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Analytics India Mag ·
Beverage company and cafe chain Chai Point has cut its AWS cloud bill by 58.2%. Dharmendra Raghuvanshi, Chai Point's director and head of digital transformation, shared the numbers in a LinkedIn post. Raghuvanshi says the company’s...
Analytics India Mag ·
Bengaluru-based AI inference infrastructure startup Simplismart has raised $14 million in a Series B funding round led by Dallas Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, Shastra VC and Micromax. The company will use the...
Medianama · · Medium severity
Ashish Kumar Chauhan, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) chief, has asked a stockbrokers’ body, the Association of National Exchanges Members of India (ANMI), to set up a special task force to battle against AI-driven cyberattacks....
Tahawul Tech ·
Tidiane Lo explores the interconnected investments behind AI adoption and why technology leaders must balance current performance with future readiness. AI adoption is bringing infrastructure, cloud, data, networking and cybersecurity...
Medianama ·
Access a copy of the Calcutta HC order here: [ pdf ] In a Rs. 50 Crore defamation case against Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia, the Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered YouTube, X and Instagram to disable access to copies of a video...
Tahawul Tech ·
London Business School professors Nitish Jain and Alex S. Yang examine how leadership, experimentation and trust shape the success of AI adoption Across the GCC, artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from experimentation to...
Analytics India Mag ·
Maya Research has released Maya 2 Native, an open-weight text-to-speech model that generates speech in 12 languages, including 11 Indian languages and English. The model supports real-time audio streaming and voice cloning, allowing...
Analytics India Mag ·
Anthropic, the company behind AI assistant Claude , faces a copyright infringement lawsuit over the alleged unauthorised use of 274 Elvis Presley songs to train its AI models. The lawsuit was filed on October 23 in the US District Court...
Tahawul Tech ·
Ahmed el Saadi, Group Vice President, MEA & TRC, Splunk. Cisco recently released the Splunk State of Observability 2026: Restoring Predictability in the AI Era report, marking its sixth analysis of the observability industry. The new...
Telecom Review ·
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is set to expand its data center market significantly, driven by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence ( AI ), cloud adoption, and broader digital transformation across the region. According to...
Analytics India Mag ·
CoRover.ai has listed three BharatGPT models on AIKosh, the government-backed National AI Datasets and Models Platform under the IndiaAI Mission. The models cover multilingual language processing, text generation, reasoning and Hindi...
Analytics India Mag ·
Cent, a preventive health intelligence startup, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Blume Ventures and existing investor South Park Commons, on October 27. “India's healthcare system is still built to treat...
Medianama ·
“Based on the proposed cap of 0.4% MDR on select payments (non-industry merchants) for payments above Rs 2,000, and based on our current Gross Merchandise Value mix, we expect an indicative uplift of approximately 2.5 basis points in...
Analytics India Mag ·
Cohere said on October 26 that Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to upload a test file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a cybersecurity evaluation. The company said its isolated testing environment blocked...
Tahawul Tech ·
Toshiba has recently released a platform it stated can lower the need for specific fibre connectivity and equipment in deploying quantum-safe networks. The Japanese company is targeting the platform at network operators, enterprises,...
Analytics India Mag ·
HCLTech has completed its acquisition of 100% of Robotic Process Automation d.o.o., a Croatia-based enterprise robotic process automation (RPA) provider operating as Robotiq.ai. A regulatory filing said the transaction was completed at...
Tahawul Tech ·
Satellite communications partners ICEYE and Nokia recently signed a pact with Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence to develop sovereign satellite capabilities. This announcement comes amidst reports that the Ukraine is continuing to have...
Tahawul Tech ·
Meta Platforms recently unveiled plans to secure up to $95 billion in equity to fund its AI-related expansion of data centres and cloud computing. These efforts look to be backed by chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom. The social media...
Tahawul Tech ·
Madhavi Reddy, Managing Director, AWS MENAT. Madhavi Reddy discusses AI governance, workforce skills, and the need to turn productivity gains into business growth across MENAT Organisations are investing in AI, but technology alone will...
Telecom Review ·
As a wrap-up to the 20 th edition of the Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit, Telecom Review Group organized its Excellence Awards ceremony to recognize exceptional global and regional companies, along with industry leaders, for their...
Telecom Review ·
As a wrap-up to the 20 th edition of the Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit, Telecom Review Group organized its Excellence Awards ceremony to recognize exceptional global and regional companies, along with industry leaders, for their...
Medianama ·
The Supreme Court of India has refused to stay the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act), 2023, without hearing the government’s side and has listed the matter for November 17, 2026. This was the first hearing of the Digital...
Medianama ·
“We see AI as a net positive for online travel platforms, particularly in large emerging markets such as India,” MakeMyTrip co-founder and Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rajesh Magow said on the company’s earnings call for the...
Tahawul Tech ·
(L-R): Khalid Aljamed, General Manager, Middle East, Türkiye & Africa, Submer and Yousef Arafat, General Manager, Aginode at the signing ceremony. Submer , a full-stack AI and HPC data centre infrastructure provider, recently signed a...
Tahawul Tech ·
Verizon recently announced that the company has entered into an agreement worth more than $2 billion with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to supply dark fibre infrastructure to meet AI workload demand. The operator noted the AWS agreement...
Tahawul Tech ·
Jason Harvey, VP AI and Automation EMEA, Zebra Technologies. Zebra Technologies Corporation , a global leader in digitising and automating workflows to deliver intelligent operations, recently announced ORAFOL Fresnel Optics GmbH has...
Telecom Review ·
Nokia reported a 9% year-on-year increase in third-quarter net sales on a constant-currency and portfolio basis, supported by strong demand for network infrastructure from AI and cloud customers, as the Finnish telecommunications...
Telecom Review ·
(NISCO) has worked with Huawei and ecosystem partners to commercially deploy the world’s first steel model powered by swarm intelligence—the YuanYe Steel Large Model (YuanYe)—across multiple scenarios at scale. This helps NISCO...
Analytics India Mag ·
Indian cloud infrastructure provider E2E Networks plans to add 5.4 megawatts (MW) of AI computing capacity powered by NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture, increasing its total capacity by nearly 59% to approximately 14.6 MW. The proposed...
Analytics India Mag ·
Entire, a startup founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke , has launched a Git-based developer platform that uses AI agents to review code, manage repositories and retain context from previous coding sessions. The platform, called...
Analytics India Mag ·
Sarvam AI has signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Defence to develop and deploy AI applications across the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, as India expands its efforts to build indigenous AI...
Analytics India Mag ·
Protectt.ai Labs has acquired a majority stake in AIShield, an AI security platform incubated at Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW), through a primary share issuance and a secondary purchase from existing investors. AIShield will...
Analytics India Mag ·
During Infosys’ results press conference on October 23, CEO and MD Salil Parekh revealed a new seven-year mega contract worth over $2 billion with a major global financial services institution. The deal ramps up only from the “later...
Analytics India Mag ·
Anthropic reported $11.6 billion in revenue and $974 million in operating profit for the second quarter of 2026, according to its registration statement filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 26. Revenue...
Analytics India Mag ·
OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a model that combines visual reasoning, computer use and coding, with API prices 50% lower than those of GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol. Available from October 27 to Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users...
Analytics India Mag ·
Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to around 60,000 employees across India, the US, the UK, and Canada, giving eligible staff the option to leave the company with financial support and career-planning resources. Announced on...
Medianama · · High severity
A reported data breach at the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) exposed documents submitted as part of certification applications for more than 500 titles, including dozens of feature films, The Hindu’s Aroon Deep reported on...
Tahawul Tech ·
The redesigned tablet introduces water and dust resistance, stronger on-device AI performance, and a landscape front camera, with UAE prices starting at Dh2,849. Apple has unveiled a redesigned iPad mini featuring an 8.5-inch OLED...
Intelligent CIO ME ·
Microsoft plans to invest more than US$10 billion across the Middle East by 2030, expanding cloud and AI infrastructure while strengthening the resilience of digital services used by governments and businesses. The programme includes...
Analytics India Mag ·
Bihar’s Education Department has partnered with 11 IT firms, including Google Education, to equip government school teachers with skills in artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies. The initiative will receive support from...
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