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Lenovo India on Thursday reported an 18 per cent year-on-year growth in revenue for the first quarter ended June 30, 2026, driven by strong demand for artificial intelligence (AI) integrated solutions. The company, however, did not disclose the specific revenue figure for its India operations. "Lenovo India has delivered a strong start to FY2026-27, with Q1 revenue growing 18 per cent year-on-year. This performance reflects the strength of our full-stack hybrid AI offerings across personal AI and enterprise AI and the resilience of our supply chain and customer trust," Shailendra Katyal, VP and Managing Director, Lenovo India, said. He noted that customers are increasingly looking beyond standalone technologies for integrated solutions. "This is where Lenovo's Hybrid AI strategy gives us a competitive edge, combining devices, infrastructure, solutions, and services, positioning us at the forefront of the AI inferencing and democratization era," Katyal said. On a global level, the
The country's largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), used artificial intelligence to underwrite nearly Rs 1 lakh crore in MSME loans of up to Rs 5 crore each during 2025-26, a senior bank official said on Wednesday. "In FY26, in 12 months time, we are able to underwrite loans up to Rs 5 crore, both covering the new-to-bank customers, as well as existing customers. Almost Rs 1 lakh crore we were able to underwrite," SBI Managing Director Rama Mohan Rao Amara said at the annual FIBAC event here. He added that the bank is also deploying artificial intelligence, including Large Language Models (LLMs), to automate processing of cheques up to Rs 10,000. The use of AI has helped free up the bandwidth of relationship managers, who earlier spent considerable time collecting data and carrying out preliminary analysis, the official said. Cheques of up to Rs 10,000 account for around 25 per cent of the bank's cheque volumes, and the AI model can read the cheque and verify mandatory fields