AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Claude Continues to Suffer Outages, Services Down for 3+ Hours
Anthropic said the disruption on August 24 involved elevated errors affecting requests to multiple models, including Claude Opus 5, Mythos 5, Opus 4.8, and Fable 5.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Paul Graham Says He Would Learn to Build LLMs If He Were 17
The Y Combinator Co-Founder said startup ideas should come after building a deep understanding of the technology.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Hyderabad-Based WATER Bags $2.5M to Build 'Bio Physical Intelligence'
The Hyderabad startup said its VORTEX model powers the FLOW chair and CAMA bed, with potential applications in automotive and aviation.
Ridhika Basnet ·
WazirX Launches India’s First AI Co-Pilot for Crypto Trading
Alongside WazirX AI, the company is launching a Paper Trading Sandbox that gives every user a simulated $100,000 balance.
Shalini Mondal ·
A Mysterious AI Model Called Ox Alpha Is Winning Over Developers
Early tests have put the model ahead of several leading AI systems on software engineering tasks.
Siddharth Jindal ·
NVIDIA in Talks to Invest in Perplexity at $30 Bn Plus Valuation: Report
The talks come as Perplexity’s annualised revenue crosses $750 million, fuelled by rapid growth in its AI search and agent products.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Hugging Face Explores Sale at Valuation of $13 Bn: Report
The reported valuation would be nearly 3x Hugging Face’s last known valuation of $4.5 billion in 2023.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Shopify CEO Builds Open-Source Git Server Over a Weekend
Tobias Lütke said he was inspired by Cursor’s “Git at Scale” post, which came just as he was frustrated with Shopify’s internal Git system.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Sam Altman Admits He Was Wrong on AI Adoption Timelines
Altman observed that people and companies tend to continue using the products and workflows they are familiar with even as new technology becomes available.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Scaler Launches Forward Deployed Engineer Programme, Commits ₹25 Crore to Train 10,000 Enterprise AI Engineers
According to the company, demand for FDEs has grown 729% year-on-year.
Shalini Mondal ·
Anthropic Tops OpenAI’s Annual Revenue on the Way to the Wall Street: Report
The company is projecting up to $200 billion in revenue by 2028 as it ramps up spending on AI infrastructure and talent.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Slack Launches Slack Code to Bring AI Coding Into Team Workflows
The company said the feature lets teams collaborate with coding agents, including Claude, Devin, Copilot, and ChatGPT, in dedicated code channels.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Indian Legal Tech Nonprofit Adalat AI Joins Y Combinator’s Fall 2026 Batch
The organisation will use the accelerator’s backing to expand its speech recognition, case management and paperless courtroom tools across India and other low-resource legal systems.
Siddharth Jindal ·
GitHub Adds 3 Million CPU Cores Post Outage, Monthly Commits Double Since April
Monthly commits have more than doubled from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion in August, while GitHub has accelerated its migration to Microsoft Azure.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Fleetx.ai Acquires Pando.ai to Build Unified Fleet & Freight Platform
The combined entity plans to prepare for a public listing over the next 18 to 24 months, potentially targeting an IPO, and is aiming for ₹300-400 crore in combined revenue on a profitable basis by the time of the listing.
Ridhika Basnet ·
OpenAI’s Codex Helps Asana Cut 5-Year Migration to 2 Weeks, Slashes Costs 500x
The project cost about $12,000 in model and infrastructure usage, compared to roughly $6 million that Asana had previously estimated.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Google Offers Indian Students One Year of Gemini AI Plus for Free
The offer also includes higher usage limits, study notebooks, Deep Research through Gemini Live and new AI-powered learning tools in Google Search.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Brings GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna to Amazon Bedrock in India
The move gives Indian businesses access to in-country inference, with Luna targeting high-volume workloads at lower per-interaction costs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Murf AI Says Falcon 2 Voice Model Beats OpenAI, ElevenLabs on Naturalness
Murf AI plans to price Falcon 1 and Falcon 2 similarly. It also teased that Falcon 3 could arrive in the next couple of months.
Merin Susan John ·
Snowflake Adds Dynamic Model Routing to Cut Enterprise AI Costs
The update also brings DeepSeek-V4-Flash 0731 and GLM-5.3 to Cortex AI, alongside new controls for tracking usage, setting quotas and managing spending.
Siddharth Jindal ·