Cal AI's 19-year-old co-founder Zach Yadegari raises $10 million for Persona, an AI assistant startup developing a $179 wearable and advertising-supported shopping features.
Boston Dynamics has named former Amazon AI leader Rohit Prasad as CEO to lead its Physical AI strategy and expand AI-powered robots across industries.
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.
PewDiePie has unveiled Ajax, a local AI model based on Qwen3.5-9B, after saying OpenAI suspended his account twice during its development.
SiMa.ai has raised $150 million at a $1.45 billion valuation to scale its physical AI software and develop next-generation hardware for robots, cars and drones.
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for about $8.2 billion, adding spatial intelligence and AI model research to its expanding AI portfolio.
TCS has opened a lights-out factory lab in Pune to help manufacturers test AI, robotics, digital twins and autonomous production systems.
Digital Divide Data has opened its first India GCC in Dehradun for AI, robotics and generative AI, with plans to expand from 150 to up to 1,000 employees.
AWS will deploy two million additional Nvidia GPUs across its global infrastructure in 2027 and 2028 as demand for large-scale AI computing continues to grow.
Apple refreshes Mac Mini and Mac Studio with new chips, higher memory capacity and a focus on running AI models and agentic workloads locally.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-27B, expanding its open-weight AI strategy with a smaller model aimed at local hardware, coding and professional workflows.
Indian scientists have developed ACCSeND, a deep learning tool designed to identify cancer stem-like cells that can be difficult to detect within tumours.
Microagi has partnered with Google Cloud to accelerate embodied AI development, using Google's AI infrastructure and NVIDIA Blackwell systems to scale enterprise robotics.
Bristol Myers Squibb is deploying NVIDIA's latest AI computing platform to accelerate drug discovery, clinical research and AI-driven pharmaceutical innovation.
Humanoid robots emerged as a key attraction at Shanghai's World AI Conference, highlighting advances in embodied AI and real world robotics applications.
Japan and NVIDIA have launched the world's first national AI infrastructure to power physical AI, robotics, digital twins and multimodal foundation models.
Mistral has launched Robostral Navigate, an AI model that enables robots to navigate using a single RGB camera and natural language instructions.
Arduino has launched an Edge AI Invention Lab at IIT Delhi to strengthen practical AI education, embedded AI research and hands on innovation using edge computing.
NVIDIA has launched Halos for Robotics, a safety framework designed to support the safe deployment of robots and physical AI systems.
CyberSentinel AI brings 33 security tools into one local platform for AI-assisted scanning, threat intelligence and security analysis.
MeitY and UNESCO hosted a national workshop focused on safe, trusted and ethical AI, bringing together policymakers, researchers and industry leaders.
NeoCambrian AI has launched an India-focused robotics data factory aimed at supporting physical AI model development and training.
Physical AI is moving beyond chatbots into warehouses, hospitals, retail, and mobility, driving automation through robotics and intelligent systems.
LG is expanding its partnership with Nvidia to advance physical AI in robotics and smart infrastructure applications.
Healthtech startup Cent raises $5 million to expand its AI powered early disease detection platform and accelerate development of predictive healthcare technologies.
Alibaba has launched RynnBrain, an open-source robot model aimed at advancing physical AI and accelerating robotics innovation.
IIM Lucknow has proposed an ethical framework to guide responsible use of AI in marketing, focusing on transparency, data privacy, fairness and accountability.
Arm launches a dedicated physical AI unit to support growth in robotics and autonomous systems, expanding its role in real-world AI applications.
Google AI and Yale scientists uncover potential cancer therapy pathway using Gemma, marking a major milestone in AI-assisted biomedical research.
AI use among Indian clinicians has tripled in a year, with 40% now adopting tools for diagnosis and workflows, though institutional gaps and training remain key challenges.
TCS partners with France’s CEA to advance physical AI research, targeting innovations in manufacturing, energy, and sustainable industrial systems.
Next-gen AI evolves into “Physical AI”—autonomous factories, wearable exoskeletons, and service robots are embedding intelligence into the real world.
At the 4th edition of e4m MarTech Thursday Webinar, industry experts spoke about the challenges of balancing the allure of hyperpersonalisation with concerns over privacy, sustainability & ethical AI
