Herringbone, a digital marketing platform backed by Trinity Hunt Partners, committed to unifying best-in-class local digital marketing agencies, service providers, and tech-enabled solutions, announced the appointment of Dan Hinckley as Head of AI. Hinckley will lead Herringbone's AI strategy across...
Voice has always been central to how businesses sell, support, and retain customers. But the infrastructure powering those conversations is undergoing a fundamental shift. India's cloud telephony market, valued at over Rs3,200 crore in 2024, is projected to grow at a CAGR of 18–22 per cent thr...
New research from Autodesk points to an unexpected shift: AI is pulling the next generation toward hands-on, physical-world work.
To help prepare students and today's workforce for these opportunities, Autodesk has made a $350 million commitment over the next three years to provide free technology ...
Somewhere in a Bengaluru shared-service centre, software is closing the books. Not assisting — closing. It pulls the bank statement, matches the receipts, clears the exceptions it recognises, posts the routine accruals, and routes only the genuine oddities to a human who arrives in the morning...
Two numbers, published weeks apart in early 2026, frame the whole story. The first: India is now the single largest market for AI hiring on the planet, with a global-capability-centre workforce of 2.36 million and the world’s second-deepest bench of AI researchers, behind only the United State...
As India grapples with intensifying climate risks, rising temperatures, and record-breaking energy demand, artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being positioned as a critical enabler of climate resilience, sustainable urban planning, and smarter energy management.
The growing urgency around...
ABB Robotics has outlined its vision for the next generation of industrial automation, highlighting how the convergence of robotics, artificial intelligence, simulation technologies and digital twins is enabling a new era of Autonomous Versatile Robots (AVRs) capable of learning, adapting and operat...
Alipay launched a new AI Pay-powered payment service that enables OpenClaw-type AI agents to make purchases and complete payments based on user instructions. These autonomous AI tools, which execute tasks on a user's behalf, have been nicknamed "lobsters" in China. The use of the new service require...
DeepSeek has unveiled its latest generation of large language models, DeepSeek-V4, marking a significant push toward high-performance yet cost-efficient AI systems. The release includes two variants, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, both offering a standardised context length of up to one mill...
Amazon and Anthropic have significantly expanded their strategic partnership, combining massive infrastructure commitments with fresh capital investment to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence systems.
Under the new agreement, Anthropic will commit more than...
GEA is expanding its digital footprint in dairy farming with the official opening of a new software lab in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The new lab will create an additional 20 jobs in Research & Development (R&D), and will focus on GEA’s AI livestock solution, CattleEye and related digi...
Anthropic has announced the launch of the Claude Partner Network, a new global initiative aimed at helping enterprises accelerate the adoption of its AI model, Claude AI. The company is committing an initial $100 million investment for 2026 to support partner organisations through training programs,...
Elon Musk has revealed a new artificial intelligence initiative called “Digital Optimus,” also referred to as “Macrohard,” describing it as a joint project between xAI and Tesla that aims to create a computer-controlling AI agent powered by the Grok system.
Musk shared detai...
NVIDIA announced a commitment together with Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp. and T-Mobile to build the world’s next generation of wireless networks on AI-native, open, secure and trustwo...
Nexi Group, a leading European paytech, and Google Cloud announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to build foundational infrastructure for the next generation of digital commerce. The collaboration focuses on enabling agentic commerce - in which AI agents autonomously navigate shopping journeys...
Meta Platforms has announced a multi-year agreement with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to power its artificial intelligence infrastructure with up to 6 gigawatts (GW) of AMD Instinct GPUs, marking one of the largest AI compute partnerships in the industry.
The collaboration is aimed at supporting Me...
OpenAI has announced that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of War (DoW) to deploy advanced AI systems in classified environments, under what it describes as the most comprehensive safety framework yet applied to such collaborations.
The company said the deal establishes three no...
Cognizant has been chosen by one of the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturers to transform and modernise its global workplace services. This multi-year partnership aims to leverage artificial intelligence and automation to enhance workplace operations across global factories and offices.
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