AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Samsung to Train 20,000 Indian Students in AI
The company’s fourth edition of the Samsung Innovation Campus programme is delivered alongside the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
SpaceXAI Releases Grok Bot, a ‘24x7’ AI Teammate
Grok Bot is available in early beta to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Premium Teams subscribers on desktop and iOS.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap Leaves After 8 Years to Start New Venture
Lightcap’s exit follows a recent reshuffle of OpenAI’s leadership team, with the executive saying he plans to share details of his next venture soon.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Quantinuum, Oracle Bring Quantum Computing to OCI
Quantinuum’s Helios will be integrated with OCI’s HPC and GPU infrastructure, giving customers a single environment to run hybrid quantum-classical workloads.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google, Lightspeed to Host AI Sprint for India’s Consumer Tech & Fintech Startups
The one-day programme will focus on making AI commercially viable, covering infrastructure, CAC, margins and deployment.
Merin Susan John ·
Discovered Materials Raises $9 Mn to Solve Silicon’s Overheating Problem
The round saw participation from Peak XV Partners and angels Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram, and Thariq Shihipar.
Merin Susan John ·
xAI Co-Founder Igor Babuschkin’s Startup River AI Raises $1.1 Bn to Build Custom AI Models
River’s API lets enterprises fine-tune and run reinforcement learning on open-weight models without building or managing their own AI infrastructure.
Siddharth Jindal ·
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard for Agentic AI
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning delivers up to four times faster output and 30% faster agentic task completion than other models in its class.
Siddharth Jindal ·
IBM and Together AI Sign $240 Mn Deal to Build NVIDIA B300 Inference Cluster
Together AI will use the infrastructure to increase inference capacity and bring down the cost of serving open-source models to enterprise customers.
Siddharth Jindal ·
NASA Wants ISRO to Join its Moon Base Programme
The invitation marks a new step in US-India cooperation on lunar exploration and deep space missions.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Pathway Claims 11x Lower AI Reasoning Costs With 150M-Parameter Model
The company has reached a $500 million valuation, following additional funding, taking total seed funding to $30 million
Shalini Mondal ·
TCS, Google Cloud Launch Gemini Experience Center in Mexico
TCS’ second Latin America centre features 3,000+ AI agents to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption.
Merin Susan John ·
ideaForge Now Has a Drone Taking Off Every 2 Minutes; Q1 Revenue Reaches ₹68.6 Cr
The drone maker reported positive EBITDA and said it aims to complete its opening FY27 order book by the third quarter.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Piyush Goyal Calls for AI-Enabled Government e-Marketplace for Intelligent Procurement
Union Minister Piyush Goyal said there needs to be deeper AI use in price intelligence, price sanity, and marketplace integrity as government procurement crosses ₹20 lakh crore.
Ridhika Basnet ·
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber Through Daybreak for Advanced Security Research
OpenAI says the model has already helped identify vulnerabilities across Chrome’s V8 engine, databases, mobile operating systems, and kernels.
Siddharth Jindal ·
NVIDIA Taps Apollo, BlackRock and Others to Fund $500 Bn AI Infrastructure Buildout
NVIDIA says the model will rely on independent investor underwriting, with demand, utilisation, cash flow and residual value assessed for each project.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Lightstorm Secures ₹2,500 Crore From IndusInd Bank to Build India AI Superhighway
The network will span 30,000+ km of terrestrial fibre and 21,000+ km of subsea fibre, connecting more than 100 data centres globally.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Acumatica Opens Global Capability Centre in Hyderabad, Starts With Over 30 Employees
The centre will initially focus on engineering, while its mandate could expand into other disciplines as the operation matures.
Shalini Mondal ·
Meta Returns to Open Weights With Muse Spark 1.2 & Muse Glimmer
The company is releasing its 30B Muse Glimmer model for local agentic workloads and will release an open-weight version of Muse Spark 1.2 in the coming weeks.
Siddharth Jindal ·
IBM, MAHE Open AI Lab in Bengaluru as Demand for Compute, AI Talent Grows
The facility will support up to 30 high-performance computing workloads simultaneously and will be used for AI research, industry projects, and skilling programmes
Ajay Rag ·