Bhartiya Converge has appointed Eric Pagdiwalla as COO to lead consulting, business services and customer success as it scales its GCC enablement business.
Navana.ai has raised ₹40 crore in Series A funding led by Ronnie Screwvala to expand its Voice AI platform across BFSI and strengthen Indian-language speech models.
Tea Board India, ISRO's NRSC and NIT Rourkela have partnered on CHAAYANKAN, an AI-based project to monitor tea plantations using satellite and drone data.
WhatsApp is rolling out bill payments in India through Bharat Connect, giving users access to 22,722 billers across 30 categories within the app.
IIT Madras-incubated Bodhan AI has launched four open AI models covering speech, translation and OCR to support multilingual education across Indian languages.
Milacron has opened its first Global Capability Centre in Coimbatore, housing more than 60 engineers as it expands its engineering and innovation capabilities in India.
Flipkart and Bengaluru Traffic Police's Gridlock Hackathon drew 33,600 registrations and over 1,100 AI prototypes aimed at tackling the city's traffic challenges.
Global AI infrastructure investment could reach $31.6 trillion by 2050 as spending on data centres, chips and computing capacity accelerates, PwC projects.
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.
NPCI is reportedly developing a framework that could allow AI agents to make limited UPI payments under user-defined rules, spending limits and safeguards.
BFSI emerged as India's largest GCC office occupier in H1 2026, with transactions rising 70% to 7.32 million sq ft as IT/ITeS demand declined.
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.
Fireflies.ai is exploring acquisitions of Indian AI and voice AI startups while introducing a lower-priced plan to expand its presence in India.
WACKER has established a Global Capability Center in Pune with HCLTech to strengthen engineering, IT, automation and digital transformation capabilities.
Karnataka is exploring ElevenLabs voice AI pilots across skilling, healthcare, investor assistance and citizen services, with a focus on responsible AI deployment.
Octave Intelligence opens a 2 lakh sq ft technology centre in Hyderabad and plans to scale to 2,000 engineers across AI, software, data, cloud and product development.
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.
AWS expands OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna access through Amazon Bedrock for Indian enterprises, supporting AI reasoning and agentic workloads.
HubSpot’s Adarsh Noronha explains how AI, Loop Marketing and human-led strategy can help Indian businesses adapt to fragmented buyer journeys and drive growth.
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.
AI is making scams more personalised and convincing through tailored phishing, voice cloning and synthetic media, challenging how consumers and brands verify digital trust.
UNIVO Education launches an AI Readiness Initiative with free foundational courses as India moves to expand AI literacy and skill one crore youth.
Galeries Lafayette India appoints Noopur Khandekar as Head of Brand Marketing, bringing her experience across Tilt, Spring Marketing Capital and MullenLowe Lintas.
ZEE Entertainment appoints former ACKO CMO Ashish Mishra as Chief Marketing Officer to lead its brand, consumer marketing and network-level strategic initiatives.
CIBC leases 1.21 lakh sq ft of managed office space in Hyderabad for its GCC in a five-year deal valued at around ₹180 crore.
NxtGen launches SpeedCloud Global, taking its Indian-built cloud and AI services overseas as it targets international enterprise workloads.
Anthropic appoints former Google Cloud executive Rajat Pandit to lead Applied AI for India, strengthening its focus on enterprise AI deployment.
NIELIT launches Cyber Kushti 2026, a national AI and cybersecurity hackathon testing human judgement, with registrations open until September 10.
Julius Baer has leased 74,037 sq ft in Mumbai's Andheri East for its Global Enterprise Services operations, expanding its India GCC footprint.
As India marks its 79th Independence Day, the AI sovereignty debate shifts to compute, data and indigenous models that could shape the country’s digital future.
India is building multilingual, voice-first AI through platforms such as BHASHINI, BharatGen and Bharat-VISTAAR to broaden access beyond English-first users.
Mahindra has launched the AI-powered BLAZO i-TRK with automatic drive modes, predictive diagnostics and an uptime guarantee as it targets 5% heavy truck market share.
Delhi Police has deployed over 1,000 CCTV cameras linked to AI video analytics around the Red Fort as part of heightened Independence Day security.
Standard Chartered is strengthening its India GCC strategy as industry estimates project the country's global capability centre market to reach $105 billion by 2030.
L&T is entering the AI factory market with a 10,000 NVIDIA B300 GPU deployment in Chennai for US-based AI cloud company Together AI.
Accel has raised $550 million for its ninth India fund, maintaining its early-stage strategy as AI, deeptech and advanced manufacturing gain investment focus.
Island Computing will launch its sovereign cloud platform in India on August 15, targeting AI, SaaS, enterprise and regulated workloads.
Acumatica has opened a Global Capability Center in Hyderabad with more than 30 employees, initially focusing on engineering and global product development.
Mondelēz India has appointed Vinay Subramanyam as Vice President, Marketing. He joins from Kellanova and succeeds Nitin Saini, who moves to lead the Indonesia business.
Acer India and Bangladesh Head of Marketing Sooraj Balakrishnan discusses AI search, GEO, personalisation and why consumer understanding must remain human.
Samsung is studying how consumers use AI in everyday life to shape future Galaxy experiences, with its India R&D teams also developing locally relevant AI features.
India recorded 2.6 AI-linked hires for every role lost, but a widening skills mismatch could put freshers and entry-level workers under pressure, a Nomura report finds.
BRICS education ministers have adopted a roadmap focused on AI, skills, research and student mobility as member nations deepen cooperation on future-ready education.
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.
Nandan Nilekani says India should focus on becoming the world's AI use case capital by building practical AI applications instead of competing in semiconductor manufacturing.
India has introduced stricter AI content rules, mandating labels for synthetic media and reducing the takedown timeline for flagged content to three hours.
Tamil Nadu has announced Arivagam, India's first AI and Innovation City, to strengthen AI research, startups, digital infrastructure and deep-tech investment.
Indian legal AI startup NYAI has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to expand its AI-powered legal intelligence platform for enterprises and law firms.
Former Swiggy and Zomato executives have launched enterprise AI startup Profound, securing $15 million in seed funding to build AI-powered business automation tools.
India and Indonesia are strengthening cooperation in artificial intelligence to accelerate digital transformation, innovation and technology collaboration across key sectors.
