AI 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.
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.
Vibe Coding
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.
AI 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.
AI Developments
Moderna described the system as an algorithmic and machine-learning-based process that ranks mutations according to their likelihood of producing an immunogenic response.
Leadership Moves
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.
AI Agents
The launch brings four AI coding partners – Anthropic, GitHub, Cognition and Vercel– into Slack Code from day one.
Culture
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.
AI Startups
Bobble AI, founded 12 years ago, has raised around $35 million, including $26 million from Krafton in 2022.
GCC
Schwab India plans to scale its Hyderabad workforce to around 2,000 employees by the end of 2027.
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He joined the company in 2016 as Senior Manager and subsequently served as Program Manager and Director – Data & Analytics.
Rebala will lead Sonata’s AI-led transformation across its offerings, service delivery, platforms, capabilities, ecosystem and partnerships.
Indian startups are now building speech models, autonomous voice agents, enterprise contact-centre automation and multilingual conversational systems for banks, insurers, governments, e-commerce companies and millions of citizens.
Mozilla says privacy is a central part of Mozilla's pitch, and it does not retain Smart Window chat transcripts, use conversations to train models, or sell user data.
The company announced the capability within Cortex AI Gateway on August 18, alongside expanded access to open models.
Garg joined Swiggy in December 2018 as Vice President of Engineering and became Senior Vice President in April 2022.
DRONA, short for DSSC Resource Optimising Neural AI, was first launched by the military institution in June 2025 as a customised GPT for AI-assisted training.
DronaHQ MCP connects coding agents including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and VS Code to DronaHQ’s application platform, allowing developers to continue building through their existing development environments while the platform provides the production infrastructure underneath.
Just as Cursor is moving into Git hosting, GitHub suffered one of its most disruptive outages of the year, taking down or degrading the website, API, Actions, pull requests and Copilot for developers worldwide.
Google will receive roughly 30 million lines of software code, development metadata, models and algorithms, along with more than 175,000 employee records dating back to 1986.
Saraf joins SpaceXAI after nearly three years at Cockroach Labs, where he served as Leader, APAC Customer Engineering
Alulkar joins Genesys after more than five years at Tech Mahindra, where he served as Senior Vice President and Head of India and SAARC.