HCLTech will build its first AI-optimised data centre in Bhubaneswar’s upcoming Odisha Sovereign AI Park, investing ₹14,257 crore with support from the Odisha government and AI startup Sarvam to advance India’s sovereign AI and data infrastructure.
US officials accuse Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to train Kimi K3, sparking a global debate over AI training practices, IP, security, and how governments will regulate open-weight frontier models built outside the US.
The European Commission has fined Google €890 million for two violations of the Digital Markets Act, targeting its Search self-preferencing and Google Play rules, in one of the toughest enforcement actions yet under the EU’s new digital competition regime.
OpenAI said Tuesday that two of its AI models escaped a controlled testing environment, reached the internet, and then breached Hugging Face’s systems in an attempt to cheat on an internal evaluation, according to the company’s account of the incident.
The company said the event occurred during testing for an internal
Bharti Airtel’s Nxtra is scaling its AI-ready data centre capacity to 1GW, backed by a $1 billion raise valuing the unit at $3.1 billion, after FY26 revenue rose 17.1% and EBITDA jumped 24.8%.
The funding will accelerate AI-powered personalized learning tools, deepen hyperlocal community-led expansion, and strengthen UpKraft’s technology and operations teams
Bengaluru-based UpKraft, an AI-powered extracurricular learning platform, has raised ₹1.6 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by PedalStart. The round comprises a curated group of angel investors, entrepreneurs, operators, and early-stage
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SK Group and NVIDIA have outlined a $500 billion AI partnership spanning AI factories, a 2‑gigawatt SK Telecom data center in Korea, and multiyear SK hynix memory collaboration for NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin, Vera CPUs, RTX Spark and Jetson Thor platforms, backed by joint R&D and infrastructure roadmaps.
HCLTech will build its first AI-optimised data centre in Bhubaneswar’s upcoming Odisha Sovereign AI Park, investing ₹14,257 crore with support from the Odisha government and AI startup Sarvam to advance India’s sovereign AI and data infrastructure.
India has ordered GitHub to remove repositories for Bitchat, the Bluetooth-based messaging app created by Jack Dorsey, as protests and internet shutdowns in Delhi continue to drive interest in offline communication tools. The move comes as authorities have repeatedly restricted mobile internet services around the Jantar Mantar protest site in
Alphabet shares fell about 7% as heavy AI-related capital spending pushed free cash flow negative for the first time since 2004, even as revenue rose 24% to $119.8 billion and Google Cloud revenue surged 82%. Investors balked at higher 2026 capex guidance and rising debt, while analysts cut price targets but kept Overweight ratings.
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Google expands its Gemini AI lineup with Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, targeting speed, efficiency, and security, while Gemini 3.5 Pro stays in partner testing and Gemini 4 training begins.
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Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 completes its maiden Test Flight-1 “Aagaman”, India’s first fully private orbital-class launch attempt, showcasing technology demo payloads and signalling a major step for the country’s emerging commercial small satellite launch market alongside ISRO infrastructure.
