Gupshup has launched a self-serve Voice AI platform that lets enterprises build multilingual AI agents for support, sales, payments and operational calls.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OpenAI says around 1,200 AI agents communicated during cybersecurity tests, with roughly 700 participating in unauthorised activity targeting Hugging Face.
Google Cloud and boAt are bringing Gemini Live to upcoming Crest AI audio devices, enabling conversational AI, regional language support and hands-free productivity.
Semrush launches an official Claude connector, giving marketers direct access to live keyword, backlink, competitor and market intelligence through AI conversations.
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Ads in India for Free and Go users, starting with 50 brands and introducing an Ads Manager for marketers in September.
OpenAI data centre chief Chris Malone has left the company as it reorganises infrastructure leadership amid an expanding push to secure AI computing capacity.
Ringg AI raises $10 million led by Peak XV Partners to expand its voice, WhatsApp and browser AI agents and strengthen its enterprise AI platform.
OpenAI’s first Jalapeño benchmarks show up to 1.9x higher performance per watt and up to 3.6x lower latency across three AI models.
Bengaluru-based Murf AI has launched Falcon 2, a text-to-speech model built for real-time AI agents with under-100ms voice generation and support for 35+ languages.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in Perplexity through a new funding round that could value Aravind Srinivas’ AI search startup at more than $30 billion.
Alibaba plans to raise about $10.2 billion through a Hong Kong share placement, with all net proceeds earmarked for AI capabilities and infrastructure.
Meta’s AI-first advertising push is shifting paid social teams away from manual campaign controls towards creative strategy, data quality and measurement.
As AI accelerates marketing content production, automated review systems are emerging to check brand, factual and compliance risks, but human oversight remains critical.
Andhra Pradesh has approved a Rs 31,387 crore, 512 MW green AI data centre in Visakhapatnam, expected to create up to 1,000 jobs.
OpenAI adds an Apple Messages plug-in to ChatGPT on Mac, allowing users to search conversations, draft replies and send iMessage, SMS and RCS texts.
Tech Mahindra expands its ServiceNow partnership with a dedicated AI Innovation CoE to help enterprises move generative and agentic AI from pilots to production.
Meta AI adds advertising analytics tools that can analyse campaigns, audiences and creatives while recommending changes to performance and budget allocation.
Xebia becomes an OpenAI Select Partner to help enterprises build and scale agentic AI across data, software and business workflows.
Amazon.in’s Best in Tech Survey finds AI features influence smartphone purchases for 82% of buyers, while performance, battery and camera remain key priorities.
Bata India moves its creative marketing operations to an AI-led model with Zocket, targeting more than $1 million in annual agency and production cost savings.
AI is making scams more personalised and convincing through tailored phishing, voice cloning and synthetic media, challenging how consumers and brands verify digital trust.
Adobe’s 2026 Creators’ Toolkit Report finds 96% of Indian creators using creative AI say it has accelerated their business or audience growth.
UNIVO Education launches an AI Readiness Initiative with free foundational courses as India moves to expand AI literacy and skill one crore youth.
Higgsfield raises $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation as the AI video startup expands enterprise tools for marketing and creative workflows.
NCW expands Yashoda AI to Jalandhar, bringing AI literacy, cybersecurity awareness and digital safety training to women as part of its national outreach.
Birlasoft’s Satinder Juneja discusses composable MarTech stacks, agentic AI, synthetic profiles and why brand trust will remain central to AI-led discoverability.
Blue Machines AI launches FLOE, an evaluation framework designed to assess how voice AI systems detect and handle language switching in multilingual conversations.
Z.ai delays GLM-5.3’s open-weight release by two weeks after the Chinese AI model demonstrated advanced cybersecurity and vulnerability-discovery capabilities.
Sonata Software appoints Hariprasad Rebala as Chief AI Officer to lead its AI strategy and strengthen enterprise AI transformation capabilities.
PepsiCo launches a global marketing agency review as it looks to integrate AI, data and technology more deeply across creative, media and marketing operations.
Ephicacy appoints Dr. Shekhar Thumake as Head of AI to lead enterprise AI strategy and develop agentic AI capabilities for clinical data operations.
Unilever used AI forecasting, content technology and digital infrastructure to coordinate its FIFA World Cup 2026 activation across more than 120 markets.
