Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap has opened largely because India has chronically underinvested in R&D, institutions, and invention. Meanwhile, since no one native language is spoken by the majority of the population, training language models is far more complicated than it is elsewhere. So when the open-source foundation model DeepSeek-R1 suddenly outperformed many global peers, it struck a nerve. This launch by a Chinese startup prompted Indian policymakers to confront just how far behind the country was in AI infrastructure--and how urgently it needed to respond.

The coronavirus may have been in Los Angeles around Christmas, before the novel coronavirus was officially identified in the United States, according to researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Washington. The team of researchers discovered a spike in patients with acute respiratory failure and coughs at UCLA Health hospitals and clinics around late December 2019, when they analyzed health records, according to a press release from the university. The findings published in a report in the Journal of Medical Internet Research suggest that novel coronavirus may have been surfacing in the area months before the first case was officially identified. Researchers said an increased number of patients with respiratory complaints starting in late December 2019 and continuing through February 2020 suggests SARS-CoV-2 community infections were present prior to official awareness of cases in the U.S. (iStock) The team of researchers analyzed more than 10 million UCLA Health System outpatient, emergency department and hospital facility records between Dec. 1, 2019, and Feb. 29, 2020 – months just before there was an awareness of the presence of the novel coronavirus in the United States. They discovered patients seeking treatment for coughs in the outpatient clinics "increased by over 50% and exceeded the average number of visits for the same complaint over the prior five years by more than 1,000," the study press release stated.

Residents walking down the streets of Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, could face chastisement from drones flying overhead. China is allegedly using drones to keep a watchful eye over its residents, to ensure they're taking the appropriate precautions to keep the coronavirus at bay. In addition, it's also believed that the nation is using robots in hospitals to alleviate the pressure from over-worked medical staff and to provide faster checks of the virus. Many news sources coming from China are sharing these methods, meant to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Huge stress and challenges have been added to medical workers in China due to the coronavirus outbreak.