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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI is becoming embedded in healthcare, but research on errors, overreliance and clinical reasoning is strengthening the case for human oversight in patient care.
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.
Sandhya Devanathan’s move from Meta to OpenAI follows weeks of regulatory scrutiny in India, raising questions about the timing and her new mandate excluding India.
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.
LinkedIn is expanding Premium All-in-One, combining AI-powered sales, marketing and hiring tools in a single subscription designed for small businesses.
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.
AI is speeding up campaign creative, from ideation and storyboards to production and localisation, but human judgement remains critical as content volumes rise.
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.
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.
