AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Akamai Launches AI Inference and Agent Sandbox Services
The services are part of Akamai’s strategy to offer infrastructure for building, running and securing AI applications on a single platform.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT’s Alleged Role in Woman’s Death After Seizure Medication Taper
The lawsuit alleges GPT-4o generated a plan to reduce Bowen Wan’s epilepsy medication and encouraged her to conceal the changes from her doctors.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Live2.ai Raises ₹130 Cr in Pre-Series B Round Led by IvyCap Ventures
The startup reported fourfold revenue growth over the past 12 months, with 90% of its revenue generated outside India.
Ridhika Basnet ·
LTM Launches Dedicated Unit to Build and Operate GCCs in India
The new business will offer site selection, staffing, technology integration and operational support, with Shailendra Singh reporting to CEO Venu Lambu.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
L&T’s Vyoma.AI Breaks Ground on 52 MW Data Centre in Chennai
The data centre will use direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology to manage heat generated by high-density computing workloads.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Plans to Purchase Google TPUs: Report
OpenAI recently announced plans to make its frontier AI models available through Google Cloud.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 4 for Real-Time World Simulation
Genie 4 combines capabilities from Google’s Gemini models to simulate how environments, objects and people behave in response to user inputs.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Oracle Partners With OpenAI to Bring ChatGPT and Codex to Enterprise Workflows
Oracle AI Workspace will bring Oracle Fusion Applications, NetSuite, Oracle AI Database and OCI into a unified experience accessible through ChatGPT.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Oracle Expands AI Compute Options With NVIDIA, Google TPUs and Cerebras
“OCI will be the first hyperscaler outside Google to offer Google TPUs,” says the company.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Chai Point Cuts Monthly AWS Bill by 58%
Monthly AWS bill fell from $10,877 to $4,550 over 12 months
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Bengaluru AI Startup Simplismart Raises $14 Mn in NVIDIA-Backed Round
The company will use the funds to develop its AI inference platform, expand partnerships with cloud providers and sovereign AI players.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Maya Research Releases Open-Weight Speech Model Supporting 12 Languages
Maya 2 Native supports speech generation in 11 Indian languages and English, with real-time audio streaming and cross-lingual voice cloning.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Anthropic Sued Over Alleged Use of Elvis Presley Songs to Train Claude, Denies Claim
The music rights holders are seeking $41.1 million in statutory damages and allege that Claude can generate material resembling copyrighted songs.
Ridhika Basnet ·
CoRover Lists Three BharatGPT Models On Government-Backed AIKosh Platform
CoRover’s BharatGPT Mini, BharatGPT Instruct and ASR Hindi Conformer models are now available on AIKosh following a review by IndiaAI and MeitY.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Cent Raises $15 Million to Expand AI-Powered Preventive Healthcare
The startup has also acquired Medsee, an AI-powered radiology reporting platform, as it expands its medical imaging and clinical research capabilities.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Cohere Says Alibaba’s Qwen Model Tried to Upload Test File to Beijing Server
Cohere said its security sandbox blocked the request during a cybersecurity evaluation.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Tech Mahindra and Mastercard Partner to Integrate B2B Payments Into ERP Platforms
The partnership targets automated payment reconciliation and tighter spending controls, while also bringing agentic AI workflows into procurement and finance systems.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
HCLTech Completes Acquisition of Croatia-Based Robotiq.ai
The €9 million transaction gives HCLSoftware full ownership of the Croatian RPA provider, with plans to integrate its technology into HCL UnO Agentic.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Former GitHub CEO Launches Git Platform Built for AI Agents
The platform combines automated code reviews, distributed repository hosting and persistent memory to help AI agents retain context across coding sessions.
Siddharth Jindal ·
E2E Networks Plans 5.4 MW NVIDIA Blackwell Expansion in India
The expansion will increase the company's AI infrastructure capacity by nearly 59% to 14.6 MW, adding NVIDIA HGX B300 systems and other Blackwell GPUs for model training and inference.
Supreeth Koundinya ·