AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
OpenAI’s Top Researchers Are Spending $7,000+ on Codex Per Day
“We are making strong progress toward creating an automated AI researcher by March of 2028,” said the company.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
TCS’ HyperVault to Build 1GW AI Data Centre Campus in Hyderabad with ₹70,000 Crore Investment
TCS’ data centre arm HyperVault has secured 264 acres in Hyderabad for a phased AI infrastructure campus with up to 1GW capacity.
Ajay Rag ·
Pixxel Raises $100 Million in Series C Funding to Expand Planetary Infrastructure
This new investment gives us the scale to turn that vision into planetary infrastructure.
Shalini Mondal ·
NIELIT, Intel Launch Agentic AI Skilling Programmes to Prepare India’s Workforce for AI Era
The two programmes launched under the NIELIT–Intel India Agentic AI Skilling Initiative are ‘Agentic AI for Everyone’ and ‘Engineering Agentic AI Systems’.
Shalini Mondal ·
Voice AI Startup Navana.ai Secures ₹40 Crore Series A Led by Ronnie Screwvala
The startup will use the fresh capital to expand its BFSI deployments and advance speech models across 12 Indian languages and 45 dialects.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Dell Launches uDaan to Skill 23,000 Youths for India’s AI Economy
The programme aims to train 23,000 youth across 190 institutions in AI, cloud computing and electronics manufacturing.
Merin Susan John ·
Spotify Cuts Claude Code Token Usage by 90%
Spotify’s Portal for Backstage routes routine coding-agent tasks to cheaper models, reducing the amount of frontier-model tokens Claude Code consumes.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Jensen Huang Declares AGI
He said GPT-6 Astra was trained on more than 100,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs across NVL72 systems.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
For GCCs, Non-Tech Hiring in India Set to Cross 5 Lakh Roles by 2028
Sales operations, finance and business operations are expected to account for more than 60% of non-tech GCC demand.
Shalini Mondal ·
Havells Brings Agentic AI Voice Control to 2.67 Mn Connected Home Appliances
The voice assistant can understand natural and code-mixed speech, coordinate multiple appliances at once, and retain context across conversations.
Siddharth Jindal ·
IIT Madras-Backed Bodhan AI, AI4Bharat Launch 4 AI Models for Students & Teachers
The models will be offered as Digital Public Goods, with open weights and sovereign APIs that let developers build applications without training language models from scratch.
Siddharth Jindal ·
MongoDB Appoints Richard Scott as SVP for Asia Pacific & Japan
Scott, who brings more than 25 years of experience across the technology sector, joins MongoDB after holding senior roles at Salesforce, Microsoft and SAP.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Genesys Launches New Innovations To Automate End-To-End Customer Service
Snippet: The platform retains information across interactions, determines its actions and coordinates work between AI and human employees while operating within predefined business rules.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Adobe Names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, Shantanu Narayen to Become Executive Chair
The leadership change comes as Adobe expands its focus on agentic software across creativity, productivity and customer experience.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Declares ‘AGI Era’ after Launching GPT 6
The company believes that it is the best model in the world for professional work.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
NVIDIA Confirms $12.9 Bn Deal to Acquire Hugging Face
The AI platform will continue supporting open-source and open-weight models across different hardware, cloud and inference providers.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Adobe Acquires Indian AI Startup Rilo for Marketing Automation
The acquisition gives Adobe access to Rilo’s AI workflow automation technology as businesses adopt agentic AI tools.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Bengaluru’s Makr Microsystems Raises ₹10.2 Cr Led by Bluehill VC
The funding will support Makr’s technology development, customer validation and path towards commercial deployment.
Sanjana Gupta ·
India has the Highest share of AI ‘Frontier Professionals’, Reveals Microsoft
“We’re not going after prompting, speed, and more efficiency. We’re going after judgment, taste, critical thinking, quality control,” said Puneet Chandok, Microsoft India president.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
IBM Ventures Invests in BQP as Physics Platform Enters Production
The investment takes BQP’s total funding to $8 million as it expands its platform beyond aerospace and defence.
Sanjana Gupta ·