AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
HP to Lay Off Up to 6,000 People in AI Push to Save $1 Billion
The affected roles will primarily be in product development and customer support, as demand for AI-enabled PCs continues to grow.
Smruthi Nadig ·
UBTech to Deploy Humanoids on China-Vietnam Border
Under this $37 million deal, the company will start deliveries in December.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Digital Connexion to Invest $11 Billion in Andhra Pradesh for AI Data Centres
The company signed an MoU with the Andhra Pradesh economic development board to develop the project across 400 acres.
Shalini Mondal ·
SoftBank Completes Ampere Acquisition Amid Stock Decline Tensions
Ampere will now be “an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary” once closed and would support SoftBank’s broader AI strategy.
Sanjana Gupta ·
MapmyIndia Joins Zoho CRM for Location Intelligence
The integration aims to strengthen India’s push toward technology built within the country.
Mohit Pandey ·
DHL Rolls Out AI Agents with HappyRobot to Automate Global Operations
DHL is using the technology for appointment scheduling, driver follow-up calls, and warehouse coordination.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Ilya Sutskever Changes His Mind About How to Build Superintelligence
“One of the ways in which my thinking has been changing is that I now place more importance on AI being deployed incrementally and in advance,” said Sutskever.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI Launches ‘Shopping Research,’ Turning ChatGPT Into a Personal Product Advisor
The tool is powered by a specialised version of GPT-5 mini, reinforced specifically for shopping tasks.
Merin Susan John ·
Cornell Tech Secures $7 Million From NASA and Schmidt Sciences to Modernise arXiv
The investment will accelerate arXiv’s migration to cloud infrastructure, upgrade its ageing codebase and develop new recommendation tools to help researchers better discover relevant preprints.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Meta Considers Google TPUs as an Alternative to NVIDIA Chips
Google’s latest model Gemini 3, was also trained on TPUs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Salesforce India Reports 47% Revenue Growth, Ramps Up Push Toward Agentic Enterprise Model
India remains one of Salesforce’s fastest-growing markets, with more than 14,000 employees across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune and Jaipur.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Anthropic Claude 4.5 Opus Beats Gemini 3 Pro in Coding & Agentic Tasks
According to the company, Opus 4.5 delivers stronger real-world software engineering performance.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Cognizant Rolls Out Offering to Reduce IT Downtime and Manual Work
The company says it is a step toward ‘Agentic IT Operations’, where AI agents and automation help enterprises achieve continuous improvement and higher resilience.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
US Launches Genesis Mission for AI‑Driven Scientific Discovery
The mission seeks to transform America’s research infrastructure and secure technological leadership
Shalini Mondal ·
Amazon Expands Satellite Internet with Leo, Commits $50 Bn for AI HPC in US
It rolled out an enterprise preview of Amazon Leo and committed to building new AI and HPC capacity for federal customers from 2026.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Google & Accel to Launch Atoms AI Cohort 2026 for Indian Startups
Together, the two companies will invest $2 million in the startups and $350,000 in compute credits.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Hyderabad’s MIRA Space Telescope Clears NASA-Grade Tests, Set for Launch in December
After completing thermo-vacuum testing, EON Space Labs’ telescope will take a test flight with TakeMe2Space in December 2025.
Sanjana Gupta ·
SEBI Clears Fractal Analytics to Launch India’s First AI IPO
The company is looking to raise about ₹4,900 crore through fresh shares and an offer for sale by existing shareholders.
Siddharth Jindal ·
US Court Upholds $194 Million Penalty Against TCS
Appeals Court confirms damages in CSC/DXC trade secrets case, vacates injunction; TCS says it will seek further review.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
Bengaluru-based AI Startup Wealthy Raises ₹130 Crore for Wealth Management
It works with over 6,000 mutual fund distributors, serving more than 100,000 clients across 1,000 towns, and recruits over 350 distributors every month.
Smruthi Nadig ·