Alibaba launches HappyShrimp in beta, expanding its generative AI portfolio into music creation with tools for generating songs, lyrics and audio content.
NIELIT launches Cyber Kushti 2026, a national AI and cybersecurity hackathon testing human judgement, with registrations open until September 10.
AI-powered weather forecasts helped some Telangana farmers record net savings of up to $560, as the World Bank highlights the potential of low-cost AI in agriculture.
Smallest.ai raises $13 million in a Series A led by Seligman Ventures to scale its low-latency speech-to-speech AI platform for enterprise voice interactions.
Vijay Sales has appointed Ranjit Satyanath as Chief Information Officer to lead its digital transformation, IT strategy and technology innovation.
Sampath Bank has appointed Milinda Weerasinghe as Chief Marketing Officer to lead its marketing strategy, brand growth and digital customer engagement initiatives.
Andhra Pradesh has launched an AI-powered urban flood forecasting platform, with Vijayawada becoming the first city to use predictive technology for disaster preparedness.
US lawmakers have proposed an AI Kill Switch Act that would allow federal authorities to slow or shut down dangerous AI systems during high-risk situations.
DEPT® executives explain why agentic AI requires enterprises to redesign workflows, strengthen governance and combine AI agents with human oversight.
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an AI model that detects hidden ECG signals linked to sudden cardiac death, improving early risk prediction.
Uttar Pradesh is expanding its GCC strategy beyond Noida, targeting tier-2 and tier-3 cities to attract technology, AI and global business investments.
Zoho says its India-designed Nathu La servers will remain for internal use as the company focuses on strengthening its AI and cloud infrastructure stack.
Ralph Lauren has appointed Tathagat Varma as Vice President and Head of its Global Capability Centre, reinforcing its technology and operations capabilities.
Farmers in Rajasthan are getting AI-powered tools for crop health monitoring and real-time weather updates to improve agricultural productivity.
Former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic’s pre-training team as competition for top AI talent intensifies globally.
India is expanding AI-enabled weather systems to deliver hyper-local forecasts and improve monsoon prediction accuracy across regions.
Former Sony LIV executive Aman Srivastava has joined Amar Chitra Katha as CEO to lead the brand’s digital and content expansion.
Vodafone Idea elevates Vineeth Jayendranath as VP Marketing Head for Mumbai, strengthening its regional marketing leadership.
CoreStack appoints Raj Kunnath to lead BetterCloud, aiming to strengthen governance across cloud, SaaS, and AI systems.
Zeta Global launches Athena, an AI powered marketing agent designed to improve enterprise marketing workflows and automation.
HDFC ERGO CTO Sriram Naganathan explains how GenAI is transforming insurance claims, customer trust, partner productivity, and the evolving role of the CTO.
UiPath has appointed Arjun Laxminarasu as Head of Marketing for India and South East Asia to accelerate enterprise automation growth.
TCS has hosted a nationwide AI hackathon involving 10,000 students to foster innovation and skills ahead of the India AI Impact Summit.
Lionsgate has appointed Kathleen Grace as Chief AI Officer to lead its artificial intelligence strategy and support adoption of AI technologies across studio operations.
Nvidia has unveiled its open Earth-2 AI models aimed at improving weather forecasting speed and accuracy, expanding access to advanced climate prediction tools.
BharathCloud has partnered with JLL to develop AI-ready sovereign cloud infrastructure across India, targeting enterprises and public sector workloads.
ISRO chief S Somanath proposes Mysuru as a national deep tech hub for artificial intelligence and quantum computing, highlighting India’s long-term technology vision.
DeepSeek’s open-source model DeepSeekMath-V2 solves five of six IMO 2025 maths problems and posts top scores on Putnam, pioneering self-verifiable AI reasoning.
AI is reshaping marketing from automation to augmentation — empowering creativity, personalization, and empathy-driven brand storytelling in 2025.
Cart.com appoints Arjun Sainath as Chief Technology Officer to strengthen its AI-driven commerce infrastructure and accelerate digital transformation initiatives.
Clairva partners with GoQuest Media to launch secure AI data infrastructure, protecting content IPs and monetising Global South media for responsible AI innovation.
Indium Software elevates Srinath Nadkarnii to EVP, Head of Data & AI, reinforcing its focus on enterprise AI, analytics, and global digital transformation strategies.
UiPath appoints Michael Atalla as Chief Marketing Officer to drive growth, strengthen AI-led automation strategy, and expand global enterprise engagement.
Albertsons Companies names Sunil Gopinath CEO of its India hub to strengthen global retail innovation, data-driven strategies, and AI-powered transformation.
Brands are embracing AI to improve CX, but risk losing empathy. Experts stress the need for balancing automation with human-first approaches to build lasting trust.
Narayana Health launches AI tool AIRA to reduce doctors’ paperwork, improve patient data management, and streamline hospital workflows while ensuring compliance and efficiency.
AI leaders Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun urge embedding empathy and submission to human intent as fundamental guardrails to ensure AI safety and align systems with human values.
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.
OpenAI’s experimental AI model solves 5 of 6 IMO problems, matching gold medal performance. Signals breakthrough in reasoning AI as GPT-5 development nears.
Linkrunner raises INR 5 crore in pre-seed funding from Titan Capital to build India’s first AI-driven app attribution and analytics platform.
Anjali Dutta unpacks CX in the AI age—on empathy, ethics, agentic AI, tool overload, and why empowered employees and real storytelling still drive the strongest customer connections.
Jagdish Mitra at Martech Mixer emphasized empathy intelligence in AI—highlighting how brands can use emotional AI to build trust and customer loyalty.
In conversation with e4m’s Brij Pahwa, Quick Heal CMO Sudhanshu Tripathi discusses the rising tide of AI-driven cyber threats, how brands can turn cybersecurity into a competitive advantage and more
