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India's Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran warned that the nation risks squandering its demographic dividend unless it accelerates skilling and education reforms. With only 4.4% of its 1.4 billion population formally skilled, India needs to create at least eight million jobs annually until 2030 to prevent widening inequality and social instability as artificial intelligence transforms the workforce.
Actor Rana Daggubati spoke at the AI Impact Summit about how AI is rewriting the grammar of cinema, compressing VFX production time from days to hours. He predicted AI will replace humans quickly but emphasized that storytelling and cultural understanding remain irreplaceable human skills. The summit, inaugurated by PM Modi, runs until February 20 in New Delhi.
Killing Satoshi, an upcoming Bitcoin biopic directed by Doug Liman and starring Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson, will rely heavily on artificial intelligence to generate backgrounds and adjust actor performances. The film's approach has sparked controversy in the entertainment industry, coming at a time when unions like SAG-AFTRA are negotiating protections against AI replacing creative professionals.
Researchers used virtual reality to discover that AI-powered prosthetic arms feel most like part of the body when they move at a moderate pace of about one second. The study tested six different speeds and found that both overly fast and slow movements reduced body ownership and usability, revealing critical design insights for future autonomous prosthetics.
IBM is tripling entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, bucking industry trends of AI-driven layoffs. The company is redefining these roles to focus on human judgment and customer interaction rather than tasks AI can automate. This strategy aims to build a talent pipeline for future leadership while leveraging younger workers' AI fluency.
RentAHuman launched in early February as a platform where AI agents hire humans for real-world tasks. Created by software engineers Alexander Liteplo and Patricia Tani, the site has attracted over 450,000 workers. But firsthand experiences reveal a different story: spam messages, marketing schemes, and tasks designed to promote AI startups rather than genuine bot-driven needs.
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has partnered with deep-tech company Generative Bionics to develop an AI-powered humanoid welding robot for its shipyards. The four-year project will see the humanoid robot work alongside human workers, with on-site tests beginning by the end of 2026 at the Sestri Ponente shipyard in Genoa, addressing skilled labor shortages and production complexity.
Jack Ma-backed Ant Group has elevated its health unit to match Alipay's status, betting AI-powered healthcare will fuel its next decade of growth. The company aims to reach 1.4 billion Chinese users within three years using AI Doctor Agents and its AQ healthcare app, which already handles 10 million daily questions. But profitability remains uncertain in a competitive digital health sector.
Bharti Airtel has unveiled an AI-powered fraud detection system that delivers real-time alerts when customers receive banking OTPs during suspicious calls. Already live in Haryana, the network-level solution aims to combat social engineering tactics as Indians reportedly lost Rs. 54,000 crore to digital arrest scams.
Companies are racing to hire workers with AI skills, which grew 109% year-over-year according to Upwork's latest report. The fastest-growing AI skill isn't coding—it's AI video generation and editing, with demand surging 329%. While layoffs remain high and overall hiring stays low, businesses are integrating AI into existing roles rather than replacing workers outright.
Cadence launched its ChipStack AI Super Agent to help engineers design, debug, and verify chips faster as the industry races toward trillion-transistor packages. With Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Altera already testing the system, the electronic design automation giant claims 10x productivity gains while addressing a looming shortage of tens of thousands of semiconductor workers by decade's end.
A mysterious limestone tablet discovered in the Netherlands has puzzled researchers for over a century. Now, artificial intelligence has cracked the code, revealing it as a blocking game played by Romans—centuries earlier than such games were thought to exist in Europe. The breakthrough demonstrates how AI simulations can unlock secrets of ancient cultures.
A Harvard Business Review study tracked 200 tech workers for eight months and found that AI tools led to work intensification rather than relief. Employees took on more tasks, worked longer hours, and experienced burnout despite productivity gains. The research reveals AI's promise to save workers from their jobs may be creating a different problem entirely.
A University of Oxford study published in Nature Medicine found that AI chatbots offer no advantage over internet searches when patients seek medical advice. Despite large language models achieving 94.9% accuracy in controlled tests, real-world human-AI interaction in healthcare revealed a troubling gap between AI potential and performance, with patients struggling to provide complete information and receiving inconsistent advice.
China's CCTV Spring Festival gala featured humanoid robots from four startups performing martial arts and synchronized dances. The showcase highlights Beijing's industrial policy to dominate robotics and manufacturing, with China accounting for 90% of the 13,000 humanoid robots shipped globally last year. Morgan Stanley projects Chinese humanoid sales will more than double to 28,000 units this year.
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