AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Databricks Secures Fresh Funding at $188 Bn Valuation
The company plans to invest the capital in AI products, acquisitions, and research.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro After Missing Internal Performance Goals
The company is prioritising model quality over launch timelines as competition in generative AI heats up.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Roblox Launches AI-Driven Mobile Game Creation Tool Built to Elevate Its Generative AI Initiative
The feature enables rapid prototyping without coding, targeting a broader audience, especially mobile users.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Tech Mahindra’s AI Bets Help Lift Margins as Q1 Profit Rises 28%
Tech Mahindra posts double-digit revenue and profit growth as AI engineering, sovereign AI investments and large transformation deals support margin expansion.
Ajay Rag ·
Wipro Posts Muted June Quarter; AI-Led Transformation Deals Lift Large Bookings
Wipro reported muted June-quarter earnings, with constant currency revenue rising less than 1% and margins contracting.
Ajay Rag ·
Bengaluru-Based Mandrake Bio Raises ₹16 Crore to Build AI-Designed Gene Editors
The funding will help the startup scale its AI protein design platform and validate gene editors for agricultural and medical applications.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Madhya Pradesh Courts Semiconductor, AI and Data Centre Firms with Investment Proposals Worth Over ₹58,000 Crore
The largest proposals came from Submer India Private Limited, which expressed interest in investing ₹19,000 crore to develop data centre infrastructure
Shalini Mondal ·
Synchrony Opens its Largest Global Experience Center in Hyderabad
The new facility highlights India’s growing role in technology, AI and enterprise capabilities across Synchrony’s global operations.
Sanjana Gupta ·
embedUR Spins Off ModelNova to Simplify Edge AI Deployments
The new company launches with nine semiconductor partners, an open-source model library and production-ready AI tools aimed at simplifying deployment on resource-constrained edge devices.
Smruthi Nadig ·
Applied Computing Secures $20 Mn Funding Led by KBR to Expand AI Solutions for Energy Sector
The British AI startup will use the fresh capital to accelerate global expansion, deepen AI research and deploy its Orbital foundation model across energy operators.
Smruthi Nadig ·
GPT-5.6 Sol Leads New React Coding Benchmark, Beats Fable 5
The evaluation tests AI coding agents on production-style React development, combining hidden behavioural tests with checks for performance, accessibility and code quality.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Launches Open-Weight AI Model, Takes on NVIDIA Nemotron
The multimodal model supports a 1-million-token context window and is available for fine-tuning with fully open weights.
Siddharth Jindal ·
ESA Selects Keysight and Sateliot for Secure 5G Satellite Network Project
The three-year programme will test blockchain, AI and anomaly detection for future satellite and terrestrial networks.
Sanjana Gupta ·
GPT-5.6 Pro Solves a 20-Year-Old Statistics Problem
The model generated a mathematical proof that disproves a long-held assumption behind the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure, a staple of modern statistical analysis.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
LatentView Analytics Appoints Former Wipro Executive Sonal Ramrakhiani as CEO
Ramrakhiani takes over from Rajan Sethuraman, who will remain as strategic advisor for up to six months to support the leadership transition.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AWS Breaks Ground on New Hyderabad Data Centre as Part of $21 Bn India Cloud Push
AWS said it had invested more than $1.3 billion in the Hyderabad cloud region by the end of 2025.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Zoho Launches AI-Powered Classes 2.0, Offers Free LMS to Govt Institutes Across India
The LMS supports all 22 scheduled Indian languages, enabling AI-generated teaching content, assessments, and learning materials in regional languages.
Shalini Mondal ·
Mozilla Flags Copilot as New Front in Browser Battle in New Report, Says Indian Users Face AI-Driven Browser Lock-In
According to the report, Copilot forces web links to open inside an Edge-rendered side panel.
Shalini Mondal ·
Dhruva Space, MAHE Partner to Build Space Technology Centre in Manipal
The ASCENT facility will support satellite missions, research programmes and spacecraft testing infrastructure from late 2026.
Sanjana Gupta ·
PrismML Shrinks 27B AI Model to Run on Phones; Apple in Early Talks With Startup
The open-source release compresses a 27B-parameter model to as little as 3.9 GB, bringing multimodal reasoning and tool use to local AI devices.
Siddharth Jindal ·