Infosys Expands ABN AMRO Partnership to Modernise Banking Systems With AI

The companies intend to extend AI adoption beyond individual projects and apply it across the bank’s broader technology environment.

Apexon Partners With TrustModel.ai to Bring Continuous AI Assurance to Enterprises

The companies aim to move enterprises beyond point-in-time AI assessments toward ongoing monitoring of AI and agentic systems as they operate and evolve.

Stack Overflow Wants to Turn Enterprise Knowledge Into a Trust Layer for AI Agents

The latest version expands how organisations can capture, verify and distribute internal knowledge.

Salesforce Acquires Listen Labs to Give AI a Better Ear for Customers

Listen Labs uses AI agents to design research studies, recruit participants, conduct in-depth interviews and synthesise findings.

Coforge Launches CXNova Agentic AI Platform for Customer Experience

CXNova combines customer data, business information and real-time signals to adapt experiences as interactions unfold

Persistent Systems Names Kavitha Srinivasulu as Chief Cyber and AI Security Officer

She joins Persistent after more than four years at TCS, where she most recently served as Programme Director for Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, Process Optimisation and Digital Transformation

OpenAI Introduces Dots as Always-On AI Agents for Long-Running Work

Unlike conventional ChatGPT conversations, where users typically provide instructions for each task, dots are designed to pursue broader goals over extended periods.

IBM and Yotta Launch Sovereign Agentic AI Platform in India

The platform can be used for enterprise workflows, including security operations, document processing and HR automation.

Melento and Gnani AI Explore Voice Agents for Enterprise Workflows

The collaboration will combine Gnani AI’s Voice AI capabilities with Melento’s agentic AI orchestration framework to build workflows where AI agents can listen to customers, understand context, make decisions and take action across enterprise processes.

NVIDIA Launches Open Platform to Put Safety Controls Around AI Agents

The NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform combines open-source software with hardware-based security to provide governance and control across the full agent stack.

SiMa.ai Raises $150 Mn at $1.45 Bn Valuation to Scale Physical AI

The new funding will be used to scale Palette Neat, SiMa.ai’s agentic software environment for Physical AI.

Microsoft Drops Copilot+ PC Branding as AI PC Strategy Shifts

Microsoft recently launched new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus processor.

Cloud

Anthropic Commits $11.6 Bn to Akamai Cloud in Seven-Year AI Infrastructure Deal

The agreement will use Akamai Cloud’s distributed AI infrastructure and software to support Anthropic’s AI workloads at scale.

Acquisition

Databricks Acquires Row Zero to Bring Spreadsheets Into Its AI Platform

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Expansion

Keystone Sets Up India Operations With Bengaluru as First Hub

Rohit Chatterjee, Global Head and Senior Partner at Keystone, will lead the India effort.

Leadership Moves

InMobi Names Aditya Kumar as Global Chief Information Security Officer

Kumar would work with InMobi’s leadership and teams to strengthen cyber resilience, digital trust, security governance and risk management across the company’s global operations.

Agentic AI

UiPath Launches Cartographer to Map How Enterprise Work Actually Gets Done

The resulting Map of Work can then be used to identify opportunities for process redesign and build agents, workflows and automations.

Chips

Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon Chip Is Built for the Agentic AI Phone

Qualcomm is launching two versions, including an “Extreme” variant aimed at higher-performance devices.

AI Models

This AI Video Model Learned From Real Neurons—and Cuts Inference Costs by 80%

Importantly for enterprises, the approach does not require biological hardware.

Partnerships

Mavenir Partners with Neysa to Build Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Indian Telcos

The companies said the combination is designed to give organisations a ready-to-deploy sovereign AI stack.

Leadership Moves

Akasa Air Appoints Former Dish TV IT Chief Abhishek Gupta as CIO

Gupta joins Akasa Air from Dish TV, where he served as Corporate Head of IT from 2019 until his departure on August 31, 2026.

AI Models

An Indian AI Model That Doesn’t Chat Claims Top Spot on Hugging Face

The model, Laya, was developed by Nandhakishor Mukkunnoth, who is based in the Southern part of India and teaches Generative AI through his Instagram account.

AI Developments

The Hard Part of AI in Education Isn’t the Model, it’s Everything Around it

"The metric we care about most, the holy grail, is completion. If we are able to improve completion, everything else follows."

Gadgets

Googlebook Wants Your Android Phone and Laptop to Finally Work as One

For developers, Googlebook includes a full terminal environment and support for tools such as Claude Code and Antigravity CLI