checking PNR status, cancelling tickets, changing boarding station, checking booking history, and accessing e-tickets via text or voice commands in multiple languages.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly developing its own AI inference chip, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and potentially challenge Huawei. This move aligns with Beijing's push for domestic alternatives amid US export controls.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announced plans to make the company's latest AI models available locally in India. This move aims to address data sovereignty concerns and will be supported by a new hub of "forward deployed engineers" in India to serve customers in Asia.
Meta outlined its AI-driven strategies against child exploitation, investing more resources and using advanced AI systems for enforcement across most online languages. The company removed millions of suspicious accounts and exploitative content globally, while awaiting an official response to a recent government notice regarding ads on Instagram.
US companies are increasingly adopting Chinese AI models due to significant cost savings compared to domestic rivals. Models from DeepSeek and Z.ai are closing the performance gap, with Chinese AI usage via OpenRouter surging from 11% to 46% weekly.
A specially engineered diamond artwork, Cosmic Bloom, will be the first of its kind to travel to space aboard India's Vikram-1 rocket by Skyroot Aerospace. The mission will test the diamond's performance in space, reflecting India's growing private space industry.
Los Angeles startup Orbital applied to the FCC to launch up to 100,000 satellites, each an AI data center, into low Earth orbit. The plan aims to provide 10 gigawatts of computing power, with a demonstration mission next year and first dedicated satellite in 2028.
