NEW DELHI: Facial authentication, considered by most gadget users as the gold standard for identity verification, is now being bypassed by fraudsters, who gain unauthorised access to facial data through social media platforms and use artificial intelligence to create deepfake videos and synthetic identities.Sharing this latest modus operandi in a public advisory on Wednesday, Indian…
CHENNAI: Home services startup Pronto’s admission recently that it was piloting in-home video recordings to train physical AI systems shines light on a fast-growing and loosely regulated industry of AI data capture and labelling for the global robotics supply chain.Pronto is not alone. Startups such as Human Archive, Humyn Labs, Egolab AI and Neocambrian are…
Virat Kohli , Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill (AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India captain Anil Kumble believes the experience of stalwarts Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be crucial to India’s title chances at the 2027 ODI World Cup, saying the veteran duo can play a major role in supporting captain Shubman Gill during…
While discussing the ongoing Don 3 controversy, the President of the Indian Film and Television Directors’ Association (IFTDA) and the Chief Advisor for the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) Ashoke Pandit spoke about loyalty, stardom and the impact of Aditya Dhar‘s Dhurandhar on the Hindi film industry.Pandit said that while contractual disputes must…
MUMBAI: Pine Labs has launched India’s first agent-to-agent payment capability, enabling autonomous transactions through artificial intelligence by extending UPI’s standing mandate framework to machines.The company on Thursday introduced the Pine Labs Payment Protocol (P3P), allowing users to authorise a onetime mandate that can be delegated to an AI agent, which can then independently decide when…
Ram Charan’s sports action drama ‘Peddi’ witnessed another drop in collections as it completed eight days in theatres. After a strong opening week, the film’s daily earnings have gradually slowed.According to Sacnilk, the film collected Rs 6.30 crore net in India on its eighth day. This represents a 16.6 percent decline from the Rs 7.55…
Strong domestic travel has again saved the day for Indian hospitality, although the West Asia war has impacted inbound traffic to the country, like many others globally.“Over 40% of people flying to India (and other parts of Asia from the west) do so via the Middle East (West Asia). That has slowed down inbound. The…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday declined to stay the declaration of results of Rajya Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh, but agreed to hear on Friday Congress candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s plea challenging rejection of her candidature for non-disclosure of a pending criminal case against her.It was a desperate attempt by senior advocate A M Singhvi,…
NEW DELHI: A fresh round of price hikes by FMCG companies is set to make everyday essentials costlier for consumers soon. The latest increases across categories, from soaps and detergents to toothpaste and edible oils, in the range of 4-11%, come weeks after the fuel price revision in mid-May, industry experts told TOI.Leading consumer goods…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the the Economic Advisory Council meeting. NEW DELHI: As govt gears to undertake a delimitation exercise in the coming month, a working paper by the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister (EAC-PM) has suggested India should split Lok Sabha’s 170 large constituencies using a “targeted criterion” instead of a uniform…