AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
ASCI Issues New Guidelines For AI-Generated Ads And Creator Consent
The guidelines set disclosure requirements for synthetic content and address the use of people’s images, voices and endorsements in AI-generated advertising.
Kileuna Haralu ·
MongoDB’s India Team Leads Development of New Core Capabilities
The company has over 750 employees in India across its Gurugram, Mumbai, and Bengaluru offices, and began operations in 2013.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Trump & Big Tech Leaders Sign Voluntary ‘Super Intelligence’ Safety Accord
The US President also directed US government agencies to use the term ‘super intelligence’ instead of ‘artificial intelligence’ when referring to the technology.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Kavitha Srinivasulu Joins Persistent Systems as Chief Cyber & AI Security Officer
Srinivasulu will oversee AI security, risk advisory, and cybersecurity and work across leadership teams at Persistent Systems.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Target Expands Bengaluru GCC With New Campus in Manyata
The new facility will connect Target’s 5,700+ employees across its operations in the city.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Coforge Appoints Akhil Gupta as Chairperson for 5 years
Coforge has appointed former Bharti Enterprises Vice Chairman Akhil Gupta as its Chairperson and Non-Executive Independent Director for five years.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
HCLSoftware to Acquire Robotiq.ai, Add RPA to Agentic AI Platform
HCLSoftware plans to acquire Croatia-based Robotiq.ai, adding RPA capabilities to HCL UnO Agentic for enterprise task execution.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
IBM, Yotta Launch Sovereign Agentic AI Platform for Enterprise Workflows
The platform combines IBM’s AI-agent technology with Yotta’s sovereign cloud infrastructure to help organisations deploy and govern AI agents.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Samsung to Invest $1 Bn in NVIDIA-Backed AI Infrastructure Firm Helix
The investment will support data centre, power and network infrastructure for growing AI compute demand.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 With 30% Lower Costs Per Task
The new model costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, while Anthropic says it requires fewer tokens to complete the same tasks.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Apologises for AI Breach in Australia
This comes after PM Anthony Albanese subsequently expressed “extreme concern” to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and criticised the company for taking “way too long” to notify Australian authorities.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
NVIDIA Approves Record $150 Bn Share Buyback as AI Boom Fuels Cash Generation
NVIDIA’s latest addition to its share buyback programme takes the total authorisation to $235 billion.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Anthropic Lost $42 Billion in 2025: Report
Anthropic spent $7.33 billion on computing and infrastructure during the year, about 3x its 2024 spending and more than half of its total operating expenses.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra Release Over Safety Concerns
GPT-6.1 Astra performed worse than its predecessor in terms of accurately communicating what the model has done and following the boundaries set by users.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
SiMa.ai Becomes a Unicorn After Raising $150 Mn to Scale Physical AI
The Series C round values the company at $1.45 billion as it expands into robotics, automotive and drones.
Sanjana Gupta ·
AI Needs $6 Tn Annual Revenue by 2031 to Justify Compute Spending: Bain Report
Bain expects new AI products across autonomous systems, robotics, physical AI, and other emerging applications to drive $4.2 trillion in additional revenue.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AMD Acquires World Labs for $8.2 Bn, Fei-Fei Li to Join as Chief Scientist
The deal brings World Labs’ spatial intelligence research into AMD, with the companies working towards an open AI ecosystem.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Russia’s Sber Launches GigaChat 3.5 Reasoning to Take on Complex AI Tasks
The Russian bank said GigaChat 3.5 Reasoning is the only Russian open-source model with a reasoning mode.
AIM Media House ·
MongoDB CEO Joins Meta to Lead Enterprise AI Platform
Meta announced Desai’s move alongside the launch of its Enterprise Platform.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
India’s Seed Funding Falls 37% to $698 Mn as Investors Favour Proven Bets: Tracxn Report
The tech startup ecosystem recorded 18 funding rounds of $100 million or more during the period.
Shalini Mondal ·