Bhartiya Converge has appointed Eric Pagdiwalla as COO to lead consulting, business services and customer success as it scales its GCC enablement business.
Mistral AI has raised €3 billion at a valuation above €21 billion, with Samsung leading the round as the French company expands its sovereign AI strategy.
Anthropic has walked away from a reported $6 billion acquisition of AI startup Decart after conducting due diligence, although the companies could still collaborate.
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki has called for greater caution and possible slowdowns as increasingly capable AI systems raise new safety and control concerns.
Wondrlab has launched WondrAgents, a system of seven specialised AI agents designed to manage influencer campaigns across OPA and Opportune.
Navana.ai has raised ₹40 crore in Series A funding led by Ronnie Screwvala to expand its Voice AI platform across BFSI and strengthen Indian-language speech models.
ReBid has added ChatGPT Ads activation and analytics to its Agentic AI platform, enabling brands to manage and measure the channel alongside other digital media.
OpenAI, WAN-IFRA and AIRPPU have launched an AI programme offering training, implementation support and API credits to independent Ukrainian news publishers.
Deloitte is expanding its Egypt Innovation Hub across AI, engineering and cybersecurity, with another $80 million in investment planned over the next three years.
Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their journalism was used without permission to train and operate generative AI products.
Tea Board India, ISRO's NRSC and NIT Rourkela have partnered on CHAAYANKAN, an AI-based project to monitor tea plantations using satellite and drone data.
Havells has introduced Agentic AI Voice in its Havells One app, using ElevenLabs technology to control connected home devices across eight languages.
TCS' HyperVault plans a 1GW AI data centre campus in Hyderabad, with up to ₹70,000 crore investment and infrastructure for AI companies and hyperscalers.
Panchkula is set to get an AI Skills Centre aimed at training youth and professionals in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
WhatsApp is rolling out bill payments in India through Bharat Connect, giving users access to 22,722 billers across 30 categories within the app.
Boldfit has appointed former Lenskart CBO Oliver Kaye as COO to support its expansion across categories, channels and geographies.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra with advanced computer-use, coding, research and cybersecurity capabilities as it expands AI into complex multi-step tasks.
AI Fiesta is expanding into Singapore and the Philippines through partnerships with giga! and Globe Telecom after crossing one million registered users.
OpenAI-linked AI agents made more than 15,000 edits to a German programming wiki, where researchers say they shared tactics to bypass restrictions and avoid detection.
IIT Madras-incubated Bodhan AI has launched four open AI models covering speech, translation and OCR to support multilingual education across Indian languages.
Disney has appointed former Microsoft and Xbox executive Jennifer Creegan as Head of Marketing Technology and Operations to strengthen its global marketing capabilities.
Milacron has opened its first Global Capability Centre in Coimbatore, housing more than 60 engineers as it expands its engineering and innovation capabilities in India.
Quickplay has launched Live Operations, an AI-powered platform that brings scheduling, signal control, advertising, content clipping and monitoring into one console.
Meta has told managers not to use AI token counts or adoption dashboards to evaluate engineers, shifting performance reviews towards work quality, speed and impact.
Flipkart and Bengaluru Traffic Police's Gridlock Hackathon drew 33,600 registrations and over 1,100 AI prototypes aimed at tackling the city's traffic challenges.
OpenAI's upcoming Astra model is raising safety concerns over recurrent depth, a reasoning technique that could make parts of AI decision-making harder to monitor.
L'Oréal has appointed Marc Dicko as SAPMENA Chief Digital and Marketing Officer to oversee digital, eCommerce and marketing across more than 35 markets.
Adobe has acquired Indian AI startup Rilo, adding its six-member team and workflow automation technology as it expands its agentic AI capabilities for marketers.
Swiggy's CREW has entered the travel segment with an AI-backed concierge service offering trip planning, bookings, recommendations and on-trip assistance.
Uber is cutting around 200-250 jobs in India as part of a global restructuring that will eliminate about 3,300 roles and simplify its organisational structure.
Mamaearth has entered ChatGPT advertising through a Criteo partnership as Honasa Consumer experiments with conversational AI as a new channel for brand discovery.
Chakravarthy, who currently leads Adobe’s Customer Experience Orchestration business, will take charge on December 1.
VerSe Innovation has launched SparkStation, a global AI content platform combining multiple AI models to help studios, brands, agencies and creators produce content.
Netcore.ai has appointed former IBM and LinkedIn executive Tariq Ahmad as CRO, International, with a mandate to double its international revenue within three years.
Dell has expanded its India portfolio with new Pro AI PCs and Precision workstations designed for on-device AI and compute-intensive enterprise workloads.
Global AI infrastructure investment could reach $31.6 trillion by 2050 as spending on data centres, chips and computing capacity accelerates, PwC projects.
Sam Altman says OpenAI will launch its next AI model, Astra, soon as the company strengthens safeguards around increasingly advanced AI capabilities.
Gupshup has launched a self-serve Voice AI platform that lets enterprises build multilingual AI agents for support, sales, payments and operational calls.
TCS has reportedly secured a five-year Best Buy India GCC mandate worth around ₹2,000 crore, covering technology services, data, analytics and AI.
Google and The One Club have launched a global AI Creative Challenge featuring 128 creators, 16 cities and $50,000 in prize money, with Mumbai hosting an event in October.
Commerce has appointed Sri Subramanian as Head of Data and AI, where he will lead data strategy, AI, analytics and efforts to translate technology into business outcomes.
NPCI is reportedly developing a framework that could allow AI agents to make limited UPI payments under user-defined rules, spending limits and safeguards.
InsuranceDekho and RenewBuy have merged to create an AI-enabled insurance platform with a Rs 6,600 crore premium book and over six lakh digital partners.
Godrej Living has appointed Rohan Salunkhe as Head of Technology & Digital Transformation to lead technology initiatives and strengthen its digital capabilities.
Instagram will limit the recommendation reach of AI-generated profiles that fail to disclose their synthetic identity as it introduces a clearer profile label.
OneRail has launched OmniSTAR, an AI-powered delivery platform built with Nvidia technology to help retailers make faster, lower-cost last-mile delivery decisions.
Nokia has opened its first Saudi Arabia R&D centre in Riyadh to develop AI-powered network automation, orchestration and future 6G technologies.
Mureka has launched V9.5, an AI music model designed to generate more natural vocals, coherent arrangements and songs that better follow creator prompts.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned that frontier AI could increase cyber risks and create new threats to global financial stability.
WhatsApp is testing an AI-powered Scam Alert that uses on-device machine learning to warn users about potentially fraudulent messages from unknown contacts.
ChatGPT has become the first AI chatbot designated for tougher oversight under the EU Digital Services Act after crossing the bloc’s 45 million-user threshold.
Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting an attack on Iran’s Kharg Island, although no actual US strike on the key oil hub had been confirmed.
Apple is reportedly planning AI-powered smart glasses for late 2027, combining Siri, cameras and Visual Intelligence without a built-in display.
LinkedIn is expanding Premium All-in-One, combining AI-powered sales, marketing and hiring tools in a single subscription designed for small businesses.
BFSI emerged as India's largest GCC office occupier in H1 2026, with transactions rising 70% to 7.32 million sq ft as IT/ITeS demand declined.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in Perplexity through a funding round that could value the AI search and agent startup at more than $30 billion.
A Mumbai marketing professional used Anthropic's Claude AI to build BharatRajya, an interactive history platform later highlighted by PM Narendra Modi.
IndiGo Ventures has invested in Sarvam AI's Series B as the companies expand their use of AI across customer service, employee productivity and airline operations.
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other publishers have sued Anthropic, alleging copyrighted music was illegally obtained to train Claude AI.
TIME has unveiled its 2026 TIME100 AI list featuring Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Mira Murati and other figures shaping artificial intelligence.
Prosyo has launched an AI-powered platform combining LinkedIn marketing, ABM, email outreach, personalisation and pipeline management.
Fireflies.ai is exploring acquisitions of Indian AI and voice AI startups while introducing a lower-priced plan to expand its presence in India.
WACKER has established a Global Capability Center in Pune with HCLTech to strengthen engineering, IT, automation and digital transformation capabilities.
Meta is testing Project Hatch, a personal AI agent that can shop, book restaurants, manage emails and perform online tasks on behalf of users.
More than 100 companies, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic, are calling for stronger cyber defences as AI-enabled attack risks increase.
Karnataka is exploring ElevenLabs voice AI pilots across skilling, healthcare, investor assistance and citizen services, with a focus on responsible AI deployment.
Flipkart Ads launches Saarthi, combining AI-powered campaign intelligence with zero-cost agency support to help sellers manage and optimise advertising.
Syneos Health appoints Madhuri Raya as Global Head, AI & Engineering and Technology Capability Center to scale its AI ecosystem and engineering capabilities.
Boomerang Partners is using AI across affiliate marketing for predictive traffic analysis, fraud detection, content workflows and generative search visibility.
Sandhya Devanathan joins OpenAI as VP for Southeast Asia and Australia after more than a decade at Meta, taking charge of growth, partnerships and operations.
Gujarat High Court quashes GST proceedings after a tax officer used non-existent and irrelevant AI-generated case laws, and mandates strict verification of AI-assisted legal research.
AWS will deploy two million additional Nvidia GPUs across its global infrastructure in 2027 and 2028 as demand for large-scale AI computing continues to grow.
OpenAI says around 1,200 AI agents communicated during cybersecurity tests, with roughly 700 participating in unauthorised activity targeting Hugging Face.
Octave Intelligence opens a 2 lakh sq ft technology centre in Hyderabad and plans to scale to 2,000 engineers across AI, software, data, cloud and product development.
Google Cloud and boAt are bringing Gemini Live to upcoming Crest AI audio devices, enabling conversational AI, regional language support and hands-free productivity.
Semrush launches an official Claude connector, giving marketers direct access to live keyword, backlink, competitor and market intelligence through AI conversations.
Cashfree launches Relay, an AI agent platform that automates cart recovery, failed payments, COD confirmation, subscription dunning and disputes for SMBs.
Wipro’s iSkill AI learning agent has crossed 7,500 employee conversations, using role, skills and certification data to personalise course recommendations.
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Ads in India for Free and Go users, starting with 50 brands and introducing an Ads Manager for marketers in September.
Auxia launches Agent Studio, an agentic marketing platform that uses AI agents to plan, build, execute and coordinate campaigns across existing marketing tools.
Stability AI raises $76 million from Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, EA and other investors to expand its generative AI tools for creative production.
OpenAI data centre chief Chris Malone has left the company as it reorganises infrastructure leadership amid an expanding push to secure AI computing capacity.
Ringg AI raises $10 million led by Peak XV Partners to expand its voice, WhatsApp and browser AI agents and strengthen its enterprise AI platform.
Wipro has integrated iSkill, an AI conversational agent, into its AI Academy to personalise learning recommendations for more than 240,000 associates.
Huawei has proposed supplying over 2,000 Ascend AI chips for Egyptian government data centres as the US explores a rival offer involving Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft.
Vodafone Business and Tech Mahindra partner to help UK enterprises adopt AI, automation, private 5G, IoT, cloud and data technologies.
Hightouch appoints 20-year Google veteran Jitendra Kumar as Head of Commercial, Advertising to expand its agency relationships and agentic marketing business.
AI safety startup Alice raises $140 million to expand its model testing and security platform as its AI business grows more than 500% in two years.
Ignosis AI appoints Sneha Jain as Head of Marketing to lead brand, positioning and go-to-market efforts as it expands its AI offerings for financial services.
Apple refreshes Mac Mini and Mac Studio with new chips, higher memory capacity and a focus on running AI models and agentic workloads locally.
Kyndryl and Bridgepath partner to help enterprises build AI-native GCCs by embedding artificial intelligence across delivery, operations, governance and decision-making.
Uber appoints former Coinbase AI leader Varsha Mahadevan as Director of Engineering for its GenAI Platform, strengthening its generative AI engineering leadership.
OpenAI’s first Jalapeño benchmarks show up to 1.9x higher performance per watt and up to 3.6x lower latency across three AI models.
NSDC and Cultus Education, with AWS support, launch a nationwide programme to provide AI and cloud skills to 1.5 lakh learners, including job-ready training for 10,000.
StackAdapt’s AI Delegation Gap report finds widespread AI adoption in advertising, but marketers remain cautious about autonomous decisions, citing brand risk, data quality and transparency.
Bengaluru-based Murf AI has launched Falcon 2, a text-to-speech model built for real-time AI agents with under-100ms voice generation and support for 35+ languages.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in Perplexity through a new funding round that could value Aravind Srinivas’ AI search startup at more than $30 billion.
Xiaomi has launched its 3nm Xring O3 mobile processor with enhanced AI capabilities as it looks to gain greater control over chips used in flagship devices.
Forcepoint appoints former Proofpoint executive Vincent Merlin as CMO to lead global marketing and accelerate adoption of its AI Data Security platform.
Globant appoints Fernando Matzkin as COO to accelerate its AI-native transformation, with Glob.AI and AI Pods central to its operating strategy.
Arm and UNICEF launch AI in Play, targeting 2.5 million children across 12 countries while supporting AI solutions, young innovators and AI literacy.
TCS and Porsche have signed a five-year partnership to scale AI across manufacturing, engineering, operations and customer experience, alongside TCS’ proposed acquisition of MHP.
OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji highlights adaptability, analytical rigour, collaboration and independent thinking as key skills for AI economic research.
Alibaba plans to raise about $10.2 billion through a Hong Kong share placement, with all net proceeds earmarked for AI capabilities and infrastructure.
Meta’s AI-first advertising push is shifting paid social teams away from manual campaign controls towards creative strategy, data quality and measurement.
Nvidia AI server prices are reportedly set to rise by more than 15% in many cases as soaring memory costs affect Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems.
Aditya Birla Fashion is evaluating PointAI’s one-second AI virtual try-on and Fashion Advisor technology for potential use across its retail network.
Andhra Pradesh has approved a Rs 31,387 crore, 512 MW green AI data centre in Visakhapatnam, expected to create up to 1,000 jobs.
AI MarTech firm Tec-Do raises fresh funding led by Huatai-General Atlantic to expand its Navos multi-agent platform, AI models and Agentic Commerce push.
IMBODY enters India with Power S, an AI-guided strength training system combining digital resistance, personalised workouts and connected fitness features.
AWS expands OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna access through Amazon Bedrock for Indian enterprises, supporting AI reasoning and agentic workloads.
OpenAI adds an Apple Messages plug-in to ChatGPT on Mac, allowing users to search conversations, draft replies and send iMessage, SMS and RCS texts.
Reliance Brands appoints Shivani Goel as Vice President, Marketing to lead brand strategy and growth for HUGO BOSS, Paul & Shark, ZEGNA and TUMI.
Meta has become one of Microsoft’s biggest AI customers, reportedly spending hundreds of millions annually and consuming trillions of tokens weekly through Azure.
Sir Martin Sorrell joined senior CMOs, business and media leaders in New Delhi for an exchange4media gathering focused on AI, marketing and global business.
Waymo has revealed a custom 5nm ASIC for its robotaxis, designed to process camera, lidar and radar data in real time as it scales its sixth-generation autonomous driving system.
Salesforce expands Agentforce through MCP and Slack, allowing external AI assistants to access specialised agents and enterprise tools across business workflows.
Tech Mahindra expands its ServiceNow partnership with a dedicated AI Innovation CoE to help enterprises move generative and agentic AI from pilots to production.
Meta AI adds advertising analytics tools that can analyse campaigns, audiences and creatives while recommending changes to performance and budget allocation.
Xebia becomes an OpenAI Select Partner to help enterprises build and scale agentic AI across data, software and business workflows.
Amazon.in’s Best in Tech Survey finds AI features influence smartphone purchases for 82% of buyers, while performance, battery and camera remain key priorities.
Bata India moves its creative marketing operations to an AI-led model with Zocket, targeting more than $1 million in annual agency and production cost savings.
Criteo highlights how AI, commerce intelligence and trusted data are reshaping digital commerce in India, with brands using AI to improve cross-channel engagement and measurable growth.
Google is offering eligible Indian college students Google AI Plus free for one year, with expanded Gemini access, AI tools and 400 GB of cloud storage.
Adobe’s 2026 Creators’ Toolkit Report finds 96% of Indian creators using creative AI say it has accelerated their business or audience growth.
UNIVO Education launches an AI Readiness Initiative with free foundational courses as India moves to expand AI literacy and skill one crore youth.
Higgsfield raises $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation as the AI video startup expands enterprise tools for marketing and creative workflows.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts AI could help cure or prevent most diseases within five to 10 years, while biological data and clinical validation remain key hurdles.
NCW expands Yashoda AI to Jalandhar, bringing AI literacy, cybersecurity awareness and digital safety training to women as part of its national outreach.
Galeries Lafayette India appoints Noopur Khandekar as Head of Brand Marketing, bringing her experience across Tilt, Spring Marketing Capital and MullenLowe Lintas.
MacKenzie Scott has donated $130 million to Undue Medical Debt since 2020, supporting a nonprofit model that purchases qualifying medical debt at discounts and cancels it for patients.
Blue Machines AI launches FLOE, an evaluation framework designed to assess how voice AI systems detect and handle language switching in multilingual conversations.
Z.ai delays GLM-5.3’s open-weight release by two weeks after the Chinese AI model demonstrated advanced cybersecurity and vulnerability-discovery capabilities.
Liquid Death and Garage Beer team up with Jason Kelce for an unconventional campaign addressing the water consumption associated with AI data centres.
KNAV appoints Danveer Bhasin as Senior Vice President of Markets as the global accounting and advisory firm accelerates brand expansion and international growth.
IIT Bombay's online ePGD in Computer Science and Engineering covers AI, generative AI, computer vision, cybersecurity and advanced computing systems.
Sonata Software appoints Hariprasad Rebala as Chief AI Officer to lead its AI strategy and strengthen enterprise AI transformation capabilities.
PepsiCo launches a global marketing agency review as it looks to integrate AI, data and technology more deeply across creative, media and marketing operations.
Columbia Group establishes its first India GCC in Mumbai, with plans to hire 220 employees across digital solutions, ship management and operational functions.
Ephicacy appoints Dr. Shekhar Thumake as Head of AI to lead enterprise AI strategy and develop agentic AI capabilities for clinical data operations.
ZEE Entertainment appoints former ACKO CMO Ashish Mishra as Chief Marketing Officer to lead its brand, consumer marketing and network-level strategic initiatives.
Unilever used AI forecasting, content technology and digital infrastructure to coordinate its FIFA World Cup 2026 activation across more than 120 markets.
Benevolve is powering AI-driven talent intelligence for PhonePe, Myntra and MediBuddy, helping businesses map skills, manage performance and support workforce planning.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-27B, expanding its open-weight AI strategy with a smaller model aimed at local hardware, coding and professional workflows.
Alibaba launches HappyShrimp in beta, expanding its generative AI portfolio into music creation with tools for generating songs, lyrics and audio content.
Instabase becomes SuperApp and launches an AI collaboration workspace bringing GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and teams together in a shared environment.
Hero MotoCorp appoints former EY-Parthenon partner Srihari Mulgund as Chief Strategy Officer, bringing over 24 years of automotive and mobility experience.
Uniphore expands Marketing AI with AI agents that connect customer data, audience building, campaign activation and measurement across existing martech systems.
CIBC leases 1.21 lakh sq ft of managed office space in Hyderabad for its GCC in a five-year deal valued at around ₹180 crore.
TCS launches ADD AgentHub, an agentic AI platform designed to automate clinical development and pharmacovigilance workflows while retaining human oversight.
