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By Manish Goyal, Managing Director and Head – GCC, Alvarez & Marsal For decades, the Global Capability Center (GCC) story in India has been one of scale, with more seats, more processes, more functions moved offshore. Over time, GCCs expanded far beyond their roots as cost-and-capacity engines, becoming centers for analytics,
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For the last two years, the advice to brands has been more or less standardized: get cited and recommended in AI, and the rest will follow. Whether that is called GEO or AEO, the objective is the same: make sure AI can understand your brand, retrieve the right information and
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More than 600 Internet experts, policymakers and technology leaders will meet in Mumbai this September for the 62nd APNIC Conference (APNIC 62) as Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybersecurity and rapidly growing demand for digital services are putting pressure on the underlying Internet infrastructure needed to support these areas, as well as
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Ask a seed investor what they want to see before the next round and the answer is rarely a bigger number. It is a pipeline they can read. Where deals come from, how fast they move, why they stall, and what the founder does about it. Most seed-stage B2B startups
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'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own OPINION You will have heard of July's OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where thousands of the former's AI agents conducted a mass jailbreak from a notionally secure capture-the-flag lab experiment, before going on
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Paytm Payments Services Limited (PPSL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paytm (One 97 Communications Limited), has launched the Paytm Payment Gateway Plugin with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, enabling businesses to access and understand their payment information using natural-language prompts. Merchants can query payment activity and business trends directly inside ChatGPT, without moving
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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So, here’s some good news for any government with greedy AI aspirations - which let’s face it is all of them to some degree or another. Since 2018, the UK public sector has awarded more than 2,000 contracts for AI-related projects, according to respected consultancy firm Tussell.
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Three months ago, Check Point and OpenAI began expanding our work together through Daybreak, OpenAI’s cyber defense initiative. Since then, we have taken the partnership further, bringing OpenAI’s frontier cyber models into Check Point products and security workflows through the Daybreak Defense Network. And last week, we joined
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The most anticipated technology gathering in Electronics City is back. ELCIA Tech Summit 2026 (ETS), the flagship event of the Electronics City Industries Association (ELCIA), is set to return on 10th September 2026 at The Oterra, Electronics City, Bengaluru — bigger, bolder, and more expansive than ever before. This year’s
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iQOO, the high-performance smartphone brand, today launched the iQOO Z11x 5G, designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s students. Built for multitasking studentswho seamlessly juggle online classes, research, assignments, entertainment, gaming and stayingconnected on the go, the smartphone combines smooth performance, long-lasting battery life, enhanced durability and AI-powered
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Labor Day is officially here, bringing discounts on tech, outdoor gear and kitchen appliances that are perfect for a productive fall. As one of the biggest shopping events of the year, Labor Day sales serve as a prelude to Black Friday, Cyber Monday and October’s Prime Day. Our Picks
