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Lack of PhD research funding wasting India’s mathematical talent: Princestone University prof
6+ hour, 24+ min ago (298+ words) Lack of PhD research funding wasting India's mathematical talent: Princestone University prof'Hindustan Times Pune: The five-day Indo-European Conference on Mathematics being held at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) from Monday will play a crucial role in shaping future international collaborative…...
IIT Indore develops AI-driven system to improve road safety, ease traffic
21+ hour, 58+ min ago (287+ words) Indore, The Indian Institute of Technology Indore has developed a new artificial intelligence-based technology to make the country's traffic management system smarter and safer, officials said on Monday. The technology aims to prevent road accidents by sending timely alerts to…...
Baudhayana framed right-angled triangle theorem: NCERT Class 8 textbook | India News
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (582+ words) Ancient Indian mathematician Baudhayana was the first person to formulate a theorem on right-angled triangles that in its modern form came to be associated with Greek mathematician Pythagoras, a newly released Class 8 mathematics textbook by the National Council of Educational…...
Why is National Mathematics Day celebrated? All about Srinivasa Ramanujan and his valuable contributions
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (334+ words) National Mathematics Day is observed every year on Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan's birth anniversary on December 22. It celebrates his valuable contributions to mathematics. In honour of Ramanujan's accomplishments, the Indian government declared National Mathematics Day in 2012. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh…...
Hallucination in machines: Why AI makes things up
3+ week, 4+ day ago (138+ words) It was to fix ChatGPT's reliability amongst other things, that a slightly panicked Sam Altman declared a Code Red in a memo to his employees, in December. (AP) We go to Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots for research, guidance and emotional…...
Stop hyping Big AI: Smart, small models are the future
4+ week, 1+ day ago (630+ words) The Big Artificial Intelligence (AI) hype machine is running in overdrive. The US and China keep unveiling "revolutionary" new models that supposedly think like humans. Each one is bigger, costlier, and noisier than the last, while burning enough electricity to…...
IIM Mumbai to offer Data Science UG programme from 2026
1+ mon, 7+ hour ago (229+ words) The programme will be offered at a new satellite campus in Pune. The Pune Municipal Corporation has agreed to provide an existing building in the city, which will be refurbished to meet academic and operational requirements | Mumbai news MUMBAI: The…...
‘Want to push boundaries of AI, develop most powerful…’: Google Deepmind’s Pushmeet Kohli |HTLS 2025
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (174+ words) Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli, at HT Leadership Summit 2025, said the lab's mission is to "push the boundaries of AI" and build the most powerful, useful models possible while keeping safety and societal benefit at the core of its work. He…...
Scientifically Speaking: How AI can hunt for ghosts in Earth’s oldest rocks, space
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (455+ words) The problem is that chemistry fades. Over billions of years, heat and pressure scramble these molecules until they look indistinguishable from abiotic carbon, the dead and non-living matter found in meteorites. For decades, this has been the fog of war…...
AI's impact could worsen gaps between world's rich and poor, a UN report says
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (563+ words) BANGKOK " Behind the hoopla over the promise of artificial intelligence lay difficult realities, including how such technology might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world. A new report by the United Nations Development Program notes most of the gains…...