Google has revealed that more than 2.5 lakh Android applications were created within just one week using its free AI-powered feature in Google AI Studio. The announcement highlights how artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming app development by enabling even non-coders to build functional applications.
A new artificial intelligence centre of excellence in Karnataka is proposed to boost Al research and public sector innovation. This centre will unite state government, industry, startups, and academia. It aims to develop scalable Al solutions and policy frameworks. Focus areas include public service delivery and multilingual technologies. Safeguards for privacy and fairness are also emphasised as Al adoption grows.
As part of the expansion, the company is doubling the size of its Mumbai office in Lower Parel from 4,500 sq. ft. to 9,100 sq. ft. while expanding its Mangaluru technology development centre by over 50 per cent to 9,500 sq. ft. The move is intended to support increased research, development and product engineering.
The programme, run in official collaboration with the Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM), is now accepting applications until 30 June 2026 and offers CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, DNS, and edge infrastructure credits to over 1,100 startups across India.
India’s AI conversation usually swings between two extremes. One side talks about trillion-dollar opportunity. The other talks about job disruption. Rarely does anyone ask the less glamorous question: who is paying the environmental bill for all this computing power?
At a closed-door media roundtable hosted by Avaali Solutions in Bengaluru, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, CEO of Karnataka Digital Economy Mission, attempted to pull the discussion back to the physical realities behind artificial intelligence.
VergeCloud, in official collaboration with the
Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM), has launched the Dhruva programme for Indian startups. The programme commits Rs 5 Crore in sponsored cloud infrastructure credits to over 1,100 eligible companies. Selected startups receive access to VergeCloud’s CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, DNS, and edge infrastructure platform from day one, at no cost to them.
India’s ambitions within semiconductors are moving beyond manufacturing incentives and official statements. Although most discussions have centered around fabrication facilities, government grants, and supply chain diversifications, there is another aspect to the story,
Heads of global capability centres (GCCs) and senior executives at multinationals told Reuters that while hiring continues, finding candidates with the right mix of technical expertise and adaptability was becoming increasingly difficult.
Global companies in India are becoming more selective in their hiring as AI reshapes roles, intensifying a crunch for talent with advanced tech skills
Swedish audio company Atonemo is entering India with its debut product, the Streamplayer-a compact audio streamer designed to bring modern wireless functionality to any speaker system, regardless of age or brand.
Cyient Semiconductors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cyient Ltd, on Monday said it has firmed up a strategic financing transaction with funds managed by EAAA India Alternatives Ltd (Edelweiss) and affiliated co-investors that values the Hyderabad-headquartered chip company at about $500 million post-money.
TATA Electronics is set to begin semiconductor chip packaging at its ₹27,120‑crore OSAT facility in Jagiroad, Assam, with phased qualification already underway
Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) said it will host India’s first and largest National AI and Digital Water Summit in Bengaluru on May 27 to discuss the use of artificial intelligence and digital technologies in urban water management with experts and policymakers. The discussions will focus on AI-driven water governance, smart utility systems, digital twins, IoT-enabled monitoring, predictive analytics, wastewater reuse and sustainable financing models for urban infrastructure.
Target is moving from “using AI to running on AI,” but a shift in the pricing of the technology by its providers is ‌prompting the U.S. retailer to reassess the way it is deployed, its India head told Reuters on Monday.It’s about the intentional use and integration of AI rather than deploying it everywhere…,” Target India President Andrea Zimmerman said.
The rise of artificial intelligence is reshaping not just how businesses operate, but also how consulting firms charge for their services. Clients are increasingly pushing global firms such as McKinsey & Company to move away from billing based on hours worked and instead adopt pricing models tied to measurable outcomes.
Mysore Quantum AI (MQA), a not-for-profit foundation and think tank dedicated to advancing Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence within the Mysuru ecosystem, was recently launched in the city
Mysore Quantum AI (MQA), a not-for-profit foundation and think tank dedicated to advancing Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence within the Mysuru ecosystem, was recently launched in the city
Every week, news of layoff of staffers in global technology firms are making the headlines. This week, reports of LinkedIn’s plans to sack around 600 employees came, while it coincided with Meta’s decision to layoff around 8,000 staffers globally. In recent months, the intensity of mass layoffs has increased, creating anxiety among staffers. For instance, around 10,000 staffers of Oracle lost their jobs this year as the company undertook a mass layoff globally for focusing on AI infrastructure investment.
India’s student startup ecosystem is undergoing a sharp shift toward deep-tech and research-led ventures, with founders increasingly building in sectors such as Al, defence, climate and quantum technologies instead of the consumer internet and edtech models that dominated the previous decade, according to a report by Campus Fund.
US-based Anthropic and OpenAl, the world’s two largest artificial intelligence (AI) startups and bitter rivals, are said to be eyeing IPOs at $1 trillion valuations each. India has, however, remained quiet since its chaotic five-day Al Impact Summit in February. Most domestic Al firms have yet to make a significant impact, and India’s leading enterprises continue to partner primarily with American giants. Where do India’s Al startups stand?Â
Sales cycles for India’s business-to-business (B2B) artificial intelligence (AI) startups have started shrinking, as a growing number of companies move to rapidly embed the technology into their ecosystems.
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