AI is reshaping financial services in India by enhancing operations, improving customer experience, and expanding access; unlocking new opportunities for startups, incumbents, and consumers across the financial ecosystem
Nilekani brushed off concerns about keeping up with rapid shifts in technology, underlining that that human interaction, human collaboration, human relations will become even more important.
Facebook (Meta), Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google (Alphabet)-have collectively hired over 30,000 new employees in India over the past 12 months, Xpheno data shows.
The partnership integrates context engineering with Cognizant’s Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC), aiming to scale it as a foundational capability.
In less than a year of its launch, Jio AI Cloud has over 40 million users, the company said during its AGM on August 29.
Mukesh Ambani announced that the group will invest Rs 40,000 crore ($4.7 billion) to create Asia's largest integrated food parks with AI-driven automation and robotics, over the next three years.
Nilekani also said that IIT Madras’ AI4Bharat lab is developing the largest Indian language capability AI open-source stack that anybody could use.
RIL-Meta joint venture will develop Llama-based agentic enterprise AI platforms and tools as well as ready-to-deploy vertical and sector‑specific solutions for Indian enterprises.
A US-based company that once needed a three-month product trial closed in just four weeks after seeing an AI copilot auto-resolve tickets during a demo.
Walmart employs millions worldwide, and while acknowledging that roles will evolve, Suresh Kumar, Chief Technology Offier and Chief Development Officer, highlighted that the company expects headcount to remain stable.
MAI-Voice-1 is the tech major's first natural speech generation model, while MAI-1-preview is text-based and is the company's first foundation model trained end-to-end.
The outlook adds to concern that the pace of investment in AI systems is unsustainable. Difficulties in China also have clouded Nvidia’s business
The extension allows users to interact with Claude in a sidecar window that keeps track of everything happening in their browser. I
An employee group says that by selling software and AI tools to Israel’s military, the company’s Azure cloud service is profiting from the deaths of civilians
The company said it would strengthen safeguards around conversations about suicide, which it said could break down after prolonged conversations
The restructuring comes at a time when IT services companies are aggressively strategizing their AI playbooks to capture market share amid larger demand slowdown globally
In 2025, leading American tech giants Google, Apple, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, have announced significant expansion plans in India, securing prime office space despite US President Donald Trump’s dismissal of India as a “dead” economy.
An agentic AI model trained on large-scale, India-focussed financial datasets, Fuzz is built to deliver high domain expertise with contextual source-backed outputs.
Investments are pouring into edge data centres, AI-ready hyperscale campuses, and scalable fibre networks, with more than $15 billion already committed and deployed since 2020
Trained on what Humain describes as one of the largest Arabic datasets ever assembled, the bot is fluent in Arabic as well as English and supports multiple dialects, including Egyptian and Lebanese.
The company also announced that Raghav Gupta, ex-Coursera MD, will lead OpenAI’s education push in India and Asia Pacific.
Last week, Sentient AI launched Grid, an open-source AGI platform allowing any developer to contribute agents, data, or models in a single interface. It has over 40 specialised agents, 50 data sources, and 10-plus models, spanning Web2 and Web3 applications.
Pragya Misra of OpenAI, BrainSightAI CEO Laina Emmanuel, and Niramai Health Analytix CEO & CTO Dr Geetha Manjunath shared how their work is changing everyday lives, from farmers in rural India to hospital patients
The Public Policy & Partnerships Lead at OpenAI, revealed how Indian farmers using AI for crop guidance, pest management, and mandi selection have already seen incomes rise by 35%.
Intuition, judgment and a gift for reading people are some of the hardest skills to mimic
Fueled by its national AI mission, India's structural advantages offer a new playbook for ethical and inclusive innovation
Probability engines cannot be ‘responsible’ or ‘ethical’ because only the humans who design and oversee them can be. Treating AI as sentient is a category error, and Indian financial regulation must confront its statistical reality rather than its mythical persona
The new structure is meant to “accelerate” the company’s pursuit of so-called superintelligence, according to an internal memo sent Tuesday by Alexandr Wang, the former Scale AI chief executive officer who recently joined Meta as chief AI officer.
OpenAI's GPT-5 enables unified multimodal workflows, end-to-end automation, and deep reasoning. It can now transform AI from a task helper into a reliable, context-aware business partner across industries
Savvy investors must weigh the lucrative opportunities against unchecked risks in AI
Games24x7’s accelerator, TechXpedite, will broaden its scope to cover AI-driven skill development and inclusive technologies in its third edition
Unlike its industry peers, Genpact, which has undergone a strategy reset under new leadership, has beefed up its mid and senior-level talent.It has hired over 100 executives in the past five months, Sanjeev Vohra tells Moneycontrol
Agentic AI, where autonomous agents execute end-to-end workflows, can shorten the gap between experimentation and value realisation, helping GCCs to position themselves as innovation hubs
Perplexity’s audacious bid for Chrome is less about buying a browser than seizing the gateway to the internet itself. If it succeeds, the startup could leap decades ahead in influence, data, and AI capability - but the risks, from regulators to rivals, are as immense as the prize
Amid growing scrutiny of AI safety, Anthropic has updated its usage policy for Claude, expanding restrictions on dangerous applications and reinforcing safeguards against misuse.
The fresh funds follow a $140 million round in March 2025 led by Partners Group and KKR, with TVG acquiring its stake through a mix of primary and secondary transactions.
Developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the marketplace will open in beta this September.
FIA GPT is trained on Indian financial markets and can answer queries in plain English on areas such as portfolio performance, sector exposure, stock highs and lows, options chain analysis, and order book monitoring.
Sam Altman said GPT-5 could help founders handle customer support, write marketing and communications plans, and review legal documents, tasks that would have otherwise taken a lot many people.
While 78% of business leaders believe responsible AI drives growth, only 2% enterprises meet benchmark maturity standards, an Infosys report has said
Deeptech, generative AI and computer vision are among the top-funded sectors in 2025, reflecting investors’ focus on specialised and high-potential applications
Valued at AUD 233.25 mn (over Rs 1,300 crore), the JV will combine Telstra’s connectivity, Versent’s local digital engineering expertise, and Infosys’ global scale in AI and cloud.
Perplexity, which aspires to disrupt Google’s flagship search engine, has been focusing on incorporating local content to attract more Indian users to its answer engine.
India’s SPOs must leverage data, technology, and AI to drive compliance, improve decision making, and accelerate social impact, with support from funders and open data platforms
One of the risk and compliance agents built by Covasant is being used by over 20 Fortune 500 firms, processing $1.4 trillion in transactions and recovering about $500 million in anomalies
Government-backed language mission to empanel agencies for large-scale, high-quality data annotation across 22+ Indian languages to strengthen AI translation and speech systems.
ChatGPT is offering its Plus tier for Rs 1,999 per month to customers in India while the costlier Pro tier is available for Rs 19,900 per month.
The US AI Action Plan prioritises global dominance over safety, risking market concentration and weaker regulations worldwide. Open models and interoperable standards can spread AI benefits more equitably while safeguarding public interest
Dashverse is building AI-powered tools and platforms such as DashReels and Frameo.AI to help creators develop mobile-first entertainment content
The fund close comes amid growing investor interest in India’s deep-tech sector, fueled by strong policy support, shifts in global supply chains, and an expanding pool of commercially astute technical founders.