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ReNew Pledges Rs 80,000 Cr for Green Data Centre to Fuel India's AI Push
ReNew Energy Global is putting roughly ₹80,000 crore into Andhra Pradesh, betting that India's data centre boom has room for a clean-energy version.
Mars opens Hyderabad GCC with Genpact for AI-assisted operations
Mars has opened a 60,000 sq ft global capability centre in Hyderabad, built with outsourcing partner Genpact to run AI-assisted operations across the food and pet care giant's worldwide business.
Huang’s Nvidia Deals Finance AI Boom, Revenue Growth
Jensen Huang built Nvidia into the company that bankrolls the entire AI industry, and the deals he struck along the way kept revenue climbing quarter after quarter. That track record is why Thursday's news landed so hard.
Exponentia.ai Certified as Best Firm for Data Scientists Across Sectors
Analytics India Magazine has certified Exponentia.ai as a Best Firm for Data Scientists, a label earned through survey responses from the company's own data science staff rather than any pitch from management.
Chariot Launches Multilingual TTS Model Supporting 11 Indian Languages
Chariot, an AI research lab based in India, has launched a text-to-speech model that handles 11 Indian languages plus English, including mid-sentence code-mixing between any two of them.
Kyndryl Study: Only 35% of Indian Firms Prepared for AI Cyberattacks
Indian companies are getting better at making money from AI and worse at defending it. Kyndryl's 2026 Readiness Report, out this week, found 60% of Indian business leaders reporting positive returns on AI investments, a three-point gain from 2025.
OpenAI Launches India API Inference Residency for Data Storage and Processing
OpenAI has started letting Indian businesses keep their AI workloads inside the country's borders, a move aimed squarely at sectors where data rules have kept companies from adopting the technology at all.
Workday Builds Enterprise-Scale AI Agent Platform with LangGraph and LangSmith
Four engineers built the infrastructure behind Workday's agent push this year. That's the entire team tasked with standing up a platform to build, deploy, and run AI agents across a company that serves more than half the Fortune 500 in HR, finance,...
Google Launches Gemini Decisions API at USD 0.10/M Tokens, 50-100 ms Compute
Google rolled out a new API on its Gemini Developer platform this week that does not write a single word of output.
US corporate AI spending hits a new high in October, growth slows to 1.65%
Corporate spending on AI tools in the US climbed to a record in October 2026, but the pace of growth is cooling off.
TSMC board approves USD 500M OpenAI and USD 500M Anthropic investments
TSMC's board has signed off on two separate $500 million investments, one in OpenAI preferred stock, the other in Anthropic common shares tied to its expected IPO price, according to Reuters.
Helsing's AI Platform "Clarity" Prepares Targets for Weapons Systems
Helsing, the German defense tech company backed by Spotify founder Daniel Ek, unveiled a new AI platform in Berlin on Wednesday called Clarity.
Databricks AI agent Genie tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
Databricks rolled out an updated version of Genie on Wednesday, its AI agent that now handles multi-step jobs requiring sustained work rather than one-off queries.
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon, claiming cybersecurity gains over rivals
Andrey Kurenkov's newsletter went dark for a few weeks again, and he's not pretending otherwise. His latest edition opens with an apology for the hiatus and a promise, again, to get back to weekly posting.
SoftBank Takes USD 7 Billion Hit on US AI Data Centre Investments
SoftBank paid $9.5 billion in advance between 2025 and the second quarter of 2026 to lock down equipment for the power generation facilities behind its US artificial intelligence data centre buildout. That bet on scarcity has now backfired in part.
Anthropic Hits USD 17B in Q3 as Enterprise Sales Push OpenAI to USD 10B
OpenAI's revenue hit $10 billion in the third quarter, up roughly 50 percent from the previous quarter, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal and The Information.
Coforge's Nair: No Proprietary Platform, Engineers Trained to Talk to CEOs
Palantir built a multibillion-dollar business by planting its own engineers inside client companies to run proprietary software, a setup now copied across the industry as the "forward-deployed engineer" model. Coforge is going the other way.
IBM, Microsoft Launch Agentic AI Platform Featuring Over 6,000 Agents
IBM and Microsoft rolled out a joint platform called Imagine Enterprise, built to get companies past the pilot stage of AI adoption and into actual production use.
Cognizant commits 25,000 professionals to deploy Claude in enterprises
Cognizant is putting more than 25,000 of its employees to work on Anthropic's Claude, the company announced, as part of a new managed services arrangement for enterprise clients.
PuppyGraph raises USD 10M to help AI agents query thousands of enterprise tables
PuppyGraph has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Particle Future, with defy.vc also joining in.