AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Python Foundation Gets $1.5 Mn Investment From Anthropic
“We intend to create a new dataset of known malware that will allow us to design novel tools.”
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Salesforce Announces General Availability of Slackbot as Personal AI Agent for Work
Slackbot functions as an out-of-the-box employee agent that understands how work gets done.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google Updates MedGemma With Imaging Support, Launches MedASR for Clinical Dictation
Both models are available via the AI community Hugging Face and Google Cloud’s development platform Vertex AI.
Siddharth Jindal ·
TCS, AMD Team Up to Push Enterprise AI Beyond Pilots
Both firms plan to jointly invest in building a pool of talent that can design, deploy, and scale next generation AI systems.
Mohit Pandey ·
Voice AI Startup Deepgram Picks Up $130 Mn, Looks to Serve QSR Chains
Deepram will use the funding to expand globally and support more languages through its voice AI technology.
Smruthi Nadig ·
IG Defence Secures Army, Navy Orders for Indigenous Counter-Drone System
IG Defence will deliver and induct the system within a month, the company said, with production entirely in India.
Sanjana Gupta ·
OpenAI’s Bengaluru Workshop Helps Nonprofits Scale AI for Social Impact
The ‘Nonprofit AI Jam’ brought together nonprofit organisations working across education, public health, skilling, climate action, and gender inclusion.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
LTTS Rides $200 Crore Deal Streak to Strong 10% Q3 Growth
Net profit came in at ₹329 crore, up 2.1% from the same quarter last year, while operating margin stood at 14.6%.
Mohit Pandey ·
Elon Musk Admits Anthropic Has Done ‘Something Special With Coding’ Despite xAI Being Blocked
Musk says upcoming Grok 4.2 could surpass Claude in several areas, coding would not be one of them.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Ola Electric Extends 4680 Bharat Cell Platform to Indian Startups
Ola Electric has opened its residential battery energy storage system, Ola Shakti, for third parties.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Google Launches Market Access Programme to Scale Indian AI startups
Google also extended the MedGemma 1.5 and FunctionGemma open-source models for Indian AI health startups.
Siddharth Jindal ·
81% of Enterprises Now Run or Test Autonomous AI Agents: HCLSoftware
84% of enterprises expect AI powered low code and no code platforms to scale inside their businesses within the next 18 months.
Mohit Pandey ·
GrowthPal Announces $2.6 Mn Funding to Enhance its AI-Driven M&A
The investment will expand GrowthPal’s global presence as demand for faster inorganic growth strategies rises.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Vellore Institute of Technology Alumni is Thinking Machines Lab’s New CTO
Mira Murati’s startup is undergoing leadership changes with three co-founders leaving the company.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 Better Than Claude Opus 4.5 for Long Autonomous Tasks, Says Cursor
Claude Opus 4.5 tends to stop earlier and take shortcuts when convenient, said Cursor.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Claude Code Finally Fixes the Huge Issue With MCPs
Tool search enables Claude to work with ‘hundreds or thousands of tools’ by dynamically discovering and loading them on demand.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Gemini Introduces Personal Intelligence to Connect Gmail, Photos and Other Google Apps
The feature can be used for recommendations on travel, entertainment and shopping, based on users’ past activity.
Siddharth Jindal ·
HCLTech Elevates Sandeep Saxena to Drive India-led Growth Push
HCLTech is sharpening its focus on India and MEA as AI revenues surge.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
Infosys Adds 5,000 Jobs in Q3 While TCS & HCLTech Keep Cutting
Infosys attrition dropped to 12.3%, while TCS reported 13.5% attrition and HCLTech at 12.4% over the same period.
Mohit Pandey ·
OpenAI to Test Ads on ChatGPT Free and Go Tiers in the US
OpenAI said it will not show ads to users under 18 and that ads will not appear near sensitive or regulated topics such as health, mental health or politics.
Siddharth Jindal ·