Artificial Intelligence

The tech research firm said around 75% of hiring processes are expected to include assessments and certifications for workplace AI proficiency by 2027

NVIDIA, Qualcomm Ventures join India Deep Tech Alliance as coalition secures $850 million in fresh commitments

The industry coalition, IDTA, was launched in September at SEMICON India with $1 billion in initial capital commitments to back early-stage Indian deeptech companies across AI, semiconductors, space, robotics, biotech, energy, and advanced manufacturing.

Nvidia joins India Deep Tech Alliance as group adds new members, $850 million pledge

Qualcomm Ventures, Activate AI, InfoEdge Ventures, Chirate Ventures and Kalaari Capital are among the new investors joining the India Deep Tech Alliance

Karnataka to set up AI-powered Skill Intelligence Unit; unveils Rs 4,432 crore policy to train 3 million youth by 2032

Karnataka State Skill Development Policy (2025–2032) aims to skill 3 million youth through an AI-led strategy designed to align training with global and domestic workforce demands.

OpenAI’s Srinivas Narayanan bets on ecosystem play to attract the next wave of AI developers from India and beyond

OpenAI also unveiled IndQA, a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well AI systems understand Indian culture and languages, at DevDay Exchange event in Bengaluru.

Is China about to win the AI race?

Beijing’s pursuit of self-reliance, scale, and speed is reshaping the balance of technological power

Cognizant to rollout Claude LLM to 3.5 lakh employees in expanded partnership with Anthropic

The move is intended to help enterprises shift from AI pilots to scaled deployments. This is expected to help enterprises integrate AI with existing systems without requiring major architectural overhauls, Cognizant added.

Zupee acquires Australian AI startup Nucanon for interactive storytelling push

Nucanon's technology will serve as the foundation of Zupee’s new interactive storytelling vertical that will enable creators to develop branching narratives, dynamic characters, and AI-driven worlds that engages audiences at scale.

Snowflake bets on India’s under-penetrated Cloud and AI market to drive next phase of APJ growth

India is one of the fastest growing markets for Snowflake in the Asia Pacific and Japan region, says country head Vijayant Rai

India's online gaming sector projected to reach $4.3 billion by FY2030: Report

Gaming and interactive media are emerging as the two key growth engines of India's digital media and entertainment market, reaching $7.8 billion by FY30.

From FOMO to Function: Can AI transform India’s fintech and banking backbone

Despite the AI buzz, India’s fintech and banking players are treading cautiously, experimenting, not overhauling, as they balance innovation with regulation in one of the world’s most tightly governed financial sectors.

Happiest Minds says demand environment stable as digital, AI programs continue

Clients shift from pilots to production as tech spending focuses on efficiency and measurable outcomes.

Info Edge elevates Jatin Thukral as Chief AI Scientist and Naukri Chief Product Officer

Alongside the elevation of Thukral, Info Edge also redesignated Nimish Kulshrestha as Chief Business Officer for IIMJobs, Hirist, and NaukriGulf.

Once snubbed, now sponsored -- Mumbai’s AI Film Festival draws 100 Bollywood celebs and big brands

Bollywood is intrigued with what AI can do in filmmaking and many celebrities are attending the festival just to see how far artists have gone with this new technology in the field of entertainment.

Canva unveils AI model that can understand and create designs

Canva’s Design Model powers the new Creative Operating System which brings together every part of the creative process, from design and collaboration to publishing and performance.

Meta’s jumbo bond sale draws record $125 billion of orders

The demand for the deal, expected to be at least $25 billion in size, surpasses the previous record set back in 2018

In a first, Karnataka to roll out AI-powered WhatsApp-based public grievance redressal mechanism

Citizens can lodge complaints via text, image, or voice (English/Kannada), with video support planned, and an AI system will convert them into complaints and automatically assign them to the relevant departments and officials.

Inside Oracle’s push to end single-vendor GPU dependence

As demand for foundation model training continues to accelerate, cloud providers have been forced to rethink how they secure compute and how much control they cede to the vendor that dominates it.

India’s rapidly growing developer community a key investment area with huge potential, says Microsoft’s Jay Parikh

Microsoft-owned GitHub is pursuing a broad strategy to drive adoption of its developer platform in India, targeting students, universities, and companies, COO Kyle Daigle told Moneycontrol.

25-year-old IIT-BHU alumnus launches emotive voice AI Luna; Kunal Shah, WTFund place early bets

Developed by Jaipur-based startup Pixa AI, Luna claims to enable real-time, speech-to-speech expressive voice interaction and aims to power entertainment and wellness apps.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans more aggressive AI spending in Superintelligence push

Meta raised its 2025 capital expenditure forecast and indicated that spending will be significantly higher in 2026.

Google's Gemini now has over 650 million monthly active users, says CEO Sundar Pichai

Google plans to release the next major version of its flagship AI model, Gemini 3, later this year, said CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google parent Alphabet crosses 300 million paid subscribers, driven by YouTube and Google One

Alphabet posted its first-ever $100 billion quarter driven by double-digit Q3 gains in Google Search, YouTube ads, Google subscriptions, platforms and devices, and Google Cloud.

Cognizant calls time on the IT era, bets future on AI built delivery

The firm continues to lean heavily on fresher hiring, targeting 20,000 campus recruits this year, while moving delivery towards AI-assisted development workflows.

Cognizant posts strongest sequential growth since 2022, raises full-year guidance to 6-6.3%

CEO Ravi Kumar S said that over 30% of the company’s code is now being generated by AI, improving developer productivity and enabling larger fixed-price deals.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to visit India in December: Report

Nadella will address two AI-related conferences in Bengaluru and Mumbai during his visit, which also includes meetings in New Delhi, said one of the sources

Nvidia storms past $5 trillion valuation as AI boom powers meteoric rise

The milestone underscores the company's swift transformation from a niche graphics-chip designer into the backbone of the global AI industry

Nvidia nears historic $5 trillion valuation in fresh AI-fueled rally

The milestone marks Nvidia's evolution from a niche graphics-chip maker into the backbone of the global AI industry, vaulting past peers Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet

FanCode turns to AI to make sports streaming smarter and more personal

FanCode recently launched AI-powered live Hindi commentary for a cricket tournament. The sports content platform now plans to expand it to multiple languages and cover more sports.

Coforge leans on proprietary AI platforms as automation reaches 8% of revenue

Coforge’s strategy is to scale AI-led engineering, expand large accounts and maintain asset-light delivery.

Smallest.ai raises $8 mn seed round to scale enterprise Voice AI globally

The platform is currently used by enterprises such as Paytm, MakeMyTrip, ServiceNow, and Dalmia Cement, with support for more Indian languages in development.

With 21.9 million developers, India becomes GitHub’s fastest-growing community and largest open-source hub globally

India added more than 5 million developers this year and is on track to account for one in every three new developers on Microsoft-owned GitHub by 2030.

GitHub launches Agent HQ to bring AI coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, others on a single platform

AI coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI, and others will become available directly within GitHub, accessible to developers through a paid GitHub Copilot subscription.

OpenAI says CEO Altman will not get a stake in newly restructured firm

Under the revised pact, Microsoft will get a 27% ownership stake in OpenAI worth about $135 billion, the companies said in a statement Tuesday

OpenAI gives Microsoft 27% stake, clears path to for-profit

OpenAI has spent much of this year working to restructure as a more traditional for-profit company

Nvidia investors look to Washington DC ‘Super Bowl’ to juice sluggish stock

The chip giant’s three-day artificial intelligence conference called 'GTC' began Monday in the US capital, and all eyes will be glued to the keynote address by Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang scheduled for midday Tuesday

Z47 doubles down on AI-first fintechs, plans to back global startups building for India

Z47 sees new wave of tech-enabled lending, digital-first cards, and AI-driven financial services shaping the next phase of fintech innovation.

OpenAI to give free 1-year ChatGPT Go subscription to India users amid big push

India is the second-largest market for OpenAI's ChatGPT which has over 800 million users across the world.

AI to drive India’s IT industry to $400 billion by 2030; surge in AI-led outsourcing opens door for startups: Bessemer

Bessemer Venture Partners’ new report says automation will compress traditional IT pricing but expand overall outsourcing demand, creating new opportunities for AI-first startups alongside India’s tech giants.

Qualcomm announces new AI chips in data center push, shares surge

The share gain following the news underscores strong enthusiasm for the company's AI bets while the smartphone chipmaker geared up to compete against Nvidia's AI data center heft

LTIMindtree bags $100 million multi-year deal from US-based chemical major

As part of the agreement, the tech major will provide a suite of IT services, including core business applications, infrastructure operations, end-user support, software asset governance, and project execution.

SoftBank approves remaining $22.5 billion of OpenAI investment: Report

The Japanese investment group's board has approved the installment as long as the AI startup completes a corporate restructuring that would pave the way for an eventual public offering

Quantum will break encryption, and AI might hand it the key

Wipro’s latest cybersecurity report found that 75% of enterprises lack expertise to defend against AI-led attacks, and 86% of recent breaches involve nation-state actors, a sign of how quickly digital espionage is escalating.

Anthropic to use Google's AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot

The deal is the latest sign of insatiable chip demand in the AI industry, where companies are rushing to develop technology that can match or surpass human intelligence

From Rashmika deepfake to draft rules: India’s 2-year fight against AI misuse

A timeline tracing how India moved from shock and outrage over a viral deepfake in late 2023 to drafting the country’s first legal framework defining and regulating synthetically generated information

AI in BFSI still in early experimentation stage: Perfios CEO Sabyasachi Goswami

Despite growing buzz around AI in banking, Goswami says most financial institutions remain in the testing phase, with true enterprise-level adoption still a few years away.

Uniphore raises $260 million in Series F funding from NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake and Databricks

The Palo Alto headquartered firm, which started as a conversational AI company in Chennai, counts Allstate, Dell, Priceline and The Washington Post among its over 2,000 clients

Why $800-billion Oracle wants to build AI-powered ambulances?

The Texas-headquartered tech giant is building AI-powered ambulances as part of its broader push to create a fully connected healthcare ecosystem

Operant AI finds Shadow Escape, an MCP vulnerability exposing hidden data leaks across leading AI platforms.

Operant AI estimates that trillions of private records could be exposed through such zero-click data leaks.

AI talent demand accelerates; job postings rise 11.7% in September: Report

In September, 11.7 per cent of Indian job postings explicitly mentioned AI in their job descriptions, up from 10.6 per cent three months earlier and 8.2 per cent a year ago, global hiring platform Indeed said in a report.