AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Moltbook Data Exposure Shows 1.5 Mn AI Agents Tied to Only 17,000 Users
Database misconfiguration at Moltbook allowed unauthorised access to user emails, API keys, and private messages.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Adobe Backtracks Animate Shutdown After User Backlash
Adobe had earlier said it would retire the 2D animation software amid AI focus.
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
LPL Financial Opens GCC in Hyderabad to Create Next Gen Tech
LPL Financial expects to create hundreds of roles over the next three to five years
Shalini Mondal ·
Logistics Automation Co Vanderlande Opens India Innovation Centre in Pune
Vanderlande India is the company’s second-largest technology hub globally.
Shalini Mondal ·
Perplexity Releases Advanced Deep Research Upgrade, Open-Sources DRACO Benchmark
Perplexity claimed the tools achieved industry-leading accuracy across real-world research benchmarks.
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
IIT Madras Releases India’s First Cancer Genome Database
This covers data pertaining to leukaemia, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers
Merin Susan John ·
Fintech Tops Karnataka Tech Funding in 2025 With $1 Bn Investments: Report
Karnataka-based tech companies raised a moderate $3.8 billion in 2025.
Shalini Mondal ·
Cerebras Valuation Triples in 6 Months After Securing $1 Bn Funding
Cerebras Systems is valued at $23 billion after the Series H funding.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Sam Altman Pans Anthropic Super Bowl Ad, Defends ChatGPT Ad Model
Anthropic recently ran a Super Bowl campaign promoting its AI assistant Claude.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google Plans $175+ Bn AI Infra Capex on Back of Strong Q4 Earnings
Google Cloud posted the fastest growth across Alphabet’s businesses.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google Expands India Presence With Major Bengaluru Office Lease
Google has signed a lease for a tower at Alembic City in Bengaluru.
Siddharth Jindal ·
ElevenLabs Raises $500 Mn at $11 Bn Valuation
ElevenLabs closed 2025 with more than $330 million in annual recurring revenue, driven by enterprise adoption of ElevenAgents.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Anthropic says Claude will Remain Ad-Free
“Our users won’t see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to their conversations with Claude; nor will Claude’s responses be influenced by advertisers or include third-party product placements our users did not ask for.”
Siddharth Jindal ·
Cognizant Bookings Hit $28.4 Billion, Q4 Revenue Rises 4.9%
Trailing 12-month voluntary attrition in tech services declined to 13.9%.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
Climate-Tech Startup Varaha Secures $20 Million to Expand Carbon Removal Projects
Varaha scales smallholder farmer-led climate solutions to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Prachi Pradhan ·
Musk Under Fire as France Raids X Offices Over Deepfakes
X’s Paris offices were raided amidst an ongoing probe against X over "fraudulent extraction of data.”
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
US Bank Citizens Financial Group, Infosys Partners on AI Strategy, Bengaluru Hub
The collaboration will support the development of scalable, agent-ready capabilities.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
Apple Brings Agentic Coding to Xcode with Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex
Xcode 26.3 is available as a release candidate starting February 4 for Apple Developer Program members.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Ahead of IPO, Fractal Analytics Shrinks Issue Size by 40%
Fractal Analytics is poised to become India’s first public pure-play AI company.
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
SC Pulls Up WhatsApp, Meta Over Data Sharing, Questions ‘Opaque’ Privacy Policies
"You cannot play with the privacy of our country,” the Supreme Court warned Meta.
Pallavi Chakravorty ·