AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
US Biopharma Co Syneos Health Opens 137,000 Sq Ft Global Life Sciences and Technology Centre in Hyderabad
The centre is Syneos Health’s largest facility in Asia and third-largest globally.
Shalini Mondal ·
Claude Discovers CRISPR-Like Enzyme System as Anthropic Expands Into Wet-Lab Biology
The company says Claude identified a novel enzyme system in bacteriophages after analysing over 2,00,000 reverse transcriptases.
Merin Susan John ·
Navana.ai Launches Bodhi TTS at 60% Lower Price Than Sarvam
Bodhi TTS offers sub-100ms response times, instant voice cloning and fine-grained pronunciation control for enterprise voice applications.
Siddharth Jindal ·
MeitY Shortlists CoRover, Kyndryl for Agentic AI Platform: Report
MeitY has shortlisted CoRover and Kyndryl Solutions to develop a reusable agentic AI platform for government services, with DigiLocker set to become its first use case.
Kileuna Haralu ·
India’s GCCs Face AI Shift as Nearly 70% Remain Stuck at Pilot Stage: Report
By 2030, Indian GCCs are reportedly set to become engines of agentic transformation.
Merin Susan John ·
Brahma AI Raises $150 Mn in Preferred Share Funding Led by Multiples
Brahma AI, which counts Warner Bros, NBA, and Mayo Clinic among its customers, plans to use the capital to expand R&D, global operations, and AI-powered content applications.
Merin Susan John ·
Microsoft Offers Copilot Discounts of Up to 50% as It Prepares AI Super App: Report
The reported discounts target large enterprise customers as Microsoft shifts Copilot toward usage-based billing and prepares a unified application for coding and AI agents.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Sol Emerges From Stealth With $4 Mn Haul to Build AI Assistant for Email Management
The startup says its assistant proactively identifies email commitments and automates the process of researching, documenting, and drafting replies.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Meta Tests Human Contractors to Handle Calls for Muse AI Agent: Report
Meta rolled back a test that used human contractors to handle some calls placed through its personal AI agent Muse after facing internal criticism over privacy and disclosure concerns.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Qualcomm Unveils New Snapdragon Chips With On-Device AI at the Core
The chips can run AI models locally, with features including personalised AI agents, voice processing, advanced camera controls and support for 30-billion-parameter models.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Claude Opus 5.5 Performs On Par With Fable 5.1, 40% Cheaper than Opus 5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are scheduled to be released in the coming weeks.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna With 50% Lower API Prices
OpenAI said improvements in inference and prompt caching let it reduce serving costs while maintaining stronger performance.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
CoRover.ai Partners With Tech Mahindra to Take India-Built AI to Global Markets
CoRover.ai and Tech Mahindra will combine their AI platforms to develop sovereign, enterprise, and agentic AI solutions for customers in India and global markets.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AMD Joins $1 Trillion Club as Chipmakers Rally on AI-Driven Demand
AMD has crossed a $1 trillion market valuation for the first time as investors bet on its growing role in AI computing and demand for AI chips.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Delinea Joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing to Use AI Against Its Own Security Code
The initiative will apply AI-driven defensive cybersecurity techniques to Delinea’s own systems.
Shalini Mondal ·
Delvitech to Invest Up to $30 Mn in Bengaluru Manufacturing Facility, Create 800 Jobs
The 65,000-square-foot facility is expected to become operational in Q1 2027 and is projected to create 500–800 jobs over the next five years
Shalini Mondal ·
Matters.AI, Cockroach Labs Launch Data Security Integration for DPDP-Regulated Data
The integration maps sensitive data in CockroachDB to the users, roles and privileges that can access it, while keeping raw data within the customer’s infrastructure.
Merin Susan John ·
Google Hit With $440 Mn Penalty for Breaching EU Privacy Rules Over Location Data
Ireland’s data protection regulator fined Google for violating EU privacy rules over how it processed users’ location data between 2018 and 2020.
Kileuna Haralu ·
OpenAI’s Model Cracks 100+ Maths Problems, Surprises Its Own Mathematicians
The company is now establishing an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Alibaba Unveils New AI Chip, Plans to Train New 5-10 Trillion Parameter Models
The company said the new chip delivers three times the performance of the preceding M890 and can be deployed in clusters containing up to 500,000 chips for frontier-model training and inference.
Supreeth Koundinya ·