Anthropic spent years asking governments to regulate AI. The Trump administration finally obliged, with an export ban, a Pentagon blacklist, and exactly 90 minutes’ warning. Careful what you wish for.

Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI, leaving Google just 18 months after a $2.7 billion deal brought him back. The Gemini co-lead and transformer co-inventor’s move is the biggest AI talent heist of 2026.

Bengaluru’s Sarvam has officially joined India’s AI unicorn club after raising $234 million in a Series B round led by HCLTech, hitting a $1.5 billion valuation. The round signals India’s serious push for sovereign AI as global model access grows increasingly uncertain.

WIPO ranks Jio Platforms in the global top 20 of PCT patent applicants for 2025, with a jaw-dropping 320-place jump. The Reliance-backed tech giant now stands alongside Huawei, Apple, and Google, and yes, it’s the only Indian name on that list.

The Centre has exempted excise duty on higher ethanol fuel blends, E22, E25, E27, and E30, in a move that signals India’s most serious push yet toward biofuel-led energy independence. But don’t rush to the petrol pump expecting a discount just yet.

TCS Chairman N Chandrasekaran dropped a bombshell at the company’s 31st AGM, TCS AI agents will soon equal its entire human workforce of over 5 lakh employees. With annualised AI revenue crossing $2.5 billion and fresher hiring at its lowest since FY20, India’s largest IT firm is quietly rewriting the rules of employment, one algorithm at a time.

India has officially confirmed a BrahMos missile deal with Vietnam, while the BrahMos missile Indonesia deal is reportedly in its final stages, making Southeast Asia the newest fan club of the world’s fastest supersonic cruise missile. Here’s why everyone wants a piece of it.

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI after closing a landmark $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation — nearly tripling its worth from just three months ago and reshaping the global AI investment landscape ahead of a widely anticipated IPO.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX just filed for what could be the biggest IPO in history. With a $1.75 trillion valuation target and Starlink printing money, the aerospace giant is on track to make its founder the world’s first trillionaire.

Meta began its largest restructuring in over a year Wednesday, laying off 8,000 employees, roughly 10% of its global workforce—as CEO Mark Zuckerberg doubles down on artificial intelligence despite mounting costs and competitive pressures.

As AI-generated content becomes indistinguishable from reality, enterprises face a critical challenge: how to securely process sensitive data and verify outputs are trustworthy? Confidential computing, combined with digital provenance techniques like C2PA, is emerging as the practical solution, enabling secure AI processing with cryptographic proof of authenticity and immutable audit trails.

Perplexity has pivoted from search engine to AI-powered productivity platform with its computer system, claiming to function as a genuine digital employee. While the company boasts impressive growth metrics and enterprise adoption, critical questions remain about autonomous decision-making, regulatory challenges, and the broader implications of replacing human workers with AI agents.