AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Top Indian IT Firms Added Only 17 Employees in Last 9 Months
TCS was the biggest drag overall after cutting 25,816 jobs, while Infosys, Wipro and HCLTech added employees.
Mohit Pandey ·
OpenAI, ServiceNow Partner to Build AI Agents for Business Workflows
OpenAI will become a preferred intelligence capability for enterprises that collectively run more than 80 billion workflows each year on the ServiceNow platform.
Mohit Pandey ·
Why Tamil Nadu Isn’t Waiting for Students to Visit Tech Conferences
Tamil Nadu's IT minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan believes software development is no longer a default career.
C P Balasubramanyam ·
Google’s Gemini Signs IPL Sponsorship Deal Worth ₹270 Crore
Industry executives say AI-driven brands are increasingly competing with established companies for high-profile cricket sponsorships.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Persistent Extends Growth Run to 23 Quarters, Profit Slips 7% QoQ
Order bookings for the quarter stood at $674.5 million in total contract value and $501.9 million in annual contract value.
Mohit Pandey ·
San Francisco AI Startup Emergent Secures $70 Mn Series B Funding to Grow Its Team
Emergent has raised $100 million and now has over 5 million users creating products across 190 countries.
Smruthi Nadig ·
ElevenLabs Appoints Karthik Rajaram as India Country Head
Rajaram will lead the go-to-market strategy and revenue growth in India.
Siddharth Jindal ·
SanchiConnect Partners With Tamil Nadu & iTNT to Support Deep Tech Startups in Tier-2, 3 Cities
The initiative aims to build a sustainable ecosystem for innovation across key sectors, including climate technology and health tech.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Amazon Worldwide Consumer Ex-CEO Builds Own CRM Tool in 1 Day
The news itself isn’t surprising, but it reflects a broader threat to SaaS from AI.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Raana Semiconductors Raises $3 Mn Seed Funding for Silicon Ingot Systems
RSPL aims to reduce reliance on imported silicon ingots and wafers by enabling local manufacturing.
Sanjana Gupta ·
NVIDIA Invests $150 Million in AI Inference Startup Baseten
The deal underscores a strategic shift as the AI industry pivots from model training to large-scale deployment.
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
Sunita Williams Retires From NASA After 27-Year Career
Sunita Williams logged 608 days in orbit and also became the first person to run a marathon in space.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Eternal’s Deepinder Goyal Resigns, Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa to Take Over
Deepinder Goyal emphasised his desire to pursue high-risk projects outside of Eternal's scope.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Unilever Considers GCC in Hyderabad, Cites City’s Growing Global Appeal
Unilever expressed interest in evaluating Hyderabad as a potential location for its GCC operations
Shalini Mondal ·
India to See Up To $150 Bn AI Infrastructure Investments in 2026: Ashwini Vaishnaw
At the World Economic Forum, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw signalled a major escalation in India's AI ambitions.
Pallavi Chakravorty ·
Adobe Unveils AI Video Innovations, $10 Million Grants Ahead of Sundance Film Festival
The Adobe Film & TV Fund, totaling $20 million, supports diverse filmmakers and will spotlight their work at Sundance.
Smruthi Nadig ·
RMZ Group to Invest $10 Billion in GCC Park, Data Centre in Andhra Pradesh
These projects will create around 100,000 jobs across IT services, data centres, industrial and logistics sectors.
Shalini Mondal ·
Energy Tech Startup Cloover Secures $1.2 Bn to Build AI Operating Systems for Europe
Cloover aims to be a global, decentralised energy platform to deliver affordable, independent energy.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Telangana Unveils Life Sciences Policy 2026–30 at Davos, Targets $25 Bn Investments
The policy proposes developing 10 Pharma Villages and expanding Genome Valley and the Medical Devices Park.
Shalini Mondal ·
OpenAI Introduces Age Prediction on ChatGPT to Add Safeguards for Teens
OpenAI said teens who already declare they are under 18 during sign-up automatically receive these safeguards.
Siddharth Jindal ·