Baidu is pushing beyond China with a global AI search engine and multilingual BaiduWiki, powered by Ernie and ERNIE 5.0, as it balances AI investment with a $5 billion buyback.
Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready program offers free training, labs, and certification prep to help developers build production-grade AI agents on Vertex AI.
Google is streamlining removal of non-consensual explicit and AI-generated deepfake images from Search as India enforces faster takedown rules and new compliance duties for synthetic content, including labeling and watermarking, ahead of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.
India has granted in-principle clearance for Direct-to-Mobile broadcasting, advancing plans to beam TV content to phones without internet. With Prasar Bharati trials in 19 cities and Ernst & Young drafting a national roadmap, D2M could narrow the digital divide even as Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea raise spectrum and transparency concerns.
Tata Motors secures a 70,000-vehicle export order from Indonesia’s PT Agrinas Pangan Nusantara, supplying Yodha and Ultra T.7 trucks to village cooperatives under the Koperasi Desa and Kelurahan Merah Putih programme. The deal builds on a $12 billion, 320,000-vehicle plan and strengthens Tata’s global commercial-vehicle expansion.
Alphabet has raised nearly $32 billion in a multi-currency bond sale, including a landmark 100-year sterling bond, as it doubles capital spending on data centers, servers, and AI infrastructure amid surging investor demand and a broader wave of tech debt issuance.
Brands are pivoting to Reddit as AI search from Google and ChatGPT increasingly favors community content. With Reddit Answers surging and agencies like Nicely Network leading organic campaigns, marketers are rethinking SEO tactics around authenticity, subreddit alignment, and multi-perspective queries to win AI-driven rankings.
India’s service sector leads global economic growth, outpacing manufacturing with strong domestic consumption and trade agreements.
AUMOVIO will cut about 1,000 jobs in India as part of a global restructuring plan to reduce up to 4,000 roles by 2026 and refocus on software-defined vehicles.
Europe is accelerating efforts to cut reliance on Visa and Mastercard, backing EPI’s Wero and the digital euro to secure payments sovereignty and reduce strategic risk.
