AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
ASML Begins India Operations, Links Expansion to Tata Electronics Fab
Semiconductor equipment maker ASML plans to initially hire 20–30 engineering graduates as Tata Electronics develops its Dholera chip fab.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Hacktron Used Claude Opus 5 to Reach OpenAI Internal Repository
Security researchers said Claude helped them turn a libheif vulnerability into a working exploit that was later used to reach an OpenAI employee account and an internal repository.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Dhruva Space Joins Thales Alenia Space to Explore Satellite, Space Infra
The agreement covers low Earth orbit constellations, satellite platforms, series production, and human spaceflight infrastructure between India and Europe.
Ridhika Basnet ·
LLM Watermarking Can Alter AI Agent Tool Calls and Behaviour: Study
A Lasso Security study found watermarking changed individual tool-call outcomes and refusal behavior across several open-weight models, with larger effects under prompt injection.
Ridhika Basnet ·
OpenAI Agents Probed Hugging Face Weeks Before July Breach: Report
Researchers found evidence of account hijacking and network probing in May, nearly two months before OpenAI disclosed the July incident involving Hugging Face.
Ridhika Basnet ·
UN Partners With Google to Build Global Data Infrastructure to Ensure Accurate AI-Generated Analysis
The United Nations is partnering with Google to develop the UN System Data Commons to bring multiple UN agencies into a machine-readable system.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Applied Materials to Invest $5 Bn in India to Expand Semiconductor R&D, Supply Chain
Applied Materials plans to build a 140-acre advanced semiconductor research park in Bengaluru and develop its domestic chip ecosystem.
Kileuna Haralu ·
GitHub Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust
The runtime was originally built on TypeScript, Node.js, and Google’s V8 JavaScript engine.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Tata Sons Board Backs 5-Year Extension for N Chandrasekaran Amid Leadership, Listing Tussle
Tata Sons’ board has approved a fresh five-year term for N Chandrasekaran, reversing his decision last month to step down.
Ajay Rag ·
Lam Research to Invest ₹10,000 Cr in India for Silicon Manufacturing
The semiconductor equipment maker will expand manufacturing and research capabilities in India over the next several years.
Sanjana Gupta ·
HCLTech Launches New Unit to Target $500 Million to $5 Billion Enterprises with AI Services
The company has launched HCLTech Pulse as the IT services company expands its focus on AI, cloud, data, cybersecurity and technology modernisation.
Ajay Rag ·
OpenAI Reveals 6 New AI Incidents
The company has also published a new framework for reporting AI model misalignment.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Databricks Rolls Out GPT-6 Astra to All 3,500 Engineers
Databricks engineers with access to Astra increased their overall coding spend by around 60% compared with the baseline.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Google DeepMind Sees Early Signs of Recursive Self-Improvement Ahead of Gemini 4
Logan Kilpatrick said the feedback loop could help Google close the gap with other frontier AI labs with Gemini 4.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Cloudflare Launches Controls to Block AI Training While Keeping Search Access
New Cloudflare controls allow publishers and businesses to independently manage how their content is accessed for search, AI training, and AI agents.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Perplexity Builds DynamoDB Replacement With 2 Engineers & Hundreds of AI Agents
CobbleDB cuts production batch-read latency by roughly five times, while Perplexity estimates at least 20% lower costs than DynamoDB.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Salesforce Calls SaaSpocalypse ‘Crazy Nonsense’, Projects $50 Bn in FY27
“SaaSpocalypse was not about the end of software, but it may be about the end of software that makes humans do all the work,” said CEO Marc Benioff.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Meta Launches Meta One Subscription With More AI Access, Business Tools
The new plans offer higher usage of Meta AI features, creator tools and Meta Business Agent, with subscriptions starting at Rs. 79 a month.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Meta Launches WhatsApp Business Tool to Let AI Agents Handle Setup
The tool connects AI coding agents including Claude, Codex, and ChatGPT to WhatsApp Business, supporting account setup, phone verification, message templates, and webhooks.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Japan’s Hirata Enters India, Partners with ATS India for Semiconductor Equipments
The Japanese firm will supply semiconductor automation and material-handling equipment as India expands its manufacturing ecosystem.
Sanjana Gupta ·