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83% Indian firms have appointed chief AI officers to fast-track Gen AI adoption: AWS study

At AWS Summit 2025, Sandeep Dutta, president, AWS India and South Asia shared how tech companies like Zomato and Dhan have deployed Gen AI to reimagine their businesses and pace of innovation.

Freshworks is now an AI company, not just SaaS, says CEO Dennis Woodside

As AI takes over more repetitive tasks, Freshworks is seeing some reduction in workforce requirements but at the same time, the firm is also hiring for key roles, including AI research and development and engineering

No point in thinking about three-year plans in the AI era. Building an adaptable, resilient team is key: Notion’s Akshay Kothari

Kothari believes the concept of knowledge workers may disappear in the future, replaced by knowledge managers who coordinate between AI agents doing the work.

Lethal trifecta and prompt injection: The AI agent time bomb no one is defusing

As AI agents become more powerful, capable of reading emails, pulling data from APIs and even sending messages or making transactions, a serious security threat is taking shape

Why India should consider appointing a Chief AI Minister

The ask comes at a point when India is pursuing its own sovereign AI stack, a foundational push to build indigenous AI models, compute infrastructure, and datasets designed for Indian languages and contexts

Scale AI insists it’s not shutting down after $14.3 billion Meta investment

Founded in 2016, Scale AI gained traction by supplying data preparation services for AI models developed by major players like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft.

Midjourney launches image-to-video AI model: All the details

Dubbed “Image-to-Video,” this feature lets users animate any image generated within Midjourney—or even one uploaded externally. With a simple click of the “Animate” button, users can bring their creations to life.

Sam Altman claims Mark Zuckerberg is offering $100 million to poach OpenAI talent

According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the big money offers, reportedly exceeding $100 million in total compensation, aren’t working. He suggested Meta’s compensation-first approach won’t foster a great culture or lead to long-term innovation.

“We will need fewer people…”, says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy as he confirms AI will reduce jobs

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in the next few years, he expects a reduction in Amazon’s total corporate workforce as it looks at “efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.”

Apple Intelligence could be coming soon to China as Alibaba releases new Qwen3 AI models

Alibaba said the Qwen3 models have been optimised for Apple’s MLX framework, allowing them to run efficiently across a range of Apple devices — from iPhones and iPads to high-performance Macs

Used to take 25-30 hours on speech drafts, I now take 5 hours: Infosys founder Narayana Murthy on ChatGPT

Murthy believes Indian IT firms can tap into Gen AI to accelerate coding, reduce errors, and improve turnaround times.

IIT-Kanpur missed out on Rs 2,000 crore worth of Infosys shares because of archaic rules, says NR Narayana Murthy

In the case of Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc), which faced a similar fate, the shares would have multiplied 768 times

Fear that AI will take away jobs not right, very positive about IT industry: Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy

Murthy said his own usage of OpenAI’s Generative AI tool ChatGPT has boosted his productivity by five times.

An MBA at IIMA could cost Rs 1 crore in 20 years, says Infosys founder Narayana Murthy on new merit scholarship

In an interview with Moneycontrol, Murthy said the whole fear that AI will take away jobs is not right and that he’s very positive about the IT industry.

You can now use ChatGPT to generate images in WhatsApp, here’s how to use it

OpenAI has officially enabled image generation via ChatGPT on WhatsApp through the 1-800-ChatGPT number. It’s available now to everyone, no side doors or beta access required.

The AI browser wars have begun: How it may change the way you use the internet and why Google might finally feel the heat

AI isn’t just a layer bolted onto these browsers, it is the new architecture. We’ve gone from tabs and bookmarks to autonomous agents and dynamic workflows.

Ads are coming to WhatsApp as Meta accelerates revenue push

WhatsApp stated that users' personal messages, calls, and statuses will remain end-to-end encrypted, and therefore cannot be used to show ads.

Krutrim’s agentic AI app 'Kruti' aims to go beyond Ola, may integrate with Uber, Swiggy, others

Currently, Kruti AI is integrated only with the Ola group for services like cab booking and food ordering. However, Krutrim plans to make it a cross-platform personal assistant that cuts across app silos.

Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI startup Krutrim launches Kruti, an Agentic AI for consumers

Kruti is possibly India’s first consumer-facing Agentic AI platform, as the majority of Agentic AIs that have been launched so far are business-to-business (B2B).

Can Apple catch up in the AI race? WWDC 2025 leaves questions looming

Apple’s incremental AI features at WWDC 2025 strengthens the growing perception that the iPhone maker is falling behind its rivals in the AI race.

India’s domestic AI market to triple to $17 billion by 2027: BCG report

In terms of talent growth, India has over 600,000 AI professionals, with the number expected to double to 1.25 million by 2027

The great migration: Indian SaaS founders relocate to US to capitalise on AI boom

As the AI boom redraws the SaaS playbook, Indian founders are packing their bags for the Bay Area, chasing proximity, partnerships, and the pulse of what’s next.

OpenAI launches o3-pro, its most capable AI model yet: Key details

The o3-pro model is part of OpenAI’s new class of “reasoning models”—AI systems designed to solve problems step-by-step, making them more reliable in technical domains like physics, programming, and advanced mathematics

OpenAI doubles its revenue in one year, hits the $10 billion mark

OpenAI’s rise has been rapid: just three years after ChatGPT launched, the AI firm now claims over 500 million weekly users and three million paying business customers.

Picked for IndiaAI Mission, Gnani.AI to build sovereign multilingual LLM with emotion-aware voice

Traditional LLM architectures follow a speech-to-text-to-speech pipeline, while Gnani is building a 'fused' architecture that cuts latency by combining speech recognition and language understanding as a single step

ChatGPT’s voice just got smarter and more human: All the details

The update refines speech to be more fluid, emotionally intelligent, and intuitive. The update also introduces real-time translation that makes cross-language conversations seamless.

Apple’s AI reckoning: WWDC 2025 could be a make-or-break moment

As CEO Tim Cook prepares to take the stage at WWDC 2025 in Cupertino, there’s one dominant question: Can Apple catch up in the AI race which is getting hotter by the day?

Google Gemini gets a new feature that makes it more like a personal assistant

Google said that scheduled actions let users assign tasks to Gemini that run automatically at a specific time or on a recurring basis.

Google starts rolling out its upgraded AI language model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, to select users: Check features, eligibility, and more

Google has released Gemini 2.5 Pro in preview for select users via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. The model leads in coding, reasoning, and multilingual benchmarks, offering improved performance.

Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani commits 2nd grant to AI4Bharat to build India's language AI infra

In 2022, the first grant was instrumental in establishing the Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat, supported by his EkStep Foundation

Over 250 Indian AI startups emerged during last 18 months, says Accel’s Prashanth Prakash

Prakash as well as MeitY’s Additional Secretary emphasised that India’s advantage in engineering talent must be complemented by deep investments in research and development, high-quality datasets, and access to scalable compute infrastructure.

‘Talking to an AI should be like talking to a…’, says Sam Altman as OpenAI pushes back against NYT’s ‘demands’

The legal demand comes as part of The New York Times’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of using copyrighted material to train AI models.

India emerging as global AI powerhouse, says OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon

Kwon said the partnership between OpenAI and the Indian government is aimed at expanding AI education and skilling to support India’s rile in the global AI landscape.

Vikram Sampath’s NAAV AI sets sail to bridge India’s language gap with human-centric AI

The Bengaluru-based AI startup, backed by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal and venture capitalist Asha Jadeja, aims to scale Indian language content for books, education and more

Alphabet to keep hiring engineers while AI advances

US tech leaders like Microsoft Corp. have trimmed more staff this year, reflecting in part the enormous investments needed to ensure leadership in AI

ChatGPT gets smarter with internal integrations with Gmail, Dropbox, Teams and more

Starting today, Plus and Pro users can tap into a growing list of internal app connectors—enabling ChatGPT to fetch real-time context from sources like Gmail, Google Drive, Outlook, Teams, and more

Reddit sues Anthropic over alleged data misuse in AI training

Reddit, which went public in 2024 and now holds a market cap of $22 billion, is seeking damages and a jury trial to enforce its content usage terms.

India is in the midst of super growth for Adobe, says MD Prativa Mohapatra

Over one-third of Adobe’s innovations happen from India, including development and shipping of flagship products.

Perplexity AI has a new hotel booking feature: Know how it is different from other platforms

For starters, you don’t need to search manually. Instead of selecting filters and scrolling through hundreds of listings, users can type in specific questions

More companies are going ‘AI-first’—and workers are worried

Mandates to prioritise artificial intelligence are reshaping job roles and raising alarm across industries.

Is AI really taking our jobs—especially women’s?

AI isn’t yet a major threat to jobs in India, especially for women, but urgent preparation is needed to equip the workforce for future shifts in technology and automation. Here we take a closer look at the Indian reality

AI startups revolutionize coding industry, leading to sky-high valuations

So-called code generation or 'code-gen' startups are commanding sky-high valuations as corporate boardrooms look to use AI to aid, and sometimes to replace, expensive human software engineers

AI innovation pace not slowing; real-world impact becoming clearer: Snowflake's Sridhar Ramaswamy

Snowflake unveiled a slew of new products and solutions designed to help enterprises manage, analyse, and activate their data in the AI era at its annual conference.

OpenAI's Sam Altman predicts AI will start solving complex business problems by 2026

Sam Altman said that OpenAI's next models which will be released over the next year or two will be 'quite breathtaking', with a lot of improvements across the board.

“It has no…”: Salman Rushdie explains why ChatGPT will never replace authors

Speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales, the celebrated author of Midnight’s Children joked that authors are safe from the threat of AI until the day a robot cracks a proper joke.

Microsoft Bing now lets you create AI videos for free, here’s how

Accessible via the Bing app’s bottom-right menu or simply by typing “Create a video of…” in the search bar, Bing Video Creator aims to bring AI-powered storytelling to everyone

Google AI chief says AI will create ‘very valuable’ jobs despite job loss fears

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes the disruption will ultimately give rise to new and highly valuable roles. Over the next five to ten years, he predicts that AI will “supercharge” technically savvy individuals who embrace and harness the power of emerging tools.

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