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    • ixigo-backed SqaaS rolls out agent platform ShellBot as the travel firm deepens AI push

      ShellBot is positioned as a new category of AI infrastructure, offering users their own dedicated virtual machine running an autonomous AI agent rather than relying on shared environments.

    • Google faces calls to prohibit AI videos for kids on YouTube

      More than 200 children’s specialists, advocacy groups and schools sent a letter to Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on Wednesday raising concerns about what they view as a lack of substance in many AI-generated YouTube videos that claim to be educational.

    • AI becomes creators’ ‘mini-accountant’, reshaping how influencers manage money

      Many content creators in India are using AI not just for tracking income, but also for contract reviews, invoice management, and understanding diverse revenue streams.

    • AI could cut workweek, cure cancer but risks remain for workforce: J P Morgan CEO

      While emphasizing AI's role in curing cancer and preventing car crashes, the banking leader also acknowledged some of the adverse effects AI could have on the US workforce.

    • Startup funding falls over 10% in FY26 as investors shift to early-stage AI bets from late-stage deals

      Indian startups have raised around $10.16 billion across 969 deals this fiscal against $11.34 billion in 1,020 deals in the previous year

    • Microsoft set for worst quarter since 2008 as AI fears converge

      Although Wall Street remains optimistic that it will emerge as a long-term winner from AI, Microsoft still has to keep up with the hyperscaler spending race, a posture that could complicate any near-term sentiment reversal.

    • Wonder why Indian founders haven't been quicker on AI; not seeing enough energy: Lightspeed’s Bejul Somaia

      We're beginning to see the excitement on the consumer economy front but I'm not seeing that level of entrepreneurial energy around AI. It's up compared to a year ago, it's up meaningfully, but it should be 10X, he said in an interview to Moneycontrol

    • Chip selloff deepens after Google touts memory breakthrough

      Four hyperscalers, led by Amazon.com Inc. and Google, plan to spend about $650 billion this year to build data centers, scooping up Nvidia Corp.’s AI accelerators and related memory chips.

    • OpenAI indefinitely pauses plans to release erotic chatbot: Report

      Employees and investors have raised concerns about the effect of sexualized AI content on society, the report said

    • Trump taps Zuckerberg, Andreessen and Huang for tech council

      Trump has taken interest in establishing what the White House casts as “American dominance” in AI and digital assets.

    • Arm to sell its own chips for first time in bid for AI sales

      Meta Platforms Inc. will be the first major customer for the UK-based company’s chip, called an AGI CPU, Arm said Tuesday at an event in San Francisco

    • OpenAI non-profit names leaders, aims to spend $1 billion in 2026

      The OpenAI Foundation intends to focus its 2026 spending on helping protect society from potential artificial intelligence risks

    • Nvidia, Accel and HCLTech in talks to invest in AI startup Sarvam’s $250 million round at $1.5 billion valuation

      Negotiations are still underway and more investors have shown willingness to back Sarvam, sources told Moneycontrol. This will be the largest capital infusion into a pure-play Indian AI startup and likely make the company the first unicorn of 2026.

    • AI pushes IT services towards outcome-based deals, AI-first delivery models, say experts

      The shift comes as enterprises move from experimentation to real deployments of AI tools across software development, analytics and enterprise workflows

    • ‘This Is Really Intolerable’: Astronomers protest Elonk Musk's SpaceX million AI satellites and giant mirror project, here's why

      Plans by SpaceX and Reflect Orbital could brighten the night sky forever, but how might millions of satellites change what we see above?

    • Govt rolls out AI skilling programme with Google, YouTube; 15,000 scholarships on offer

      IICT will lead the national rollout, overseeing programme design, outreach, curation, and execution. It has worked closely with Google and YouTube to design a curriculum integrating advanced AI tools and creative workflows

    • OPINION | Indian AI founders scaling globally through US market access

      Indian AI founders are building in the US for scale and demand. Talent remains in India. This trend strengthens global reach and future growth for India

    • OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount this year: Report

      The maker of AI assistant ChatGPT will look to increase headcount to about 8,000 from about 4,500, the FT said

    • Pentagon to adopt Palantir's Maven AI as core US military system

      Maven is a command-and-control software platform that analyzes battlefield ​data and identifies targets

    • Comfortably dumb: Why AI support at Swiggy and Zomato frustrates users

      As platforms tighten support through chatbot-led systems to curb costs and misuse, customers say resolving complaints has become slower, more rigid, and harder to escalate.

    • Super Micro co-founder charged with smuggling chips to China

      The indictment marks the biggest chip smuggling case US prosecutors have pursued since first restricting Nvidia shipments to China in 2022.

    • Accenture’s Q2 performance signals AI-driven growth for Indian IT firms

      Indian IT companies including TCS, Infosys, HCLTech, Wipro, too will benefit from the growing AI demand in North America that Accenture is alluding to, industry analysts said.

    • Why Nazara is spending $100 million to acquire a controlling stake in Spain’s Bluetile

      Nazara’s purchase of Bluetile and its in-house rewards-driven gaming platform, BestPlay, is the company’s largest acquisition to date. The total deal size could rise to $340 million

    • EU moves to ban AI that creates nonconsensual sexual images

      The ban wouldn’t apply if a company has imposed measures restricting the creation of such deepfakes.

    • US govt says Anthropic AI an 'unacceptable risk' to military

      Anthropic's Claude AI model has been in the spotlight in recent weeks both for its alleged use in identifying targets for US bombing in Iran and the company's refusal that its systems be used to power mass surveillance in the United States or lethal fully autonomous weapons systems.

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