AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
TCS, Vodafone Business Team Up to Drive AI-Led Digital Transformation for UK Enterprises
The partnership builds on VodafoneThree's £11 billion investment to create the UK's best network for business.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Blacksmith Raises $45 Mn in Series B Led by Peak XV at $550 Mn Valuation
The startup said it will use the capital to expand into a broader suite of coding tools and help developers write, validate and merge software faster.
Merin Susan John ·
Karnataka Launches Tathyakosh to Make 1.5 Million Public Datasets Easier to Find
The platform developed by the Karnataka government’s Centre of Excellence in AI brings data from 458 sources.
Shalini Mondal ·
Z.ai Launches GLM-5.3 With Gains in Coding and Cybersecurity
Z.ai said the model weights will be publicly released two weeks after launch, following safety evaluation and hardening.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Samsung Strengthens India HVAC Manufacturing with New FläktGroup Facility in Pune
The new facility will manufacture cooling equipment for AI data centres, with FläktGroup planning annual production capacity of up to 6,500 HVAC units.
Ridhika Basnet ·
DeepSeek Releases V4 Pro and Open-Source Harness
The China-based AI lab has also increased its prices for the V4 family of models.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Aheesa Digital Innovations Signs MoU With Tamil Nadu Govt for ₹250 Cr Semiconductor Design Centre
Aheesa recently initiated its MPW process for VIHAAN-I, its broadband networking System-on-Chip (SoC) based on the RISC-V architecture
Shalini Mondal ·
Gemini 3.7 Flash Arrives as Google’s Frontier Model Delay Continues
The model has been released just weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser Steps Down
Dali Rajic, former President and COO of Wiz, will succeed Dresser.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Databricks Raises $5 Bn at $190 Bn Valuation as Revenue Run Rate Tops $7 Bn
The company said Lakebase has crossed a $100 million revenue run-rate, while more than 1,000 customers now generate over $1 million in annualised revenue each.
Siddharth Jindal ·
L&T's Vyoma.AI Lands NVIDIA 10K-GPU Deal
L&T will deploy a 10,000-GPU NVIDIA B300 AI Factory at Vyoma.AI's gigawatt-scale Chennai data centre campus to support Together AI's AI Native Cloud platform.
Ridhika Basnet ·
SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.6 to Take On GPT-5.6 and Fable 5
The company says the model can handle multi-step research, coding and app-building tasks while checking and refining its own work along the way.
Siddharth Jindal ·
CodeRabbit Raises $143 Mn as AI Coding Agents Generate More Code
The company is expanding beyond AI code reviews with tools that prioritise changes, explain large pull requests and monitor software for security risks.
Siddharth Jindal ·
i-Hub Gujarat, SanchiConnect Scale Accelerator to Support 30 Defence, Aerospace Startups
The second cohort brought together 30 startups and more than 20 investors and corporate leaders at a two-day Demo Day.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Sarvam AI Takes Indus to 2,500 Maharashtra Govt Officials
The platform will help officials research policies, draft replies, translate documents and process records while keeping government data within India.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Lovable Raises $400 Mn to Build the AI Platform for Business Software
The company says its platform now powers more than 60 million projects and receives over 900 million monthly visits, with businesses using it to build internal tools and replace existing software.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Coforge Launches New Business Unit Focused on Private Equity Sector
The company has launched a dedicated private equity business unit as PE firms increasingly look to technology and AI to improve portfolio-company performance, margins and valuations.
Ajay Rag ·
Indian Chip Startups Nearly Match 2025’s Entire Funding Total in H1 2026
According to the report by Speciale Invest and Startup Policy Forum, it took only seven rounds to raise $61.9 million in H1 2026.
Merin Susan John ·
N Chandrasekaran to Step Down as Tata Sons Chairman, Won’t Seek Reappointment
N Chandrasekaran will step down as Tata Sons chairman in February 2027, ending months of uncertainty over his succession.
Ajay Rag ·
Samsung Cuts Month-Long Chip Verification to Two Days With Claude: Report
Samsung assessed that the Claude-assisted workflow was roughly 15 times faster.
Supreeth Koundinya ·