AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Mahindra Finance, Sarvam Scale Voice AI to Over 1 Cr Calls
The deployment now covers customer outreach, collections, and field-level employee feedback across 12 Indian languages.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Anthropic Discloses Fourth Hacking Incident It Initially Missed
An early version of Claude Opus 4.6 accessed a third-party system during a January cybersecurity test, gaining administrator access, harvesting credentials, and reading one person’s information.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
MSD Opens 2.5 Lakh Sq Ft Technology Centre in Hyderabad as Telangana Pushes Life Sciences Beyond Manufacturing
The new centre will bring together teams working across digital, data, analytics, AI, technology and engineering.
Shalini Mondal ·
US Suspends Cognizant’s Green Card Filings Amid Visa Fraud Investigations
The suspension applies to new PERM filings and does not, by itself, cancel existing green card cases or terminate Cognizant employees' H-1B status.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Shopify Acquires Tailwind
Tailwind Labs said its open-source projects will remain MIT-licensed, with the existing team continuing to lead and maintain them with Shopify’s support.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
IDFC FIRST Bank, Sarvam AI Partner to Build a Self-Improving Bank
The joint R&D lab will focus on frontier research, model post-training, real-world outcome feedback, and regulator-grade AI safety for financial services.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Grok Bot Was Built in Just Four Weeks
A handful of employees worked in a separate part of the office and used private Slack channels, letting them make rapid product decisions without the coordination required for a larger project.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Bengaluru’s QNu Labs Raises ₹200 Cr in Series A1 Round
The funding takes the quantum cybersecurity company’s total capital raised to ₹375 crore.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Amazon Strikes Qualcomm Deal for AI Chips, Challenging Nvidia
This deal marks a major push into AI inference chips and data-centre infrastructure.
Kileuna Haralu ·
BharatPe Brings Agentic AI to Merchants With New AI Suite
BharatPe’s new tools use voice, multilingual support, and personalised video to handle merchant requests and help users understand their credit profiles.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Meta Launches Muse AI Agent With Internet Access Guardrails
Meta says Muse uses a dedicated virtual machine and a separate Sentinel system to control internet access, credentials, and sensitive actions.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Accenture, Google Cloud Launch Gemini Enterprise Business Group
Accenture and Google Cloud’s partnership will create a 1,000-person forward engineering workforce.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google DeepMind’s New Tool Maps All 9 Bn DNA Mutations in Humans
AlphaGenome Atlas helps scientists prioritise variants, investigate their molecular effects, and uncover genetic links to rare diseases and common traits.
Siddharth Jindal ·
GalaxEye Becomes First Indian Startup to Secure US Patent for Satellite Imaging Technology
GalaxEye’s patented technology addresses a fundamental challenge in Earth observation
Shalini Mondal ·
Bevel Gears India Opens Aerospace Facility in Bengaluru, Targets ₹500 Cr Revenue by 2029
The 70,000 sq ft facility will manufacture precision gearing for aerospace and defence programmes, from development through serial production.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Swiss Startup Jaipur Robotics Raises €4.3 Million to Expand AI Automation Across Industrial Plants
“We are living in an energy crisis. It would be insane to just let landfill sit somewhere occupying space and generating pollutants when you could extract value from it.”
Kileuna Haralu ·
260% Jump in Agentic AI Demand as Routine Tech Work Faces Automation, Finds CIEL HR
Agentic AI Engineers recorded the highest growth among emerging technology roles tracked by CIEL HR.
Shalini Mondal ·
Mistral Secures €3 Bn Funding Led by Samsung at Over €21 Bn Valuation
The company said the funding will expand its frontier AI research, increase compute capacity to train models, scale infrastructure, and support its commercial growth and international expansion.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Mathematician Alleges OpenAI Pursued Navier–Stokes Breakthrough After Learning of His Work
Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI began pursuing an internal proof of finite-time blow-up for forced Navier–Stokes after learning about his work with Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Agnikul Cosmos Opens Facilities to Test Reusable Rocket Stages Under Flight-Like Conditions
The new infrastructure will support post-flight inspection, requalification and faster production of critical launch vehicle components.
Siddharth Jindal ·