RBI Increases UPI Lite Transaction Limit to Rs. 500, Proposes AI-Powered ‘Conversational Payments’

RBI Increases UPI Lite Transaction Limit to Rs. 500, Proposes AI-Powered ‘Conversational Payments’

Reserve Bank of India on Thursday announced to increase the transaction payment limit from Rs. 200 to Rs. 500 for UPI Lite in offline mode. UPI Lite was first introduced in September 2022, allowing users to make transactions for a small amount limit in offline mode. Since then, the feature…

Microsoft, Aptos Labs Partner to Unite Web3, Artificial Intelligence: Details

Microsoft, Aptos Labs Partner to Unite Web3, Artificial Intelligence: Details

Microsoft and blockchain developer Aptos Labs have come together to use their expertise in bridging the gap between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the blockchain technology. The buzz around combining Web3 and AI seems to be expanding all over the global tech industry. Nascent in existence, Web3 firms are looking to…

US Government Launches Cyber Contest on AI to Find and Fix Security Flaws

US Government Launches Cyber Contest on AI to Find and Fix Security Flaws

The White House on Wednesday said it had launched a multimillion-dollar cyber contest to spur use of artificial intelligence (AI) to find and fix security flaws in US government infrastructure, in the face of growing use of the technology by hackers for malicious purposes.  “Cybersecurity is a race between offense…

Disney Creates Taskforce to Explore AI Applications Across Verticals, Bring Cost Cutting Measures

Disney Creates Taskforce to Explore AI Applications Across Verticals, Bring Cost Cutting Measures

Walt Disney has created a task force to study artificial intelligence and how it can be applied across the entertainment conglomerate, even as Hollywood writers and actors battle to limit the industry’s exploitation of the technology. Launched earlier this year, before the Hollywood writers’ strike, the group is looking to…

Meta Releases Open-Source AI Tool AudioCraft to Create Music and Audio

Meta Releases Open-Source AI Tool AudioCraft to Create Music and Audio

Meta Platforms on Wednesday introduced its open-source AI tool called AudioCraft that will help users to create music and audio based on text prompts. The AI tool is bundled with three models, AudioGen, EnCodec and MusicGen, and works for music, sound, compression and generation, Meta said.  MusicGen is trained using…

US President Said to to Sign New Order to Limit US Tech Investments in China by Mid-August

US President Said to to Sign New Order to Limit US Tech Investments in China by Mid-August

US President Joe Biden is planning to sign an executive order to limit critical US technology investments in China by mid-August, according to people familiar with the internal deliberations. The order focuses on semiconductors, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. It won’t affect any existing investments and will only prohibit certain…

Amazon Bedrock Drew Customers to Try Out AI Service Competing With Microsoft and Google

Amazon Bedrock Drew Customers to Try Out AI Service Competing With Microsoft and Google

Amazon.com‘s cloud division has drawn thousands of customers to try out its service vying with Microsoft and Google in a key area of artificial intelligence, an executive told Reuters. The company also announced new AI tools on Wednesday, including a program for building more conversational customer-service agents, technology access from…

US Government Launches Cyber Contest on AI to Find and Fix Security Flaws

US SEC Set to Adopt New Cyber Rule, Unveils Brokerage AI Proposal

Wall Street’s top regulator on Wednesday was poised to adopt new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose hacking incidents, a measure officials said was being taken to help the investing public contend with the mounting cost and frequency of cyber attacks. The five-member US Securities and Exchange Commission was…