Walmart introduces Agent Profiles and Agent Gateway, allowing AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta Muse to shop for customers with spending and approval controls.
JanAI partners with four universities to expand AI education, rural entrepreneurship and innovation in India through learning programmes, hackathons and AI Cafés.
AI code testing startup Blacksmith raises $66 million in Sequoia-led funding, reaching a $1 billion valuation as demand for AI-generated code validation grows.
Diageo North America appoints PepsiCo and AB InBev veteran Sebnem Erim as CMO amid slowing spirits demand and challenges in the regional market.
Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs in 2026, around 5% of its global workforce, as the bank expands AI adoption and technology-driven operational efficiency.
Karta AI raises $3 million in seed funding led by PeerCapital and Cedar Hill Capital to expand agentic voice AI for customer support in financial services.
Meta's Muse AI crosses 10 million users, with shopping becoming a leading activity as the company plans to expand agentic commerce and monetisation.
Stagwell launches Stagwell AI, a unified portfolio of agentic marketing tools for audience targeting, media planning, campaign automation and AI-powered workflows.
OpenAI partners with Karmayogi Bharat to offer AI training through the iGOT platform, which has over 1.7 crore registered government employees.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue criticises Netflix's AI Gone Wild documentary, questioning its portrayal of OpenAI's AI agent cyberattack and security failures.
WhatsApp removed hidden AI chatbot instructions from its help pages after researchers found guidance discouraging referrals to privacy regulators.
Deepinder Goyal teases Dark.ai, a new AI product from Eternal, ahead of the company's Q2 FY27 results. Features, launch date and pricing remain undisclosed.
Google launches TorchTPU as Amazon introduces TorchNeuron, enabling developers to run PyTorch AI applications on alternative chips without rewriting code.
OpenAI acquires biotech startup Orchestra Bio to expand its Rosalind platform with AI agents for drug development, clinical trial coordination and research workflows.
The AI data centre liquid cooling market is projected to reach $20.39 billion by 2032, growing at 34% CAGR as AI workloads drive demand for advanced cooling systems.
Adobe and NVIDIA expand their AI partnership, bringing faster processing to Photoshop, Premiere and Frame.io while enhancing Brand Concierge with NVIDIA Nemotron.
DeiNai expands its AI-powered influencer marketing platform into the Middle East, targeting creator discovery, campaign management and performance measurement.
Ibexa launches its Agentic Marketing Platform in the Middle East, using AI agents to connect marketing tools, automate campaign workflows and support human-led approvals.
OpenCode reports a security breach affecting 1.4% of Console users, exposing AI API keys and triggering unauthorised charges on OpenAI, Anthropic and Google accounts.
Cegeka appoints former Accenture executive Kim De Maeseneer as Chief AI Officer to lead enterprise AI strategy, client solutions and internal AI adoption.
AstraZeneca and Oracle announce an AI healthcare collaboration to improve clinical trial recruitment, patient identification and drug safety monitoring, starting in Abu Dhabi.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh highlights nuclear energy's role in powering India's AI infrastructure and data centres, citing the 100 GW nuclear capacity target by 2047.
Infosys and Truist expand their partnership to scale an AI-first GCC in Hyderabad, onboarding over 1,000 employees and integrating AI, data and banking operations.
THE BRIJ Incubator concludes Foundry Cohort 2 in Jaipur, with 13 creative startups presenting growth strategies focused on revenue, pricing, profitability and customer demand.
Disney agrees to hire most Character.AI employees following its bankruptcy filing, with annual compensation estimated at $60 million and a proposed $20 million asset deal.
Former Google DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches Metis Reasoning, a London AI startup focused on compute-efficient models and verifiable reasoning.
Anuj Bhandari launches OmniVertex, an AI-powered platform designed to unify advertising data, optimise media budgets and simplify cross-platform campaign management.
India reportedly plans to add 10,000 AI chips to its national compute pool, expanding access to computing resources for startups, researchers and AI developers.
An HP Futures 2026 report finds 82% of Indian students worry AI speeds up academic work at the expense of deeper learning, despite optimism about AI careers.
Atlys appoints Rahul Mishra as Head of Growth. The former Housing.com executive brings experience in performance marketing, CRM, customer acquisition and digital advertising.
Birla AI Labs launches Yug-1, an India-built time series AI model designed to forecast business trends, detect anomalies and support data-driven decisions.
PhonePe rebrands Share.Market as PhonePe Invest and introduces Portfolio Optimiser to help investors analyse, manage and rebalance their investment portfolios.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad outlines a future of self-driving companies where AI agents handle routine operations while employees retain key decision-making roles.
Apple launches HomeView with Siri AI as its $250 million settlement over delayed iPhone AI features continues. The smart display arrives in India on November 13.
WEF urges MENA countries to classify AI data centres as critical electricity loads amid rising power demand, water shortages and cooling challenges.
India accounts for 75% of Nielsen's global innovation as the company expands AI-led advertising intelligence and audience measurement from Bengaluru.
Goldman Sachs sells ₹168.67 crore worth of Eternal shares to BofA Securities in a block deal involving 53.37 lakh shares at ₹316 apiece.
Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang credits Daniel Gross for helping Apple and Meta collaborate to run the 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open model on Mac Studio.
Renesas establishes a physical AI team and Beijing robotics lab to expand humanoid robot chip development, engineering support and semiconductor solutions.
Rhea Umesh Mansukhani takes over as Head of Marketing at upGrad Enterprise after serving as Enterprise Marketing Lead and Product Marketing Manager.
CERT-In reports AI agents accessing Indian companies' live systems without permission and warns that AI-assisted cyberattacks are becoming faster.
HubSpot introduces AI spending caps, flexible credit billing and subscription controls to help marketing teams manage costs as usage of AI-powered tools increases.
OpenAI, Anthropic and the Simons Foundation commit $15 million in funding and resources to support AI-assisted mathematics research and verification.
Amazon launches Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse AI devices with conversation summaries, reminders, Alexa+ integration and prices starting at $74.99.
Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to show more news links, highlight publisher content and improve source visibility amid declining website traffic.
Former Paytm Payments Bank CISO Rajesh Hemrajani transitions towards independent director and cybersecurity advisory roles, focusing on technology risk and governance.
Tencent acknowledges unintended AI agent behaviour after researchers recorded 2,818 attempts to retrieve data from Alibaba's Amap platform.
OpenAI CTO Vijaye Raji joins Amplitude's board as the company continues developing Statsig's analytics and experimentation platform under its existing brand.
Bluesky expands its Attie AI platform, allowing users to build websites, games, quizzes and interactive experiences using AI, with integration into its decentralised social network.
Wipro signs a deal to acquire a 20% stake in FLARRE.AI for $2,000, strengthening its agentic AI capabilities across insurance underwriting, claims and enterprise workflows.
Rivian plans to integrate third-party AI agents into its electric vehicles, enabling personalised voice interactions while keeping steering and braking controls separate.
OpenAI is adapting its AI product priorities to India's voice-first users, focusing on multilingual conversations, Hindi-English switching, Android compatibility and connectivity.
Google launches Universal Cart in the US, bringing AI-powered shopping, price alerts, product tracking and payment suggestions to Search and Gemini.
Netflix plans to cut nearly 1,000 jobs, around 6% of its workforce, amid rising competition from YouTube, TikTok and other platforms while expanding AI and advertising investments.
Apple and Meta announce an AI collaboration to run the 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open model locally on Mac Studio computers, supporting developers and AI agents.
RevRag AI raises $2.5 million in seed funding led by Accion Ventures to expand AI-powered banking assistants, strengthen enterprise deployments and enter the US market.
QualiZeal appoints Sunil Upadrasta as Vice President and India Head, GCC, to lead business expansion, enterprise partnerships and AI engineering services.
Gartner warns that over $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could face impairment risks by 2030, with revenue unlikely to support planned investments.
Infosys plans to hire 20,000 graduates despite 80,000 employees using AI coding tools, as CEO Salil Parekh expects AI services to drive nearly half its work.
Apple reportedly plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December through iOS 27.3, bringing AI writing tools and photo editing but excluding the new Siri.
IKEA is expanding AI use in marketing and content localisation while keeping brand strategy, creative decisions and messaging under human control.
AstraZeneca partners with insitro in a deal worth up to $1.5 billion to use Virtual Human AI for discovering potential treatments for liver and heart diseases.
Manipur signs an MoU with Digital India BHASHINI to advance multilingual AI, strengthen regional language technology and improve access to government digital services.
Google announces new AI initiatives in India spanning agriculture, crop science and education, alongside $15 million in funding to support small businesses.
TCS launches Industrial Intelligence Foundry, targeting 20-25% manufacturing productivity gains and faster product development through AI agents and automation.
YouTube Music introduces AI labels to identify fully and partly AI-generated songs, giving listeners greater transparency as AI music expands across streaming platforms.
ByteDance establishes an AI safety team within its Seed division and plans to hire 10 researchers across China and the US to strengthen AI alignment and risk preparedness.
Indian AI lab Sthānika's Sieve 31B ranks second globally on the Jev Decision Index, scoring 63.8 and outperforming several international AI decision models.
Former Plaud executive Peter Mo's startup Ambi raises $26 million to develop an AI assistant offering real-time meeting insights, background listening and task automation.
Formial Labs raises Rs 2.88 crore in pre-seed funding led by Zeropearl VC to expand AI-enabled personalised skincare, clinical consultations and dermatology technology.
A US judge orders OpenAI to share hiring records with Apple in an ongoing trade secrets lawsuit involving former employees and confidential hardware information.
Tata CLiQ appoints Bhavesh Kumar as Head of Information Security to strengthen cybersecurity, AI security, technology risk management and digital trust.
Publicis reports 5% Q3 organic growth as CEO Arthur Sadoun highlights rapid agentic AI adoption, slower enterprise transformation and challenges at Publicis Sapient.
Thyssenkrupp Automotive Technology opens a GCC in Pune with over 120 engineers and plans to expand beyond 300, focusing on automotive software, cybersecurity and R&D.
L'Oréal expands its AI search strategy, testing Google AI Overviews advertising and exploring partnerships as conversational AI reshapes brand discovery and marketing.
Meta appoints Ravi Garg as Managing Director, Enterprise Business for APAC, expanding his responsibilities across AI-powered business messaging and enterprise solutions.
Alibaba launches Qwen N1 AI smart glasses with 50MP cameras, eye tracking and voice assistance, starting at $450, as it expands its wearable AI portfolio to compete with Meta.
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis warns that AI hacking incidents could become more serious within two years, urging stronger security measures and international standards.
Indian brands allocate 15–25% of marketing budgets to the creator economy, with IIGC highlighting long-term partnerships, consumer trust and measurable business outcomes.
Getty Images plans to go private under a $533 million restructuring agreement backed by the Getty family and Koch Equity Development, following its failed Shutterstock merger.
Nikhil Gandhi launches Dubai-based VYYB AI, introducing AI-powered background music management with plans for climate optimisation and contextual scent solutions.
Sarvam AI introduces Bulbul V4 Flash, offering text-to-speech generation in 11 languages, over 200 voice options and pricing of ₹20 per 10,000 characters.
Over 200 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, call for stronger safeguards, internet-isolated testing and global oversight to prevent rogue AI incidents.
Persistent Systems opens its third Hyderabad facility to expand AI, cloud and digital modernisation services for banking, financial services and insurance clients.
Empower India announces plans to expand into AI and robotics integration, targeting opportunities in India's projected $43.5 billion AI market by 2030.
Andrej Karpathy estimates that 75% of the world has barely used AI, highlighting a growing gap between everyday chatbot users and researchers accessing advanced models.
Aleph appoints Max Ku as Business Head for Pinterest in Singapore and export markets, bringing over 30 years of experience across digital media and advertising.
Netflix releases AI Gone Wild, a documentary examining a Hugging Face cyberattack involving autonomous OpenAI agents and the security risks of agentic AI.
Elon Musk questions Starlink's India launch delays amid a dispute with Mukesh Ambani, as the government clarifies security requirements and pricing remains unannounced.
Global AI chip sell-off hits Indian infrastructure stocks, with Hitachi Energy, GE Vernova, Sterlite Tech and HFCL declining amid concerns over Chinese semiconductor competition.
Anthropic warns that smaller AI models could soon self-replicate across smart TVs, ovens and other connected devices, raising new cybersecurity and AI safety concerns.
IIT Kharagpur launches a free AI tutor with a Scan & Ask feature and an online GATE-JAM preparation platform to improve access to personalised learning across India.
Haryana GCC Policy 2026 offers employment incentives for up to 10 years, R&D subsidies and operating cost support to attract multinational capability centres.
Sarvam AI is reportedly in talks to raise up to $300 million at a $3 billion valuation, potentially doubling its valuation four months after its previous funding round.
Meta launches Muse Wonder and Wonder Full AI models with enhanced memory, coding and agentic capabilities, reporting competitive performance against OpenAI and Anthropic.
insidepacket launches an AI Access Platform to connect enterprises with GPU cloud providers through private, on-demand networks, with an initial rollout planned in Europe.
Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for around $7 billion, as the company expands its AI infrastructure, custom chips and generative AI capabilities.
L&T Technology Services launches an AI manufacturing lab in Bengaluru featuring NVIDIA technology, digital twins, industrial robotics and autonomous factory systems.
Jayavani Sarkar takes on the Head of Digital Marketing, GCC role at Aon after serving as Group Manager, bringing experience from Deloitte, TCS and AXA Business Services.
Google DeepMind's Lila Ibrahim calls for AI regulation that balances safety and innovation, highlighting global cooperation and AI's role in education, agriculture and jobs.
Two Delhi students develop SARA AI, a voice-first learning assistant for visually impaired learners, selected among the top 20 projects in Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2026.
Google AI Overviews have been spotted responding to typos, random text and searches with no matching web pages, highlighting changes in AI-powered search behaviour.
HCLTech partners with Anthropic to expand enterprise agentic AI adoption, establish a dedicated business unit and integrate Claude into selected software products.
TCS says nearly 80% of recent hires have AI and digital skills, while 25-30% possess specialised AI capabilities as the company expands its AI business.
Kore.ai launches Autoloop, an optimisation engine that automatically evaluates, monitors and improves enterprise AI agents based on business goals, safety and cost.
Researchers found AWS AgentCore security weaknesses that could expose AI agent credentials and conversations. AWS has addressed the issues but disputes the findings.
Meta will donate 1,000 Ray-Ban AI glasses to four Singapore organisations and provide $30,000 for accessibility training to support people with disabilities.
Deepinder Goyal's Temple wearable may cost ₹72,000 and launch in 2026. The head-worn device uses BrainFlow technology to monitor blood-flow-related signals.
Jammu and Kashmir aims to attract Global Capability Centres as its startup count rises to 1,305. LG Manoj Sinha outlines a five-year roadmap for GCC growth.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls for an AI emergency brake, urging companies to strengthen human oversight, security controls and accountability for advanced AI models.
Pollo AI integrates OpenAI's GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra and GPT-Image-2.5 to help brands create video ads, campaign visuals and marketing content from product photos.
India's AI data centre expansion faces protests over water, power and environmental concerns as Amazon, Google and Microsoft increase infrastructure investments.
Gloo awards $200,000 at its 2026 AI Hackathon, with Austin Christian University's Fosterly winning $100,000 for an AI agent supporting young adults leaving foster care.
Indian Railways plans AI-powered freight wagon inspections and predictive maintenance, using cameras and sensors to detect defects, improve safety and streamline operations.
Sarvam AI appoints former Google Cloud India MD Sashikumar Sreedharan as President and Chief Business Officer to lead enterprise expansion and sovereign AI adoption.
OpenAI's 2026 revenue projection stands at $50 billion, $20 billion below an earlier estimate, as differences in AI revenue reporting draw investor attention.
The global AI in fintech market is projected to exceed $66 billion by 2030 at 30% CAGR, driven by automation, fraud detection and digital banking, according to TBRC.
Google launches AI Edge Foresight, an offline AI meeting assistant for Mac that transcribes conversations, generates notes and answers questions using on-device Gemma models.
HCL Group elevates Nikhil Soni to Head of Brand and Marketing, expanding his responsibilities across brand strategy, sports, culture, learning and environment.
Cal AI's 19-year-old co-founder Zach Yadegari raises $10 million for Persona, an AI assistant startup developing a $179 wearable and advertising-supported shopping features.
Donald Trump pushes to rename artificial intelligence as super intelligence, warning against the old term as US federal agencies adopt the new designation.
Google Cloud launches Gemini Agent, an AI assistant designed to automate workplace tasks across Gmail, Workspace, Slack and Microsoft 365 using agentic AI.
NMC introduces new healthcare advertising guidelines restricting misleading medical claims, AI-generated promotions, fake reviews and celebrity endorsements.
OpenAI introduces Intelligent UI in GPT-6, enabling ChatGPT to generate interactive charts, diagrams, calculators and visual responses within conversations.
Meta introduces new AI tools to detect ads linked to child exploitation, strengthens ad reviews and reports action against 33.2 million content items globally.
ImpactFactory.ai launches MIA, a virtual CMO that coordinates AI marketing agents, campaign planning, media buying and performance analysis for small businesses.
Over 40% of marketing leaders cannot prove martech's financial impact, while only 10.8% of tracked AI agent initiatives reach full production, a new report finds.
Sarvam AI's Kaze smart glasses aim to support 22 Indian languages with on-device speech recognition, translation and voice capabilities without constant internet access.
QuilrAI appoints former Hitachi Systems India CEO Anuj Gupta as Managing Director for Asia-Pacific and Japan to lead regional expansion and enterprise AI security initiatives.
India will release an AI regulation consultation paper within a month, focusing on deepfakes, cybersecurity, user safety, skilling and responsible AI adoption.
Google Cloud appoints Amit Kumar as interim India head following Sashikumar Sreedharan's exit, amid expanding cloud and AI operations in the country.
HubSpot plans to cut nearly 660 jobs, or 7% of its workforce, as it restructures around AI-led customer outcomes and simplifies its organisational structure.
Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma offers Rs 1-2 crore from personal funds to Indian founders developing AI models, encouraging domestic AI innovation.
Fintech Premier League Season 2 begins across Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, bringing together 38 teams, 34 organisations and over 570 players for 82 cricket matches.
Hark has launched Hark Pro, a privacy-focused AI assistant that can manage emails, schedules, payments and other digital tasks on behalf of users.
Skan AI has appointed Jennifer Hewlette as its first Chief Marketing Officer to lead marketing as the company expands its enterprise and agentic AI business.
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI has unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model built for reasoning, coding and AI agent workloads.
Soket AI has launched LOOP, an open-source Rust-based harness designed to let AI agents run for hours, days or weeks while retaining context and using multiple tools.
Ghost has raised $11 million and launched Core, a $3,499 screenless personal computer designed to run AI agents and keep user data locally.
Boston Dynamics has named former Amazon AI leader Rohit Prasad as CEO to lead its Physical AI strategy and expand AI-powered robots across industries.
India has entered the global top 10 for AI readiness, with the World Bank citing its technical talent, digital infrastructure and rising private AI investment.
HCLTech has opened a new Johannesburg headquarters with an AI Centre of Excellence to support enterprise AI adoption and technology talent in South Africa.
IIT Ropar has launched AVNI, an AI-powered platform that helps children identify plants and crops while learning about agriculture through everyday surroundings.
CurvetAI has raised Rs 6 crore led by Merak Ventures to expand its multi-model AI workspace and develop agent-based capabilities for complex workflows.
OpenAI will add invisible textGrain watermarks to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU, allowing AI-generated content to be identified by specialised detectors.
Theobroma has appointed Anand Tomar as Chief Technology Officer, bringing two decades of experience across food, retail, manufacturing and technology transformation.
TikTok has launched an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout, allowing users to discover products, ask questions and buy directly within the app.
OpenAI is testing visual ads alongside ChatGPT image generation, giving brands a new format while expanding measurement and brand suitability tools.
Credgenics has launched Prix AI, a voice AI platform trained on insights from over one billion collections conversations and supporting 12 Indian languages.
Adobe is bringing customer experience intelligence and creative workflows into ChatGPT, connecting enterprise data, AI agents and Adobe Express.
