AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Oracle Wins $7 Bn US Department of War Software Contract
The 10-year agreement creates a central procurement vehicle for Oracle software, cloud services, and AI offerings across the US Department of War.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AMD Expands Roadmap Through 2030, Helios in Full Production
AMD confirmed that the Instinct MI500 Series will launch in 2027, followed by the MI600 Series in 2028.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
AMD, Cerebras Enter Partnership to Combine Helios and Wafer Scale Engine
By separating inference processing across the two compute platforms, the companies say the architecture can deliver up to 5x higher tokens per second per watt than a Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine-only configuration.
AIM Media House ·
Infosys AI Revenue Share Climbs to 8.2% in Q1 Even as it Lowers Guidance on Uncertain Demand
IT major Infosys has named insider Ashiss Kumar Dash as CEO Designate, who will succeed Salil Parekh from April 2027.
Ajay Rag ·
JAN AI & VTU Bring Human-Centred AI Training to Women Engineering Students
The company is training women engineers to use AI to address local challenges instead of focusing solely on automation.
Prachi Pradhan ·
ServiceNow AI Crosses $1 Bn ACV as Enterprise Demand Lifts Q2 Revenue
The AI annual contract value has topped $1 billion as agentic AI deployments surged ninefold in nine months. The company raised full-year subscription revenue guidance after beating Q2 estimates.
Ajay Rag ·
ServiceNow Invests $40 Mn in BUSINESSNEXT to Accelerate Autonomous Banking
The companies said the investment will be used to expand autonomous banking capabilities and private AI deployments for banks and financial institutions.
Siddharth Jindal ·
GitHub Tightens Bug Bounty Rules as AI Changes Security Research
GitHub is introducing a VIP bug bounty tier and limiting new researchers' submissions as it seeks to curb low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports.
Prachi Pradhan ·
AI4Bharat Builds 4,000-Test Benchmark, Finds AI Judges Fail Half the Time
AI4Bharat has created FOCUS, a benchmark designed to measure how well evaluator VLMs detect mistakes across both image-to-text (I2T) and text-to-image (T2I) tasks.
Prachi Pradhan ·
Uber Co-Founder’s Startup Raises $1.7 Bn Led by a16z
The funding consolidates Travis Kalanick’s businesses under a single equity structure as Atoms expands its industrial AI strategy across manufacturing, mining, transport and food.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
AMD and Kimi Deliver 3.2× Lower Latency for Coding
AMD and Moonshot AI rebuilt the inference software behind Kimi's coding model for AMD GPUs, reporting up to 3.2× lower tail latency and 7.7% higher token throughput on agentic workloads.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
US Accuses Moonshot AI of Distilling Anthropic’s Fable to Build Kimi K3
The allegations mark the latest escalation in the US-China AI rivalry, bringing model distillation and intellectual property protection back into focus.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AMD to Invest Up to $5 Bn in Anthropic, Supply Up to 2 GW of MI450 GPUs
Anthropic will use AMD’s Helios systems for training and inference, while AMD adopts Claude across its engineering teams.
Siddharth Jindal ·
STT GDC India Launches Rajasthan’s First High-Performance Data Centre in Jaipur
With the launch, STT GDC India has expanded its national network to 34 data centres across 10 cities.
Shalini Mondal ·
Google Launches Mythos Rival Flash Cyber, Gemini 4 Enters Pre-Training
The much-awaited Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in testing with partners ahead of a broader release.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Utho Cloud Plans 10,000 GPUs to Scale India's AI Infrastructure
Utho Cloud will deploy NVIDIA H200, H100, A100, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, and L4 GPUs over the next two years.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Microsoft & Mistral Announce Multibillion-Dollar AI Infrastructure Partnership in Europe
The announcement comes as governments and enterprises in Europe seek greater control over where AI models run and how sensitive data is handled.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face Systems During Cybersecurity Test
The evaluation ran models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable, unreleased model.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Cognizant Lands Centene Mega Deal Worth Over $500 Mn: Report
Cognizant’s multi-year engagement with US health insurer Centene could be worth as much as $1 billion.
Ajay Rag ·
Accenture Names Ex-McKinsey Partner Pradeep Prabhala to Lead India Business
Prabhala succeeds as lead of Accenture’s India Market Unit at a time when the consulting and IT services major is sharpening its focus on AI-led enterprise transformation.
Ajay Rag ·