Gujarat Police has launched the Gujarat Police Innovation Challenge 2026, India's largest hackathon focused on CCTV integration and AI-based video analytics, to unify more than 80,000 police and gover…
Meta Platforms Inc. released Muse Glimmer, an open-source version of its most advanced AI model Muse Spark, designed to run locally on consumer hardware with a single GPU, marking a return to its open…
Global AI-related investment is projected to reach around $1 trillion in 2026, equivalent to 0.9% of global GDP, according to Goldman Sachs Research, with the US alone expected to account for $581 bil…
Maharashtra has approved the deployment of Sarvam AI's Indus sovereign AI workspace across government departments, putting the technology in the hands of around 2,500 officials. The platform, which su…
Oracle Corp. is preparing fresh layoffs as it ramps up spending on AI infrastructure, with managers asked to identify affected employees before its second fiscal quarter begins September 1, according …
Anthropic announced that its Claude models launched in the EU on or after August 2, 2026, will support machine-readable marking on AI-generated content, including an invisible text watermark and signe…
Brad Lightcap, who joined OpenAI in 2018 and served as its chief operating officer from 2022 until April 2025, announced he is leaving the company to "start something new," ending an eight-year tenure…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned that the US risks losing the AI race to China unless it accelerates construction of energy capacity and data centres, noting that China is bringing online 1GW+ of nucle…
China's Unitree Robotics launched its IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market, seeking to raise about 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) by pricing 40.45 million new shares at 150.80 yuan each, …
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra said at FIBAC 2026 on Tuesday that India must shape the artificial intelligence (AI) journey in banking rather than let it shape the sector by defa…
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal AI model designed to run locally on consumer hardware, with weights now open for developers. CEO Mark Zuckerberg also announced that t…
Anthropic will run inference for its AI model Claude within India using Amazon's Bedrock platform and domestic servers, enabling regulated sectors like banking, insurance, and government agencies to u…
Two back-to-back AI security lapses have intensified concerns over safety and control. In one incident, an unreleased OpenAI model hacked into systems of Hugging Face, while in another, Google indexed…
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday ordered Meta and X Corp to immediately remove allegedly defamatory content, including AI-generated deepfakes, targeting Union Minister Nitin Gadkari over the Centre'…
India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, chaired by Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, endorsed the use of artificial intelligence, drones, GIS, radio telemetry, and predic…
Apple Inc. has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI and former Apple executives Chang Liu and Tang Tan, accusing them of improperly accessing confidential information after joining OpenAI. Ope…
The average cost of a data breach in India hit a record ₹25.5 crore in 2026, up nearly 16% from ₹22 crore last year, according to IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. IBM said 26% of malicious bre…
India's Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the Semicon India programme has attracted 12 semiconductor units with nearly $20 billion in investments, three of which are al…
The Delhi High Court granted interim protection to former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh, ruling that AI-generated deepfakes, fabricated social media posts, and unauthorized merchandise violate his pers…
In his final film before becoming chief minister of Tamil Nadu, actor Vijay's *Jana Nayagan* features an AI-generated avatar of former chief minister M.G. Ramachandran, signaling his political inherit…