WhatsApp Opens Username Reservations in Its Biggest Privacy Overhaul Yet — India Among the Earliest Markets to Test Handle-Based Identity

WhatsApp has begun rolling out usernames, allowing its users to reserve a unique @handle and connect with new contacts without exposing their phone number. The move, announced by the Meta-owned platform on June 29, marks one of the most consequential identity changes in the app's history and brings ...

Beating the 45-Day Clock: The AI Behind India's New Payment and Tax Compliance Challenge

Section 43B(h) turned the timing of a payment into a tax event. That quietly made “who pays late, and when” one of the most valuable predictions an Indian finance team can buy. Here’s how the models actually make it — and the one question to ask before you trust one. Predi...

The Agentic CFO: When Finance AI Stops Suggesting and Starts Deciding

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...

Anthropic and the Off-Switch That Was Real All Along

At 5:21pm Eastern on Friday, a letter arrived. By Friday evening, two of the most capable AI models in commercial deployment were dark — not throttled, not patched, not quietly deprecated, but switched off for every customer on Earth. Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, launched only days earlie...

The Country That Trains the World’s AI Engineers — and Keeps Losing Them

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...

AirTrunk Bets Big on India with $30 Billion AI Data Centre Expansion Plan

AirTrunk plans to invest more than Rs 3,000 billion ($30 billion) in India by 2030 in support of digital infrastructure capacity, positioning the country as a cornerstone of AirTrunk’s global growth strategy and one of the company’s most significant long-term inv...

Carbon Cognition: Why Every AI Thought Costs the Earth Something

Carbon Cognition The day the thinking machine met the living planet — and discovered it had a footprint Every answer you ask an AI for is paid in watts, water, and weather. On the one day of the year the whole world stops to look at the Earth, it’s worth asking: what does it cost the p...

Anthropic Files First, Moves Loud: The AI IPO Race Stops Being Hypothetical

Anthropic did a strange thing on Monday: it filed a secret document and then told everyone about it. The company confirmed in a public blog post that it had confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the first formal step towa...

Cadence And NVIDIA Expand Agentic AI Collaboration To Transform Engineering And Semiconductor Design

Expanded collaboration combines agentic AI, physics-based simulation, and digital twins to accelerate engineering and unlock new levels of productivity across semiconductors, physical AI systems and AI factories At CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2026, Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced an expanded partne...

Ant Group’s Robbyant Open-Sources LingBot-Map for Real-Time 3D Reconstruction

Robbyant, the embodied AI company within Ant Group, announced the open-sourcing of LingBot-Map, a new streaming 3D reconstruction model. This innovative technology empowers robots, autonomous vehicles, and AR devices to perceive and understand their three-dimensional surroundings in real-time using ...

LTM Partners with IIT Kharagpur to Upskill Its Workforce in AI

LTM – the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, has partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) to design deep dive training programs for its workforce, to enhance skills in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technology and ...

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman Of Reliance Industries, Announces 110 B$ AI Investment At India AI Impact Summit

Reliance Industries Limited has announced plans to invest 10 lakh crore rupees over the next seven years to build what it described as India’s sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure, marking one of the largest technology investment commitments in the country’s history. Address...

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet At India AI Impact Summit Calls For Reinvention And Global Partnerships To Turn AI Into A Growth Engine

At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Julie Sweet, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Accenture, delivered a message that cut through the noise with rare clarity. Artificial intelligence will not drive prosperity through pilots, prototypes, or boardroom optimism. It will drive prosperity when organi...

Global Industry Leaders Chart AI’s Next Phase, From Personal Intelligence to Industrial-Scale Impact

As part of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, keynote addresses by Alexander Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta; Roy Jakobs, CEO, Philips; Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO, Kyndryl; and Olivier Blum, Global CEO, Schneider Electric, explored how artificial intelligence is moving from breakthrough innovatio...

Dario Amodei At AI India Impact Summit 2026: India Will Shape The Next Phase Of Safe And Inclusive AI

The fourth global AI summit since the 2023 Bletchley Park gathering marked a decisive shift in tone. Artificial intelligence is no longer framed as a distant frontier. It is advancing on an exponential curve, compressing timelines between research breakthroughs and real world deploym...

Global Leaders Call For Trusted Data Collaboratives To Power Responsible AI And Inclusive Growth At India AI Impact Summit

The session titled Strengthening Data and AI Collaboratives for Economic Growth and Social Good, held during the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam, convened international policymakers, researchers, development experts, and civil society leaders to examine how trusted data ecosystems can powe...

AI India Impact Summit Highlights Responsible Innovation Pathways To Deliver Societal Value Across Healthcare And High Impact Sectors

The session titled AI For Societal Value: Responsible Innovation Across Healthcare And High Impact Sectors explored how artificial intelligence is progressing from research and experimentation towards real world deployment capable of creating measurable societal outcomes. Bringing to...

AI India Impact Summit Explores Resilient, High Performance Data Centres Powered By AI And Energy Innovation

The session titled From Insights To Action For Resilient, High Performance Data Centres examined how artificial intelligence and advanced energy technologies are reshaping the design and operation of next generation data centres. As AI driven computing demand accelerates globally, sp...

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