Indian AI Startup Beatoven.ai Shuts Down as Competition Intensifies in AI Music

Beatoven.ai had built its technology around an approach focused on ethically licensing music and developing foundational models from scratch

Musk Says Grok’s Training Stack Is Now Built in C and C++

He adds AI is not good enough for high performance software.

TCS to Modernise Dubai Gold Exchange With AI-Powered Trading Infrastructure

TCS will deploy an integrated technology platform designed to give DGCX greater flexibility, improve operational efficiency and enable faster development of new financial products.

Flam Raises $40 Mn to Scale AI-Powered Interactive Content

The new capital will be used primarily for research and development, product expansion and scaling its global enterprise sales operations.

NVIDIA Wants to Solve Quantum Computing’s Software Bottleneck with CUDA-Q Logical

The platform provides an environment to simulate algorithms, error-correction methods and QPU architectures, allowing researchers to compare configurations and identify potential bottlenecks earlier.

PwC India Appoints Jatin Sawhney as Partner for Data Analytics and AI

Sawhney joins PwC India after more than two decades at IT services and solutions provider Team Computers.

Salesforce to Roll Back Agentforce Branding Across Key Products Ahead of Dreamforce

One of the most notable reversals involves Salesforce’s flagship sales management software.

Microsoft Elevates Rust to Tier-1 Language, Unifies Rust and C++ Development on Windows

The move is part of Microsoft’s broader effort to expand Rust across its software stack, including firmware, drivers, kernels, hypervisors, microservices and applications.

Salesforce Unveils Enterprise AI Harness as AI Agents Spread Across the Enterprise

The architecture is designed to connect AI agents with enterprise data, workflows, policies and applications without requiring companies to build separate infrastructure for every agent or AI application.

Anuj J Appointed Chief Information Security Officer at DSP Finance

Before joining DSP Finance, Anuj served as CISO at FlexiLoans, where he led information security and cyber defence initiatives

Why is Apple’s iPhone Duo So Expensive? Samsung Gets $250 for Every Display

Apple is reportedly set to pay Samsung around $250 for each foldable display panel used in its new iPhone Duo, highlighting the unusual relationship between two of the smartphone industry’s fiercest rivals as foldable phones become the next major battleground in the premium market. Samsung Display has signed a

d-Matrix Partners With NVIDIA to Bring Inference XPUs Into AI Factory Racks

d-Matrix will integrate Raptor with NVIDIA’s latest rack architecture, which includes Vera CPUs, NVLink switches, BlueField-4 DPUs, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking.

Big Tech

Microsoft’s New AI Tool Targets the Pain of Moving Off Salesforce

Support for other customer relationship management (CRM) platforms and enterprise resource planning (ERP) migration scenarios is planned for later.

Cybersecurity

AI Agents Are Emerging as a New Fraud Attack Surface, Bureau Report Finds

Bureau said generative AI, document synthesis, deepfakes and voice cloning have lowered the technical barriers to fraud.

HyperVerge Launches AI Agents for Business Loan Underwriting at Global Fintech Fest

The financial underwriting agent reviews bank statements, GST filings and tax returns, while flagging missing information.

Partnerships

Google Cloud & Accenture to Form New AI Group, Deploy 1,000 AI Engineers

The companies said the initiative is designed to support customers across different stages of their AI journeys, from individual business-unit implementations to enterprise-wide transformation.

Datacentre

TCS Plans 1GW Compute Campus in Hyderabad

HyperVault and its partners are expected to invest up to Rs 70,000 crore to develop and manage the infrastructure.

AI Models

OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra as the World's Most Intelligent Model

Astra is designed to operate computers, browse the web, write and test software, conduct research and produce documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

AI Startups

Entire Launches Agentic Search to Give AI Coding Agents the “Why” Behind Code

According to Entire’s benchmark, agents using this new search capability answered 81 of 90 engineering-history questions correctly, compared with 70 of 90 when relying on full Git history and GitHub CLI tools.

Agentic AI

Okta Targets Agentic Commerce With New Identity Tools for B2C and B2B

For B2B companies, Okta is adding capabilities to simplify multi-tenancy, speed up customer onboarding and bring enterprise-grade identity features to existing technology stacks.

AI Startups

Just 1% of Customers Drive 80% of OpenAI, Anthropic’s Enterprise Revenue

The companies making up the top 1% of customers are heavily concentrated in technology, AI products, and AI services.

Thought Leadership

The AI Scaling Problem Enterprises Aren’t Talking About

Production AI demands a fundamentally different environment, one where compute, networking, storage, power and cooling are designed to work together rather than treated as separate technology layers.

AI Models

Meta Enters the Voice AI Race with Muse Voice Transcribe

Meta is stepping deeper into the rapidly evolving voice AI market with Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time audio perception model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs that combines speech recognition, speaker identification and endpoint detection in a single system. The company says the model delivers streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR)

Leadership Moves

Aerospike Names Don Dama as CEO as Company Eyes Enterprise AI Growth

Dama joins Aerospike after serving as senior vice president and general manager at SingleStore.