AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
Zoho Freezes Salary Hikes as Sridhar Vembu Warns of Grim Outlook for Software Jobs
The company is trying to control expenses while reinventing its business over the next three to five years.
Siddharth Jindal ·
SquadStack.ai Launches Arth V2 STT Model, Claims 67ms Transcription Latency
The company said its streaming speech-to-text model recorded an 8.85% semantic word error rate and 18% fewer meaning-changing errors than Sarvam Saaras v4.
Ridhika Basnet ·
HCLTech, Anthropic to Expand Enterprise Agentic AI Deployments
Claude and Claude Code will enter HCLTech's engineering workflows, while HCLSoftware plans to incorporate Claude into selected cybersecurity and enterprise products.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Vertiv Deploys Liquid Cooling System for 30 MW AI Data Centre in Navi Mumbai
Vertiv noted that the deployment at CapitaLand’s Mumbai facility marks India’s first direct-to-chip high-density liquid cooling installation.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Bengaluru’s Tessolve Semiconductor Secures $75 Mn From Vector Line Capital
The funding will support acquisitions as the Bengaluru-based company expands its semiconductor engineering capabilities and global presence.
Sanjana Gupta ·
Amazon in Talks to Acquire AI Chip Flexibility Startup to Compete With NVIDIA: Report
The proposed deal could give Amazon access to technology that helps developers run AI workloads across different chips, strengthening its push to compete with NVIDIA.
Siddharth Jindal ·
TCS’s Annualised AI Revenue Crosses $3.1 Billion, Tops 10% of Total Revenue
TCS saw stronger demand across BFSI, manufacturing and technology services, while AI work began commanding better pricing and margins.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Mistral AI Takes on OpenAI, Anthropic With Its 1 Tn Parameter Model
Mistral said that Large 4 is built for coding, cybersecurity, agentic workflows and multimodal tasks, with weights set to be released by the end of October.
Siddharth Jindal ·
AI Governance Cannot Be Solved by Blocking Models, Says Kimchi Core Contributor
Enterprises need to govern AI at the infrastructure layer by tracking spending, controlling access, managing risk, and matching tasks to the right models, says Kunal Das, core contributor to Kimchi.
Mark Philip Jayan ·
Cyient Launches Intelligent Engineering Unit to Drive AI-led Growth
The new unit will focus on engineering, service, and quality and regulatory workflows, with CYiNGINE serving as its common data and AI foundation.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Karnataka Reworks Global Innovation Alliance for Long-Term International Tech Partnerships
The GIGA initiative intends to provide a more permanent entry point into Karnataka's technology ecosystem.
Shalini Mondal ·
OpenAI Chief Sam Altman Believes We Should ‘Accept Some Bad Things’ From AI
In an interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he wouldn’t accept “zero hacks” or “zero scams” as the price of caution, as he believes AI’s benefits outweigh risks.
Mark Philip Jayan ·
DeepSeek Nears $12 Bn Funding Raise With Tencent Backing: Report
This follows DeepSeek’s first major external funding round earlier this year when it reportedly raised about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion).
Ridhika Basnet ·
Credgenics Launches Prix AI Voice Platform to Automate Enterprise Outcomes
Prix AI is trained on insights from more than 1 billion collections conversations and supports voice agents across 12 Indian languages.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Anthropic Brings Claude In-Country Inference to India Through Amazon Bedrock
Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 are now available through Amazon Bedrock’s India endpoint, with inference processed within AWS’ Mumbai and Hyderabad regions.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Coforge Develops Framework To Guide Enterprise AI Agent Decisions
Coforge’s approach adds goals, constraints, governance controls, and escalation paths to enterprise AI agent design.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Huawei, Qualcomm Sign Patent License Agreement on 5G, Compute, AI, Networking
The deal is Huawei's first patent licensing agreement with Qualcomm that covers 5G technologies.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Razorpay Partners With OpenAI to Expand ChatGPT Ads in India
Razorpay said Engage will assess whether a brand’s catalogue is ready for ChatGPT Ads.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
OpenAI’s Culture is Broken, Says Safety Employee Who Quit
David Robinson said the industry is not being “nearly careful enough” and needs to put greater emphasis on safety expertise and research.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Accenture Boasts 400 Clients Doing Advanced AI, Notches $18.7 Bn Q4 Revenue
Bookings from Accenture’s eight emerging AI and data partners more than tripled from FY25, while revenue from those partners more than doubled.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·