AI News – Page 186
- Pentagon Awards OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI Contracts Worth $200 Mn
The US defence department has awarded the companies contracts to enhance its integration of AI technologies for government missions.
Smruthi Nadig ·
- Uber, Baidu Team Up to Expand Autonomous Rides Globally
Deployment of Apollo Go AVs to Begin in Asia and the Middle East by Year-End.
Sanjana Gupta ·
- Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion to Build Collaborative General Intelligence
It plans to release its first product within the next few months.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Anthropic Launches a Directory of Tools For Claude Connectors
This helps users discover extensions and tools that the Claude AI models can access, both remotely and locally.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
- Trupeer Raises $3 Mn to Automate AI Video Creation for Business Workflows
“We built Trupeer so anyone can turn a simple recording into a polished video that’s clear, searchable, and ready to scale.”
Sanjana Gupta ·
- Bengaluru’s Aimtron Electronics Raises ₹100 Crore for Greenfield Manufacturing Facility
Company to invest in high-capacity plant aimed at ₹1000 crore revenue target.
Sanjana Gupta ·
- Wipro Partners with Cropin to Drive Data Driven Climate Resilience
While the focus is on agribusiness, the joint solutions from Cropin and Wipro are expected to help related industries such as retail, packaged foods, food service, and restaurant chains
Shalini Mondal ·
- Tesla Finally Opens Showroom in Mumbai, Starts With Model Y EV at ₹60 Lakh
Sales are set to begin with deliveries in the third quarter of 2025.
Sanjana Gupta ·
- Experienced Developers are Slower with AI Than Without It, Says METR
Developers may need to rethink their approach to using AI, and evaluate if it is helping them or not.
Ankush Das ·
- SpaceX to Invest $2 Bn in xAI to Expand Grok’s Capabilities
The investment from SpaceX is part of xAI’s $5 billion equity fundraising effort, which was announced by Morgan Stanley last month.
Smruthi Nadig ·
- Cognizant Launches Agent Foundry For Enterprises to Build AI Agents
It supports adaptive operations, real-time decision-making, and personalised customer experiences, empowering organisations to embed agentic capabilities across workflows.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
- Meta to Acquire Voice AI Startup PlayAI
This move aligns with Meta's focus on advancing AI, particularly in developing natural voice generation and enhancing audio content.
Smruthi Nadig ·
- Devin Creator Cognition Acquires Windsurf After Google Poaches Its Founders
“This transaction is structured so that 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Perplexity AI Acquires os.ai Domain From HubSpot Co-Founder
The domain now redirects to Perplexity AI’s agentic browser, Comet.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Apple Will Seriously Consider Buying Mistral: Report
Are acquisitions the way forward for the company to resolve its AI issues?
Supreeth Koundinya ·
- Kimi K2 Thinking Crushes GPT-5, Claude 4.5 Sonnet in Key Benchmarks
The model’s architecture activates 32 billion parameters per inference out of a total of one trillion parameters and supports up to 2,56,000 token context windows.
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Birlasoft Q2 Revenue Rises 3.4% to ₹1,329 Crore; Margin Expands to 16%
Company posts stronger profitability, adds six new deals worth $107 million, and reports higher cash reserves despite softness in manufacturing demand.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
- Microsoft, AWS, Adobe Push for Copyright Clarity in India’s AI Framework
This is a push for legal clarity regarding the use of publicly available data for AI training, which is currently restricted under India’s copyright framework.
Merin Susan John ·
- OpenAI Projects $20 Billion Annual Revenue, Plans $1.4 Trillion Infrastructure Spend by 2033
“We are trying to build the infrastructure for a future economy powered by AI.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
- Karnataka Cabinet Approves Startup Policy to Establish 25,000 Startups Over Five Years
The policy allocates ₹518.27 crore to bolster the startup ecosystem in sectors such as AI and blockchain through funding, incubation, and mentorship.
Smruthi Nadig ·