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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Microsoft has just announced a $17.5 billion infusion aimed at accelerating artificial‑intelligence projects across India.
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.
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 just landed a fresh infusion from Google’s AI Futures Fund, a move that could reshape how non‑technical founders bring ideas to market.
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.
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.
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’s new tie‑up with OpenAI signals a concrete step toward bringing large‑language models into the day‑to‑day workflow of corporations.
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 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 newest safety layer, BrowseSafe, arrived just as the AI‑browser community began to reckon with a glaring blind spot.
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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