The Left Shift Bureau

Partnerships

LTM Partners with Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) To Build India’s Next-Generation Creative Technology Talent Pipeline

IICT will design and deliver training programs aligned to industry's changing skill needs, covering tech-enabled advertising, AI-driven creative workflows, virtual production, and immersive storytelling.

AI Models

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro with Enhanced Reasoning and Creative Capabilities

The new model is being rolled out in preview today via the Gemini API, Vertex AI, the Gemini app and NotebookLM.

Acquisition

Salesforce to Acquire Momentum to Boost Agentforce and Slackbot With Conversational Intelligence

The acquisition is designed to extend the functionality of Salesforce’s Agentforce 360 and Slackbot platforms.

Partnerships

Tiger Analytics Signs MoU with Bihar Govt to build Mega AI Centre of Excellence

The AI CoE will be developed in collaboration with IIT Patna (knowledge partner) and a consortium of key ecosystem stakeholders.

Partnerships

Tata Group, TCS & OpenAI Forge Strategic AI Partnership Across Infrastructure, Enterprise & Skills

The companies will also jointly develop industry-specific agentic AI solutions, combining OpenAI’s advanced models with TCS’s sector expertise to deploy tailored enterprise applications worldwide.

Funding

ToneTag Secures Investments from Qualcomm Ventures to Build Edge AI Payment Modules

The funding will support the development of its Edge AI-powered, payment-capable modules..

Partnerships

NxtGen AI Announces to Deploy over 4,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs; Partners with Vertiv Data Centre Infrastructure

Vertiv is supplying the full physical data-centre infrastructure stack, including power distribution, transformers, switchboards, UPS systems and rack-level power units.

Acquisition

Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Koi Security for Reported $400 Mn to Bolster AI-Era File Security

Koi’s platform is designed to monitor and control a wide range of software assets beyond traditional binaries

AI Models

Anthropic Unveils Claude Sonnet 4.6 With 1 Mn-Token Context and Stronger Coding, Agent Skills

Sonnet 4.6 is its most capable Sonnet model to date and is now the default model across Claude’s free and paid tiers.

Partnerships

Yotta Data Services to Deploy Massive AI Supercluster in $2 Bn Push to Scale India’s Compute Power

The infrastructure is expected to go live by August 2026, placing India among a small group of regions capable of hosting frontier-scale AI computing.

Partnerships

Eternal and OpenAI Announce Collaboration to Advance AI Infrastructure Across Eternal’s Commerce and Ecosystem Platforms

The collaboration will focus on AI deployments across Eternal’s apps, partner platforms and internal systems.

Partnerships

Anthropic and Infosys Team Up to Build Enterprise AI Agents for Regulated Industries

The companies said the joint effort aims to close the gap between experimental AI deployments and production-ready systems for regulated sectors.