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Fewer calls, better conversions, leaner sales teams: How AI is becoming the new front desk of the travel business
Executives of travel platforms say AI takes care of mundane jobs, freeing up sales teams to focus on high intent travel queries for better conversion rates.
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LinkedIn’s India user base grows 20% YoY to 167 million
LinkedIn is betting big on its AI skilling, assisting tools and solutions, to drive sales through its B2B talent solutions business. India remains one of its core markets for AI adoption and revenue generation.
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How Anthropic took the lead in the AI race, overtaking OpenAI and Google
By pivoting from the chatbot arms race to building specialised, agentic tools for real-world business functions, Anthropic has redefined the AI competition and taken a startling lead in the enterprise market
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AI race sends Big Tech’s capital spending to stratospheric high
The spending planned by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all in pursuit of dominance in the still-nascent market for AI tools, is a boom without a parallel this century
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Karnataka cabinet nod for Rs 67.2-crore AI-based social media monitoring system
Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs HK Patil said the software will enable faster digital surveillance and threat detection, helping authorities respond more effectively to emerging online risks
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Execution worries for DPDP Act as 71% firms struggle with interpretation: EY Survey
Close to 80% of organisations have not yet updated or drafted DPDP-aligned privacy policies or governance frameworks, pointing to a lack of structural preparedness.
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Michael Kratsios to lead US delegation to AI Impact Summit in India; Sriram Krishnan among key members
White House and commerce officials to showcase America’s AI export strategy at New Delhi summit
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Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Quest for fair value gets tougher in the AI world
In this edition of Moneycontrol Pro Panorama: US trade deal offers upside beyond immediate recovery, Mamata Banerjee's legal intervention helps reset political narrative, rising credit risks make asset quality a key concern, legacy automakers regain ground as two-wheeler demand expands, and more
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Where is AI showing up in the productivity data?
Signs of its effects are already starting to peek through
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Fractal Analytics awaits GPU allocation under IndiaAI Mission; foundation model launch pushed to Aug: CEO
Trump’s ‘Buy American’ push in India-US trade deal is a wakeup call for homegrown AI firms, Velamakanni told Moneycontrol in an interview.
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How Google’s stellar AI growth propelled Gemini ahead of OpenAI
Alphabet executives struck a more confident tone on the company's post-earnings call on Wednesday, the first since it released the Gemini 3 model
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Explained: What is Anthropic AI tool that panicked Wall street, wiped $285 billion off software stocks overnight
The brutal sell offs, what some are calling a 'SaaSpocalypse' wiped out roughly $285 billion from software, legal, tech and financial services stocks in a single trading session.
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Trillion-dollar tech wipeout ensnares all stocks in AI’s path
The rout is hardly limited to US listed companies. London Stock Exchange Group Plc, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Infosys Ltd. have all tumbled this week on AI displacement fears
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Cognizant to roll out 100% bonus pay after hitting growth targets ahead of plan
Cognizant’s entry into the 'Winner’s Circle' followed 6.4% year-on-year constant currency growth in 2025, the highest among large IT services firms
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YouTube's revenue surpassed $60 billion in 2025, says Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
Google now has 325 million paid subscriptions across consumer services, led by strong adoption for Google One and YouTube Premium, said Sundar Pichai.
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Google parent set to double 2026 spending to $185 billion amid intensifying AI race
Alphabet's aggressive AI spending comes on the back of strong revenue growth momentum. It crossed the $400 billion annual revenue mark for the first time.
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ElevenLabs bags $500M at $11B valuation; eyes global expansion including Bengaluru
ElevenLabs generated over $330 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025. India is the second-largest enterprise revenue market globally.
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India's AI Economic Council a ‘brilliant idea’ to guide AI’s impact on jobs, says Cognizant CEO
He argued that productivity gains from AI need to be deliberately channelled back into the workforce to support long-term growth and social stability.
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Cognizant offers reality check on Anthropic AI after Rs 2-lakh-cr IT rout, says value won’t shift magically
Addressing concerns in the post-earnings press conference, Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S said the assumption that new AI tools can be plugged into enterprise environments and immediately replace large parts of IT services work is misplaced.
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Cognizant plans to hire about 25,000 freshers in 2026 as AI boosts productivity
Contrary to the widespread discussion on AI-led job losses, the management said higher fresher intake is being supported by rising productivity at the bottom of the pyramid, enabled by greater use of AI tools and agentic software.
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Why Fractal Analytics trimmed its IPO size by 42%, CEO Srikanth Velamakanni responds
Fractal has fixed a price band of Rs 857 to Rs 900 per share, reducing the top band of its share price by 18 percent.
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Cognizant beats Q4 revenue guidance, flags cautious demand
For 2026, Cognizant guided for constant currency revenue growth of 4-6.5%.
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Anthropic-led AI volatility an opportunity for IT services, says Happiest Minds’ Ashok Soota
Drawing parallels with earlier disruptions such as SaaS and cloud computing, Soota said every major technology shift has historically expanded the scope of IT services.
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Indian IT selloff reflects AI-led repricing fears, not demand collapse, say analysts
Market participants pointed to renewed concerns after Palantir’s latest earnings commentary highlighted how AI-led platforms are compressing timelines for complex enterprise work, worrying expectations around traditional IT services-led revenue models.
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JioStar Group appoints Stephan Bugaj to shape the next chapter of AI in entertainment
A senior technology and creative leader with over thirty years of experience, Stephan Bugaj has held senior creative and technology leadership roles at DJ2 Entertainment, Pixar Animation Studios, among others.
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Infosys to setup US lender Citizens’ AI-first innovation hub in Bengaluru
The collaboration comes at a time when global banks are expanding India-based GCCs to scale AI development, talent, and digital product engineering.
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Scheming, joking, complaining: Moltbook’s AI agents are just like us
Like humans, rules will need to be set and comings and goings tracked, highlighting how managers will always be needed
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Budget's Data Centre push wins applause, but sparks level-playing-field concerns
Industry leaders believe this move is India’s play to outcompete established hubs like Singapore, Ireland, and the Middle East for global cloud infrastructure investment.
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GCC industry cheers Budget 2026, says it ends the challenging transfer pricing uncertainty
Industry executives said the changes materially improve ease of operations and reduce audit exposure and dispute risk.
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Data Centre tax holiday to benefit Indian players, GPU infra big way: Yotta CEO Gupta
Additionally, Gupta also pointed out that the use case of foreign cloud providers serving global demand from India shall increase significantly.
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How Sitharaman's Budget 2026 is powering India's AI ambitions: Key points
Sitharaman said the government is seeking to meet the 'aspirations of youthful India' with these new measures
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Foreign cloud providers using local data centres to get tax holiday till 2047, FM announces in Budget
To qualify, such companies must route services for Indian customers through an Indian reseller entity, ensuring that India not only becomes a global hub for cloud infrastructure.
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Budget 2026 proposes to setup high-powered committee to recommend measures on services sector
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman added that this measure will make India a global leader in services with a 10% global share by 2047.
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AI agents' social network: What is Moltbook? Artificial intelligence gets its own chatroom
A new platform called Moltbook which enables AI assistants to interact independently, has exploded to nearly 147,000 agents in just 72 hours, raising questions about autonomous AI behavior
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Sandisk’s 1,600% rally keeps going after ‘unprecedented’ quarter
Shares of Sandisk surged as much as 25% in early trading Friday before pairing some of those gains
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Govt to launch India AI mission 2.0 in next 6 months, says IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw revealed that India AI Summit will be the biggest AI event in the world, attended Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Google's Sundar Pichai and others
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Budget 2026: Build India's AI future
Government-enabled funds and budgetary grants for the development and implementation of AI-driven manufacturing solutions are essential to build India's AI future from the factory floor up.
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India should stop obsessing over generative AI, focus on sector-specific models, says IT secretary S Krishnan
Smaller AI models and open government datasets can drive productivity and make India the world's 'use-case capital', Krishnan said.
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OPINION | Economic Survey highlights a new vision for tech sovereignty in India
India needs to rethink technological sovereignty. Focus should be on trust and predictable rules. Cross-border data flows are key. Forced localization isn’t the answer. AI and digital growth depend on this
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At meeting with CEOs, PM Modi discussed building sovereign AI ecosystem: Netweb Technologies CMD Sanjay Lodha
Netweb Technologies Chairman and Managing Director Sanjay Lodha was part of the meeting held by the prime minister at his residence with CEOs and experts working in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
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PM Modi interacts with CEOs, experts working in AI sector
The Prime Minister emphasised the need to embrace new technology in all spheres and use it to contribute to national growth
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Oracle’s value is cut in half from 2025 peak as AI caution rises
The stock’s decline has erased about $463 billion in market value from a record hit on September 10
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Microsoft drops most since 2020 amid slowing cloud growth
The shares sank by as much as 11% to $429.24, for the biggest intraday slide since March 2020
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Indian IT majors flag trust, data readiness as enterprises scale AI
Indian IT majors say the next phase will be less about hype and more about fundamentals, clean data, clear accountability, and systems that can explain their decisions at scale.
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AI is cutting down long browsing cycles, lowering barriers for storytellers: JioStar's Mani
Addressing concerns around AI replacing jobs and creativity, Mani emphasised that AI is driving a natural evolution of roles rather than eliminating them.
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Tesla plots $20 billion splurge to support Elon Musk’s AI future
The moves underscore Tesla’s ambitions to reorient around AI, driverless technology and robots at the expense of its car business
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No AI-led job apocalypse yet, but India must still stay cautious, says Economic Survey
Early evidence has begun to temper some of the "extreme predictions surrounding AI’s near-term labour impact", the Economic Survey 2025-26 states.
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GCCs emerge as key lever in AI, services transition, says Economic Survey 2026
Services have increasingly carried the burden of export growth, even as global conditions have become more volatile, it says
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OPINION | Davos Diaries: AI, and the battle for cognitive infrastructure
Davos shows the AI race is no longer about better models alone. It is about trust, governance and infrastructure, which will decide how AI scales and who controls it
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India's AI strategy should be application-led over frontier model development, says Economic Survey 2026
The Economic Survey notes that India's strategy must also encourage innovation on open-source and open-weight platforms which will enable the country to achieve more with less resources.
