Leadership Moves
Sonata Software Appoints Hariprasad Rebala as Chief AI Officer
Rebala will lead Sonata’s AI-led transformation across its offerings, service delivery, platforms, capabilities, ecosystem and partnerships.
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AI Startups
Top 5 Voice AI Startups in India in 2026
Indian startups are now building speech models, autonomous voice agents, enterprise contact-centre automation and multilingual conversational systems for banks, insurers, governments, e-commerce companies and millions of citizens.
Internet
Mozilla’s New AI Wants to Make Sense of Your Messy Browser Tabs
Mozilla says privacy is a central part of Mozilla's pitch, and it does not retain Smart Window chat transcripts, use conversations to train models, or sell user data.
AI Models
Snowflake Launches Dynamic Model Routing to Cut Enterprise AI cost
The company announced the capability within Cortex AI Gateway on August 18, alongside expanded access to open models.
Leadership Moves
Swiggy Elevates Nitesh Garg to Instamart CTO
Garg joined Swiggy in December 2018 as Vice President of Engineering and became Senior Vice President in April 2022.
AI Startups
Sarvam Signs Defence AI Deal with Indian Navy to Power Multimodal DRONA 2.0
DRONA, short for DSSC Resource Optimising Neural AI, was first launched by the military institution in June 2025 as a customised GPT for AI-assisted training.
AI Agents
DronaHQ Launches MCP Server to Give AI Coding Agents Secure Access to Production Infrastructure
DronaHQ MCP connects coding agents including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and VS Code to DronaHQ’s application platform, allowing developers to continue building through their existing development environments while the platform provides the production infrastructure underneath.
Developer's Corner
Elon Musk Now Wants to End GitHub's Dominance
Just as Cursor is moving into Git hosting, GitHub suffered one of its most disruptive outages of the year, taking down or degrading the website, API, Actions, pull requests and Copilot for developers worldwide.
AI News
Google Buys Bankrupt Spirit Airlines’ Enterprise Data to Train AI Models
Google will receive roughly 30 million lines of software code, development metadata, models and algorithms, along with more than 175,000 employee records dating back to 1986.
Leadership Moves
SpaceXAI Appoints Paresh Saraf as Regional Director for Solutions Architecture in India
Saraf joins SpaceXAI after nearly three years at Cockroach Labs, where he served as Leader, APAC Customer Engineering
Leadership Moves
Genesys Names Nikhil Alulkar CEO
Alulkar joins Genesys after more than five years at Tech Mahindra, where he served as Senior Vice President and Head of India and SAARC.
AI Models
IISc Researchers Unveil AI Speech Model Covering 65 Indian Languages and Dialects
SraVaani uses a FastConformer architecture and was trained from scratch through a three-stage pipeline.