AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Google Rolls Out Lower-Cost AI Plus plan globally
Google's AI Plus subscription is now available in India, priced at ₹399 per month post the introductory offer.
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
SoftBank in Talks to Invest an Additional $30 Bn in OpenAI: Reports
The investment would add to SoftBank’s existing 11% stake in OpenAI.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Launches Prism, an AI Workspace for Scientific Writing
Prism harnesses GPT-5.2, OpenAI’s latest model for mathematical and scientific reasoning.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Meta Signs Up to $6 Bn Fibre Supply Deal With Corning
Meta said it currently has 26 data centres under construction or in operation across the US.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Coforge, Innovaccer Partner to Drive AI-led Transformation in Healthcare
Innovaccer’s Gravity AI platform, with Coforge becoming the preferred platinum implementation partner.
Shalini Mondal ·
Padma Shri Row Puts IIT Madras in Political Crossfire
The spat triggered when Congress's Kerala unit posted a sarcastic remark about Kamakoti’s win, drawing comparisons with research on “cow urine”
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
Anthropic Adds Interactive Work Tools such as Figma, Slack Inside Claude
The new capability is built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard created to connect AI applications with external tools.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Chennai’s Mindgrove to Launch V2600 Surveillance Chip by Late 2026
“Security is built directly into the silicon, ensuring visual data remains protected from capture through processing.”
Sanjana Gupta ·
4baseCare Raises ₹90 Cr to Scale AI-Driven Precision Oncology Platform
Funding led by Ashish Kacholia and Lashit Sanghvi will fuel global expansion and growth of the OncoTwin AI platform.
Merin Susan John ·
Western Union, HCLTech Launch AI-led GCC in Hyderabad
The centre will leverage HCLTech’s AI-powered platforms, including AI Force.
Shalini Mondal ·
Swiggy Now Lets You Order Via ChatGPT
Following similar moves by companies such as Zepto, Zerodha, and Zomato, Swiggy has launched an MCP-based integration.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Qualcomm Ventures backs SpotDraft, valuation nears $400
The AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform secured $8 million from Qualcomm
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
NVIDIA Unveils Open Earth-2 Models for AI Weather Forecasting
Earth-2 includes new Medium Range, Nowcasting and Global Data Assimilation models, each built on a new architecture.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K2.5 With Vision-Based Coding and Agent Swarms
The company is developing frontier models with 1% of the resources used by big US labs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
NVIDIA Invests $2 Billion in CoreWeave, Expands AI Infrastructure Partnership
The companies also plan to test and validate CoreWeave’s AI-native software and reference architecture.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Microsoft Unveils Maia 200, Aims to Counter Google TPU and Amazon Trainium
Maia 200 will support multiple models, including the latest OpenAI GPT-5.2 models.
Siddharth Jindal ·
India’s Data Centre Surge to Drive 3x Growth in Cooling Market: Govt White Paper
Scaling AI data centres will require an additional 45-50 million square feet of real estate by 2030.
Shalini Mondal ·
Softbank Buys DigitalBridge for $4 Bn to tap Data Centre Infrastructure
SoftBank intends to capitalise on the surge in digital infrastructure driven by AI advancements.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Manus Skips Funding at $2 Bn Valuation to Join Meta: Report
Meta said that Manus’s team will join the company to help develop general-purpose AI agents across Meta’s products.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Mukesh Ambani Unveils Draft ‘Reliance AI Manifesto’, Aims 10x Productivity Boost
Mukesh Ambani said that the manifesto aims to transform Reliance into an AI-native deep tech company.
Shalini Mondal ·