AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Slack Launches Slack Code to Bring AI Coding Into Team Workflows
The company said the feature lets teams collaborate with coding agents, including Claude, Devin, Copilot, and ChatGPT, in dedicated code channels.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Indian Legal Tech Nonprofit Adalat AI Joins Y Combinator’s Fall 2026 Batch
The organisation will use the accelerator’s backing to expand its speech recognition, case management and paperless courtroom tools across India and other low-resource legal systems.
Siddharth Jindal ·
GitHub Adds 3 Million CPU Cores Post Outage, Monthly Commits Double Since April
Monthly commits have more than doubled from 1.4 billion in April to 2.9 billion in August, while GitHub has accelerated its migration to Microsoft Azure.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Fleetx.ai Acquires Pando.ai to Build Unified Fleet & Freight Platform
The combined entity plans to prepare for a public listing over the next 18 to 24 months, potentially targeting an IPO, and is aiming for ₹300-400 crore in combined revenue on a profitable basis by the time of the listing.
Ridhika Basnet ·
OpenAI’s Codex Helps Asana Cut 5-Year Migration to 2 Weeks, Slashes Costs 500x
The project cost about $12,000 in model and infrastructure usage, compared to roughly $6 million that Asana had previously estimated.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Google Offers Indian Students One Year of Gemini AI Plus for Free
The offer also includes higher usage limits, study notebooks, Deep Research through Gemini Live and new AI-powered learning tools in Google Search.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Brings GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna to Amazon Bedrock in India
The move gives Indian businesses access to in-country inference, with Luna targeting high-volume workloads at lower per-interaction costs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Murf AI Says Falcon 2 Voice Model Beats OpenAI, ElevenLabs on Naturalness
Murf AI plans to price Falcon 1 and Falcon 2 similarly. It also teased that Falcon 3 could arrive in the next couple of months.
Merin Susan John ·
Snowflake Adds Dynamic Model Routing to Cut Enterprise AI Costs
The update also brings DeepSeek-V4-Flash 0731 and GLM-5.3 to Cortex AI, alongside new controls for tracking usage, setting quotas and managing spending.
Siddharth Jindal ·
IBM Connects Cryogenic Modules for Next-Gen Quantum Computers
The company says the system could link hundreds of quantum chips as it works towards its planned 2029 fault-tolerant machine.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Bengaluru’s AlgoFET Raises ₹15 Cr to Scale Autonomous Drone Infrastructure
The startup will expand manufacturing, proprietary technology, and deployments across defence, enterprise, and global markets.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Charles Schwab Opens Hyderabad Tech Centre as Telangana Bets Big on Capital Markets GCC
Hyderabad is home to nine of the world’s top 10 brokerage and trading institutions.
Shalini Mondal ·
Hardware Co Etched Ships First AI Rack to Jane Street as Valuation Hits $21 Bn
The transformer-focused chipmaker has raised $700 million as it moves from building chips to deploying inference systems.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Ex-Cognizant India Head Achal Kataria Joins Avanade as Managing Director and CEO
Kataria will work with clients, partners and employees to accelerate growth and help organisations derive measurable business outcomes from digital and AI transformation.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Blue Machines AI Launches Floe to Detect Language Switching in Conversations
The model supports 11 languages and uses conversational context to distinguish everyday code-mixing from a genuine change in language preference.
Siddharth Jindal ·
India Can Build Indigenous GPU by 2029, Says C-DAC Bengaluru Chief
C-DAC Bengaluru is developing a broader homegrown computing stack spanning CPUs, AI accelerators, RISC-V servers, and chiplets, with a fully indigenous HPC system targeted for 2030.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Nikhil Kamath Invests ₹200 Cr in One of India’s Largest Data Centre Companies
Entrepreneur Sreeram Reddy Vanga adds ₹50 crore alongside Kamath, investing a total of ₹250 crore in CtrlS Datacentres.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Sonata Software Names Hariprasad Rebala Chief AI Officer as AI Push Deepens
Rebala will oversee the IT services company’s AI-led business transformation across its offerings, service delivery, platforms, capabilities, ecosystem and partnerships
Ajay Rag ·
[Exclusive] C-DAC’s 108-Qubit Quantum Computer to Launch by November
The facility is part of India’s broader push to build domestic quantum computing and communication capabilities under the National Quantum Mission.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Indian Army Builds Its Own Multimodal AI With Sarvam 105B
The system is trained on DSSC’s academic repository and supports document analysis, image generation, speech tools, translation, research, and data analytics.
Siddharth Jindal ·