Leadership Moves
MongoDB Appoints Chirantan Desai as CEO after Dev Ittycheria Steps Down
Desai is a seasoned technology executive with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, AI and enterprise software.
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Funding
Game State Labs Raises $2 Mn to Redefine Game Intelligence with AI-Driven Personalization
The funding will accelerate product development, expand engineering and go-to-market teams, and support the company’s global expansion.
AI Agents
Google Adds Booking and Ticketing Features to AI Mode in Search
Available to users in the U.S. via Search Labs, the update enables AI Mode to not only answer queries but also take action.
Lawsuits
UK Court Sides with Stability AI in Getty Images Copyright Case, But Flags Trademark Violation
Justice Joanna Smith dismissed the copyright infringement claims, ruling that the AI models were trained outside the U.K.
AI Agents
Snowflake Unveils Major AI Upgrades to Speed Enterprise Agentic AI Adoption
At the center of the launch is Snowflake Intelligence, now generally available to over 12,000 customers worldwide.
Indian IT
TCS Expands 18-Year Partnership with ABB to Build AI-Powered, Future-Ready IT Infrastructure
The move will help ABB accelerate its Core Platform vision focused on modernisation at scale, self-service, automation, cloud agility, and resilience.
Research
Google Wants to Run Data Centres in Space for Solar Power
The concept envisions constellations of solar-powered satellites equipped with Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), flying in tight formation in low Earth orbit to tap near-continuous sunlight and free-space optical links.
Legal
Amazon Tries to Block Perplexity’s AI Agents From Shopping on Its Website
Perplexity argues that the Comet Assistant acts with the same credentials as its user, meaning any purchase it makes is simply a user-directed action.
Partnerships
European & Global Tech Giants Announce Industrial AI Cloud to Power Europe’s Digital Sovereignty
The project brings together organisations including Deutsche Telekom, NVIDIA Corporation, Siemens AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Perplexity AI, PhysicsX GmbH, and Agile Robots GmbH.
Acquisition
Zscaler Acquires AI Security Pioneer SPLX to Cover Entire Enterprise AI Lifecycle
The acquisition will extend Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange™ platform with capabilities for shift-left AI asset discovery, automated red-teaming and governance.
AI News
OpenAI Launches IndQA: A New Benchmark for Indian Languages and Culture
OpenAI built IndQA in partnership with 261 Indian experts—journalists, linguists, scholars, artists and industry practitioners.
SaaS
Celonis Unveils Major AI-Driven Innovations to Transform Enterprise Operations at Celosphere 2025
The latest updates introduce a multimodal digital twin of operations, enabling organisations to bring together diverse data types faster through Celonis Data Core, Task Mining, and AI-driven Task Discovery.