Uber to Introduce 25,000 EVs in India Amid Clean Car Push

As part of its first step towards adopting green vehicles, Uber Technologies announced on 27th February that it would offer 25,000 electric vehicles (EVs) for ride-sharing in India over the course of three years. According to Prabhjeet Singh, president of Uber India and South Asia, the EVs would be purchased by Uber's fleet partners from Tata Motors, India's largest electric vehicle manufacturer. "We are going to be a big catalyst in accelerating the (EV) ecosystem," Singh told Reuters. The federal and state governments of India are pushing for a higher electrification of shared taxis, a market that is now dominated by BluSmart, a local competitor of Uber that specialises on electric mobility.

Platforms Like ChatGPT Won't Replace Jobs, Will Be a Co-Worker: TCS

Platforms for generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT, according to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will produce a "AI co-worker" rather than eliminate jobs. According to Milind Lakkad, chief human resources officer (CHRO) of the largest IT services company in the nation with over 6 lakh employees, such solutions can help increase efficiency without altering business models for organisations. "..it (generative AI) will be a co-worker. It will be a co-worker and that co-worker will take time for them to understand the context of the customer," Mr Lakkad said in an interview with PTI recently. According to Lakkad, the context for a job to be carried out will be industry- and customer-centric and will continue to emanate from the person who is receiving assistance from such a coworker.