AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Musk Reveals Grok 4.8’s Pre-Training Stack is Written in C++ by ‘Humans’, Not AI
Elon Musk said it was the Starlink software team that wrote the software and “was not written by AI”.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Anthropic’s CI Jobs Grew 25x in 6 Months as Claude Wrote 80% of Code
The number of tests in its codebase grew tenfold with only a nominal increase in engineering staff.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Trump Belittles Anthropic CEO as Calls for Pacing Frontier AI Get Pushback
US President Donald Trump said the only control AI needs is a “strong and smart (high IQ) president”, which he claims the country already has.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Karnataka Approves ₹35 Cr AI Hub at IIIT Bangalore
The initiative will combine industry-linked certification, startup incubation and AI research through an integrated platform with real-world testbeds.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Shopify Ditches React Native, Moves Shop App to Kotlin & Swift
The decision has drawn reactions from React Native developers, who questioned the performance comparisons and whether coding agents alone justify maintaining separate native codebases.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Hyderabad GCC Boom May Add 8–12 Mn Sq Ft of Office Demand Over Next 3–5 Years
GCC leasing in Hyderabad has more than doubled from approximately 1.9 million sq ft in 2021 to 4.5 million sq ft in 2025.
Shalini Mondal ·
Anthropic Blocks Malicious AI Use Linked To Weapons Development
Anthropic said third parties are attempting to misuse Claude for biological and conventional weapons development, raising concerns over the risks posed by frontier AI.
Kileuna Haralu ·
NVIDIA and Palantir Deploy AI Stack for Supply Chain Decisions
The system combines Nemotron models and Palantir Foundry to improve material allocation across NVIDIA’s global supply chain.
Sanjana Gupta ·
New $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions Get Paused as GPT-6 Astra Drives High Demand
Other plans and the API remain available, and existing accounts are not affected.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Microsoft Elevates Rust to a Tier-1 Language
Rust sits among C++, C#, and TypeScript as one of the “best-supported languages” for internal development at Microsoft.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT for Financial Services Built on GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI said GPT-6 Astra can work with figures, tables and supporting notes in financial documents, perform analysis, and generate documentation.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Bosch SDS, Dassault Systèmes Partner to Advance AI-Led Manufacturing in India
Bosch SDS and Dassault Systèmes said their first joint deployment is underway with a leading electric vehicle manufacturer.
Ridhika Basnet ·
OpenAI Agents Used Hidden Online Channels to Communicate With Each Other: Report
OpenAI agents used hidden websites to communicate, finding ways to work around restrictions.
Kileuna Haralu ·
ASML Advances High NA EUV with Samsung, Intel, TSMC
Samsung plans High NA EUV for DRAM, while Intel expands production use as both companies work with ASML on future chipmaking.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Chennai’s Inbound Aerospace Joins Australia’s Space Angel Group for Flight Testing
The partnership will assess testing, recovery, and spaceport infrastructure for Inbound Aerospace’s reusable spacecraft systems.
Sanjana Gupta ·
DeepSeek Launches V4.1-Flash to Make Large-Scale AI Inference Cheaper
DeepSeek says the new model improves coding and agentic workloads while giving users control over its reasoning effort.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Blue Machines AI Launches Aurora Speech Model for Indian BFSI
The model is designed to handle code-mixed speech, financial terminology, telephony noise, and low-bandwidth calls with low latency.
Siddharth Jindal ·
You Can Now Write CUDA Kernels in Rust
The projects, cuda-oxide and cutile-rs, compile Rust kernels natively for NVIDIA GPUs
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Swiggy Credits Snowflake for Making Data Workloads 96% Faster
Swiggy’s data-processing pipeline, which previously took about six hours, now delivers insights in near real-time.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Deloitte Launches Open Model Engineering Practice in India to Scale Agentic AI
Open models add an important dimension to that strategy because they allow enterprises to shape AI around their own data, processes, and context
Shalini Mondal ·