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Infosys delivering over 2,500 Gen AI projects: Chief Delivery Officer Satish

Infosys developers have also produced more than 25 million lines of code using Gen AI.

How India wants to tackle deepfakes menace through new amendments under IT Rules 2021

With deepfakes on the rise, MeitY’s proposed IT Rules push for visible labels, metadata and verification before AI-made posts go online.

MeitY proposes new rules to label and trace deepfake, AI-generated content under IT Rules

Amid rising deepfake concerns, MeitY’s draft amendments mandate clear labelling, metadata tagging and visibility standards for synthetically generated content on social media platforms.

AI can't replace creativity but helps creators tell stories in new ways, says Netflix's Ted Sarandos

Netflix says that generative AI presents a significant opportunity to deliver benefits to its members, creators, and business.

AI’s hunger for power: Can India’s grid keep pace with compute boom?

AI demands electricity at a massive scale, raising a critical question: how much energy will India’s AI revolution consume and where will it come from?

Infosys, Cognizant, Accenture, LTIMindtree invest in Oracle’s $1.5 bn AI Data Platform

Oracle said the investment will include training over 8,000 practitioners and developing more than 100 industry-specific AI use cases across sectors such as manufacturing and utilities.

AR Rahman's Secret Mountain taps Google Cloud to develop AI entertainment experiences

The collaboration between Google Cloud and Rahman's Secret Mountain comes a day after Google unveiled a $15-billion investment to set up its first AI hub in India

Oracle to deploy 50,000 AMD GPUs by 2026 as competition heats up with Nvidia

The announcement comes at a time when most hyperscalers, including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, rely heavily on Nvidia hardware and software stacks for AI workloads. Over 90 percent of the world's heavy-duty GPUs are provided by Nvidia.

Tech Mahindra developing 1-trillion-parameter sovereign LLM under IndiaAI Mission

Tech Mahindra CEO Mohit Joshi described it as a “significant technical milestone,” noting that with 1 trillion parameters, the IT major’s LLM would rank among the largest AI models currently under development worldwide.

Google to invest $15 billion in AI hub at Visakhapatnam, its largest India bet yet

The tech giant’s new AI hub in Andhra Pradesh is estimated to create over 1 lakh jobs, boost AI infrastructure, and strengthen Indo-US digital cooperation.

HCLTech generates $100 million from advanced AI, contributing nearly 3% to overall revenue

HCLTech is taking a long-term view on AI by proactively transforming its services even if it means “disrupting parts of the company’s existing revenue base”.

AI is entering bubble territory, says Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu

On the role of AI in programming, Vembu said he is a fan of AI-based coding and uses it extensively, but emphasized that it augments rather than replaces skilled programmers.

Foreign AI companies and GCCs need to register IP here, they are harvesting Indian brains: Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu

Vembu urged the government to make it mandatory for companies developing technology or AI models in India to register the resulting IP locally or license it to the parent entity abroad.

On-device AI to spark next wave of smartphone growth in India, says Qualcomm India's Savi Soin

Qualcomm also views India’s expanding policy push - the semiconductor mission, PLI for handsets and ECMS for components - as major catalysts for building a local innovation ecosystem.

Inside Nandan Nilekani’s exclusive Koramangala dinner for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

Wipro chairman Rishad Premji, Cred’s Kunal Shah, Meesho’s Vidit Aatrey, Ather’s Tarun Mehta, Rapido’s Aravind Sanka and several other top tech executives attended the dinner

India’s technical usage of Claude at 50%, higher than 30% in rest of the world, Anthropic says

'50% of the usage of Claude in India is for technical usage. So this is for UI, for code debugging, and general software development,' Princen said

Accel-backed startups to Anthropic: Divided on building vs buying AI solutions

They were speaking at Anthropic’s first developer day in India, hosted by Accel, one of its investors

The trillion-dollar merry-go-round: Inside AI's circular economy

For now, the merry-go-round keeps spinning, faster and more expensive. Whether it leads to success or failure will be the trillion-dollar question of the decade

Chevron bets $1 billion on Bengaluru GCC, now 1,000 engineers strong

The GCC’s core mission is to integrate AI, automation, and digital twins into every aspect of Chevron’s energy workflows, helping improve efficiency, reliability, and safety across its global network.

YouTube deepens creator-led commerce push in India with Nykaa, Purplle

YouTube is partnering with Nykaa to launch a programme designed to discover, enable, and accelerate the next generation of India’s beauty and lifestyle creators.

SoftBank in talks for $5 billion margin loan backed by Arm stock

SoftBank is close to signing a deal with a handful of lenders for a margin loan secured by shares of its chip unit Arm Holdings

MC Interview: Graphcore’s new Bengaluru unit will lead its own AI compute engineering project for the globe, says CEO Nigel Toon

In an interview with Moneycontrol, Graphcore CEO Nigel Toon spoke about the company’s India strategy, the global AI chip race, SoftBank’s “AI-as-a-service” play, Graphcore’s push for more efficient compute, and the tough hunt for top-tier engineering talent in the country.

Rishi Sunak joins Microsoft and Anthropic as senior adviser

Former UK PM Rishi Sunak said he is excited to help both companies, as they address the "big strategic questions about how to make technology work for our economies, our security and our society"

TCS to invest $6-7 billion into building data centers; first revenues 18–24 months after start

TCS CEO K Krithivasan said the project, which is close to India’s overall data center capacity, will be developed in phases with funding structured as a mix of equity and debt.

Google debuts Gemini Enterprise amid workplace AI race with Microsoft, OpenAI

Gemini Enterprise launch comes amid growing enterprise customer momentum for Google Cloud that surpassed a $50 billion annual revenue run rate in Q2 2025.

OPINION | Everything advertising mandarins want to ask about AI (but are afraid to)

The next moat will be infrastructure for AI advertising, the ability to generate accurate, diverse, and trustworthy consumer representations at scale. If history is any guide, the ones who choose infrastructure over stunts will be the ones left standing

Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Is the AI bubble waiting to burst?

In Moneycontrol Pro Panorama October 9 edition: A look at what could be the deciding factor for Bihar, FMCG sales slack after GST cut worrying investors, forex market warnings that policymakers must heed, Ratan Tata’s personality radiated ibadat, inayat and insaniyat, and more

Softbank-owned Graphcore to invest 1 billion pounds in India, set up AI engineering campus in Bengaluru

Graphcore said hiring for the first 100 roles is already underway, spanning Silicon Logical Design, Physical Design, Verification, Characterisation, and Bring-up engineering functions.

Razorpay, NPCI, OpenAI join hands to pilot ‘Agentic Payments’ on ChatGPT

The initiative, currently in the pilot stage, will enable users to discover products and services, compare prices, and make payments through UPI without leaving the ChatGPT interface.

India's lack of AI trade pushes investors towards volatile high-growth bets

The benchmark Nifty 50 index has risen almost 7% this year, a fraction of the nearly 27% surge in the MSCI Asia ex-Japan index, fuelled by AI-driven euphoria

Chart of the Day | AI poses growth challenges for IT services sector

Clients are yet to realise returns on the capital spends incurred on IT so far, in the post-Covid digitization trend

Some AI tools unfairly impacting online prices, shows a CCI report: Can regulators rein in the algorithm?

A report by Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Artificial Intelligence has highlighted how AI tools could be getting used for unethical price manipulation and predatory pricing.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei to visit Infosys HQ in Bengaluru for meetings

Anthropic's Dario Amodei is visiting India to meet with public officials and enterprise partners, as the AI research firm announces plans to open its first office in Bengaluru

Anthropic to open its first India office in Bengaluru, hire local talent

Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei is visiting India this week to share the company’s commitment to developing responsible AI systems that drive social benefit and economic growth

If you’re not working in AI, you’re not working for the future of India: Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma

The Paytm founder added that while “major deals are happening in the Bay Area,” India is not engaging with AI at the scale it should.

Regulators need to be nimble with AI experimentation, says NITI Aayog CEO

While there is a vast scope to innovate using AI, this would also mean 'constant tussle' between regulators and the fintech sector, said BVR Subrahmanyam

Karnataka to launch OneTAC, unified digital platform for tourism and cultural destinations

Once implemented, OneTAC will offer digital identifiers and verifiable credentials to stakeholders - folk artists, homestay owners, travel guides and transport operators - enabling seamless service discovery, booking and payments through open, interoperable protocols.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to visit India this week; Likely to meet PM Modi, inaugurate Bengaluru office

Anthropic is aiming to establish a foothold in India, which houses one of the world's largest developer bases, as the AI arms race escalates.

OpenAI’s computing deals top $1tn

Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman’s huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence

Phishing attacks getting sharper with AI, says CERT-In director Sanjay Bahl

Bahl noted that continuous cybersecurity audits will become essential from 2026

OPINION | Can you claim ownership of your AI-generated creatives?

AI is not only disrupting the creative world, but also emerging as a creative contender itself. Because of the scale of innovation, there is a need for clarity of the law in protecting AI-generated outputs guided by humans

CCI study flags steep barriers for Indian AI startups, calls for open data and compute access to level playing field

CCI study finds Indian AI startups face steep entry barriers from data access, compute costs, and funding gaps.

Lucio raises $5 million to build AI-native workspace for lawyers

Adopted by more than 200 organisations globally, including enterprise law firms, in-house legal teams, and boutique firms, Lucio currently supports over 3,000 lawyers in nine jurisdictions.

OPINION | Will AI open the Nobel door for the global south or shut it further?

The Nobel in medicine in 2025 has been jointly awarded to three scientists, two from American institutes and one from Japan. Very likely over the next week other awardees will be from Western institutions. AI has the potential to tilt the balance towards Global South, if they get the ecosystem right. That said, AI won’t necessarily guarantee a more discerning way to judge scientific contributions

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