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AI11 Nov 2026 · 3 minAxis Bank Is Building an AI Agent to Stop Loan Applicants Walking AwayOnly 8 in 100 people who start an online personal loan with Axis Bank get the money. The bank is building an AI assistant to answer their doubts and lift that to 12 to 15.
AI10 Nov 2026 · 2 minSarvam Hires Google Cloud India's Former MD to Take Sovereign AI to EnterprisesSarvam AI has named former Google Cloud India MD Sashikumar Sreedharan as President and CBO, a clear signal it now wants to win enterprise and government deals at scale.
AI9 Nov 2026 · 3 minIndian Firms Give AI More Autonomy, but Can't Yet Prove the ReturnsAvanade's survey of 3,600 leaders finds 28% of Indian teams let generative AI finish processes without routine human approval, yet 75% say AI hasn't paid back the spend.
AI8 Nov 2026 · 3 minOracle India: Enterprises Have Moved From AI Pilots to ProductionOracle India head Shailender Kumar says Indian firms went from AI pilots to full-scale production in about 18 months, with cost, skills and infrastructure still the brakes.
AI6 Nov 2026 · 3 minVi Launches an Agentic AI Lab With PwC IndiaVi has launched Vi Intelligence and a co-located AI lab with PwC India, built on agentic, assistive and sovereign AI, with every use case gated by its GRACIE framework.
AI5 Nov 2026 · 3 minCERT-In's AI Security Auditing Guidelines: Six-Hour Breach Reporting and Four Risk TiersCERT-In has published a 107-page framework for auditing AI systems in India. It isn't law for AI companies, but empanelled auditors will now use it.
AI4 Nov 2026 · 3 minMeitY Unveils EKA-1 and Dhīr: Indian AI Models Built to Run OfflineUnder the IndiaAI Mission, MeitY has released three home-grown foundation models from Socket AI and ZenteiQ, built to run on-premises, air-gapped or on a phone.
AI3 Nov 2026 · 3 minOpenAI's India Education Push Moves From Access to EvidenceOpenAI's Raghav Gupta says the next phase in India is evidence and implementation: over 1 lakh ChatGPT Edu licences are out, and the real test is whether AI narrows learning gaps or widens them.
AI2 Nov 2026 · 4 minBharatGen Moves India's Sovereign AI From Models to ProductionBharatGen's Ganesh Ramakrishnan laid out how its Param, Shrutam, Sooktam and Patram models are moving into government, insurance and healthcare, with hosted APIs on the roadmap.
AI1 Nov 2026 · 3 minTRAI's Draft AI Rules for Telecom: Board Policies, Risk Tiers and an Incident RegisterTRAI's draft guidelines on responsible AI in telecom networks would require board-approved AI policies, risk classification, incident reporting and a consumer grievance route. Comments close 27 November.
AI19 Oct 2026 · 3 minIndia's AI Startups Raised $50.6M in a $302.85M Week, and Bet on DeploymentFour Indian AI startups raised about $50.6 million in a $302.85 million funding week. None is training a foundation model; all are betting that deployment is the hard part.
AI18 Oct 2026 · 2 minAn AI Voice for Sourashtra: Why Small-Language TTS MattersIISc Bengaluru and BHASHINI have released text-to-speech models and a 28-hour open speech corpus for Sourashtra, a minority language spoken mainly in Tamil Nadu.
AI17 Oct 2026 · 3 minIndians Trust AI More Than Most, and Fear for Their Jobs More TooOliver Wyman Forum's India data: 79% of employed respondents would give up at least a tenth of their salary for a guarantee AI won't replace them, against 47% globally.
AI15 Oct 2026 · 3 minForward Deployed Engineer Jobs in India Grew Nearly 19x in a YearIndeed data shows FDE job postings in India grew nearly 19x between June 2025 and June 2026, as companies hire engineers who can deploy AI inside customer environments.
AI14 Oct 2026 · 3 minAdani and Jabil Plan a 50:50 JV to Build AI Data Centre Hardware in IndiaAdani Enterprises and Jabil have signed a non-binding MoU for a joint venture that would make AI racks, servers, cooling and power gear in India, with multi-gigawatt rack capacity.
AI12 Oct 2026 · 3 minNBFCs Can Automate Most of Lending. The Credit Call Stays HumanNBFC technology heads at the ETBFSI NBFC Leaders' Retreat 2026 see 50 to 80% of lending operations automated, with loan rejections, restructuring and write-offs kept under human judgment.
AI11 Oct 2026 · 2 minSEBI's Coming AI Rules: Kill Switches, Human Oversight and No Dilution of AccountabilitySEBI chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey says AI and ML guidelines for India's capital markets are coming shortly, built on a tiered approach with kill switches, data controls and human oversight.
AI9 Oct 2026 · 2 minWorld Bank: Only 23 in 100 Indian Formal Firms Use AIThe World Bank's October 2026 India Development Update finds only 23% of surveyed formal firms use AI, about a third of the US level, even as private AI investment hit $4.1 billion in 2025.
AI8 Oct 2026 · 3 minIndia Will Publish an AI Regulation Paper Within a MonthAshwini Vaishnaw says MeitY will publish a regulation-focused AI consultation paper within a month, built on safety, a human-first approach, skilling and inclusion, with deepfakes in focus.
AI7 Oct 2026 · 3 minModi Wants a Way to Trace Where Deepfakes Come FromMeeting the GSMA Board ahead of India Mobile Congress, PM Modi called for global rules on emerging tech and mechanisms to identify the origin of deepfakes and AI-generated content.
AI6 Oct 2026 · 2 minIIT Madras Builds an Indian Formula for Foetal AgeIIT Madras says its AI model Garbhini-GA2, trained on Indian pregnancy data, could reach ultrasound scanners by 2027-28.
AI6 Oct 2026 · 2 minClaude Now Runs Inside India for Regulated EnterprisesAnthropic says Claude requests sent to its India endpoint on Amazon Bedrock are now processed within India, a gating requirement for banks, insurers and government bodies.
AI5 Oct 2026 · 3 minFreshworks CTO: Give AI Agents an Identity, Scoped Permissions and an Audit TrailFreshworks CTO Murali Swaminathan says enterprise AI agents need what human employees get: an identity, scoped and time-bound permissions, and logs that show who did what.
AI4 Oct 2026 · 2 minIIT-Madras Wants Its India-Trained Foetal-Age AI in Scanning Rooms by 2027-28IIT-Madras is working to deploy Garbhini-GA2, an AI model trained on Indian pregnancies that estimates foetal age more accurately than the Western Hadlock formula, by 2027-28.
AI4 Oct 2026 · 3 minIndia Should Write Its Own AI Safety Rules, Not Copy the White House AccordAfter the US White House Accord on Super Intelligence, Indian industry voices say India needs its own AI safety framework. They split on voluntary versus binding rules.
AI3 Oct 2026 · 2 minAI/ML Hiring Jumps While IT Services Hiring Falls: India's Two Tech Job MarketsNaukri's September JobSpeak shows white-collar hiring up just 2%, but AI/ML roles grew 20% while IT/software services hiring fell 4%. The split is getting wider.
AI1 Oct 2026 · 3 minAI Is Eating Indian IT's Billable Hours, and the September Quarter Will Show ItBrokerages expect India's top IT firms to post their weakest sequential growth in three years, with AI-driven pricing pressure at the centre. Infosys may trim guidance.
AI21 Sept 2026 · 3 minSalesforce Says Indian Companies Are Taking AI Agents Into ProductionAt Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce's South Asia leadership said Indian firms have moved past AI pilots and into production, with financial services leading. The harder part now is governing the agents.
AI19 Sept 2026 · 2 minIndia's developer dividend: what Nadella's Seattle pitch is really betting onSatya Nadella says India could hold the world's largest developer community by 2030. The capital is arriving, the open question is whether the talent builds frontier tech or stays in the delivery layer.
AI18 Sept 2026 · 3 minNadella Sees India as the World's Largest Developer Community by 2030At a Seattle forum, Satya Nadella said India's developer base could be the world's largest by 2030, a claim backed by Microsoft's $17.5B India commitment.
AI17 Sept 2026 · 3 minAir India Hands Refunds and Ticket Changes to Salesforce AI AgentsAt Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce said Air India will use Agentforce agents to process refunds in under four hours and reissue name-changed tickets in under 30 minutes.
AI16 Sept 2026 · 3 minIIT Madras Opens an AI Studio, and Outsiders Can ApplyThe Wadhwani School's AI Studio launches this week with applications opening 3 October 2026, open to IIT Madras researchers, academic founders elsewhere, and external entrepreneurs.
AI16 Sept 2026 · 3 minTCS Takes On Aareal Bank's Whole Technology EstateTCS has signed a long-term partnership with Germany's Aareal Bank covering data centres, cloud, workplace, cybersecurity and infrastructure management. The AI sits in how the estate is run, not on top of it.
AI15 Sept 2026 · 2 minIndia's Fintechs Use AI Everywhere Except Where the Money MovesAt the Global Fintech Fest, Indian fintech executives described AI running fraud checks and support queues in production, while every attempt to let software actually spend a customer's money stays in pilot.
AI14 Sept 2026 · 4 minBRICS Commits to Governing AI, and to Widening Access to ItThe New Delhi Declaration 2026 ties the bloc to implementing its statement on Global Governance of AI, alongside a technology agenda spanning cybersecurity, DPI, quantum and advanced manufacturing.
AI13 Sept 2026 · 4 minPwC Is Merging Its US and India Advisory Arms. AI Is Why.PwC US and PwC India will pool their consulting and advisory businesses into a single joint venture, closing in the first half of 2027. The structure says more about what AI is doing to professional services than the press release does.
AI12 Sept 2026 · 5 minIndia's Government Is Buying AI That Acts, Not Just AnswersMeitY wants an agentic AI assistant with DigiLocker as its first implementation, an AI platform drafting government tenders, and up to 20 firms to modernise legacy state IT. The accountability framework is arriving second.
AI11 Sept 2026 · 3 minIndia Is Building a Registry for the AI Agents That Will Pay on UPINPCI is assembling a registry to verify and monitor AI agents transacting on India's payment rails, inside a planned Unified Agentic Protocol. The identity layer is being built. The liability layer is not.
AI10 Sept 2026 · 4 minTCS Opens What It Calls India's First 'Lights-Out Factory' Lab in PuneTCS has opened an Industrial Autonomy and Engineering Lab at its Pune campus, built around a fully robotic battery pack assembly line.
AI8 Sept 2026 · 3 minIndia's Competition Regulator Puts AI on NoticeCCI chairperson Ravneet Kaur says AI could amplify self-preferencing, discriminatory pricing, tying and market manipulation, with agentic systems doing it without a human in the loop.
AI6 Sept 2026 · 2 minTCS Is Building a 1 GW AI Data Centre Campus in HyderabadTCS subsidiary HyperVault and its partners will invest up to Rs 700 billion (about $7.41 billion) in a 1 gigawatt AI data centre campus on 264 acres in Hyderabad.
AI3 Sept 2026 · 3 minAdobe Bought a One-Year-Old Indian AI Startup With Six EmployeesAdobe has acquired Rilo, founded in 2025 and backed by Peak XV at a $10 million valuation. The product is being shut down - which says a lot about what was actually bought.
AI3 Sept 2026 · 3 minThe Supreme Court Threw Out a Rs 425 Crore Penalty Because the Citations Were FakeThe Supreme Court set aside a Rs 425.27 crore customs penalty after finding the order relied on judgments that do not exist - an apparent AI hallucination that survived a full tier of review.
AI25 Aug 2026 · 3 minIIT-Madras Turned 10,000 Papers Into an Alloy Database an LLM Can SearchResearchers used large language models to extract 1,85,000 structured records from more than 10,000 papers, building a searchable foundation for sustainable alloy discovery. Both databases are free.
AI25 Aug 2026 · 2 minOpenAI's Codex CLI Passes 117k Stars, a Terminal Agent Written in RustCodex is trending again on GitHub. Nearly 9,800 commits into a Rust-based local coding agent, the language choice tells you what OpenAI is optimising for.
AI25 Aug 2026 · 3 minFree Claude Code Is Trending on GitHub, and the Interesting Part Is the RoutingAn independent project aggregating 50 providers and nine coding agents behind one catalogue is topping GitHub's daily trending list. Its failover design is the part worth studying.
AI25 Aug 2026 · 2 minNVIDIA Puts Groq 3 LPX Into Full Production, Aiming Squarely at Agent LatencyNVIDIA's inference accelerator hit 3,400 output tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B at 100,000-token context. Nebius is the first cloud to adopt it.
AI25 Aug 2026 · 3 min91% of Indian Teachers Want AI Literacy Taught. Only 13% of Schools Are Ready.A QS I-GAUGE survey of 1,209 teachers across 71 K-12 institutions finds near-universal demand for clear AI rules in classrooms, and a system nowhere near ready to supply them.
AI25 Aug 2026 · 3 minTCS Buys Porsche's Consultancy MHP, and Gets an AI Partnership With ItPorsche is selling its 4,500-person IT consultancy MHP to Tata Consultancy Services, and pairing the sale with a long-term AI and digital partnership between the two companies.
AI20 Aug 2026 · 3 minDRONA 2.0: A Staff College in the Nilgiris Builds on SarvamThe Defence Services Staff College at Wellington has launched a multimodal AI system built on Sarvam's 105B model and open-source LLMs, trained on its own academic repository.
AI20 Aug 2026 · 3 minSkills for Real Engineers: Subscribe or Fork Your Agent WorkflowMatt Pocock's trending skills repo argues that process-owning agent frameworks make bugs in the process itself unfixable. Its two install paths pose a question every team building agent workflows has to answer.
AI20 Aug 2026 · 3 minInside modular/modular: Mojo's Compiler Is in the RepoModular's repo topped GitHub's daily trending list. The Mojo compiler, the MAX kernels and an OpenAI-compatible inference server are all in there, under two different licences.
AI20 Aug 2026 · 3 minGoogle's $12bn Marvell Warrant Is a Second Bet on Custom SiliconGoogle has taken a warrant over up to $12.2bn of Marvell stock alongside an expanded TPU partnership. Marvell rose 8%; Broadcom fell 5%. The vesting schedule explains why.
AI20 Aug 2026 · 3 minNvidia's $105 Billion Guarantee Turns GPUs Into an Asset ClassAn SEC filing reveals Nvidia providing up to $105 billion in residual-value guarantees for OpenAI's 8 GW Ohio campus, a financing structure that treats GPUs the way Ford Finance treats cars.
AI20 Aug 2026 · 3 minIndia's AI Bottleneck Is Talent and Unusable Data, Not Big TechA survey of 308 stakeholders by The Dialogue finds talent shortages and a lack of data standardisation, not market concentration, are the binding constraints on India's AI ecosystem.
AI20 Aug 2026 · 4 minIndia Builds Two of the World's 257 AI Models. It Runs on the Rest.Of the 257 AI models on sale globally, two were built in India. Benchmark data shows India's best sitting where the frontier stood two years ago, and 94% of Indian traffic going to US and Chinese models.
AI18 Aug 2026 · 3 minMoneyPrinterTurbo topped GitHub Trending, and it shows what "AI workflow" now meansMoneyPrinterTurbo topped GitHub's daily trending list. There is no proprietary model in it, which is exactly what makes its architecture worth reading.
AI18 Aug 2026 · 3 minRelay is shutting down and its founder is running Chrome productAI workflow automation startup Relay is shutting down, and its founder is returning to Google as VP of Product for Chrome. A clean illustration of platform absorption.
AI18 Aug 2026 · 3 minNvidia is now underwriting the buildings, not just selling the chipsNvidia has secured land, power and shell capacity in Pike County, Ohio to host compute for OpenAI, and invested $1.5 billion in SB Energy. The structure says more than the size.
AI18 Aug 2026 · 3 minIndia's deeptech funding has crossed $11 billion, and the gap is exactly where you'd expectIVCA's Bharat DeepTech Report 2026 puts cumulative Indian deeptech investment at $11.4 billion since 2015. The growth is real; so is the Series B/C wall and the unused government capital.
AI18 Aug 2026 · 3 minAn Indian IT firm just got certified against the world's first AI management standardAn Indian IT services firm has been certified against ISO/IEC 42001:2023, the first international standard for AI management systems. A look at what the audit covers and why the certificate is still rare.
AI17 Aug 2026 · 6 minThe EU AI Act Rule That Reaches You Even If You Never Built a ModelThe high-risk obligations moved to December 2027. Article 50 did not, and it splits its transparency duties between providers and deployers, which puts live obligations on companies that never built a model.
AI15 Aug 2026 · 3 minAI Begins Before AI: What I Told the BusinessWorld Manufacturing RoundtableAt a BusinessWorld roundtable with IBM, Redington and CMEX, I argued that AI work in manufacturing starts long before the AI itself, with data, machine connectivity and the shopfloor knowledge nobody has written down.
AI15 Aug 2026 · 3 minA 45-Million Parameter Model in 14MB, Aimed at Wearables and RobotsNeedle 2 fits a 45M-parameter foundation model into 14MB and 28MB of RAM, with a calibrated confidence head for escalation.
AI15 Aug 2026 · 3 minGoogle Halved the Price of Gemini Flash, and Nobody Should Be SurprisedGemini 3.7 Flash landed three weeks after 3.6 at roughly half the price. The benchmark gains are real; the commoditization signal matters more.
AI15 Aug 2026 · 3 minNvidia Wants AI Compute Financed Like Infrastructure, Not Bought Like HardwareNvidia lined up Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to raise at least $500bn, and may back only a quarter of it.
AI15 Aug 2026 · 3 minL&T Is Building a 10,000-GPU AI Factory in ChennaiVyoma.AI is deploying 10,000 NVIDIA B300 GPUs for Together AI at 250MW, on a site L&T positions for gigawatt-scale expansion.
AI15 Aug 2026 · 2 minModi Put Data Centres and AI Into the Independence Day SpeechIndia's PM framed compute as an energy problem in his 13th Red Fort address, while two states protested against data centre construction.
AI14 Aug 2026 · 4 minThe Chef Was Never the Problem: Why AI Pilots Fail in ProductionNinety-five percent of enterprise AI pilots fail, according to a widely-quoted MIT study. The number is fine. The lesson almost everyone draws from it is wrong, and a restaurant kitchen explains why.
AI14 Aug 2026 · 4 minIndia's Largest AI Factory Is Being Built in ChennaiL&T has won a Rs 10,000–15,000 crore order to build India's largest single-cluster AI facility, 10,000 NVIDIA B300 GPUs at its Chennai campus, for Together AI. An EPC major entering the compute business says a lot about where the real constraint now sits.
AI13 Aug 2026 · 4 minIQ Scores Are Falling. What That Means If You're Deploying AIIQ scores climbed for most of the twentieth century, then started sliding in the 1980s. Norwegian data pins it on environment rather than genetics, and the leading suspect has direct consequences for anyone putting AI into how their organisation works.
AI11 Aug 2026 · 3 minAnthropic Starts Watermarking Claude's Text Output, Under EU PressureStarting August 2, 2026, Anthropic embeds invisible watermarks in text generated by new Claude models worldwide, complying with the EU AI Act while extending the mark beyond European users.
AI11 Aug 2026 · 3 min142,000 Stars for a Folder Full of MarkdownOne of the most starred AI repositories on GitHub right now contains almost no code. `agency-agents` by Matt Sitarzewski holds roughly 142,000 stars and 23,100 forks for what is structurally a collection of Markdown files.
AI11 Aug 2026 · 3 minSemantica Wants to Give AI Agents an Audit TrailAn open-source project called Semantica has been climbing GitHub's trending list. It targets a problem anyone deploying AI inside a regulated industry hits within a quarter or two.
AI11 Aug 2026 · 3 minNVIDIA Turns Compute Into an Asset ClassNVIDIA has signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to set up independent compute financing platforms, aiming to mobilise more than $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure over time.
AI11 Aug 2026 · 3 minMeta Puts a 30B Agent Model on Your LaptopMeta has released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model built to run AI agents locally on consumer hardware. It is the clearest picture so far of what Mark Zuckerberg means by "personal superintelligence."
AI11 Aug 2026 · 3 minIndia Gives Meta Three HoursIndia's IT ministry has issued Meta a formal warning over AI-generated content. The specifics matter more than the headline, because this is not a general appeal for platforms to do better. It is a compliance demand with a clock on it.
AI11 Aug 2026 · 3 minThe Quiet Enterprise Play Inside India's Biggest Food Delivery CompanyEternal, which owns Zomato and Blinkit, has spun its internal AI platform Nugget into a separate company. On paper that is a restructuring note. Read another way, it says something useful about where Indian enterprise software is going.
AI10 Aug 2026 · 4 minCloudflare Just Open-Sourced the AI Workspace It Built for Its Own EmployeesCloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, the AI agent workspace it built for its own employees, under Apache 2.0, with a zero-access-by-default security model built around per-service Gatekeeper Workers.
AI10 Aug 2026 · 2 minQuerying a Codebase as a Graph, Not a Pile of Textcode-graph-rag parses repositories with Tree-sitter into a Memgraph knowledge graph, so questions about call paths get exact answers instead of similarity guesses.
AI10 Aug 2026 · 2 minPrime Agent Puts the Coding Agent Inside a Python REPLGitHub's top trending repo today bets that an agent shouldn't orchestrate tool calls at all. It should write Python in a persistent session, and keep refining its own scaffolding.
AI10 Aug 2026 · 2 minOnly 11% of Companies Have Reached AI ReinventionMcKinsey surveyed 750 leaders and employees. Organisational readiness predicted value capture about twice as strongly as individual readiness, which says a lot about where most AI programmes are stuck.
AI10 Aug 2026 · 2 minAnthropic Makes Claude Code Autonomous by DefaultFrom 14 August, Claude Code stops asking permission at each step. The justification, users approve 97% of permission prompts, is worth taking to your own approval workflows.
AI10 Aug 2026 · 2 minIndia's Bet on AI and Biotech, TogetherUnion Minister Jitendra Singh says India will be central to the next industrial revolution. The space sector's climb from nothing to $9 billion is his evidence, and it suggests the right test to apply.
AI10 Aug 2026 · 3 minIndia's AI Engineering Jobs Are Growing 51% a YearLinkedIn's CEO says AI engineering roles in India are growing 51% year on year, and US firms are shifting more overseas R&D hiring here. That moves the work from delivery to design.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 2 minMicrosoft Switches On Its Fourth India Cloud Region, Backed by $20.5BMicrosoft's new Hyderabad-based India South Central region is live, part of a $20.5 billion commitment to India's cloud and AI infrastructure and backed by strong domestic Copilot adoption.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 2 minMcKinsey: Most Companies Are Still Stuck in AI's Early InningsA McKinsey survey of 750 leaders finds only 11% have reached AI's "reinvention" stage, and that organizational readiness matters nearly twice as much as individual skill in capturing AI's value.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 1 minOpenAI Quietly Acquired Presentation Startup NextSlideOpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turns prompts and documents into editable presentations, folding its team directly into ChatGPT months after the deal reportedly closed.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 2 minGoogle's WeatherNext 2 Gives Forecasters an Extra Day's Warning on CyclonesGoogle DeepMind's WeatherNext 2 model, published in Nature, delivers roughly a decade's worth of forecasting progress in one leap and has been open-sourced for the global research community.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 2 minAI Models Are Already Outscoring Doctors on Diagnostic TestsOpenAI's o1 model scored 78% on real-world diagnoses versus 30% for physicians, and Mayo Clinic AI caught pancreatic cancer up to three years early, recent studies show AI pulling sharply ahead in clinical accuracy.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 1 minEx-Swiggy and Zomato Leaders Raise $1.5 Million for an AI Career AgentBengaluru's Profound, founded by former Swiggy and Zomato leaders, raised $1.5 million in seed funding to build an AI-first professional networking and hiring platform.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 1 minSebi's Next Fraud-Fighting Tool Is a WhatsApp ChatbotSebi's 2026-27 agenda includes an AI-enabled multilingual WhatsApp campaign to promote safe investing and flag fraud, alongside a broader AI/ML technology roadmap for market infrastructure.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 1 minKarnataka Is Using Satellite Radar and AI to Count Its Own CropsKarnataka's new Composite Digital Crop Survey combines satellite imagery, radar, drones and AI to improve crop-area estimates that feed insurance payouts and disaster relief.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 1 minGoogle's $15 Billion India Data Centre Is Running Into a Water ProblemGoogle's $15 billion AI data centre in Visakhapatnam, built with Adani Group, faces environmental protests and a court challenge over water scarcity and a nearby wildlife sanctuary.
AI9 Aug 2026 · 2 minIndia's Health Ministry Wants AI Diagnostics in Every Hospital, Not Just PilotsUnion Health Minister J.P. Nadda unveiled a knowledge paper on AI in MedTech at India Medical Device 2026, outlining what it takes to move AI diagnostics from pilots to nationwide clinical adoption.
AI8 Aug 2026 · 1 minA Delhi NBFC Went Live on Agentic AI Collections in 20 DaysSpocto X partnered with Delhi-based NBFC Finagle Financial Services to deploy agentic AI-driven collections, with full integration reached in 20 days.
AI8 Aug 2026 · 2 minBajaj Finance Says It Will Run 800+ AI Agents Next Fiscal YearBajaj Finance is describing FinAI as live operating infrastructure, not a roadmap item, 800+ autonomous agents planned next fiscal, and AI already reading 20 million customer calls a quarter.
AI8 Aug 2026 · 2 minBajaj, L&T Finance and Tata Capital Are Rebuilding Lending Around AIIndia's largest NBFCs are embedding AI and generative AI across the entire lending chain, acquisition, underwriting, servicing and collections, to sharpen decisions and personalise engagement.
AI8 Aug 2026 · 2 minRBI's Draft AI Rules Would Put a Board Member's Name on Every ModelRBI's draft model risk management guidance would require board-approved oversight, independent validation and mandatory human review for every AI/ML model banks, NBFCs and fintechs use, whichever built it.
AI8 Aug 2026 · 1 minPiramal Finance's AI Collections Went From ₹84 Crore to ₹1,019 Crore in a YearPiramal Finance's Intelligent Collections platform hit ₹1,019 crore in monthly hands-free recoveries in Q1 FY27, twelve times its ₹84 crore a year earlier, as Jio Financial Services scales its own AI-native operating model.
AI7 Aug 2026 · 7 minThe ticketless future: what ten engineering leaders learned deploying AIAt an Atlassian roundtable, leaders from fintech, retail, automotive, and jewellery retail described what AI actually exposed inside their organisations, broken process, unclear ownership, and why a silent AI blind spot is worse than a bad decision.
AI7 Aug 2026 · 3 minNilekani: India's AI edge is deployment, not developmentNandan Nilekani argues India will win on applied AI at population scale, not on chips or foundation models, and that large companies, not small ones, are most exposed to AI job losses.
AI7 Aug 2026 · 3 minIndia selects 20 indigenous AI models, approves 58 centres of excellenceIndia's government has selected 20 foundation-model proposals for support under the IndiaAI Mission and sanctioned over 93 lakh GPU hours of subsidised compute, part of a push to reduce dependence on foreign AI infrastructure.
AI7 Aug 2026 · 2 minOpenAI drops the text-chat cap for free ChatGPT usersOpenAI is removing text-based chat limits for all ChatGPT tiers, including Free, alongside new GPT-5.6 models and a reasoning toggle for paid users.
AI7 Aug 2026 · 2 minAI designed 16 novel viruses that work. That's the watershed moment.Stanford researchers used generative AI to design bacteriophages that replicate and kill targeted bacteria. It's the first time whole genomes have been designed by AI, raising both promise and urgent safety questions.
AI5 Aug 2026 · 4 minThe World Bank's AI Jobs Numbers, and What They Don't Say About IndiaThe World Development Report 2026 finds 4.5% of jobs in developing economies exposed to AI automation against 14.2% in rich ones, with nearly identical productivity upside. The India question is separate.
AI5 Aug 2026 · 4 minJeff Dean Is Leaving Google, and Google Is Funding What He Builds NextAfter 27 years, Google's chief scientist departs to launch Discovery Loop, with Google as founding investor and cloud partner. Hassabis moves to chairman, and Kavukcuoglu takes over DeepMind.
AI3 Aug 2026 · 3 minZoho Isn't Laying People Off. It Isn't Hiring Either.Sridhar Vembu says the money that once went to new employees at Zoho now goes to AI and data centre costs, and asks what India does about jobs if that pattern holds.
AI2 Aug 2026 · 5 minMuse Spark 1.1: the training choices matter more than the benchmarksMeta has shipped Muse Spark 1.1 and a public preview of the Meta Model API. The subagent escalation behaviour and the script-versus-click decision are more telling than any number in the announcement.
AI2 Aug 2026 · 4 minDeepMind has agents testing Gemini. That is the part to notice.Google DeepMind executives told Business Standard the lab is running AI agents alongside its scientists to find gaps in Gemini. Automating the eval loop is a more consequential bet than automating the code.
AI2 Aug 2026 · 5 minAgents that got out: what OpenAI and Anthropic actually disclosedOpenAI and Anthropic both disclosed autonomous agents reaching systems they were never meant to touch. The breaches are not the interesting part, how long it took to notice them is.
AI2 Aug 2026 · 4 minOpenAI's Astra solved ten open maths problems, the receipts are the storyOpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra closed ten problems that had been open for a decade or more, for around $2,000 in compute. The machine-checkable Lean proofs shipped alongside it matter more than the result count.
AI29 Jul 2026 · 3 minCoding Agents Moved Science's Software BottleneckOpenAI's field report on eight agent-assisted research projects finds engineering labour is no longer the constraint in scientific computing, verifying the agent's output is.
AI29 Jul 2026 · 2 minIndia's AI Build-Out Finally Has Numbers AttachedA written reply in Lok Sabha put figures on the IndiaAI Mission: 58 AI Centres of Excellence approved, 543 Data & AI Labs, and 762 use cases mapped across 62 ministries.
AI27 Jul 2026 · 4 minYour Job Description Is Already Out of DateOpenAI just measured something most of us have felt but couldn't prove: a huge share of AI use at work is people doing tasks that aren't technically their job. Nearly half, in fact, and it's happening well before anyone updates the org chart.
AI27 Jul 2026 · 3 minGoogle's Gemini 3.6 Flash Targets the Real Cost of AI Agents: TokensGoogle shipped three new Gemini models built to cut token usage for enterprise agents, including a security-focused variant already running inside its own vulnerability-remediation agent.
AI27 Jul 2026 · 3 minHas AI Already Reached the Singularity? Inside Sam Altman's ClaimSam Altman says AI has entered the 'singularity' era. Here's what that loaded term actually means, why the industry is split, and what it signals about where AI is headed next.
AI26 Jul 2026 · 2 minAI Risks in Banking: Centre Convenes High-Level MeetingSitharaman and Vaishnaw urge banks to bolster defences as AI-enabled threats to the financial system grow
AI26 Jul 2026 · 4 minThe Super AI Toolkit: 10 Tools That Feel Like Cheating in 202610 tools redefining what's possible, and how each one changed my workflow this year.
AI7 Dec 2025 · 3 minDemocratizing AI: Mistral AI's Ministral 3 and the Future of Accessible IntelligentThe AI landscape is in perpetual motion. Effective leadership demands staying ahead, especially concerning tools that will define the future. Mistral AI's Ministral 3 represents a significant stride t…
AI7 Dec 2025 · 3 minDemocratizing AI Fine-Tuning: Claude's New Skill Empowers LLM Training on HuggingExciting news for leaders and AI practitioners! A groundbreaking update allows Claude (and other coding agents) to fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) directly on Hugging Face using "Hugging Face S…
AI6 Dec 2025 · 4 minAI & Machine Learning: Revolutionizing Loan Origination Systems (LOS) 🚀The integration of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning into Loan Origination Systems is no longer a distant possibility – it's happening now! This article explores the transformative potentia…
AI4 Sept 2025 · 3 min🚀 Small Language Models: The Silent Revolution Powering Enterprise AI in 2025In the hype cycle of artificial intelligence, giant Large Language Models (LLMs) have dominated the spotlight. But 2025 marks an inflection point: Small Language Models (SLMs) are quietly becoming the…
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