The Left Shift Bureau

Leadership Moves

Workday Appoints Sunil Jose to Head India Operations

Sunil has held senior leadership roles at global technology companies, including Salesforce, IBM, Oracle and BrowserStack.

Gaming

SuperGaming Raises $15 mn at 5x Valuation to Fuel Global Gaming Push

The funds will also support game developers lacking the backend infrastructure SuperGaming provides.

Funding

Mitigata Raises $5.9 mn to Scale AI-Powered Cyber Resilience Platform

The startup plans to establish three global security operations centres in Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Delhi.

AI Models

Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 4.1 with Major Upgrades in Coding and Reasoning

Opus 4.1 pushes coding performance to new heights, achieving 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified.

AI Models

Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 3 AI for Generating Virtual Worlds

The tool is currently available to select testers as a research preview.

Open Source

OpenAI Launches Open-Source Models, Tops Hugging Face Leaderboard

The flagship gpt-oss-120b targets high-performance desktops and servers, requiring 60 GB of VRAM and multiple GPUs.

Chips

SiMa.ai and Synopsys Forge Collaboration to Accelerate Automotive Edge AI

This collaboration offers OEMs a faster, more resilient path to deploy AI capabilities for ADAS and IVI

Chips

Legendary GPU Architect Raja Koduri Unveils Startup Oxmiq to Rewrite the Rules of AI Computing

Backed by $20 million in seed funding, Oxmiq brings together a team of GPU and AI veterans with over 500 years of combined experience.

Developer's Corner

Accops & Mirror Security Launch Zero-Code Exposure Tool for AI Coders

Accops, a Reliance Jio company and leading provider of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions, partnered with AI security company Mirror Security to launch the industry’s first zero-code exposure solution for AI coding assistants. This product integrates Mirror Security’s VectaX, the world’s fastest fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)

Indian IT

TCS Extends Partnership with Weatherford International to Enable AI-Driven Business Transformation

TCS plans to introduce advanced AI-driven solutions to streamline Weatherford’s finance and accounting processes, reduce costs, and improve scalability.