DeepSeek reportedly secures nearly $15 billion in funding backed by Tencent and CATL as the Chinese AI startup expands its capabilities ahead of a potential IPO.
TravClan raises $5 million from Flipkart, August One and Trifecta Capital to expand AI-powered travel bookings, global supplier networks and destination operations.
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.
‘Black October’ 2026 raises global cybersecurity concerns as millions of hacking attempts, critical software vulnerabilities and AI-powered cyber threats put businesses at risk.
Are brands becoming too automated to feel human? New research from Salesforce, Adobe, Canva and Capgemini examines how AI is reshaping personalisation, customer trust and human interaction.
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.
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.
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.
How does Korean food become a repeat craving? GTGO India CEO Mahesh Reddy discusses how customer experience, authentic flavours and consistency influence repeat orders.
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.
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.
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.
As AI makes advertising more personalised, are brands crossing consumer boundaries? Industry research examines the balance between relevance, privacy and trust.
How can brands turn app downloads into customer loyalty? Industry leaders explain how personalisation, seamless experiences and consistent value drive app retention.
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.
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.
Rhea Umesh Mansukhani takes over as Head of Marketing at upGrad Enterprise after serving as Enterprise Marketing Lead and Product Marketing Manager.
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.
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.
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.
Google launches Universal Cart in the US, bringing AI-powered shopping, price alerts, product tracking and payment suggestions to Search and Gemini.
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.
Gartner warns that over $3.5 trillion in AI infrastructure spending could face impairment risks by 2030, with revenue unlikely to support planned investments.
