AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Infosys Plans to Move Up To 33% Workforce for Specialist AI Roles: Report
Infosys has been expanding its AI capabilities and developing specialised roles within its workforce, including AI “builders” and “masters”.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
NVIDIA Creates New Tool to Stop AI Agents From Going Rogue
NVIDIA’s OpenShell creates a security boundary around agents running on Vera CPUs. It tracks what agents do and enforces rules governing their access to data, tools, and APIs.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
India’s GCCs May Have Cut Up To 30,000 Jobs This Year as AI Reshapes Workforce: Report
India’s GCC ecosystem currently employs around 2.4–2.5 million people across more than 2,100 centres.
Kileuna Haralu ·
India Launches AI-First Digital Stack to Connect Fragmented Tourism Ecosystem
The National Digital Tourism Stack will connect tourism providers and travellers across digital platforms, with 1,000+ experiences already transacting on ONDC.
Kileuna Haralu ·
AI Boom Gives India a Major Opportunity to Build Semiconductor Industry: Report
BCG’s Ankush Wadhera reportedly said that rising electronics demand, government incentives and global supply chain shifts are creating opportunities across India’s semiconductor industry.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Sachin Tendulkar Partners With OpenAI to Explore AI, ChatGPT
Sachin Tendulkar will share his experiences with ChatGPT and encourage more people to try it for their own interests and tasks.
Siddharth Jindal ·
IIT Madras Deeptech Fund Raises ₹450 Crore, Targets ₹1,000 Crore Corpus
The fund has already deployed nearly Rs 55 crore across four deeptech startups.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Microsoft Revamps Copilot With Home, Code and Autopilot Capabilities
Microsoft is also introducing usage-based billing for agentic workloads and tools to help organisations manage AI spending
Siddharth Jindal ·
Cognizant, Cognition Claim AI Engineering at Odyssey Logistics Saved 37% Costs
Odyssey Logistics reported a 37% net cost saving after Cognizant used Cognition’s Devin to convert legacy Microsoft Access and Visual Basic for Applications forms into cloud-native software.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Google to Test AI Chips in Space With Project Suncatcher
The mission will assess how Google’s TPUs handle radiation, vibration, and thermal extremes in low Earth orbit.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Sarvam Launches Vision 2.1 With Improved Document Intelligence Across 22 Indian Languages
Sarvam says the updated model delivers stronger table extraction, form field recognition, and handwritten text processing, while reducing hallucinations and inference costs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Oracle Moves to Shield Itself From Delays at New Mexico AI Data Centre: Report
However, Oracle said Project Jupiter remains on schedule despite delays and regulatory hurdles affecting its power infrastructure.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Telangana Targets 5 GW Data Centre Capacity by 2029 as Microsoft Opens Hyderabad Cloud Region
The expansion comes as Hyderabad sees a shift towards AI-scale infrastructure.
Shalini Mondal ·
Akamai Signs $11.6 Bn Cloud Deal With Anthropic
The seven-year agreement will support Anthropic’s growing CPU workload demand, with the partnership potentially expanding to $20 billion.
Siddharth Jindal ·
White House Asks OpenAI, Anthropic to Hold Models From UK Testers: Report
The request could affect AISI’s longstanding arrangement with leading AI labs, under which the UK institute has received pre-release access to frontier models for safety and security testing.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Elon Musk Says He is ‘Optimistic’ About Releasing a GPT-6-Level Model
“We will keep accelerating,” he said.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Databricks Acquires Row Zero to Bring Governed Spreadsheets to Genie
The deal will let business teams analyse live enterprise data, build models and collaborate while keeping permissions, data lineage and agent actions auditable.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Genesys Wins ₹283 Cr World Bank-Funded Contract for Ahmedabad Digital Twin
As part of the project, around 25 lakh properties will be surveyed, geocoded, and assigned unique digital identities
Shalini Mondal ·
India’s Data Centre Boom is Creating Jobs Beyond Technology Roles: Report
Data centre-related job postings in India rose to 1.3% in August, with demand spanning software, engineering, management, sales, and project management roles.
Kileuna Haralu ·
L&T Technology Services, Cognite to Expand Industrial AI Offering With CoE
LTTS has partnered with Cognite to develop industrial AI solutions and established a Centre of Excellence with more than 50 certified engineers.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·