OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.
Is your startup’s check engine light on? Google Cloud’s VP explains what to do
Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models…
Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than six months
Amazon said Blue Jay’s core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to other projects.
Google adds music generation capabilities to the Gemini app
Users will be able to use text, images, and videos as a reference to generate music
Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers
Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.
Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers’ confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.
OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills
OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.
World Labs lands $1B, with $200M from Autodesk, to bring world models into 3D workflows
The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases.
India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars and smart glasses
The company is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline.
Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open-source AI
The new lineup includes 30-billion and 105-billion parameter models; a text-to-speech model; a speech-to-text model; and a vision model to parse documents.