AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Cisco Joins IIT Delhi to Launch Technology Hub for India's AI, Cybersecurity Capabilities
The Cisco Technology Hub aims to boost AI and cybersecurity research, innovation, and talent development in the Indo-Pacific region
Novinston Lobo ·
Dabur Partners with Accenture to Build AI-Powered ‘Digital Brain’ Across Enterprise
Accenture will also support Dabur in redesigning talent strategies, operating models, and governance frameworks.
Shalini Mondal ·
Razorpay Hires AI Leaders from Microsoft, Salesforce, CRED and Divyam.ai
The company said the appointments will help build AI systems capable of supporting financial decision-making across payments, banking, risk and developer platforms.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AI4Bharat, Josh Talks AI Design Real-World Multimodal AI Evaluation Platform
The platform will help governments and enterprises compare AI models using deployment-specific evaluations across Indian languages, accents, and dialects.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Activate Invests in Sarvam AI's Series B Round
The funding adds to Sarvam’s efforts to build foundation models and AI infrastructure in India.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Yotta Looks to Expand Indian Client Base, Launches ₹10,000 Free Credits Programme
The platform is hosted entirely across Yotta's own Indian data centres, providing in-country inferencing, low latency and data residency.
Novinston Lobo ·
OpenAI Calls Apple’s Lawsuit ‘Careless & Personal’
The ChatGPT maker published emails and internal messages, alleging Apple misrepresented key events before suing over former Apple executives now working at OpenAI.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Anthropic Launches In-Country Claude Inference in India With Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic also announced new enterprise partnerships, expanded its Bengaluru team, and unveiled initiatives spanning cybersecurity, research, and Indian language AI.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Palantir Reports 93% Revenue Growth, Pushes ‘Benchmarking’ Over AI Leaderboards
Palantir is now focusing on enterprise-specific AI benchmarks, sovereign fine-tuning, and open-weight models instead of frontier benchmark rankings.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Commerce-Focused Enterprise AI Startup Kily Bags ₹30 Cr Led by Sorin Investments
Razorpay and Wyser Capital also backed Kily, an autonomous AI platform for brands across e-commerce and quick commerce.
Merin Susan John ·
Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max To Become First Open-Weight Max Model
Qwen3.8-Max offers competitive results versus GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Claude Fable on several public benchmarks.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI’s Unreleased Astra Model Solves 10 Long-Standing Math & Computer Science Problems
The company also released research papers, Lean-certified proofs, and the model’s reasoning walkthroughs for each result.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Nurix AI Rebrands to NuPlay AI, Targets 4x Growth
The rebranding follows NuPlay AI’s acquisition of Verloop.io, which expanded its conversational AI capabilities.
Merin Susan John ·
PM Modi Lays Foundation Stone for South India's First ISM-Approved Semiconductor Facility in Visakhapatnam
The project will begin operations with an initial investment of over ₹460 crore in partnership with South Korean semiconductor company APACT Co.
Shalini Mondal ·
Smallest AI Raises $13 Mn to Build Real-Time Voice AI
The startup plans to bring its speech-to-speech technology to sectors including financial services, healthcare and contact centres.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Amazon Bets $220 Billion As CEO Says AWS Could Reach a $1 Trillion in Annual Revenue
The company said most of the spending will go towards AWS data centres, servers, networking equipment and AI infrastructure, while warning it still expects capacity constraints through 2026 and into 2027.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Thinking Machines Shrinks Inkling to 12B Active Parameters Without Giving Up Performance
The open-weight model supports text, image and audio reasoning with a context window of up to one million tokens.
Siddharth Jindal ·
IBM, Sarvam to Build Sovereign AI Stack for Governments, Regulated Sectors in India
The partnership will use IBM's GovTech AI Innovation Centre in Lucknow to pilot AI deployments before scaling them across public sector organisations.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Visa Cuts 2,600 Jobs in AI-Led Restructuring, Tech & Product Teams to be Affected: Report
The company is laying off around 2,600 employees, or 7% of its global workforce, as the payments giant restructures to improve efficiency and redirect investments towards AI and other high-growth businesses.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Apple Warns ‘100-Year’ Memory Crunch is Far From Over
Apple reported a record June-quarter revenue of $109.4 billion, driven by a 22% jump in iPhone sales.
Supreeth Koundinya ·