Meta scraps AI image feature Muse Image within three days of launch, after Hollywood unions, talent agencies and privacy advocates called out its opt-out design.

The Dixon Vivo joint venture has finally cleared regulatory hurdles, marking a turning point for India’s smartphone manufacturing ambitions and its scrutiny of Chinese capital.

Tech Mahindra acquires Alyis Serviços Técnicos from Orange Business Brasil. This BRL 1.2 million cash deal folds a 270-person LATAM support team into its fold and locks in a five-year Orange partnership signed earlier this year.

Meta’s new Muse Image AI model is now rolling out across its apps and it’s already courting controversy over how it handles public Instagram photos.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has pledged $48 billion in India between 2026 and 2030, covering AI infrastructure, quick commerce, e-commerce exports, and job creation. But beyond the headline number, India is quietly becoming Amazon’s most important bet outside the US.

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.

A groundbreaking AI model named Mythos sits locked away at Anthropic, too powerful and dangerous to release. Its ability to discover system vulnerabilities in hours has triggered a cybersecurity crisis for banks worldwide, particularly in India.

Cloud 3.0 2026 caught most of us off guard. One minute your team’s happily running AI pilots on a single hyperscaler; the next, a major outage, a new data-localisation rule, or an exploding GPU bill forces a rethink. This isn’t theory, it’s happening right now to real leaders like the ones at HPCL and the International Criminal Court.

Tech giant axes 20,000–30,000 jobs worldwide, including 12,000 in India, with brutal 6 AM emails, even after its best quarter in 15 years and ₹1.6 lakh crore revenue. While betting big on AI, thousands of engineers wake up jobless.