AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Boeing-Backed Wisk Tests its First Autonomous eVTOL for Passenger Flight
Generation 6 is intended for commercial use, with planned launch markets including Houston, Los Angeles and Miami.
Sanjana Gupta ·
NVIDIA picks CloudThat as First Education Services Partner in India
CloudThat’s NVIDIA-certified trainers will offer learners access to GPU labs, curated environments, pre-built models, and AI tools.
Merin Susan John ·
Persistent, DigitalOcean Partner to Make AI Accessible, Scalable
With the collaboration, the companies project reducing AI infrastructure and operational costs by more than 50%.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
Bristol Myers Squibb, Accenture Launch AI-Powered Content Hub in Mumbai
Mosaic is part of Bristol Myers Squibb’s broader $130-million investment in AI initiatives and AI-enabled capabilities across marketing
Shalini Mondal ·
Zuppa Geo Navigation, IISc Bengaluru Set Up Drone Centre of Excellence
The centre will focus on research, design, and testing of drone systems, with an emphasis on autonomous platforms.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Google Launches CC, an AI Agent to Manage Email and Daily Tasks
The initial rollout prioritises Google AI Ultra and paid subscribers aged 18+, with a waitlist open for other users who want early access.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Abu Dhabi-based G42 Unveils Open-Source Hindi-English Model NANDA 87B
Built on Llama-3.1 70B, NANDA 87B has been trained on more than 65 billion Hindi tokens.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google Commits $8 Million to India’s AI Centres of Excellence, Backs Health, Language and Clean Energy Initiatives
The four AI Centres of Excellence supported by Google.org are based at IISc Bengaluru, IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras and IIT Ropar.
Siddharth Jindal ·
NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 Open Models to Power Multi-Agent AI Systems
The Nemotron 3 lineup includes Nano, Super and Ultra models built on a hybrid latent mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Mumbai Tops Office Leasing for BFSI GCCs Despite Bengaluru’s Talent Edge
GCCs are likely to absorb around 30 million sq. ft. annually between 2025 and 2030.
Shalini Mondal ·
Cognizant Opens Cyber Defence Centre in Bengaluru
The Bengaluru facility has become Cognizant’s largest CDC, delivering AI-powered, platform-centric managed cybersecurity services to global clients.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
In Just 28 Days, OpenAI Built Sora's Android App Using Codex
“Forget React Native or Flutter; the future of cross-platform is just Codex,”
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Soon After $1 Bn OpenAI Deal, Disney Accuses Google of AI Copyright Infringement
Disney’s counsel wrote that Google is infringing the company’s copyrights “on a massive scale” by ingesting its content into its AI training pipelines
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Cognizant Begins Work on 8,000 Seat Visakhapatnam Campus
The company will invest ₹1,583 crore to build the 22 acre campus in 3 phases by 2033.
Mohit Pandey ·
Trump Cracks Down on State AI Regulations, Launches National Policy Push
The order, titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, represents the administration’s most decisive move yet.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Time Names AI’s Power Brokers as 2025 Person of the Year
The cover features a reimagining of “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” with tech leaders sitting in place of ironworkers.
Mohit Pandey ·
Google’s New Deep Research Agent Scores SoTA Results on Benchmarks
On the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark, Deep Research Agent scored 46.4%, outperforming OpenAI’s GPT-5 Pro (38.9%).
Supreeth Koundinya ·
CAMB.AI, Kompact AI by Ziroh Labs to Optimise Voice Synthesis LLMs for CPUs
The partnership aims to enable CAMB.AI’s multilingual voice models to run on standard CPUs.
Smruti S ·
C-DAC, ideaForge Sign MoU to Use Drones for Faster Emergency Response
C-DAC and ideaForce look to address how agencies can deploy drones to provide real-time information to police, fire, and medical teams.
Sanjana Gupta ·
All Maharashtra Police Stations to Get Microsoft-Powered AI Cybercrime Tool
MahaCrimeOS enables investigators to link related cases, analyse digital evidence, and respond to emerging threats more quickly and precisely.
Supreeth Koundinya ·