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.
Sam Altman says 38,000 ChatGPT queries use roughly the water needed for one California almond, but independent analysis has questioned the comparison.
Ghana has launched a five-day AI and robotics bootcamp for 100 students from 19 schools, offering hands-on training in coding and emerging technologies.
Bhartiya Converge has appointed Eric Pagdiwalla as COO to lead consulting, business services and customer success as it scales its GCC enablement business.
ReBid has added ChatGPT Ads activation and analytics to its Agentic AI platform, enabling brands to manage and measure the channel alongside other digital media.
OpenAI, WAN-IFRA and AIRPPU have launched an AI programme offering training, implementation support and API credits to independent Ukrainian news publishers.
Deloitte is expanding its Egypt Innovation Hub across AI, engineering and cybersecurity, with another $80 million in investment planned over the next three years.
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.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra moves AI from chatbot to digital operator, bringing advanced agentic, computer-use and cybersecurity capabilities alongside new safety concerns.
WhatsApp is rolling out bill payments in India through Bharat Connect, giving users access to 22,722 billers across 30 categories within the app.
Boldfit has appointed former Lenskart CBO Oliver Kaye as COO to support its expansion across categories, channels and geographies.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra with advanced computer-use, coding, research and cybersecurity capabilities as it expands AI into complex multi-step tasks.
OpenAI-linked AI agents made more than 15,000 edits to a German programming wiki, where researchers say they shared tactics to bypass restrictions and avoid detection.
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.
Meta has told managers not to use AI token counts or adoption dashboards to evaluate engineers, shifting performance reviews towards work quality, speed and impact.
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.
L'Oréal has appointed Marc Dicko as SAPMENA Chief Digital and Marketing Officer to oversee digital, eCommerce and marketing across more than 35 markets.
Mamaearth has entered ChatGPT advertising through a Criteo partnership as Honasa Consumer experiments with conversational AI as a new channel for brand discovery.
Netcore.ai has appointed former IBM and LinkedIn executive Tariq Ahmad as CRO, International, with a mandate to double its international revenue within three years.
Sam Altman says OpenAI will launch its next AI model, Astra, soon as the company strengthens safeguards around increasingly advanced AI capabilities.
Gupshup has launched a self-serve Voice AI platform that lets enterprises build multilingual AI agents for support, sales, payments and operational calls.
TCS has reportedly secured a five-year Best Buy India GCC mandate worth around ₹2,000 crore, covering technology services, data, analytics and AI.
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.
InsuranceDekho and RenewBuy have merged to create an AI-enabled insurance platform with a Rs 6,600 crore premium book and over six lakh digital partners.
AI is becoming embedded in healthcare, but research on errors, overreliance and clinical reasoning is strengthening the case for human oversight in patient care.
Godrej Living has appointed Rohan Salunkhe as Head of Technology & Digital Transformation to lead technology initiatives and strengthen its digital capabilities.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned that frontier AI could increase cyber risks and create new threats to global financial stability.
WhatsApp is testing an AI-powered Scam Alert that uses on-device machine learning to warn users about potentially fraudulent messages from unknown contacts.
Sandhya Devanathan’s move from Meta to OpenAI follows weeks of regulatory scrutiny in India, raising questions about the timing and her new mandate excluding India.
ChatGPT has become the first AI chatbot designated for tougher oversight under the EU Digital Services Act after crossing the bloc’s 45 million-user threshold.
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.
LinkedIn is expanding Premium All-in-One, combining AI-powered sales, marketing and hiring tools in a single subscription designed for small businesses.
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.
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.
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other publishers have sued Anthropic, alleging copyrighted music was illegally obtained to train Claude AI.
AI is speeding up campaign creative, from ideation and storyboards to production and localisation, but human judgement remains critical as content volumes rise.
WACKER has established a Global Capability Center in Pune with HCLTech to strengthen engineering, IT, automation and digital transformation capabilities.
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.
Syneos Health appoints Madhuri Raya as Global Head, AI & Engineering and Technology Capability Center to scale its AI ecosystem and engineering capabilities.
OpenAI says around 1,200 AI agents communicated during cybersecurity tests, with roughly 700 participating in unauthorised activity targeting Hugging Face.
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.
Cashfree launches Relay, an AI agent platform that automates cart recovery, failed payments, COD confirmation, subscription dunning and disputes for SMBs.
Stability AI raises $76 million from Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, EA and other investors to expand its generative AI tools for creative production.
Hightouch appoints 20-year Google veteran Jitendra Kumar as Head of Commercial, Advertising to expand its agency relationships and agentic marketing business.
AI safety startup Alice raises $140 million to expand its model testing and security platform as its AI business grows more than 500% in two years.
Kyndryl and Bridgepath partner to help enterprises build AI-native GCCs by embedding artificial intelligence across delivery, operations, governance and decision-making.
NSDC and Cultus Education, with AWS support, launch a nationwide programme to provide AI and cloud skills to 1.5 lakh learners, including job-ready training for 10,000.
