Leadership Moves
Dell Names Manish Gupta as India MD Amid AI Expansion Push
Gupta, based in Bengaluru, will oversee Dell’s growth and sales strategy across India.
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AI Startups
Perplexity Handled 780 mn queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas Says
The startups expects to hit a billion queries a week within a year
Policies
OpenAI to Train One Million Teachers in Generative AI Across India
Educational content will be shared via the FutureSkills and iGOT Karmayogi platforms.
Robotics
Amazon’s Secret Lab126 Builds AI-Powered Robots and Smart Maps
Amazon also revealed plans for advanced mapping tools aimed at delivery drivers.
AI News
VIPs Get Humans, Peasants Get Bots: Klarna’s New Service Model
The fintech giant famously replaced hundreds of roles with AI, shrinking its workforce from 5,500 to 3,000 and boosting revenue per employee.
SaaS
Hackers Impersonate IT Staff to Breach Salesforce Accounts
The group did not exploit vulnerabilities in Salesforce software but relied instead on manipulating users.
Gaming
Nintendo Begins Sale of Switch 2 Worldwide
Switch 2 is available at a price point of $499.99.
Acquisition
AMD Acquires AI Startup Brium to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance
Brium specialises in optimising machine learning applications for inference—the process of running trained AI models—across diverse hardware platforms.
SaaS
HubSpot Becomes First CRM to Integrate ChatGPT for Deep Customer Insights
HubSpot says the connector respects user permissions and ensures data privacy—none of the CRM data used will train ChatGPT models.
AI Developments
IIIT-H Launches Patram-7B, India’s First Vision-Language Model for Document Understanding
The 7-billion parameter model is trained to interpret scanned and photographed documents using natural language instructions.
AI Startups
Reddit Sues Anthropic Over Alleged Unauthorised Use of User Data for AI Training
Reddit is also seeking a court injunction to bar Anthropic from further using its content
Developer's Corner
OpenAI Adds Optional Internet Access to Codex for Dynamic Task Execution
The feature is now live for Plus, Pro, and Team users, with Enterprise support coming soon.