AI Startups
Perplexity Caught Using Stealth Bots to Bypass Website Blocks
Perplexity’s stealth activity occurred across tens of thousands of domains, involving millions of requests per day.
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AI News
ChatGPT Surges to 700 mn Weekly Users, Quadruples Growth in a Year
OpenAI reports three million paying business clients as of March 2025
AI Developments
All AI Agents Fail Major Security Test
The study found 100% of the agents failed at least one test, with an average attack success rate of 12.7%.
Cloud
Airtel Launches Sovereign Cloud and AI Platform for Global Telecom Market
The AI suite supports telecom operators with a unified data engine, real-time workforce management, and a customer experience platform.
Research
NVIDIA Research Challenges LLM Dominance, Backs Small Models for Agentic AI
The paper questions the industry’s $57 billion investment in large model infrastructure.
Leadership Moves
Salesforce Appoints Mankiran Chowhan as Managing Director for India Sales & Distribution
Chowhan has been with Salesforce for over three years, most recently serving as VP & Business Head – Financial Services & Consumer Industries (FCI).
SaaS
Genesys Secures $1.5 bn Investment from Salesforce and ServiceNow to Boost AI-Powered CX
Genesys plans to deepen integration with Salesforce and ServiceNow through its CX Cloud and Unified Experience solutions.
AI News
110,000 ChatGPT Conversations Still Live on Archive.org Despite OpenAI Cleanup
While most shared chats were harmless, others expose serious ethical and legal breaches.
AI Startups
Bengaluru-Based Metaforms Raises $9 mn to Scale AI-Powered Market Research Automation
The funding will be used to triple its engineering and AI research teams in India.
Big Tech
Google Brings Math Olympiad Gold Winning 'Deep Think' Model to Gemini App
To access Deep Think, users must toggle the feature when selecting Gemini 2.5 Pro in the app.
Quantum
Karnataka Charts $20 Billion Quantum Economy Vision by 2035 at Quantum India Bengaluru 2025
Key initiatives include developing a first-of-its-kind Quantum City near Bengaluru.
Funding
SiMa.ai Secures $85 mn to Accelerate Physical AI Expansion and Edge Innovation
The fresh capital will support SiMa.ai’s global expansion, fuel software innovation, and scale go-to-market operations.