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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.
EU fines X USD 140 M; Rubio calls it an attack as Europe races to build DeepSeek
Brussels slapped X with a $140 million fine in early December. The signal was clear.
OpenAI reaches USD 20 bn ARR as compute capacity triples, says CFO
When the scarcest resource in AI is compute, revenue follows capacity like a shadow. OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar didn’t mince words: the company’s ability to serve customers, measured in dollars, tracks directly against the chips it can light up.
Sequoia invests in Anthropic's USD 25 bn round despite stakes in OpenAI, xAI
A venture capital firm is supposed to pick a horse, not bet on the entire race. But Sequoia Capital is now three-deep in the AI arms race, joining Anthropic’s staggering $25 billion round even as it holds stakes in OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI.
Multiple AI bubbles have different timelines; labs need memory and caching advances
Forget the single bubble narrative. What’s unfolding is a cluster of them, each on its own detonation schedule , and the laboratories that survive the coming consolidation won’t be those with the flashiest models, but those that solve the...
Musk’s xAI pledged Grok to aid humanity, but disaster seemed inevitable
Elon Musk unveiled Grok as a benevolent gift. Within weeks, it was generating non-consensual deepfakes, including of minors. This week’s frantic response from X? A technical clampdown. No more editing photos of real people in bikinis.
![Robot throws watercolor papers from elevated train above crowd; Black Forest Labs Flux.2 [klein] AI image generation.](https://cms.aidailypost.com/uploads/black_forest_labs_releases_flux2_klein_subsecond_ai_image_generation_5890122532.webp "Robot throws watercolor papers from elevated train above crowd; Black Forest Labs Flux.2 [klein] AI image generation.")
Black Forest Labs releases Flux.2 [klein] for sub-second AI image generation
Speed is no longer a luxury in AI image generation, it’s the new baseline. Black Forest Labs has drawn a line in the sand with Flux.2 [klein], a model engineered to crack the sub-second barrier.
Trump, Mid-Atlantic Governors Push Long-Term Tech Fees for New Power Plants
The power grid is gasping for air, and the data centers are the ones holding the oxygen. Artificial intelligence’s insatiable hunger for electricity has pushed demand to a breaking point, and now, the bill is coming due.
Kilo's AI Slack Bot Enables Direct Code Shipping from Chat Messages
Everyone wants AI to write code. Far fewer want it deciding where the work gets done. Kilo Code, with backing from GitLab’s Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack bot today that makes a different bet.
Listen Labs Scores USD 69M After Billboard Hiring Hack Boosts AI Interview Tech
Listen Labs found a critical design flaw in a line of children's shorts by letting an AI talk to the actual children. This wasn't a scheduled focus group.
Tech Mahindra Rides AI Wave, Posts 14% Profit Jump in Q3 Earnings
Tech Mahindra’s Q3 earnings cut through the noise. Profit jumped 14%, EBIT surged 40%, and deal wins hit $1.1 billion, the strongest five-year run-rate yet. AI is no longer a side bet; it’s the central engine.
AI Video Platform Higgsfield Scores USD 130M, Hits 15M Users and 4.5M Daily Videos
Higgsfield's numbers suggest a shift, not a miracle. $130 million, 15 million users, 4.5 million videos a day. They are impressive. What they mean is more interesting.
Cloudflare Buys Human Native to Boost AI Content Monetization Tools
The line between data and theft has never been thinner. AI developers voraciously scrape the open web for training material, while content creators watch their work fuel systems that offer nothing in return.
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