PerformAce Media appoints Ajhay Kumar as Chief Business Officer for PA ConnectX, strengthening leadership to drive growth and performance-led marketing strategies.
HubSpot introduces The Loop, an AI-driven marketing framework unveiled at Inbound 2025, designed to replace the flywheel and drive continuous, adaptive customer engagement.
iPullRank releases a 20-chapter AI Search Optimization Manual, guiding marketers on adapting SEO strategies to thrive in an AI-driven search landscape.
Cart.com appoints Gregg Zegras as Chief Revenue Officer to strengthen global growth and unify commerce solutions across B2C and B2B markets.
Google plans to make AI Mode the default search experience, reshaping discovery with generative AI summaries and raising questions for publishers, marketers, and regulators.
OpenAI hires the team behind Apple’s Xcode AI assistant Alex to strengthen its coding tools, aiming to boost developer productivity and compete in AI-driven programming.
Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup, is challenging OpenAI with open-source large language models, driving global AI competition through accessibility and efficiency.
Former Scale AI CTO Dhruba Borthakur launches Isotopes, raising $20M to simplify big data with AI agents and make enterprise data more accessible and actionable.
Oracle lays off 3,000+ employees worldwide as it restructures to focus on AI and cloud services, reflecting wider tech industry shifts amid automation and cost pressures.
Visa launches MCP Server and Agent Toolkit to power secure, AI-driven agentic commerce, enabling developers and businesses to integrate intelligent payment experiences.
Agora partners with OpenAI to integrate Realtime API, enabling multimodal AI agents that deliver seamless real-time voice, video, and text interactions for enterprises.
Cookies linger, but AI has already redefined marketing—driving personalization, measurement, and identity resolution in a privacy-first, post-cookie era.
SAS launches Academy for Data and AI Excellence in India to equip learners with GenAI-ready skills and bridge the country’s widening AI talent gap.
AI logistics startup Augment, founded by Deliverr’s co-founder, secures $85M Series A to expand globally and transform supply chain management with AI-driven solutions.
Jio Haptik launches ₹10,000-per-year WhatsApp AI agents for India’s small businesses, making advanced customer automation accessible and affordable.
Tesla shareholders to vote in November on Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package and a proposed investment in his AI startup xAI, shaping the company’s future.
AI-driven personalization is driving customers away as over-targeted marketing sparks fatigue, privacy concerns, and trust issues, pushing brands to rethink strategies.
OpenAI unveils an AI-powered hiring platform with certifications to connect employers and AI professionals, challenging LinkedIn with inclusive matching and workforce upskilling.
HubSpot expands AI features across marketing, sales, and commerce hubs to boost efficiency, personalization, and customer engagement for businesses.
AI-powered marketing tools bring efficiency but also rising hidden costs, with cloud bills, energy use, and carbon footprints reshaping MarTech budgets.
Generative AI is accelerating ad creation, enabling brands to launch campaigns in days, scale creative testing, and cut costs while reshaping roles in marketing teams.
Satya Nadella reveals five ChatGPT prompts he uses daily, showing how AI is reshaping leadership workflows, productivity, and enterprise adoption in 2025.
Agentic AI is reshaping marketing by autonomously managing ad spend, boosting efficiency, and raising new challenges around trust, transparency, and sustainability.
Uber pilots AI data labelling side hustle for Indian drivers, offering new earning opportunities while supporting global AI development.
AI adoption could reshape nearly half of all jobs in India’s banking sector, according to a BCG report, as banks move towards automation, personalization, and data-driven decision-making.
MarTech faces a sustainability dilemma as digital ads drive rising carbon emissions. Can green tech solutions balance marketing effectiveness with environmental responsibility?
Airtel introduces six AI agents on its Thanks app to enhance customer support, streamline services, and boost engagement as telecom competition intensifies.
Predictive customer data platforms are reshaping marketing by shifting from personalization to anticipation, driving retention, efficiency, and revenue growth.
Dark data is costing marketers billions. In 2025, brands are racing to unlock unused customer information to drive revenue, efficiency, and stronger customer experiences.
Sharon Supriya joins Premom Health India as Chief Digital Officer, moving from Times Group to lead digital growth in India’s fast-evolving health-tech sector.
AI agents are reshaping marketing budgets, shifting spend in real time across platforms and challenging the traditional role of CFOs and CMOs.
OpenAI appoints Indian-origin engineer Vijaye Raji as CTO of Applications to lead AI products like ChatGPT, highlighting its focus on scaling safe, impactful AI solutions.
Apple quietly launches FastVLM and MobileCLIP AI models on Hugging Face, focusing on vision-language tasks and mobile optimization to power future device-first experiences.
Adobe and a local industry group launch an AI upskilling and ethics program for Australian marketers, combining hands-on training with practical guardrails on disclosure, data use and measurement.
EnterMind launches in Singapore with a whole brain AI model to help enterprises in Southeast Asia and India scale real world AI across retail, telecom, finance and insurance.
AI-driven funnels are reshaping edtech in India with personalised learning, job readiness tools, and vernacular reach, boosting retention and engagement.
Lyxity launches an AI content platform for planning, creation, personalization and governance, with enterprise integrations and brand-safety controls for multilingual, multi-channel campaigns.
Wanka Online partners with Alibaba Cloud to build an AI marketing agent network, combining models and cloud scale to automate planning, creative, and optimization for global advertisers.
Martech-driven mobile app analytics is moving from vanity metrics to decision engines, with privacy-first data, experimentation, and incrementality guiding growth across India’s app economy.
Ankush Gadi of Franklin Templeton India explains how AI and analytics are reshaping asset management, from lead scoring and sales intelligence to governed personalization and explainable AI.
Salesforce trims roles as AI takes on more routine support tasks, reflecting a wider enterprise shift to automated service with human oversight and stronger governance.
OpenAI is reportedly exploring a 1 GW AI data center in India under its Stargate program, signaling a major capacity push while raising energy and policy questions.
Nvidia revealed that two unidentified customers accounted for 39% of its Q2 revenue, raising concerns about dependency, market risks, and the AI economy’s future.
India’s GenAI boom faces a severe talent crunch with only one skilled engineer for every 10 roles. Can India turn its AI skills gap into a global opportunity?
Mahindra Lifespace appoints Parijat Dey as CTO to drive digital transformation, sustainability, and smart living solutions in India’s real estate sector.
Generative AI is transforming customer listening in 2025, enabling real-time insights, empathetic engagement, and smarter decision-making across industries.
Mastercard partners with Infosys to bring AI into cross-border payments, enhancing security, compliance, and speed for global businesses and consumers.
Phound expands its enterprise communication platform with broadcast messaging, enhancing secure, compliant, and large-scale information delivery for digital-first businesses.
Samsung is setting up an India R&D hub to develop its voice AI tool, highlighting India’s role in global AI innovation, multilingual adoption, and consumer tech growth.
HCLTech, Pearson India and MeitY Startup Hub launch ‘Arise For You’ to empower student entrepreneurs with mentorship, AI skills and startup resources.
Ostro launches Airmark, an AI-powered tool that turns static pharma marketing emails into compliant, conversational experiences for clinicians.
Opus Technologies appoints Nischala Murthy Kaushik as Chief Marketing Officer to strengthen global brand strategy and drive fintech growth.
Accenture to acquire Salesforce and AI specialist NeuraFlash, boosting customer engagement, agentic AI, and enterprise-scale digital transformation capabilities.
UiPath appoints Michael Atalla as Chief Marketing Officer to drive growth, strengthen AI-led automation strategy, and expand global enterprise engagement.
Microsoft Copilot arrives on Samsung TVs, turning smart TVs into AI-powered hubs for entertainment, search, and home interaction.
OpenAI to introduce parental controls and new safety features on ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit, raising global debates on AI ethics and child protection.
Groww introduces its in-house agentic AI model to personalize retail investing, aiming to improve decision-making, trust, and compliance for over 45M Indian investors.
Anthropic launches Claude AI agent for Google Chrome, enabling smarter browsing, task automation, and real-time summaries while emphasizing privacy and trust.
Trusterra launches India’s first AI-powered used EV resale platform, aiming to boost trust, transparency, and growth in the pre-owned electric vehicle market.
Aurasell launches the world’s first AI-native CRM with $30M seed funding, promising predictive insights, automation, and personalization for global enterprises.
Elon Musk’s xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over alleged monopolistic practices, raising questions about competition, regulation, and the future of AI markets.
Capgemini to acquire Cloud4C, strengthening its cloud and AI automation services in India and globally, with a focus on hybrid cloud, compliance, and regulated industries.
Apna.co launches an AI-powered calling agent to cut hiring timelines by 50%, offering multilingual candidate interviews and reshaping recruitment efficiency in India.
Microsoft launches VibeVoice, an open-source AI model that generates 90 minutes of multi-speaker speech, unlocking new possibilities for media, customer service, and accessibility.
Tambourine launches a personalization platform and Reserv Encore booking engine to deliver frictionless, pop-up-free hotel booking experiences for the digital-first hospitality sector.
Albertsons Companies names Sunil Gopinath CEO of its India hub to strengthen global retail innovation, data-driven strategies, and AI-powered transformation.
Snowflake opens a new office in Bengaluru to tap India’s booming AI and data cloud market, aiming to support enterprises across BFSI, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing.
WizCommerce raises $8M to bring AI-powered “digital employees” into the $10T wholesale industry, aiming to modernize sales, pricing, and customer engagement.
InMobi & Glance’s Festive Marketing Trends Report shows 64% shop fully online, 83% research online first, and AI-powered shopping recommendations surged 79% this season.
Microsoft introduces AI-powered Copilot in Excel, enabling natural language formulas and simplifying complex tasks while raising questions on accuracy and governance.
Narayana Health launches AI tool AIRA to reduce doctors’ paperwork, improve patient data management, and streamline hospital workflows while ensuring compliance and efficiency.
Inkhouse appoints Darah Roslyn as Executive Vice President, strengthening its leadership team to drive integrated communications, digital innovation, and client impact.
upGrad and ETS launch AI-Ready English in UAE to train 10,000 professionals with English and GenAI fluency, boosting workforce readiness across MENA.
Seismic and Salesforce launch Aura AI for Agentforce to boost B2B sales efficiency with AI-driven personalization, automation, and decision support.
Meta partners with MidJourney to bring generative AI image and video tools to its platforms, expanding creative options for creators and advertisers while raising ethical questions.
Apple prepares enterprise AI tools with ChatGPT configuration options, focusing on privacy, compliance, and potential Gemini integration.
Talkdesk expands its Epic EHR integration with AI-powered outreach, aiming to improve patient engagement, streamline healthcare communication, and ensure compliance.
Google says Gemini AI now consumes less energy per query than nine seconds of TV, underscoring AI’s growing focus on efficiency and sustainability.
Edge AI startup EdgeHax raises Rs 139 crore in seed funding led by Inflection Point Ventures to scale manufacturing, expand globally, and accelerate AI hardware innovation.
Fireflies becomes the first AI meeting tool listed in Anthropic’s Claude MCP directory, marking a major step in enterprise AI adoption for meeting intelligence and productivity.
AI will reshape advertising with hyper-personalization, generative tools, predictive analytics, regulation, and immersive experiences over the next decade.
OpenAI to open its first India office in New Delhi with a major hiring drive, marking a strategic bet on one of the world’s fastest-growing AI markets.
Google expands AI Mode to 180 countries with new agentic features, enabling restaurant bookings, personalization, and proactive task handling with privacy safeguards.
Cart.com appoints Sam Bowman as Chief Marketing Officer after acquiring Amify, marking a strategic move to scale its global commerce solutions and strengthen brand leadership.
Anthropic adds Claude Code to enterprise plans, combining AI coding support with compliance and collaboration tools for businesses adopting AI at scale.
Criteo and Zepto expand partnership to enhance retail media campaigns in India’s fast-growing quick commerce sector with AI-driven personalized advertising.
Google’s Fitbit introduces Gemini AI-powered health coach to deliver personalized fitness plans, recovery insights, and adaptive wellness guidance.
StrativEra launches multi-channel marketing campaign services to help businesses drive measurable growth through integrated, data-driven customer engagement.
HDFC ERGO partners with Consumr.ai to pilot AI Twins for customer-centric digital transformation in insurance, enhancing personalization, segmentation, and media efficiency.
Oracle integrates OpenAI’s GPT-5 across its database and cloud applications, aiming to boost enterprise productivity, automation, and decision-making with AI-driven innovation.
Adobe launches Acrobat Studio, an AI-powered workspace that combines PDFs, collaboration, and creative tools with intelligent AI agents for productivity and design.
Hexaware and upGrad launch Agentic AI Academy to equip enterprises with autonomous AI skills, marking the next phase of workforce transformation.
Salesforce to acquire AI automation firm Regrello to strengthen Agentforce and Slack capabilities, advancing enterprise workflow automation globally.
Guest Column: Yatnesh Pandey, VP-Marketing, GreenPly Industries, shares how marketing can help businesses stay relevant, resilient, and growth-focused in uncertain times
Boundless Ventures launches ₹200 crore fund to back Indian AI startups, focusing on early-stage innovation, sustainable scaling, and global growth potential.
TCS opens its eighth Mexican operations centre in Mexico City, inward-integrating AI, cloud and enterprise services to reinforce its Latin American delivery capabilities.
WPP Media secures Mastercard’s $180M global media account, strengthening its position in global advertising with a data-driven, unified media strategy.
Vodafone Idea partners with IBM to launch an AI Innovation Hub, aiming to modernize IT operations, boost service reliability, and drive digital transformation in telecom.
Marketers are moving from experimenting with generative AI to operationalizing it at scale, embedding AI in martech stacks for measurable business impact.
OpenAI’s O3 defeats xAI’s Grok 4 in an AI chess tournament, showcasing the growing rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk in advancing AI intelligence.
Tredence launches Milky Way, an AI agent system designed to deliver autonomous decision intelligence, enabling enterprises to optimize operations and scale smarter decisions.
Qatar Airways partners with Accenture to launch AI Skyways, an AI-powered platform set to transform aviation with smarter operations, sustainability, and personalized travel.
Guideline launches its Digital Ad Data Innovation Suite, boosting transparency, fraud detection, and cross-channel ad measurement for marketers and agencies.
WebEngage shifts focus to Generative AI, aiming to enhance customer engagement and retention as martech platforms adopt AI-driven personalization globally.
Google Gemini now auto-remembers past chats for personalized responses, plus adds “Temporary Chats” mode and improved privacy controls for user choice and data safety.
SiMa.ai launches Modalix MLSoC to power reasoning-based LLMs and GenAI on edge devices under 10W, combining low power, high performance, and real-time inference.
India’s NxtGen launches “M,” an open-source, agentic AI platform that transforms intent into action via sovereign, scalable workflows powered by multi-model orchestration.
Art-E Mediatech secures full creative mandate for lifestyle tech brand Dylect, set to drive end-to-end marketing with insight-led, consumer-first campaigns.
Enterprises now value AI most as a decision-making enabler rather than a pure automation tool, yet only 15.8% report strategic maturity in AI adoption.
Google launches Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270M parameter AI model for task specific fine tuning with low power consumption, instruction-following, and on device deployment.
Parag Agrawal launches AI startup Parallel with $30M backing, aiming to grant AI agents real-time web access and outperform GPT-5 on deep-research benchmarks.
Intention.ly launches its AI Lab—offering vetted AI martech tools tailored for financial firms to improve efficiency, marketing ROI, and generative search visibility.
Multiverse debuts ultra-small AI models—SuperFly and ChickBrain—powered by quantum-inspired compression (CompactifAI) for offline, low-cost deployment across devices.
Microsoft is aggressively recruiting AI talent from Meta with multimillion-dollar pay packages, including fast-track offers, to secure top engineers amid the escalating AI talent war.
ChatGPT mobile app has crossed $2 billion in global consumer spending with nearly $2.91 per install, affirming its dominance in monetizing AI-powered mobile experiences.
91% of marketers use or plan to use third-party AI or automated bidding tools driven by efficiency gains though transparency and oversight remain key.
Microsoft integrates GPT-5 into Visual Studio, enhancing GitHub Copilot with smarter coding, debugging, and productivity features for developers.
Cohere raises $500M in funding, reaching a $6.8B valuation. With enterprise-centric AI and new leadership, it readies North platform for global enterprise scale.
Sam Altman says young Indians especially 25 year olds in Mumbai and Bengaluru have unprecedented power in the AI era, with tools like GPT-5 acting like co-founders.
Goa launches India’s first AI-powered lung cancer screening and value-based pricing policy, pairing early detection with affordable therapies to boost equitable cancer care.
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI, exits to launch a new AI safety venture, signaling a major shift in industry focus toward responsible AI development.
Travelgenix launches Luna AI, a generative AI tool to help travel agents automate marketing, cut campaign time, and boost personalization.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT pricing in India with INR plans starting at ₹399, expanding accessibility for students, professionals, and enterprises.
NeuralGarage uses AI-powered VisualDub to dub the Hindi film War 2 into Telugu with theatrical-grade lip-sync and visual fidelity—eliminating visual dissonance without reshoots.
Anthropic offers its Claude AI model to all U.S. government branches for $1 per agency for a year, mirroring OpenAI’s federal offering and accelerating secure AI adoption.
Wipro teams up with Google Cloud to deliver 200 generative AI agents across verticals—enabling swift, scalable, enterprise-level automation and conversation workflows.
Perplexity launches AI-powered India Finance tab with live BSE/NSE data and hints at a potential tie-up with Zerodha to integrate stock insights into its Comet browser.
"Legal education must evolve for the AI era—equipping students with tech, data, and ethical skills to navigate digital courts, smart contracts, and future-ready law practice."
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5 with new Auto, Fast, and Thinking modes, restoring legacy models and offering deeper customization for diverse user needs.
Datumo raises $15.5M to scale its no-code AI evaluation platform, helping enterprises test LLMs for bias, accuracy, and safety without coding.
Apple denies Elon Musk’s claims of App Store bias favoring ChatGPT, affirming that all AI apps—including Grok—undergo uniform technical and content review.
InMobi launches Lucknow tech hub, creating 3,000 jobs and driving deep-tech innovation in AI, MLOps, and automation to boost Uttar Pradesh’s $1 trillion economy vision.
Huawei open-sources its CANN AI toolkit for Ascend GPUs, challenging Nvidia’s CUDA dominance and aiming to build a global open-source AI ecosystem amid tech sovereignty push.
Google veteran David Petrou launches Continua with $8M to build AI agents that assist in group chats—summarizing, tasking, memory recall—across platforms while retaining privacy.
Perplexity AI shocks the tech world with a $34.5B all-cash bid to acquire Google Chrome, aiming to reshape AI-driven search amid Google’s antitrust challenges.
Sam Altman backs Merge Labs, an $850M brain–computer interface startup rivaling neural implants like Neuralink, aiming to merge humans with AI through high-bandwidth interfaces.
YouTube begins U.S. trials of AI-powered age verification, aiming to enhance safety and comply with regulations without disrupting user experience.
Speciale Invest launches ₹600 crore deep-tech fund to back 18–20 startups in sovereign AI, space tech, advanced manufacturing, and clean energy through 2029.
Spike AI raises $1.9M pre-seed led by Sorin Investments to launch MAGI, an autonomous marketing intelligence platform for data-driven growth.
India’s first private EO satellite constellation, led by PixxelSpace, aims to boost data sovereignty with 12 indigenous satellites for agriculture, security, and climate monitoring.
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke will step down later this year; Microsoft will distribute leadership among existing execs to guide the platform’s next growth phase.
Salesforce confirms a data breach impacting major firms including Google and Chanel, linked to third-party compromise.
GraasAI raises $9M to expand its AI Agent Foundry in India, aiming to revolutionise e-commerce automation with end-to-end operational AI agents.
Collective Media’s Historyverse debuts AI-generated micro-drama Mahabharata—600+ episodes, 3–4 mins each—designed for Gen Z's fast-scrolling consumption.
Xactly launches industry-first AI agents to automate sales performance and GTM operations, aiming to boost efficiency, accuracy, and strategic decision-making for global revenue teams.
BSNL teams up with Ericsson, Qualcomm, Cisco, and Nokia to launch India’s first AI & 5G skilling hub in Jabalpur, aiming to train 1 crore learners in next-gen digital technologies
Tesla shuts down its Dojo supercomputer project, shifting focus to a unified AI chip strategy for self-driving, robotics, and future AI products.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in conversation with Akshay Kumar at Mumbai’s AI Summit, stressed AI’s role as an assistant, not a replacement, highlighting ethics, safety, and human creativity.
AI-focused hedge funds, led by young founders like Leopold Aschenbrenner, are raising billions and delivering outsized returns, reshaping investment strategies.
PulsePoint launches AI-powered Adaptive Optimization to boost qualified audience reach and cut media waste, with a focus on precision healthcare marketing.
