AI News
Reporting, analysis and features from AIM's AI News section.
eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business
This follows the discovery of eight eMudhra certificate authorities with weak private keys that could potentially have allowed attackers to create fake website certificates and impersonate legitimate websites.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Unicorn India Ventures Launches US Operations To Back Indian Deep-Tech Startups
The VC firm has appointed former Google executive Kishore Kanakamedala as Venture Partner to lead its US expansion and help portfolio companies enter the market.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Nutanix announces AI infrastructure tie-ups with NVIDIA, Supermicro and Netris
Nutanix plans to work with NVIDIA, Supermicro and Netris to help enterprises and AI cloud providers deploy production AI faster and cheaper.
Mark Philip Jayan ·
JanAI Partners With Four Universities To Expand AI Access In Rural India
The partnerships aim to connect AI education and university research with rural challenges, helping young people explore entrepreneurship and develop local solutions.
Kileuna Haralu ·
HCLTech Launches NVIDIA-Powered Validation Offering for Software-Defined Vehicles
The offering uses AI agents and virtual simulations to test automotive software, including rare and safety-critical scenarios, before release.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Cognizant to Acquire DyFlex Solutions to Expand SAP Capabilities
The Australian SAP partner has more than 300 employees and a delivery presence in the Philippines. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2027.
Mukundan Sivaraj ·
Karta AI Raises $3 Million in Seed Funding to Automate Complex Banking Calls
The Bengaluru startup says its agents resolve around 70% of borrower queries at a home loan company, cutting the cost per query by approximately 50%.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Anthropic Opens Claude Duet AI Agent Preview for US Pro and Max Subscribers
The agent can monitor connected business apps and continue working in the background, with user approval required for consequential actions.
Ridhika Basnet ·
Premji Invest, Norwest and Lok Capital Plan Up to ₹1,000 Crore Investment in Vegafin: Report
The investment will support Vegafin’s AI-led MSME lending platform and its acquisition of a majority stake in Bizloan, which operates more than 35 branches across five states.
Ridhika Basnet ·
OpenAI Brings Its Models and Codex to Google Cloud
Google Cloud said OpenAI models would run with its enterprise security and governance controls.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Deepinder Goyal Teases Dark.ai, a Privacy-Focused AI Platform
Dark is built around the idea that users should be able to interact with AI without worrying about how their conversations are stored, accessed or used.
Siddharth Jindal ·
43% of Indian Enterprises Struggle to Control AI Costs: Splunk Report
Despite prioritising AI monitoring, Indian organisations face challenges measuring model quality, controlling AI costs, and managing security risks as agentic AI adoption grows.
Kileuna Haralu ·
Microsoft Proposes Guardian Agents to Secure Enterprise AI
The approach would assess risks in real-time and adjust an agent’s ability to act based on its behaviour and permissions.
Siddharth Jindal ·
OpenAI Acquires Pharma Co Orchestra Bio to Build AI Agents for Drug Development
The companies plan to develop AI agents that connect scientific findings with the studies, decisions, and workflows to advance drug candidates.
Siddharth Jindal ·
US Orders DeepSeek Removal From Federal Civilian Systems Over National Security Concerns
The US Department of Homeland Security noted that DeepSeek servers were in China and feared sensitive information of US citizens could be retained in China.
Mark Philip Jayan ·
Chennai to Host One of the World’s Largest AMD GPU Clusters
Vultr has announced a 20MW cluster of AMD MI355X GPUs in Chennai.
Supreeth Koundinya ·
Hugging Face CEO Criticises Netflix Documentary on OpenAI Agent Cyberattack
The Netflix documentary examines a July 2026 incident in which OpenAI agents escaped their testing environment and accessed Hugging Face’s systems
Siddharth Jindal ·
Tesla and SpaceX Explore Merger as Elon Musk Backs Deal
Independent board committees will assess a potential combination, with shareholder approval and deal terms still unresolved.
Sanjana Gupta ·
OpenAI Seeks $30 Bn Funding at $1.4 Tn Valuation Ahead of Anthropic IPO: Report
Anthropic’s initial public offering (IPO) could value the company at as much as $2 trillion.
Siddharth Jindal ·
Salesforce to Acquire Braze for $5.66 Bn to Strengthen AI Customer Marketing
Braze enables marketers to coordinate customer interactions across mobile applications, websites, email, SMS, and WhatsApp.
Siddharth Jindal ·