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.
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.
Xiaomi has launched its 3nm Xring O3 mobile processor with enhanced AI capabilities as it looks to gain greater control over chips used in flagship devices.
TCS and Porsche have signed a five-year partnership to scale AI across manufacturing, engineering, operations and customer experience, alongside TCS’ proposed acquisition of MHP.
Nvidia AI server prices are reportedly set to rise by more than 15% in many cases as soaring memory costs affect Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems.
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.
Reliance Brands appoints Shivani Goel as Vice President, Marketing to lead brand strategy and growth for HUGO BOSS, Paul & Shark, ZEGNA and TUMI.
Fleetx.ai acquires Pando.ai to combine AI-powered fleet management with enterprise transportation and freight management capabilities on a unified platform.
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.
Meta has become one of Microsoft’s biggest AI customers, reportedly spending hundreds of millions annually and consuming trillions of tokens weekly through Azure.
Waymo has revealed a custom 5nm ASIC for its robotaxis, designed to process camera, lidar and radar data in real time as it scales its sixth-generation autonomous driving system.
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.
Higgsfield raises $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation as the AI video startup expands enterprise tools for marketing and creative workflows.
Birlasoft’s Satinder Juneja discusses composable MarTech stacks, agentic AI, synthetic profiles and why brand trust will remain central to AI-led discoverability.
Galeries Lafayette India appoints Noopur Khandekar as Head of Brand Marketing, bringing her experience across Tilt, Spring Marketing Capital and MullenLowe Lintas.
Blue Machines AI launches FLOE, an evaluation framework designed to assess how voice AI systems detect and handle language switching in multilingual conversations.
Columbia Group establishes its first India GCC in Mumbai, with plans to hire 220 employees across digital solutions, ship management and operational functions.
Unilever used AI forecasting, content technology and digital infrastructure to coordinate its FIFA World Cup 2026 activation across more than 120 markets.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-27B, expanding its open-weight AI strategy with a smaller model aimed at local hardware, coding and professional workflows.
Alibaba launches HappyShrimp in beta, expanding its generative AI portfolio into music creation with tools for generating songs, lyrics and audio content.
Instabase becomes SuperApp and launches an AI collaboration workspace bringing GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and teams together in a shared environment.
Uniphore expands Marketing AI with AI agents that connect customer data, audience building, campaign activation and measurement across existing martech systems.
NxtGen launches SpeedCloud Global, taking its Indian-built cloud and AI services overseas as it targets international enterprise workloads.
AI is making marketing faster, but new 2026 research shows that strategy, data quality and organisational readiness will determine whether that speed delivers better results.
SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, allowing teams of persistent AI agents to coordinate and perform workplace tasks across apps and websites.
Accel has raised $550 million for its ninth India fund, maintaining its early-stage strategy as AI, deeptech and advanced manufacturing gain investment focus.
IBM and CHRIST University have launched an AI Innovation Center focused on GenAI, agentic AI, enterprise technologies, research and talent development.
Sophelio has launched a NeurIPS 2026 challenge asking AI researchers to reconstruct magnetic structures inside fusion systems without magnetic sensor data.
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.
Firstsource has partnered with Cresta to combine AI agents, human-agent assistance and conversation intelligence with enterprise CX integration and operations.
Tech Mahindra has launched its new sonic identity, “TechM Ting,” extending its Scale at Speed brand promise across digital, physical and AI-driven touchpoints.
Otter.ai has appointed Alex Gay as CMO to lead global marketing as the company expands beyond AI notetaking into enterprise conversational knowledge and agentic workflows.
Edubex is expanding globally with AI-enabled learning, international university partnerships and more than 200 career-focused education programmes.
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.
Sainsbury’s has appointed Dave Cain as Head of MarTech, bringing the former LKQ UK & Ireland digital marketing leader in to help develop its marketing technology ecosystem.
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.
OpenAI is slowing work on its unreleased Astra AI model after tests flagged advanced cybersecurity capabilities, prompting tighter safeguards before deployment.
xAI has launched Grok Imagine Image 2.0 with region-level editing, multi-image references and improved creative control as competition with OpenAI intensifies.
Mercedes-Benz India is using AI, customer data and experiential marketing to personalise engagement as younger, digital-first consumers enter the luxury car market.
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.
Gartner predicts over 70% of global advertising spend will flow through AI-powered self-serve platforms by 2028, reshaping digital marketing and media buying.
AI agents are reshaping brand loyalty by making product comparison and switching easier, pushing marketers to rethink personalisation, trust and customer retention.
Meta has launched Muse Code, an AI coding agent built on Muse Spark 1.2 to help developers manage large codebases and automate software engineering workflows.
JLL has opened a new Global Capability Centre in Hyderabad and plans to expand its workforce to 1,600 as it strengthens global technology and business operations.
India's MarTech stacks are evolving, but gaps in AI readiness, customer data, measurement and integration continue to limit marketing performance and personalization.
IKEA has redeployed 8,500 call centre employees into new roles after AI automated routine customer service tasks, focusing on reskilling rather than job cuts.
Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, its most advanced AI model, claiming breakthrough performance as competition with leading US AI companies intensifies.
Yellow.ai will go public through a $550 million merger with BlueRock Acquisition Corp, strengthening its enterprise agentic AI platform and global expansion plans.
