AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 With 30% Lower Costs Per Task
The new model costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, while Anthropic says it requires fewer tokens to complete the same tasks.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Apologises for AI Breach in Australia
This comes after PM Anthony Albanese subsequently expressed “extreme concern” to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and criticised the company for taking “way too long” to notify Australian authorities.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
NVIDIA Approves Record $150 Bn Share Buyback as AI Boom Fuels Cash Generation
NVIDIA’s latest addition to its share buyback programme takes the total authorisation to $235 billion.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Anthropic Lost $42 Billion in 2025: Report
Anthropic spent $7.33 billion on computing and infrastructure during the year, about 3x its 2024 spending and more than half of its total operating expenses.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra Release Over Safety Concerns
GPT-6.1 Astra performed worse than its predecessor in terms of accurately communicating what the model has done and following the boundaries set by users.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
SiMa.ai Becomes a Unicorn After Raising $150 Mn to Scale Physical AI
The Series C round values the company at $1.45 billion as it expands into robotics, automotive and drones.
Sanjana Gupta ·
AI Needs $6 Tn Annual Revenue by 2031 to Justify Compute Spending: Bain Report
Bain expects new AI products across autonomous systems, robotics, physical AI, and other emerging applications to drive $4.2 trillion in additional revenue.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AMD Acquires World Labs for $8.2 Bn, Fei-Fei Li to Join as Chief Scientist
The deal brings World Labs’ spatial intelligence research into AMD, with the companies working towards an open AI ecosystem.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Russia’s Sber Launches GigaChat 3.5 Reasoning to Take on Complex AI Tasks
The Russian bank said GigaChat 3.5 Reasoning is the only Russian open-source model with a reasoning mode.
AIM Media House ·
MongoDB CEO Joins Meta to Lead Enterprise AI Platform
Meta announced Desai’s move alongside the launch of its Enterprise Platform.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
India’s Seed Funding Falls 37% to $698 Mn as Investors Favour Proven Bets: Tracxn Report
The tech startup ecosystem recorded 18 funding rounds of $100 million or more during the period.
Shalini Mondal ·
Infosys Plans to Move Up To 33% Workforce for Specialist AI Roles: Report
Infosys has been expanding its AI capabilities and developing specialised roles within its workforce, including AI “builders” and “masters”.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
NVIDIA Creates New Tool to Stop AI Agents From Going Rogue
NVIDIA’s OpenShell creates a security boundary around agents running on Vera CPUs. It tracks what agents do and enforces rules governing their access to data, tools, and APIs.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
India’s GCCs May Have Cut Up To 30,000 Jobs This Year as AI Reshapes Workforce: Report
India’s GCC ecosystem currently employs around 2.4–2.5 million people across more than 2,100 centres.
Kileuna Haralu ·
India Launches AI-First Digital Stack to Connect Fragmented Tourism Ecosystem
The National Digital Tourism Stack will connect tourism providers and travellers across digital platforms, with 1,000+ experiences already transacting on ONDC.
Kileuna Haralu ·
AI Boom Gives India a Major Opportunity to Build Semiconductor Industry: Report
BCG’s Ankush Wadhera reportedly said that rising electronics demand, government incentives and global supply chain shifts are creating opportunities across India’s semiconductor industry.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Sachin Tendulkar Partners With OpenAI to Explore AI, ChatGPT
Sachin Tendulkar will share his experiences with ChatGPT and encourage more people to try it for their own interests and tasks.
Siddharth Jindal ·
IIT Madras Deeptech Fund Raises ₹450 Crore, Targets ₹1,000 Crore Corpus
The fund has already deployed nearly Rs 55 crore across four deeptech startups.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Microsoft Revamps Copilot With Home, Code and Autopilot Capabilities
Microsoft is also introducing usage-based billing for agentic workloads and tools to help organisations manage AI spending
Siddharth Jindal ·
Cognizant, Cognition Claim AI Engineering at Odyssey Logistics Saved 37% Costs
Odyssey Logistics reported a 37% net cost saving after Cognizant used Cognition’s Devin to convert legacy Microsoft Access and Visual Basic for Applications forms into cloud-native software.
Ridhika Basnet ·