Artificial Intelligence

MoEngage raises another $180 million in Series F, offers liquidity to staff

Funding led by ChrysCapital and Dragon Funds backs the company's AI-driven expansion beyond traditional marketing platforms

How Tech's biggest companies are offloading the risks of the AI boom

Those deals had one thing in common: They allowed companies that make massive quarterly profits to reduce their financial exposure to the frenetic, global buildup of data centers

Abu Dhabi's G42 group upgrades Llama-3-Nanda LLM with Hindi-English dataset

The updated LLM, G42 said, is engineered for real-world use, including casual speech, and works well even in Hinglish, a colloquial mixture of Hindi and English

Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year is 'slop': Here's what it means

The term slop was first used in the 1700s and meant soft mud. However, through the years, it has evolved more generally to imply something of little value

India Inc's big year: IPO boom, major splits, fundings and global AI push

From record fundraising and landmark listings to high-stakes corporate splits, global tech partnerships and boardroom disputes, here's how 2025 reshaped India's corporate landscape

Year-ender 2025: Generative AI changed videos, photos and content creation

From text-to-video tools and AI image generation to mobile editing and chat-based creation, generative AI quietly reshaped how content was made in 2025

OpenAI scraps six-month equity vesting requirement for employees: Report

The move comes after the company shortened the vesting period for new hires to six months from the industry standard of 12 months in April, the report said

Copyright protection: Better framework is needed for AI training

A central government-appointed body will collect and distribute these royalties while a separate committee will set rates, subject to judicial review

AI to push advertising volumes up to 18% in the next three to five years

Media buying executives said that the digital segment is expected to have the highest uplift in advertising volumes, followed by connected TV and streaming platforms

Nvidia considers increasing H200 chip output as Chinese demand surges

Major Chinese companies including Alibaba and ByteDance have already reached out to Nvidia this week about purchasing the H200 and are keen to place large orders

China rejecting Nvidia's H200 chips, pushing for self-reliance: Sacks

Sacks' comments raise questions about whether Nvidia will be able to recover revenue from China, a data centre market it has removed entirely from its forecasts

AI models are becoming commodity, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Nadella also added that AI agents, tools and technology are also important in the creation of a frontier success framework

Can OpenAI respond after Google closes artificial intelligence tech gap?

But for many industry experts, the real story was that the technical gap between OpenAI's so-called foundational AI model and everyone else had become practically nonexistent

Disney invests $1 bn in OpenAI, to license characters for Sora video tool

As part of the licensing deal, Sora and ChatGPT Images will start generating videos using licensed Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Mufasa, from early next year

Wipro, Microsoft strike three-year deal to build industry-specific AI tools

Under the partnership, Wipro and Microsoft will jointly develop AI solutions for sectors such as financial services, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences and airports

India to showcase gender-responsive AI solutions at February 2026 summit

Compendium of case studies to be showcased at India-AI Impact Summit, focusing on ethical, empowering AI for women and girls

Deccan AI launches expert network to power next phase of AI training

It has unveiled Deccan AI Experts, a specialised talent network enabling India's top professionals to contribute directly to AI model training and evaluation as data replaces compute as key bottleneck

Harness raises $240 million to speed up AI-driven software delivery

Goldman Sachs Alternatives leads $200 million investment, valuing the platform company at $5.5 billion as demand surges for automated code-to-production workflows

Royalty norms: AI firms may need to pay global revenue share to creators

India plans to mandate global AI firms to share revenue as royalties for using Indian creators' content to train LLMs, under a proposed statutory licensing and royalty framework

AI-driven growth of TCS makes its M&A strategy more aggressive

TCS's $700-million buyout of Salesforce firm Coastal Cloud highlights a stronger AI-focused M&A strategy, but analysts view the valuation as steep and note the market's muted response