AI Startups
OpenAI Partners with U.S. Government to Provide ChatGPT Enterprise Across Federal Agencies
OpenAI will provide universal access to its leading frontier models, including advanced features like Deep Research and Advanced Voice Mode.
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Gadgets
Microsoft Says OpenAI's Open-Source Model Can Now Run on Windows PC
GPT-OSS-20b is optimised for agentic tasks like code execution and tool use
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.
Cloud
AWS Brings OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models to Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker
This marks the first time OpenAI models are available through AWS.
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