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ArcelorMittal on Monday said it has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to automate its global operations through the US tech major's cloud and AI capabilities. "The collaboration brings AWS cloud and AI capabilities directly to ArcelorMittal's manufacturing processes, providing opportunities for further optimisation and improvement of safety, asset reliability and energy efficiency," the steel major, which also has a presence in India, said in a statement. The company said it will converge some of its operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) on AWS infrastructure, designed for security and scale, extending cloud and AI to the edge of its production environments. Using AWS services across industrial IoT, real-time sensor data and machine learning, the company will deploy AI at the point of production, enabling predictive maintenance, computer-vision quality control, process optimisation and digital twins of its physical assets and production lines. Further,
Gaming company Roblox has appointed former Amazon Web Services senior executive Sunil Rao as Managing Director for its India arm, the company said on Thursday. Rao will serve as Roblox's senior representative and market lead in the country, overseeing day-to-day execution of Roblox India's strategy working with local teams and partners, the company said in a statement. "Roblox announces the appointment of Sunil Rao as Managing Director, Roblox India. Rao will join Roblox India this May to help strengthen the company's local presence in the country, foster partnerships, support the creator ecosystem and align local market needs with global product and business priorities," the statement said. Rao was previously part of the leadership team at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he led strategy and corporate business development across the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Prior to AWS, Rao was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he worked closely with founders and emergin
Amazon announced what it called a "major expansion" of its partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Tuesday, a day after the artificial intelligence company said it was loosening its ties to longtime backer Microsoft. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the collaboration with Amazon's cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, would involve co-developing a new platform for AI agents that can do computer-based work on people's behalf. Altman spoke via prerecorded video message to an Amazon event in San Francisco at the same time as he was appearing in federal court across San Francisco Bay in Oakland for a civil trial brought by rival OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk. Microsoft had said Monday it will no longer pay a share of its revenue to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the latest move to untether a close partnership that helped unleash an artificial intelligence boom. OpenAI relied exclusively on Microsoft's investments in cloud computing services to build the technology that helped make ChatGPT a .
The regulations for artificial intelligence are not to over regulate but enough for innovations to thrive in the country, Union Minister Jitin Prasada said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) New Delhi Symposium 2026, the minister emphasised that everyone should be able to reap the benefits of technology transformation. India is a fast-growing market that offers opportunities for various technological innovations, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. "Scale, speed, innovation and inclusion," are the strengths of India, Prasada said. He is the Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology as well as Commerce & Industry. Talking about AI, he said as far as the policy for regulations go, they are not aimed at over regulating and that the regulations are enough for innovations to thrive. "India will not call itself successful until all (those in) bottom up (segment) reap benefits of the technology transformation that is happening," ...