Former X CEO Parag Agrawal's Parallel Launches ‘Fast’ Web Search for AI Agents at $1 per 1,000 Queries

The company claims Fast mode delivers high-quality web search at $1 per 1,000 queries, making it up to 10 times cheaper than search services bundled with leading frontier models.

DeepSeek Releases New Experimental Model, Claims Near-Parity With Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

The model accepts image and text inputs and is designed to support visual understanding within agentic workflows.

GitHub Says August Outage Was Caused by Capacity Failure as Developer Demand Surges

The outage lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes, disrupting GitHub.com, authentication, APIs, GitHub Actions, pull requests, issues and Copilot for developers and organisations worldwide.

Google Expands Antigravity to Enterprise Customers With New AI Coding Controls, but Will Adoption Follow?

Google is also introducing pooled usage quotas, allowing organisations to share purchased AI capacity across teams rather than leaving unused tokens tied to individual users.

Adobe Firefly Adds AI Audio Tools and Expands Access to Rival Models

Adobe’s Firefly ecosystem combines its own creative tools with AI models from companies including Google, ElevenLabs, Kling AI, Luma AI, OpenAI and Runway.

Moderna’s “AI Cancer Vaccine” Is Not What You Think

Moderna described the system as an algorithmic and machine-learning-based process that ranks mutations according to their likelihood of producing an immunogenic response.

Lohia Corp Elevates Jagdip Kumar to Chief Digital and Information Officer

In his new CDIO role, Kumar said his focus will include AI and GenAI-driven transformation and decision-making, data-led innovation, intelligent operations, connected customer and employee experiences, and digital products and platforms.

Why is Salesforce Introducing Coding Directly in Slack?

The launch brings four AI coding partners – Anthropic, GitHub, Cognition and Vercel– into Slack Code from day one.

India Is No. 2 in AI Use, But Its AI Boom Is Mostly an IT Story: Anthropic

This means much of the country's AI activity is concentrated among a relatively small section of the workforce, particularly technology professionals and workers in India's established IT hubs.

Bobble AI Files for Insolvency After Missing Investor Repayment

Bobble AI, founded 12 years ago, has raised around $35 million, including $26 million from Krafton in 2022.

US Financial Firm Charles Schwab Sets up GCC in Hyderabad

Schwab India plans to scale its Hyderabad workforce to around 2,000 employees by the end of 2027.

Capgemini Promotes Manas Saraf to Senior Director, Insights & Data

He joined the company in 2016 as Senior Manager and subsequently served as Program Manager and Director – Data & Analytics.