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Auth0 Teams with Thinking Machines to Rethink AI Agent Identity Controls
AI agents are rewriting the rules of digital interaction. They book your travel, draft your emails, and manage your workflows, yet the identity systems that govern them were built for humans, not autonomous entities.
Andreessen-backed Inferact raises USD 150M in seed round, valued at USD 800M
An $800 million valuation. A $150 million seed round. Led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed, those figures land with a thunderclap in a quiet sector. The team banking that check built vLLM.
Low-data voice AI model cuts costs and speeds streaming on edge devices
Voice AI is finally getting practical. A new model that generates speech with far less data is slashing costs and accelerating streaming on edge devices, turning what was once a server-draining luxury into a lightweight utility for field...
Karnataka approves Rs 20 crore AI Centre of Excellence in HSR Layout
Karnataka just wrote a twenty-crore cheque. It's earmarked for HSR Layout. The goal is a new workshop, but for deep tech. Last week, state officials gave the final nod to the AI Centre of Excellence, dubbed CATS. This is a four-year play.
Adobe builds IP‑safe generative AI models for Hollywood studios' Firefly suite
As Hollywood dives headlong into generative AI, Adobe is making a calculated power play. The company isn’t just offering another tool, it’s building a walled garden for the industry’s most sensitive asset: intellectual property.
ServiceNow positions itself as control layer, supports hybrid multi‑model AI
ServiceNow isn’t picking sides in the AI arms race. It’s building the command center.
Railway secures USD 100M to launch AI‑native cloud infrastructure against AWS
Developers trust word of mouth. They trust tools that just work. And they do not, as a rule, trust venture capital.
Google hires Hume AI staff to add voice, emotion to DeepMind models
Google's DeepMind just hired Alan Cowen, the founder of Hume AI. That's the hard fact. It signals a sharp pivot: the lab is now embedding voice and emotion-reading tech directly into its core models.
Meta AI lab to debut ‘Avocado’ text model and ‘Mango’ vision model in Q1
Meta plans to ship two new AI models this quarter, internally codenamed Avocado and Mango. This is the company's opening move after a year of costly restructuring, new labs, and talent raids. It’s a catch-up play.
Telangana Launches Aikam AI Innovation Hub at Davos, Calls for Global Partners
Davos has seen its share of splashy launches. This year’s entry comes from an unlikely quarter: Telangana. The Indian state is pitching its new initiative, Aikam, as the world’s responsible AI workshop. It’s a concrete wager.
TrueFoundry launches TrueFailover to auto‑reroute AI traffic on model outages
TrueFoundry’s latest launch, TrueFailover, aims to solve a paradox that haunts every enterprise deploying AI at scale: how do you keep systems running when a model goes dark without breaking the compliance and data sovereignty rules you swore to...
NVIDIA puts USD 150 M into Baseten, backing Jensen Huang’s inference‑first pivot
Jensen Huang has a new mantra: inference is the future. Not training, not the brute-force calculus of building ever-larger models, but the quiet, relentless work of running them.
India aims for USD 150 bn AI spend by 2026; Google, Microsoft, Amazon commit USD 70 bn
India's government expects the country to invest $150 billion in AI infrastructure by 2026. A $70 billion portion of that total has already been pledged by three major US companies. Google plans to build a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam.
Anthropic CEO warns AI chip exports to China pose national security risk
There is no louder alarm in AI than this. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, is not talking about trade deficits or market share, he is talking about the concentration of species-level intelligence.
Bengaluru AI startup Bolna raises USD 6.3 M to boost vernacular call services
Bengaluru’s Bolna just pulled in $6.3 million. The prize? A bet that voice AI can finally work in India’s languages, at scale.
Sensesemi secures Rs 25 Cr seed round to develop edge AI SoC chips
Sensesemi just landed 25 crore rupees. That's serious money for a Bangalore startup whose flagship product is still a set of blueprints. Their wager? The next leap in smart devices won't come from cramming more transistors onto a digital chip.
ElevenLabs Names Karthik Rajaram India Country Head to Power AI Voice
India is not just a market for artificial intelligence, it is the stage where the technology’s most vivid future is being written.
OpenAI’s 2026 focus on practical adoption, scaling business since ChatGPT
ChatGPT made it a meme. Now OpenAI wants to be the plumbing. The company’s latest corporate blog post, framed as a letter from CFO Sarah Friar, reads like a blueprint for colonization. Weekly and daily active users keep hitting records.
Razer CEO says gamers embrace AI in game development, citing Ava headset
The Razer CEO is betting big on AI, not as a gimmick, but as a developer’s secret weapon. And he’s pointing to the company’s new Ava headset as proof. Cameras, sensors, machine learning packed into a sleek frame: Ava isn’t just a peripheral.
Shunya Labs launches Zero Codeswitch AI model for Indian code-mixed speech
Most speech AI hears the world in an American accent. Shunya Labs built one that hears India. The company just launched Zero Codeswitch, a model trained on millions of hours of actual Indian speech, not cleaned-up English transcripts.
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