AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Google’s Project Suncatcher Satellite Generates First AI Response in Orbit
The prototype generated its first AI response using an onboard TPU, as Google prepares to test the hardware against radiation and thermal stress.
Ridhika Basnet ·
DeepSeek Proposes Super-Agent Architecture to Automate AI Coding Workflows
The proposed system reported a 15.7-minute 95th-percentile task completion time in simulated tests, compared with 29.5 minutes for a single-session approach.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Arrowhead AI Launches Fletch Voice Model for Multilingual Customer Calls
The text-to-speech model powers more than one million calls daily and delivers approximately 30% better pronunciation accuracy on selected terms, according to the company.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Amazon Warns Engineers Against AI Productivity Traps in Latest Memo
The company said that metrics that often grab attention, such as token usage, the number of AI tools used, code changes, the number of reviews, and more, are “deeply flawed”.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Gnani AI Launches Prisma v3.0 Speech Recognition Model for 10 Languages
The company’s Prisma v3.0 supports nine Indian languages and English, with the company reporting lower transcription error rates than competing models on a multilingual benchmark.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Venttup Raises $3 Million To Expand Precision Manufacturing
The company will use AI to improve supplier intelligence and B2B sourcing as it expands its precision manufacturing capabilities.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Articul8 Launches Bivia To Help Enterprise AI Agents Make Decisions
The company has launched Bivia, a multimodal decision model designed to help enterprise AI agents make domain-specific decisions and verify evidence across different data formats.
Kileuna Haralu ·
NVIDIA Launches Open-Weight Transcription Model for 40 Languages
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe supports speaker attribution, speech translation and custom transcript formats. NVIDIA reports a 4.71% mean word error rate across nine English benchmark test sets.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Sarvam AI Rolls Out Indus Cowork to 2,500 Maharashtra Govt Officials
The state is among India’s first to commit to sovereign AI across its administration, with Sarvam AI deploying Indus Cowork to 2,500 officials under a two-year agreement worth ₹11.26 crore.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Coforge Introduces Autonomous Software Factory to Coordinate AI Agents
The IT services firm has not disclosed customer deployments or quantified gains from its new model for AI-driven software engineering.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
SAP India Targets 2 Million People for AI Skilling by 2030
Manish Prasad, President and Managing Director, SAP Indian Subcontinent, said nearly 13% of its target has already been reached through certification, student education and community programmes.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Google Announces Gemini 4 Carbon With Focus on Cybersecurity and Coding
The model scored 88.2% on a vulnerability detection benchmark and will initially be available to selected cybersecurity defenders.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Sarvam, Krutrim Account for 68% of Indic AI Funding as Sector Raises $687 Million: Tracxn
Indic AI companies raised $399 million in 2026 through October 15, with Sarvam accounting for about 87% of the year's funding, according to Tracxn.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Alphabet Revenue Jumps 25% as Google Cloud Doubles & Search Growth Slows
Despite the growth, advertising revenue fell short of market expectations.
Siddharth Jindal ·
‘You’re Not Doing This AI Stuff,’ Databricks CEO Tells Snowflake
Ali Ghodsi claims its AI platform has helped customers cut token spending by 30% even as usage increased, while Snowflake’s CEO seeks greater transparency on revenue growth.
Siddharth Jindal ·
HCLTech Launches Nano GCC Model With AWS to Build AI Operations
The offering targets enterprises with existing GCCs and mid-market companies seeking to establish AI-focused teams in India, with an initial rollout across Asia Pacific.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Microsoft’s Azure Revenue Grows 48% in September Quarter
CFO Amy Hood said the company expects capital expenditure to reach approximately $170 billion for calendar-year 2026, with spending accelerating in the second half as delayed third-party capacity deliveries come online.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
GitHub Expands Infra With 4 Mn Cores, Debuts Copilot Fusion for Multi-Model Routing
GitHub is also rolling out critical safeguards to protect software supply chains, including AI-powered code scanning to check every pull request and repository.
Kanishk Singh ·
IIIT Hyderabad and NPCI Sign MoU to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Digital Payments
The MoU provides a framework for joint research and development to address emerging cybersecurity challenges in digital payments.
Mark Philip Jayan ·
KPIT Bets on AI for Margin Growth as Q2 Revenue Growth Stays Weak
EBITDA margin rose to 17.8% in Q2 FY27, while net cash fell to ₹620.5 crore from ₹901.7 crore in the previous quarter.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·