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Indian startups listing younger, AI firms could follow: Accel's Swaroop

Accel partner Prayank Swaroop says Indian startups are listing publicly faster as the venture capital ecosystem matures, but AI firms will need to prove they can sustain growth and profitability

Anima Anandkumar bets on physical AI to solve science's hardest problems

Caltech professor and Accelerated Understanding co-founder Anima Anandkumar is developing AI models that simulate physical processes, helping researchers speed up scientific processes

Sarvam dominates Indic AI funding in 2026 with 87% share: Tracxn report

Sarvam accounted for $346 million of the $399 million raised by Indic AI startups in 2026, as investors concentrated funding on a few firms amid growing concerns over AI sovereignty

AI an economic equaliser, tech at its best when inclusive: Google India VP

Google India VP Preeti Lobana said AI can give small and medium businesses access to the intelligence, speed and security of large enterprises

OpenAI plans to buy chips from Google as part of its AI build-out

The move reflects OpenAI's multipronged bid to quickly add more AI processing power

BFSI Summit: 'Agentic payments need clear liability rules to build trust'

At the BFSI Insight Summit 2026, Amazon Pay, Juspay and Visa executives called for clear liability rules, robust authentication and traceability to build trust in agentic payments

AI in banking here to stay; banks must gear up for change, say experts

At the BFSI Insight Summit 2026, banking leaders said AI and autonomous agents could transform banking, but warned that balancing innovation with risk controls would be crucial

Cent raises $15 million to expand AI-powered preventive healthcare platform

Blume Ventures and South Park Commons led the funding round as Cent plans to expand its AI-powered medical imaging, diagnostics and preventive healthcare services in India

Anthropic's Mythos 5 ignored risks, targeted real GitHub project in test

Anthropic's Mythos 5 incident has raised concerns over AI agents acting beyond their intended tasks, prompting calls for stronger cybersecurity safeguards, independent testing and global oversight

Protectt.ai makes majority stake investment in security firm AIShield

AIShield will operate as an independent company under Protectt.ai, with fresh capital aimed at research, global expansion and sovereign AI security capabilities

Sarvam to build AI framework for Army, Navy and Air Force under HQ IDS

The framework will cover the Army, Navy and Air Force, with Sarvam developing AI applications for operational, training and decision-support requirements on sovereign infrastructure

BFSI Summit 2026: 'Time to implement AI at scale, with clear objectives'

Private bank chiefs say AI adoption must move beyond pilots to large-scale implementation, with a focus on customer experience, productivity, data governance and cybersecurity

Chasing US capital, Indian AI startups weigh cost of moving amid challenges

VC firms such as Antler India and All In Capital have launched programmes to help homegrown AI startups establish a foothold in the US

Anthropic IPO filing warns of power, water and climate-related risks

Anthropic warns that opposition to AI data centres, rising power and water demand, climate change and tighter regulatory scrutiny could raise costs and hurt its reputation

India's daily multimodal AI use to nearly double by 2030: Ericsson report

Notably, the projected level for India is higher than the global estimate of 30 per cent, up from 10 per cent now, the report said

This IT role key to the AI pivot is likely to be the most coveted in India

Eighty-eight per cent of enterprises expect demand to grow for FDE capabilities by 2030

Artificial intelligence's next big bottleneck in India is a very small chip

Funding is flowing, but the country's AI builders are struggling to secure the chips, memory, and power needed to train and run models

To make artificial intelligence morally good, tech cos turn to religion

As tech companies race to build the most powerful artificial intelligence, some are also asking how to teach a chatbot right from wrong. Their answer, Religion

As US and China form AI blocs, countries increasingly torn between them

As the rivalry intensifies, experts say the window for countries to be able to choose freely between the two AI superpowers may be narrowing, forcing them to at one point pick between the US and China

FSDC flags AI boom, rising global bond yields as financial stability risks

The FSDC, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, called for stronger financial safeguards amid geopolitical uncertainties, the AI boom and rising global bond yields.