Leadership Moves
Sonata Software Appoints Hariprasad Rebala as Chief AI Officer
Rebala will lead Sonata’s AI-led transformation across its offerings, service delivery, platforms, capabilities, ecosystem and partnerships.
AI Startups
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.
Internet
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.
AI Models
The company announced the capability within Cortex AI Gateway on August 18, alongside expanded access to open models.
Leadership Moves
Garg joined Swiggy in December 2018 as Vice President of Engineering and became Senior Vice President in April 2022.
AI Startups
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.
AI Agents
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.
Developer's Corner
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.
AI News
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.
Leadership Moves
Saraf joins SpaceXAI after nearly three years at Cockroach Labs, where he served as Leader, APAC Customer Engineering
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Alulkar joins Genesys after more than five years at Tech Mahindra, where he served as Senior Vice President and Head of India and SAARC.
SraVaani uses a FastConformer architecture and was trained from scratch through a three-stage pipeline.
TCS said the approach is intended to address challenges around governance, trust and scalability that have limited the adoption of AI in highly regulated pharmaceutical environments.
The initiative will bring Sarvam’s teams to university campuses for a day of technical sessions, workshops, talks and live hackathons.
Kivi supports more than 22 Indian languages and allows users to switch between languages while speaking.
The campaign, dubbed “City-Forum,” has been active from infrastructure that dates back to at least March 2025.
"We have observed instances of misaligned behavior from the models, such as a willingness to perform misaligned actions in service of completing difficult tasks," Anthropic said.
The milestone is part of a four-year programme to assess hydrogen’s potential as a future aviation fuel.
His new role will focus on helping enterprises navigate the shift from AI experimentation to deployment across core business workflows.
In a detailed investment thesis, Premji Invest said Databricks sits at the centre of what it considers the biggest architectural shift in enterprise software since cloud computing.
Deloitte announced that it has become the first global systems integrator (GSI) to be part of Salesforce's FDE Partner Network.
Under the new programme, participating companies will be authorised to conduct cyber surveillance operations and cyber effects operations against designated foreign criminal organisations.