Acquisition
Salesforce to Acquire Qualified, Expanding Agentic AI Push in Marketing and Sales
Salesforce said the acquisition will accelerate the development of Agentforce Sales and Agentforce Marketing.
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Funding
India Tech Funding Slips 17% in 2025, Early-Stage Deals Defy the Slowdown
Despite the slowdown, India retained its position as the world’s third-largest tech funding ecosystem, behind only the US and the UK.
Partnerships
OpenAI Nears Deal With Amazon, Taps Trainium Chips and Cloud Sales Boost
As part of the discussions, Amazon is said to be seeking exclusive rights to sell OpenAI’s models to its cloud customers through Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Developer's Corner
Google Brings Vibe-Coding Tool Opal to Gemini, Letting Users Build AI Apps Without Code
Opal appears inside the Gems manager and includes a visual editor that breaks app creation into clear, connected steps.
Lawsuits
Adobe Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Use of Pirated Books to Train AI Model
The lawsuit alleges Adobe used unauthorised copies of books, including her own works, to train its SlimLM language model.
Expansion
Ebix Expands Risk Compliance Platform, Bets on AI-Led Growth With Focus on India
The upgraded RCS platform introduces AI-powered document reading and extraction to reduce manual data entry and enable straight-through validation.
Big Tech
Google Launches First-Ever Credit Card in India
India was chosen as the launch market due to its rapidly expanding digital payments ecosystem.
Leadership Moves
Tenable Appoints Microsoft Cloud Security Veteran Vlad Korsunsky as CTO
Korsunsky will be responsible for the company’s technical vision, platform strategy and innovation, including scaling the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform.
Funding
Databricks Raises $4 Bn in Series L Funding; Tops $4.8 Bn Revenue Run-Rate, Secures
The Q3 performance included more than $1 billion revenue run-rate each from its AI products and its data warehousing business.
Acquisition
Red Hat Buys Chatterbox Labs to Boost AI Safety and Trust in Hybrid Cloud Platforms
The move expands the Red Hat AI portfolio, enhancing its ability to support responsible, production-grade AI deployments across hybrid cloud environments.
AI Models
NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 to Power the Next Wave of Multi-Agent AI Systems
The Nemotron 3 lineup includes Nano, Super and Ultra models built on a hybrid latent mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture.
AI Models
OpenAI Rolls Out Major Upgrade to ChatGPT Images to Rival Google's Nano Banana
The update, now available in ChatGPT and as the GPT Image 1.5 API.