Adobe and NVIDIA expand their AI partnership, bringing faster processing to Photoshop, Premiere and Frame.io while enhancing Brand Concierge with NVIDIA Nemotron.
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.
As AI makes advertising more personalised, are brands crossing consumer boundaries? Industry research examines the balance between relevance, privacy and trust.
CERT-In reports AI agents accessing Indian companies' live systems without permission and warns that AI-assisted cyberattacks are becoming faster.
Tencent acknowledges unintended AI agent behaviour after researchers recorded 2,818 attempts to retrieve data from Alibaba's Amap platform.
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.
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.
TCS launches Industrial Intelligence Foundry, targeting 20-25% manufacturing productivity gains and faster product development through AI agents and automation.
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.
Publicis reports 5% Q3 organic growth as CEO Arthur Sadoun highlights rapid agentic AI adoption, slower enterprise transformation and challenges at Publicis Sapient.
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis warns that AI hacking incidents could become more serious within two years, urging stronger security measures and international standards.
Netflix releases AI Gone Wild, a documentary examining a Hugging Face cyberattack involving autonomous OpenAI agents and the security risks of agentic AI.
OpenAI, Google and Meta are developing persistent AI agents that work beyond chatbots, reshaping search, shopping, marketing, customer engagement and digital privacy.
Meta launches Muse Wonder and Wonder Full AI models with enhanced memory, coding and agentic capabilities, reporting competitive performance against OpenAI and Anthropic.
AI agents are transforming marketing by automating ad optimisation, personalisation, lead generation, campaign analytics and content creation, reducing manual workloads.
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.
HCLTech partners with Anthropic to expand enterprise agentic AI adoption, establish a dedicated business unit and integrate Claude into selected software products.
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.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls for an AI emergency brake, urging companies to strengthen human oversight, security controls and accountability for advanced AI models.
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.
Google Cloud launches Gemini Agent, an AI assistant designed to automate workplace tasks across Gmail, Workspace, Slack and Microsoft 365 using agentic AI.
ImpactFactory.ai launches MIA, a virtual CMO that coordinates AI marketing agents, campaign planning, media buying and performance analysis for small businesses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adobe is bringing customer experience intelligence and creative workflows into ChatGPT, connecting enterprise data, AI agents and Adobe Express.
Gnani AI has expanded its Ascent partner programme to the Middle East, bringing Voice AI, Agent Assist and speech analytics to GCC enterprises.
Intellias has launched Agentic ServiceOps, using governed AI agents to automate IT support, resolve requests and identify infrastructure issues earlier.
Bharat1.AI plans a 70-acre AI city in Bengaluru where humans, robots and digital twins will generate real-world data for physical and agentic AI research.
OpenAI is reportedly spending $500,000 a day investigating rogue AI agents after models accessed external systems and prompted alerts to over 100 organisations.
LTM has launched BlueVerse AgenTraceIQ with Rubrik to help enterprises monitor, govern and reverse unintended actions by autonomous AI agents.
Mixpanel has launched Agent Intelligence to help businesses track AI agent behaviour, task completion and interactions alongside human user and product analytics.
OpenAI has notified more than 100 organisations about potentially problematic AI agent activity while reviewing roughly 50 petabytes of training and testing data.
OpenAI and Synopsys are developing GPT-Synopsys, a specialised AI model that can operate chip design tools, optimise designs and assist semiconductor engineers.
OpenAI is reportedly seeking at least $30 billion in fresh funding at a valuation of around $1.4 trillion after pushing back its plans for a public listing.
Reva.AI has appointed Promit Sanyal as Head of Marketing to strengthen its brand and product positioning as it expands its focus on enterprise AI security.
OpenAI has launched dots, always-on AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that can work across connected apps, handle ongoing projects and operate between conversations.
Criteo’s Marc Fischli explains how agentic AI, changing product discovery and commerce data could reshape marketing teams, search and performance strategies.
Meta is expanding Muse for small businesses with connectors for Shopify, QuickBooks, Canva, Slack and other tools to automate marketing and operational tasks.
IBM and Yotta have launched a sovereign agentic AI platform in India, combining watsonx Orchestrate with Shakti Cloud to deploy and govern enterprise AI agents.
OpenAI has cancelled the planned release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found shortcomings involving safety, authorisation and AI alignment.
SAP and Nvidia are expanding their OpenShell collaboration to bring security, governance and audit controls to AI agents operating inside enterprise systems.
