Microsoft pledges USD 17.5 bn to boost India's AI ambition, says minister
Microsoft has just announced a $17.5 billion infusion aimed at accelerating artificial‑intelligence projects across India.
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Business & Startups - Page 6
AI company news, venture capital funding, startup launches, mergers, acquisitions, and major market moves in the AI industry.
Accenture to train 30,000 staff on Claude and roll out Claude Code to developers
Why does this matter now? Accenture is gearing up to teach 30,000 of its employees how to use Anthropic’s Claude, the conversational AI that’s been gaining traction in consulting circles.
Stealth AI Startup Raises USD 475 M to Pursue Biology‑Scale Compute
Unconventional AI stepped out of stealth this week with a $475 million Series B, a round led by a consortium of venture firms that included some of the sector’s biggest backers.
Emergent Secures Google AI Futures Fund to Grow Agentic Vibe‑Coding Platform
Emergent just landed a fresh infusion from Google’s AI Futures Fund, a move that could reshape how non‑technical founders bring ideas to market.
Chinese AI firms build unregulated workforce via WhatsApp, mobile payments
Kenyan tech hubs have become a testing ground for a new kind of gig economy, one that sidesteps traditional contracts and operates entirely on smartphones.
IBM in talks to acquire Confluent for USD 11 bn as cloud software sees 9% growth
Why does this matter now? IBM’s board is reportedly circling Confluent, the data‑streaming firm behind Apache Kafka, with a deal value near $11 billion. While the tech is impressive, the timing is anything but casual.
Nordic pilot adds Gemini for Education, NotebookLM to boost AI literacy
Why does a handful of schools in Scandinavia suddenly matter to anyone watching AI in education? The answer lies in a modest‑scale pilot that rolled out Google’s Gemini for Education alongside the newly released NotebookLM.
Nagarro partners with OpenAI to apply generative AI to enterprise tasks
Nagarro’s new tie‑up with OpenAI signals a concrete step toward bringing large‑language models into the day‑to‑day workflow of corporations.
Malahar’s Proven GCC‑Building Record Includes Ecolab, PFS, and others
India’s 2025 roster of retail‑focused Global Capability Center leaders reads like a who's‑who of the sector, and one name keeps resurfacing: Malahar.
Riyadh Air teams with IBM to deploy agentic AI on flights by early 2026
Riyadh Air has inked a deal with IBM to put agentic artificial intelligence on its aircraft, aiming to have the technology operational on commercial routes by early 2026.
Perplexity's BrowseSafe patches agent gaps after Brave finds Comet flaw
Perplexity’s newest safety layer, BrowseSafe, arrived just as the AI‑browser community began to reckon with a glaring blind spot.
Qwen3‑TTS‑Flash Review: Open TTS Model Excels at Dialects and Natural Speech
Why do most text‑to‑speech services still sound flat when you ask them to sound local? The answer lies in how they treat prosody—tone, rhythm, and the subtle quirks that make a region sound like itself.
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