Artificial Intelligence

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.

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.