AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
MongoDB Appoints Richard Scott as SVP for Asia Pacific & Japan
Scott, who brings more than 25 years of experience across the technology sector, joins MongoDB after holding senior roles at Salesforce, Microsoft and SAP.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Genesys Launches New Innovations To Automate End-To-End Customer Service
Snippet: The platform retains information across interactions, determines its actions and coordinates work between AI and human employees while operating within predefined business rules.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Adobe Names Anil Chakravarthy as CEO, Shantanu Narayen to Become Executive Chair
The leadership change comes as Adobe expands its focus on agentic software across creativity, productivity and customer experience.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Declares ‘AGI Era’ after Launching GPT 6
The company believes that it is the best model in the world for professional work.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
NVIDIA Confirms $12.9 Bn Deal to Acquire Hugging Face
The AI platform will continue supporting open-source and open-weight models across different hardware, cloud and inference providers.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Adobe Acquires Indian AI Startup Rilo for Marketing Automation
The acquisition gives Adobe access to Rilo’s AI workflow automation technology as businesses adopt agentic AI tools.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Bengaluru’s Makr Microsystems Raises ₹10.2 Cr Led by Bluehill VC
The funding will support Makr’s technology development, customer validation and path towards commercial deployment.
Sanjana Gupta ·
India has the Highest share of AI ‘Frontier Professionals’, Reveals Microsoft
“We’re not going after prompting, speed, and more efficiency. We’re going after judgment, taste, critical thinking, quality control,” said Puneet Chandok, Microsoft India president.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
IBM Ventures Invests in BQP as Physics Platform Enters Production
The investment takes BQP’s total funding to $8 million as it expands its platform beyond aerospace and defence.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Coforge Launches AI Platform to Help Enterprises Build & Run AI Within Their Own Environments
The Coforge AI Launchpad is aimed at enterprises seeking greater control over data, models and AI infrastructure, as companies move open-weight AI from pilots to production.
Ajay Rag ·
Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Alongside New Cybersecurity Model
The model is priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, while its cyber variant is available to trusted defenders through Google’s Fairwind Program.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Razorpay, IndusInd Bank Launch AI Account Manager RAY on WhatsApp for Businesses
RAY lets businesses check payments, track settlements, resolve support issues, and initiate actions through text or voice messages.
Siddharth Jindal ·
SiMa.ai, ARK Electronics Partner to Build Autonomous Drones
The companies will offer production-ready drone computing solutions for commercial, industrial, agriculture and defence applications.
Sanjana Gupta ·
OpenAI Says Its Most Capable Model Astra Can Find Zero-Day Exploits
For now, the company is choosing caution over unrestricted access. Astra is expected to become available soon, but its most powerful cybersecurity capabilities will remain limited initially.
Mohit Pandey ·
Kepler Aerospace Raises $8 Mn to Deploy Swarming ISR Satellites
Bengaluru-based company will use the funding to launch six satellites and expand its mission operations and avionics businesses.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Deeptech Startup Alteon Raises $2.5 Mn Led By Lachy Groom to Make Perpetual flights a Reality
Founded in 2025 by 20-year-old Samay Sanghvi, Bengaluru-based Alteon is working on building high-endurance airplanes.
Kileuna Haralu ·
ITC Infotech, Happiest Minds Merger to Birth a ₹7,000 Cr Company
ITC Infotech will acquire a 22.1% stake in Happiest Minds from its promoters for ₹1,330 crore before merging the two companies through a share swap.
Ajay Rag ·
Anthropic Inks $35 Bn Compute Deal with Lambda: Report
The deal covers about 350 MW of capacity at a Texas data centre being developed by Hut 8, with NVIDIA leasing the underlying facility and Lambda providing compute capacity to Anthropic.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
ChatGPT Ads Hit $1 Billion ARR in Under 200 Days
“The platform is now used by tens of thousands of advertisers and continues to expand globally,” said OpenAI.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Govt’s ₹1,27,500 Cr Semicon 2.0 Cuts Fab Incentives By 10%
Semicon 2.0 will add new funding routes, expand support for machines and materials, and set a pathway toward advanced semiconductor nodes.
Sanjana Gupta ·