Leadership Moves
Akasa Air Appoints Former Dish TV IT Chief Abhishek Gupta as CIO
Gupta joins Akasa Air from Dish TV, where he served as Corporate Head of IT from 2019 until his departure on August 31, 2026.
AI Models
The model, Laya, was developed by Nandhakishor Mukkunnoth, who is based in the Southern part of India and teaches Generative AI through his Instagram account.
AI Developments
"The metric we care about most, the holy grail, is completion. If we are able to improve completion, everything else follows."
Gadgets
For developers, Googlebook includes a full terminal environment and support for tools such as Claude Code and Antigravity CLI
Leadership Moves
Before joining Lupin, Bansal served as Head of Artificial Intelligence at Mahindra and Mahindra from July 2025 to August 2026, where he led the group’s enterprise-wide AI strategy.
Chips
The chip was taped out on January 26, 2026, and achieved first-pass silicon success on August 15.
Partnerships
The integration scans CockroachDB databases, tables and columns using 38 PII detectors across eight regulatory jurisdictions.
AI Agents
The updated runtime is designed for production agents that can run for extended periods, operate without supervision and handle workloads triggered by events rather than direct user requests.
Leadership Moves
He will be based in Hyderabad and will focus on developing security foundations that can scale alongside the hub’s technology and innovation operations.
Developer's Corner
The release comes as companies move from using AI assistants for individual coding tasks to deploying agents across engineering teams.
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Astra for Law combines GPT-6 Astra with a dedicated Legal Search Index and custom instructions for legal analysis and writing.
The facility is expected to focus on silicon ingot production and processing for advanced semiconductor technologies and leading-edge nodes.
TCS said the offering brings together semiconductor engineering, VLSI design, hardware-software co-design and system-level validation capabilities.
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The company said the solution combines graph technology with a reusable knowledge layer intended to provide the context needed for enterprise AI applications.
HubSpot said the system combines these capabilities to create what it calls “Growth Context,” bringing together information about prospects, employees and customers.
Continuum pools capacity across multiple databases, automates operational tasks and uses consumption-based pricing.
The company announced an “Accountable” designation for AI crawlers alongside a new “Disallow AI Training” setting.
The platform connects data from areas including finance, operations, customer engagement, market intelligence and productivity system.
AIforce forms a new layer in Salesforce’s broader “Agentic Enterprise” architecture.
Salesforce said Koa was developed by post-training NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on a proprietary synthetic dataset.
Beatoven.ai had built its technology around an approach focused on ethically licensing music and developing foundational models from scratch