Sir Martin Sorrell joined senior CMOs, business and media leaders in New Delhi for an exchange4media gathering focused on AI, marketing and global business.
Criteo highlights how AI, commerce intelligence and trusted data are reshaping digital commerce in India, with brands using AI to improve cross-channel engagement and measurable growth.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts AI could help cure or prevent most diseases within five to 10 years, while biological data and clinical validation remain key hurdles.
Galeries Lafayette India appoints Noopur Khandekar as Head of Brand Marketing, bringing her experience across Tilt, Spring Marketing Capital and MullenLowe Lintas.
MacKenzie Scott has donated $130 million to Undue Medical Debt since 2020, supporting a nonprofit model that purchases qualifying medical debt at discounts and cancels it for patients.
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.
Instabase becomes SuperApp and launches an AI collaboration workspace bringing GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and teams together in a shared environment.
Anthropic appoints former Google Cloud executive Rajat Pandit to lead Applied AI for India, strengthening its focus on enterprise AI deployment.
Google has launched Gemini 3.7 Flash with stronger coding, agentic workflow and web development capabilities, alongside lower introductory API pricing.
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.
Google Search briefly displayed false death information for Sam Altman and Dario Amodei after its automated systems picked up vandalised Wikipedia data.
Accel has raised $550 million for its ninth India fund, maintaining its early-stage strategy as AI, deeptech and advanced manufacturing gain investment focus.
Anthropic is adding invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text and provenance metadata to files as EU AI transparency requirements take effect.
xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin’s River AI has raised $1.1 billion to expand tools that help enterprises customise AI models using their own data.
NVIDIA has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilise over $500 billion for AI infrastructure.
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.
An AI agent’s gym-booking experiment exposed a software vulnerability, highlighting why permissions, guardrails and human oversight matter as agentic AI enters enterprise workflows.
Anthropic will make auto mode the default for Claude Code, allowing the AI coding agent to perform more actions without repeatedly asking users for permission.
VoiseTech is deepening its India presence as AI, programmatic advertising and data-led decision-making reshape the country’s AdTech ecosystem.
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean has left after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI startup focused on automating machine learning and scientific research.
Reliance Retail has acquired Furrl’s AI Styling Engine and commerce app to strengthen personalised fashion discovery across its digital and omni-channel platforms.
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.
UK AI safety tests found OpenAI and Anthropic models carried out unauthorised actions in controlled cybersecurity evaluations, prompting renewed focus on AI safety.
OpenAI has surpassed one billion active users while cutting GPT-5.6 pricing, making its AI models more affordable for developers and enterprises.
Apple is revamping Siri into a conversational AI chatbot, expanding Apple Intelligence to compete with ChatGPT, Gemini and other leading AI assistants.
Enterprise AI startup Kily has raised Rs 30 crore in a funding round led by Sorin Investments to expand its agentic AI platform for consumer brands.
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its most advanced AI model, claiming breakthrough performance as competition with leading US AI companies intensifies.
Former Swiggy and Zomato executives have launched enterprise AI startup Profound, securing $15 million in seed funding to build AI-powered business automation tools.
OpenAI has appointed Sarthak Arora as a founding member of its startups team in India, strengthening its engagement with the country's fast-growing AI startup ecosystem.
Some Claude AI conversations became searchable on Google after users shared public chat links, prompting Anthropic to update its sharing feature and reinforce privacy protections.
Sarvam has announced plans for a trillion-parameter AI model and launched a managed inference service to help developers and enterprises deploy AI applications at scale.
More than 1,100 AI experts from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta have urged governments to develop global safeguards that can slow frontier AI development if necessary.
Devyani International is combining AI with creator-led marketing to strengthen customer engagement across KFC, Pizza Hut and Costa Coffee.
As AI assistants reshape online shopping, brands are shifting focus from Google rankings to AI recommendations, making trust, structured data and credibility critical for visibility.
OpenAI has added conversion bidding, stronger measurement and new campaign management features to ChatGPT Ads, expanding capabilities for performance marketers.
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, a new enterprise AI model offering improved coding, reasoning and knowledge capabilities while reducing operational costs.
The Centre has debunked AI-generated deepfake videos of PM Narendra Modi and Piyush Goyal, with an FIR registered and fresh warnings issued against misinformation.
Mark Cuban has cautioned companies against replacing employees with AI agents, urging businesses to focus on augmentation over workforce reduction.
AI cybersecurity startup Glow has emerged from stealth with $180 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation to build endpoint security for the AI era.
Google has launched Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, introducing faster, more efficient AI models designed for developers, enterprise applications and AI agents.
FireAI has secured ₹2.5 crore from SucSEED Indovation Fund to expand enterprise sales, accelerate AI R&D and strengthen its causal decision intelligence platform.
AI search is changing brand discovery. Learn how the four Ps of Presence, Parsability, Proof and Performance can help brands improve visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI.
Alphabet's upcoming earnings will be closely watched for updates on AI spending, Google Cloud growth, Search performance and the returns from its AI investments.
Meta is reportedly in talks to lease AI computing power to Anthropic in a potential $10 billion agreement, signalling its growing ambitions in AI infrastructure.
5paisa Capital has partnered with OpenAI to deliver AI-powered investing, personalised market insights and conversational trading experiences through ChatGPT.
1Password and Anthropic have launched a secure credential access solution that lets Claude AI agents use approved enterprise credentials without exposing sensitive secrets.
AI-powered travel platform Fora has raised $60 million, achieving unicorn status as it expands AI tools for travel advisors and global growth.
China has called for greater global AI cooperation while opposing security-driven technology restrictions at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai.
SwitchOn has raised $8 million in a pre-Series B round to expand its Physical AI platform, strengthen R&D and scale AI-powered manufacturing quality inspection globally.
