CtrlS has opened its first datacenter in Kolkata, marking the start of a ₹2,200 crore plan to build eastern India’s largest datacenter ecosytem. The new facility, located in Bengal Silicon Valley, New Town, is the first in the region to meet the Rated-4 certification…

Goa government is set to implement a policy that makes expensive, life-saving medical treatments more affordable, starting with lung cancer.  The Pricing Policy for Innovative Lifesaving Therapies (PPILT) will allow the state to sign confidential, outcome…

Bengaluru-based AI startup NeuralGarage has converted the entire Hindi film War 2 into Telugu, making it appear as if the movie was originally shot in Telugu. The film, releasing on August 14, the company said, received a ‘straight’ film certificate from…

IBM has opened its new India Client Experience Centre in Mumbai to help enterprises adopt AI, hybrid cloud, and quantum computing. The company has also signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with the Maharashtra government to explore opportunities in the state’s…

Google has announced Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270-million parameter model intended for task-specific fine-tuning and efficient on-device deployment. The release follows the launch of Gemma 3, Gemma 3 QAT, and Gemma 3n, expanding the Gemma open model family…

Nearly three years after his abrupt departure from Twitter (Now X) following Elon Musk’s takeover, Parag Agrawal has launched a new AI startup, Parallel Web Systems, where he serves as founder and CEO.  Backed by prominent venture capital players, including…

 Qatar Airways partnered with Accenture to launch ‘AI Skyways’, an initiative aimed at using AI to improve customer experience, streamline operations, train employees, and support environmental goals. The program will also explore ways to apply these solutions…

Data science and AI solutions company Tredence has launched the Milky Way, a multi-agent, multi-turn decision system designed to help enterprises make faster, autonomous decisions using AI agents. The platform introduces more than 15 prebuilt agents for business…

Foxconn, Apple’s leading contract manufacturer, has begun production of the upcoming iPhone 17 at its new manufacturing plant in Devanahalli, Bengaluru, MB Patil, Karnataka minister of commerce and industries, announced on X.  Earlier, PTI, citing sources…

Enterprise AI startup Cohere announced last week that it has raised $500 million at a valuation of $6.8 billion, led by Radical Ventures, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures and others.  Moreover, the company announced that Joelle Pineau, Meta’s former VP of AI research…

Anthropic has introduced a new safeguard in its consumer chatbots, giving Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end conversations in extreme cases of persistent harm or abuse. The company said the feature is intended for “rare, edge scenarios” where repeated…

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Oracle on August 18 announced that it has deployed OpenAI GPT-5 across its database portfolio and suite of SaaS applications, including Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle NetSuite, and Oracle Industry Applications such as Oracle Health. The move allows…

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IIT Madras has licensed its silicon photonics-based Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) to Indrarka Quantum Technologies in a ₹1 crore deal. This agreement is a significant milestone in India’s quantum technology landscape. The deal was formalised in an…

Hexaware Technologies has launched the Agentic AI Academy in partnership with upGrad Enterprise to train its global workforce in the next phase of AI: agentic systems. These are autonomous, intelligent software agents that can plan, act and adapt in real…

The Karnataka government has opened the 22nd round of applications for its flagship startup grant programme, Elevate, offering entrepreneurs across the state a chance to secure funding and business support. Online applications opened on August 15. Elevate…

JetBrains has introduced a new feature in its AI Assistant called Next Edit Suggestions, now available in Beta for Java, Kotlin and Python across its IDEs. The update marks a shift from traditional line-by-line code completion to file-wide edit recommendations.…

GitHub has announced a new feature called ‘Agents Panel’ which allows users to quickly delegate tasks to the Copilot agent from any page on GitHub.com.  This feature is accessible for preview across all paid GitHub Copilot plans, including Pro, Pro+, Business…

Data streaming company Confluent has introduced Streaming Agents, a new capability on Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink that enables enterprises to build and scale real-time AI agents. Now in open preview, the feature unifies stream processing and AI reasoning…