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Google Brings AI Music Creation to Gemini With Lyria 3
The feature is rolling out on desktop and will expand to mobile in the coming days.
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‘AI Can Take India From a $5 Trillion to a $20 Trillion Economy’
Microsoft’s Rajiv Kumar tells AIM at the AI summit that the real transformation in the AI world lies in how humans work alongside machines.
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JioHotstar Partners With OpenAI for Voice-Led Content Discovery
Users will also be able to explore live sports through conversational prompts, including queries about scores, key moments and player highlights.
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Ambani Pledges ₹10 Lakh Crore AI Investment, Promises ‘Intelligence for Every Indian’
Reliance will build gigawatt-scale data centres and high-performance computing infrastructure designed to lower the cost of AI access for enterprises, start-ups and public services.
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Qualcomm Ventures Backs ToneTag to Build Edge AI-Powered, Payment-Capable Devices from India
“The real differentiation in computing is happening at the edge.”
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Adobe Launches Free AI-Powered Creative tools for Students in India
Students will get free access to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Firefly.
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AuraML Launches Multimodal World Simulation Model for Robotics
AuraML has launched AuraSim, a platform that generates physics-ready environments for robotics.
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Delhivery Partners with NVIDIA to Build AI-Powered Location Intelligence for Bharat
NVIDIA technologies are enabling developers and companies to turn complex data into actionable insights.
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Kyndryl Launches Cyber Defense Operations Centre in India for Security Operations
Kyndryl plans to expand the Cyber Defense Operations Centre model beyond India.
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AI Impact Summit: Nokia, HMD Feature Phones to Get Sarvam AI-Powered Chatbot With Local Language Support
Sarvam AI, the Indian AI firm, and the Finland-based tech company HDM Global have announced that they are entering a collaboration to bring “AI chat” to HMD and Nokia feature phones. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the ongoing AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. The event was kicked off by the government on February 16. It brings the industry leaders, stakeholders, universities, companies, executives, and subject-matter experts from across the world in one place. Apart from bringing AI to Nokia feature phones, Sarvam is reportedly also planning to bring its AI tools to vehicle infotainment systems and its newly showcased Kaze AI smart glasses.
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Microsoft Says Copilot Gained Access to Confidential Outlook Emails Due to Bug: Report
Microsoft added Copilot Chat across its Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook platforms last year. Now, a recently discovered bug appears to have caused trouble. A Microsoft 365 Copilot bug reportedly allowed the AI assistant to summarise confidential emails for several weeks without permission. This move bypasses Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies that organisations use to protect sensitive data. Microsoft said to have issued a fix for the bug, but the situation has raised serious privacy concerns. Outlook's confidential labelling is generally used for communicating sensitive data.
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OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership
As India pitches itself as a global hub for applied artificial intelligence, OpenAI has partnered with Pine Labs to integrate AI-driven reasoning into the fintech firm’s payments stack, automating settlement and invoicing workflows in a move the companies say could help accelerate AI-led commerce in India. The partnership will see Pine Labs embed OpenAI’s application programming interfaces — software tools that let companies plug AI into their existing systems — within its payments and commerce infrastructure, the companies said on Thursday, all with the aim of enabling AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing workflows. The deal underscores OpenAI’s broader push to expand its footprint in India,one of its fastest-growing markets, as it looks to move beyond being known primarily as the maker of ChatGPT and embed its technology into education, enterprise, and infrastructure. Earlier this week, OpenAI partnered with leading Indian engineering, medical, and design institutions tobring AI tools into higher education, betting that India’s large developer base and more than a billion internet users will play a central role in the next phase of AI adoption. Pine Labs is already using AI internally to automate parts of its settlement and reconciliation process, cutting the time it takes to clear daily settlements from hours to minutes, according to Chief executive B Amrish Rau. The Noida-based company previously relied on manual checks by dozens of employees to process funds from multiple banks before markets opened each day, a workflow that is now largely handled by AI-driven systems, he said in an interview. For Pine Labs, the partnership is intended to extend those AI-driven efficiencies beyond internal operations to merchants and corporate clients, starting with business-to-business use cases such as invoice processing, settlements and payments orchestration, Rau told TechCrunch. He noted the company sees faster adoption in B2B workflows, where AI agents can handle large volumes of repetitive financial tasks under predefined rules, before similar capabilities reach consumer-facing payments. “People talk about retail AI, but the bigger impact of all of this is really efficiency improvement, especially in B2B,” Rau said. “If you look at invoicing and settlement, those are workflows where agents can actually drive the process end to end, and that’s where adoption can happen faster.” The rollout of more autonomous, agent-led payment workflows will move faster in overseas markets where regulations already allow such transactions, Rau said, while India is likely to see a more gradual adoption focused on AI-assisted commerce rather than fully agent-initiated payments. He said that Pine Labs is already prototyping agent-driven payments in parts of the Middle East and Southeast Asia, even as Indian regulations require tighter controls on how payments are authorized. For OpenAI, the partnership offers a route deeper into India’s payments and enterprise ecosystem as it looks to move beyond consumer-facing tools and embed its models into high-volume, regulated workflows. Rau said the collaboration is aimed at increasing merchant stickiness and expanding Pine Labs’ role from a payments processor to a broader commerce platform, with higher transaction volumes over time translating into incremental revenue. Pine Labs says itworks with more than 980,000 merchants, 716 consumer brands, and 177 financial institutions, and has processed over 6 billion cumulative transactions valued at over ₹11.4 trillion (about $126 billion), per its prospectus published last year. The fintech operates across 20 countries, including Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, parts of Africa, the UAE, and the U.S., giving the OpenAI partnership reach across both Indian and international markets. Rau said the partnership does not involve revenue sharing between the two companies, with Pine Labs not taking a cut if its merchants choose to embed OpenAI’s tools. “We’ve kept it completely independent of each other — anything related to payment and payment services, we will get the benefit of it, and anything related to OpenAI revenues will go to them,” he said. The arrangement, Rau added, is also non-exclusive. He compared it to OpenAI’s partnership with Stripe in the U.S. and said Pine Labs remains open to working with other AI providers. Rau said Pine Labs is building additional security and compliance layers around AI-driven workflows to ensure that sensitive merchant and consumer transaction data remains protected, as the company integrates AI more deeply into its payments systems. He said the focus is on ensuring transactions remain secure and compliant even as more workflows are automated by AI. Pine Labs’ interest in AI-driven commerce builds on earlier work through its Setu unit, which hasexperimented with agent-led bill payment experiencesusing chatbots including ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Separately, India also began pilotingconsumer payments directly through AI chatbotslast year. The new announcement comes as India hosts itsAI Impact Summitin New Delhi, where global AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are showcasing their latest capabilities alongside Indian startups demonstrating AI applications aimed at large-scale deployment across sectors such as finance, healthcare, and education.
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