Intel Appoints Sachin Katti as CTO and Head of AI in Major Leadership Overhaul

Katti, formerly head of Intel’s networking and edge computing division, will now lead the company’s AI strategy

Discrepancies Emerge Between OpenAI’s and Third-Party Benchmark Results

The difference appears to stem from variations in model configurations and testing environments

Wikipedia Releases New Dataset to Train AI Model, Fight Bot Menace

The dataset, now hosted on Google-owned Kaggle, includes structured Wikipedia content in English and French as of April 15

Databricks Acquires Fennel AI to Boost Real-Time Feature Engineering

Fennel has built a modern, incremental compute engine designed to optimise data pipelines across batch, streaming, and real-time sources

OpenAI Admits Newer Models Hallucinate Even More

In a technical report, the company said “more research is needed” to explain why hallucinations increase as reasoning capabilities scale

Hardware

China Unveils World's Fastest Hard Drive

Called Poxiao, it is capable of erasing and rewriting data in just 400 picoseconds

Google's New AI Model Comes With 'Thinking Budget' for Developers

Available now in preview on Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, the model balances advanced reasoning capabilities with competitive pricing

HP Opens Pre-Bookings for Next-Gen OmniBook AI PCs in India

The PC is designed for modern users such as freelancers, content creators, and hybrid workers

OpenAI Considered Acquiring Cursor Before Turning to Windsurf

Cursor, which runs on Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, gained traction among developers for its intuitive desktop coding interface.

TCS Partners with Vishal Sikka's Vianai Systems

The partnership will see TCS offer enterprise customers access to cutting-edge Generative AI tools through the hila Platform.

Microsoft Research Develops a 2 bn Parameter Model That Can Run on Your CPU

Trained on a massive 4 tn token dataset, BitNet b1.58 2B4T performs strongly across tasks like language understanding, math, & coding

Developer's Corner

Operant AI Launches AI Gatekeeper™ to secure Agentic AI and boost Runtime Protection for Indian Businesses

Moving beyond Kubernetes, Operant’s 3D Runtime Protection is now available across public, private and hybrid cloud platforms