AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
OpenAI’s Unreleased Astra Model Solves 10 Long-Standing Math & Computer Science Problems
The company also released research papers, Lean-certified proofs, and the model’s reasoning walkthroughs for each result.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Nurix AI Rebrands to NuPlay AI, Targets 4x Growth
The rebranding follows NuPlay AI’s acquisition of Verloop.io, which expanded its conversational AI capabilities.
Merin Susan John ·
PM Modi Lays Foundation Stone for South India's First ISM-Approved Semiconductor Facility in Visakhapatnam
The project will begin operations with an initial investment of over ₹460 crore in partnership with South Korean semiconductor company APACT Co.
Shalini Mondal ·
Smallest AI Raises $13 Mn to Build Real-Time Voice AI
The startup plans to bring its speech-to-speech technology to sectors including financial services, healthcare and contact centres.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Amazon Bets $220 Billion As CEO Says AWS Could Reach a $1 Trillion in Annual Revenue
The company said most of the spending will go towards AWS data centres, servers, networking equipment and AI infrastructure, while warning it still expects capacity constraints through 2026 and into 2027.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Thinking Machines Shrinks Inkling to 12B Active Parameters Without Giving Up Performance
The open-weight model supports text, image and audio reasoning with a context window of up to one million tokens.
Siddharth Jindal ·
IBM, Sarvam to Build Sovereign AI Stack for Governments, Regulated Sectors in India
The partnership will use IBM's GovTech AI Innovation Centre in Lucknow to pilot AI deployments before scaling them across public sector organisations.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Visa Cuts 2,600 Jobs in AI-Led Restructuring, Tech & Product Teams to be Affected: Report
The company is laying off around 2,600 employees, or 7% of its global workforce, as the payments giant restructures to improve efficiency and redirect investments towards AI and other high-growth businesses.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Apple Warns ‘100-Year’ Memory Crunch is Far From Over
Apple reported a record June-quarter revenue of $109.4 billion, driven by a 22% jump in iPhone sales.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI Slashes GPT-5.6 Luna Prices by 80%, Terra by 20%
The company also introduced a faster API processing mode while passing infrastructure efficiency gains on to developers.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Sarvam AI Hires Former xAI Researcher Devendra Chaplot to Build Frontier AI Models
The AI startup is also opening a new office in San Francisco.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Cognizant Takes OpenAI Codex Training to 10,000 Employees in India in AI Skills Push
The company has launched its first global OpenAI Codex hackathon across six Indian cities, with plans to expand participation to over 50,000 employees as it deepens investments in AI engineering talent.
Ajay Rag ·
Marvell to Invest $250 Million in India, Double Workforce as AI & Semiconductor Demand Surges
Marvell also recently launched the Marvell Scholarship for Technical and Engineering Merit (MSTEM) programme, which aims to strengthen India’s future semiconductor and AI talent pipeline.
Shalini Mondal ·
Sarvam Takes Aim at Every Layer of the AI Stack
Alongside new AI models and products, Sarvam said it has built one of India’s largest Blackwell GPU deployments.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Chennai-Focused AI Startup Freehand Bags $75 Mn for Agentic Enterprise Supply Chains
Freehand, with a significant presence in Chennai, will scale its AI-powered supply chain platform as enterprises increasingly adopt autonomous software over traditional outsourcing.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Andhra Pradesh Launches Twin AI CoEs to Accelerate Deeptech Startups
The AI CoEs will offer specialised AI sandboxes, high-performance compute infrastructure, mentorship programmes, and structured industry linkages.
Shalini Mondal ·
AICTE Partners with Pega to Launch National AI Internship Programme for Engineering Students
The programme attracted more than 10,000 registrations, eventually expanding to nearly 75,000 students across over 1,500 colleges nationwide.
Shalini Mondal ·
Azure Hits $100 Bn Revenue in FY26 as Microsoft Pushes Multi-Model AI Strategy
Pushing full-year revenue past $331 billion, Microsoft is expanding data centre capacity and decoupling enterprise context to give customers model flexibility.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Cognizant Posts 4.5% Q2 Revenue Growth as AI-Led Deal Momentum Begins to Cool
Cognizant raised its full-year revenue guidance, but a 6% decline in quarterly bookings suggests the initial surge in AI-led deal activity may be settling into a more measured pace.
Ajay Rag ·
OpenAI Reveals Rogue AI Agent Accessed Four Accounts During Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI clarified that none of the models planned for public release were involved in the Hugging Face intrusion.
Siddharth Jindal ·