Leadership Moves
Genesys International Appoints Dhiman Basu Ray as CTO
Basu Ray brings around 26 years of technology and digital engineering experience to the role.
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Leadership Moves
OpenAI Names Former Uber India Chief Prabhjeet Singh to Lead India Business
At Uber, Singh helped the company expand its India operations to more than 75 million consumers and 2 million monthly earners.
Chips
IBM and Arm Build Dual-Architecture Chip to Bring AI Workloads to Z Mainframes
Built using a 2-nanometer process, the chip will feature 11 high-performance cores running at up to 5.7 GHz, along with an on-chip data processing unit for input/output operations.
Fractal Launches Dedicated India Business Unit
Fractal Analytics has launched a dedicated India Business Unit (India BU) as the enterprise AI company looks to help large Indian organisations move from AI experimentation to scaled business transformation. The new unit will focus on deploying Fractal’s enterprise agentic AI platform, Cogentiq, along with its broader portfolio of
Cloud
AM Intelligence Orders 9,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs for Hyderabad AI Factory
AMI said the Hyderabad facility is expected to become one of the first frontier AI compute clusters in Asia.
Leadership Moves
Tiger Analytics Names Prakash Arunachalam Global Head of Operations
Arunachalam will oversee efforts to make the company’s global operations more agile while building on its strategy as a full-stack AI services provider.
Acquisition
Infineon Acquires Bengaluru Chip Startup C2i Semiconductors to Power Next-Gen AI Data Centres
German semiconductor giant Infineon Technologies has acquired Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors.
Crypto
WazirX Launches AI Agent That Can Research, Analyse & Execute Crypto Trades
WazirX AI provides users with an updated view of their live portfolio and uses their stated risk preferences to recommend an appropriate position size.
Agentic AI
Agentic AI Could Make Inference Costs Soar More Than 5X by 2028: Gartner
Gartner said product leaders can no longer assume that falling model prices will automatically translate into lower AI costs.
Leadership Moves
QuID Appoints Former Salesforce Leader Arumugam P. as CTO
Arumugam joins QuID after nearly three years at Salesforce, where he served as an Engineering Leader and Director of Engineering.
AI Agents
Former X CEO Parag Agrawal's Parallel Launches ‘Fast’ Web Search for AI Agents at $1 per 1,000 Queries
The company claims Fast mode delivers high-quality web search at $1 per 1,000 queries, making it up to 10 times cheaper than search services bundled with leading frontier models.
AI Models
DeepSeek Releases New Experimental Model, Claims Near-Parity With Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
The model accepts image and text inputs and is designed to support visual understanding within agentic workflows.