Cybersecurity
Tenable Uncovers “HackedGPT” Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT-4o and ChatGPT-5
While OpenAI has addressed some of the issues, several remained unpatched at the time of publication, leaving active exposure pathways.
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Indian IT
TCS Launches AI-Powered Pace Port™ Innovation Centre in São Paulo
Spanning more than 1,000 square meters, the hub is designed as a collaborative space for enterprises, academia, startups, and partners to accelerate innovation across Brazil and Latin America.
AI Developments
AI4Bharat Launches “Indic LLM-Arena” to Benchmark Language Models for India’s Diverse Linguistic Needs
Indic LLM-Arena allows users to enter prompts in any Indic or mixed language, compare anonymised responses from two different models, vote on which performs better, and contribute to the community-driven ranking.
Cybersecurity
Barracuda Launches AI-Powered Assistant to Speed Security Operations and Boost Cyber Resilience
Built into the company’s newly enhanced BarracudaONE cybersecurity platform, the assistant aims to help organisations respond to threats faster, reduce human error, and strengthen overall cyber resilience.
Acquisition
Check Point Completes Acquisition of Lakera, Launches First End-to-End AI Security Platform
The integrated platform is designed to protect the full AI lifecycle, from data pipelines and model training to runtime behavior and autonomous agent actions.
AI Agents
Check Point & UK AI Security Institute Launch Open-Source Benchmark to Test LLM Security in AI Agents
Unlike traditional red-teaming methods, b3 introduces a new concept called “threat snapshots.”
AI News
Wikipedia Calls on AI Companies to Use Its Content Responsibly as Traffic Declines
The announcement follows an internal review that revealed an unusual spike in traffic earlier this year—traffic that turned out to be AI bots disguising themselves as human users.
Acquisition
Snowflake Enters Agreement to Acquire Datometry Migration Solution
Snowflake says the Datometry technology enables legacy code, queries, and workflows to run on its platform without heavy rewrites, lowering migration risk and cost.
Big Tech
Microsoft Expands Data Sovereignty for 365 Copilot: In-Country Processing to 15 Nations
Starting by the end of 2025, the service will allow customers in four countries—Australia, the United Kingdom, India and Japan—to have Copilot interactions processed locally.
AI Startups
Soket AI Labs Unveils DHRITH, India’s First Emotion-Aware ASR Built for Multilingual, Code-Mixed Speech
The company says the system fills a long-standing gap in India’s AI ecosystem, where global ASR tools often fail to capture cultural and linguistic nuance.
Cloud
AWS Launches Marketplace in India: Local INR Buying Goes Live for 30,000+ Software Products
AWS Marketplace will host more than 30,000 transactable listings across 70+ software categories
Acquisition
Automation Anywhere Acquires Aisera to Accelerate the Rise of the Autonomous Enterprise
The acquisition brings together two major forces in enterprise automation and is poised to redefine how organisations use AI across IT, HR, customer service, and beyond.