AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
OpenAI to Deploy 10 Gigawatts of In-House AI Accelerators with Broadcom Partnership
Deployment of the racks is expected to begin in the second half of 2026 and conclude by the end of 2029.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Ex Manchester United Player Uses ChatGPT to Negotiate Contract at New Club
Demetri Mitchell used the AI tool, and finalised a deal on his own while moving to Leyton Orient, from Exeter City FC.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Andrej Karpathy Releases nanochat, a Minimal ChatGPT Clone
The repo consists of about 8,000 lines of code and covers the entire pipeline.
Siddharth Jindal ·
GalaxEye Finalises Launch of 'Mission Drishti' Satellite in Q1 FY26
The company is planning a constellation of eight to 12 satellites by 2029 to deliver near-real-time global imaging.
Sanjana Gupta ·
CrashPlan to Double its Workforce with New Bengaluru GCC
The company plans to double the workforce again as the Bengaluru GCC grows into a hub for engineering, sales, support, AI innovation, product development, and R&D.
Shalini Mondal ·
Sridhar Vembu, Ashwini Vaishnaw Call MapMyIndia ‘Decades of R&D Ahead of Google Maps’
The government also revealed plans to sign an MoU with MapMyIndia to integrate Mappls’ GIS applications in the railway sector.
Mohit Pandey ·
NVIDIA Unveils New Partners & Plans across AI Networking, Compute, OCP
The company confirmed new NVLink Fusion partnerships with Intel and Samsung Foundry, as well as the expansion of its partnership with Fujitsu.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Databricks Benchmark Tests AI on Enterprise Tasks That Demand ‘Unforgiving Accuracy’
On the benchmark, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 Agent solved 37.4% whereas OpenAI’s GPT-5.1 Agent scored 43.1% on the full data set.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Google, Telangana Govt Launch ‘Google for Startups Hub’ in Hyderabad
The Hub will offer selected startups a year of free coworking space and access to Google experts in AI/ML, among other benefits.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Bengaluru-based Voice AI Startup SuperBryn Raises $1.2 Mn Led by Kalaari Capital
The startup has received the pre-seed funding through Kalaari’s CXXO initiative, which supports Indian female-led startups launched in 2021.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Virtusa Acquires SmartSoC Solutions, Supplements Cloud Services with Semiconductor Chip Design
The deal puts Virtusa at the forefront of AI and chip design as demand for advanced silicon chips accelerates.
Smruti S ·
Intel Moves Closer to Acquiring AI Chip Startup SambaNova, Signs Term Sheet: Report
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan also serves as chairman of SambaNova.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Launches First Certification Courses to Build AI Skills
OpenAI is working with Coursera, ETS, and Credly to ensure the courses meet standards for learning design, measurement, and portability
Siddharth Jindal ·
Adobe Brings Photoshop, Express and Acrobat to ChatGPT
The tools are available free to ChatGPT users on desktop, web and iOS.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Amazon to Invest $35 Billion in India by 2030, to Expand AI Initiatives & Add 10 Lakh Jobs
The company has already invested ~$40 billion in India over the last 15 years.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Google Rolls Out AI Plus Subscription in India at ₹399 Per Month
The plan gives access to Gemini 3 Pro, along with the image generation and editing model, Nano Banana Pro.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Mphasis Appoints Punit Sood as Independent Director
Sood currently serves as an independent director on the boards of ICICI Bank and NPCI.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
SpaceX Targets 2026 IPO to Raise Over $25 Billion: Report
SpaceX will reportedly use the IPO proceeds to build space-based data centres and purchase the chips needed to run them.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Starcloud Becomes First to Train LLMs in Space Using NVIDIA H100
The company trained Google’s Gemma and nano-GPT.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Reliance Jio Expands Free Google AI Pro Access to Users of All Ages
Every Jio 5G user now gets Google AI Pro, free for 18 months (worth ₹35,100 per user).
Siddharth Jindal ·