AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Bengaluru-Based Alchemyst AI Expands to the UK
The UK office will serve mid-market enterprise teams across the UK and EU.
Shalini Mondal ·
OpenAI Is Not for Sale, says Sam Altman
Altman believes Musk is trying to slow OpenAI down because he is a competitor.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Lennox India Expands Chennai GCC With $6 Million Investment
The expansion increases the facility’s size to 150,000 sq. ft. and will enable the workforce to grow from 900 to 1,500 employees.
Mohit Pandey ·
Zoom Expands Phone Services to Chennai, Brings AI Capabilities to Businesses
Zoom Phone, in Chennai, marking its expansion into the Tamil Nadu Telecom Circle. This follows the company’s rollout in the Maharashtra Telecom Circle in October 2024.
Shalini Mondal ·
Hugging Face’s New Small Language Model Outperforms Rivals
A new challenger enters the small language model race.
Ankush Das ·
'Bengaluru Will Give India its First Foundational AI Model'
“As India, Bangalore not only creates the future of India but also saves it, driving innovation and progress at national and global scale,” he said.
vandana.nair ·
Computer, Mathematical Occupations Show Highest Associated AI Usage Rate: Anthropic
Roughly 36% of all occupations use AI for at least a quarter of their associated tasks.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Microsoft Copilot is a ‘Huge Disaster,’ Says Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
"Customers don’t look at them and don’t take them seriously in AI, nor should they, because they’re not even making the AI themselves. "
Siddharth Jindal ·
Perplexity AI Looks to Expand Operations in India
“I am looking to recruit someone to work together on growing Perplexity in India,” says Aravind Srinivas.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AWS Transform Has Saved ~335 Developer Years of Work In the Last 12 Months
AWS’s record Q3 earnings were attributed to a strong momentum in enterprises using the cloud service for AI workloads.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Mphasis Posts 11.4% YoY Revenue Growth; Deal Wins Ease to $528 Million After Record Quarter
The company says its early, focused investments in AI have positioned it as a strategic partner for clients navigating their transformation journey.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
DMRC Signs MoU with Mappls MapmyIndia to Integrate Delhi Metro Data into Mappls App
The MoU with DMRC follows a recent announcement about a similar agreement between Indian Railways and Mappls MapmyIndia.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Launches Aardvark, an AI Agent for Automated Security Research
The agent continuously monitors code repositories to find and validate vulnerabilities, assess their exploitability, and propose targeted patches.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Adobe Expands GenStudio to Let Brands Build Their Own AI Models for Ads
The updates are designed to help creative and marketing teams integrate generative AI and AI agents directly into content production workflows.
Merin Susan John ·
Microsoft’s Losses from OpenAI Investment Rise 492% Year-on-Year
Losses from Microsoft’s OpenAI investment widened to $3.1 billion in Q1 FY2026, up from $523 million a year ago.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Persistent Launches Experience Transformation Studio to Scale AI-Powered Innovation
The studio’s design-led architecture features flexible workspaces, including design thinking and workshop areas for innovation sprints and journey mapping and solution development.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
NVIDIA Plans to Invest Up To $1 Billion in AI Startup Poolside: Report
Poolside is in talks to raise $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation, excluding prior funding.
Smruthi Nadig ·
IBM Partners with AICTE to Launch National AI Lab in New Delhi
At the core of this initiative is IBM SkillsBuild, IBM’s global education platform offering more than 1,000 courses in AI and emerging technologies.
Shalini Mondal ·
Canva Rolls Out AI-Powered Creative OS, Makes Affinity Free for All
The company has made its competitor to Adobe Photoshop free for all.
Ankush Das ·
NVIDIA’s 260,000 GPUs to Supercharge South Korea’s AI Ambitions
Samsung, Hyundai, SK Group and NAVER to lead this national drive to build massive AI Infrastructure.
Sanjana Gupta ·