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OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push
OpenAI is beefing up partnerships with four major consulting giants as the AI company looks to grow its enterprise business in 2026. OpenAI announced on Monday the“Frontier Alliance,”a signal that the AI lab is willing to try different approaches to get enterprises to meaningfully adopt its technology. The alliance includes multi-year partnerships between OpenAI and four major consulting firms, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), McKinsey, Accenture and Capgemini, to sell its enterprise products. OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team will work with the consulting giants to help them implement OpenAI’s enterprise-focused technologies like OpenAI Frontier into customers’ tech stacks. The companylaunched OpenAI Frontier in early February. The no-code open software allows users to build, deploy, and manage AI agents both built on OpenAI’s AI models and beyond. OpenAI argues in its latest announcement that consultants are the right avenue to get enterprises on board. “AI alone does not drive transformation. It must be linked to strategy, built into redesigned processes, and adopted at scale with aligned incentives and culture to deliver sustained outcomes,” BCG CEO Christoph Schweizer said in OpenAI’s blog post. “Our expanded partnership combines OpenAI’s Frontier platform with BCG’s deep industry, functional, and tech expertise and BCG X’s build-and-scale capabilities to drive measurable impact with safeguards from day one.” Thus far,enterprise adoption of AI has been relatively slowas these companies struggle to find a meaningful return on investment from their AI pursuits. OpenAI’s alliance strategy makes sense and goes beyond just pitching enterprises on attaching AI to their existing workflows. Instead, this effort focuses on consultants persuading companies to change their strategies and workflows to fold in OpenAI’s tools where it makes sense. It’s worth noting the OpenAI rival Anthropic has inked deals with consulting giants includingDeloitteandAccenturein recent months too. Company CFO Sarah Friar wrote in a blog post in January that enterprise is abig area of focus for OpenAIin 2026. OpenAI has also inked sizable enterprise AI deals withSnowflakeandServiceNowso far this year, in addition to naming Barret Zoph to lead the company’s enterprise sales effort in January.
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Series to Support 'Hey Plex' Hotword for Perplexity Voice Assistant
Samsung on Monday announced that the upcoming Galaxy S26 series of smartphones, which is expected to comprise the standard Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and the Galaxy S26 Ultra, will offer support for another AI agent. An addition to Galaxy AI, the Samsung Galaxy S26 series will also support Perplexity AI, according to the company. Users will be able to invoke the AI assistant using the 'Hey Plex' hotword, or by pressing the side button. It will also work across the company's built-in apps as well as some third-party apps.
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Honor Teases Humanoid Robot, Schedules Showcase a Day Ahead of MWC 2026
The Mobile World Congress (MWC 2026) is scheduled to begin on March 2 and will go on until March 5. During the four-day event, various smartphone makers and tech firms will showcase their new products and innovations. Ahead of MWC 2026, various Chinese companies, including Xiaomi and Honor, will also globally unveil new devices. Recently, Honor confirmed that its Magic V6 foldable and the Robot Phone with a pop-out camera will be globally launched a day before the event starts. Now, the Chinese smartphone maker has confirmed that the handsets will be accompanied by a humanoid robot.
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Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to discuss the military use of Claude, according to reporting fromAxios. The meeting comes as the Pentagon threatens to declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk” — a label typically reserved for foreign adversaries — after the AI firm refused to allow the Department of Defense to use its tech for the mass surveillance of Americans and the development of weapons that fire without human involvement. Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with DOD last summer, and Claude wasreportedlyused during the January 3 special operations raid that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, an episode that brought the two sides’ tensions into the open. A source told Axios that Hegseth is giving Amodei an ultimatum: play ball or be banished. It’s unclear whether he’s bluffing — replacing Anthropic would be a significant undertaking. But the stakes are real: a supply chain risk designation would void Anthropic’s contract and force other Pentagon partners to drop Claude entirely.
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How AI agents could destroy the economy
On Sunday, an analyst group called Citrini Research publisheda remarkable pieceillustrating how agentic AI could bring on mass economic destruction over the next two years. The scenario imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled, and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third. As the report puts it: AI capabilities improved, companies needed fewer workers, white collar layoffs increased, displaced workers spent less, margin pressure pushed firms to invest more in AI, AI capabilities improved… It was a negative feedback loop with no natural brake…The system turned out to be one long daisy chain of correlated bets on white-collar productivity growth. It’s a new kind of bear case, focused not on Skynet-style misalignment but on the gradual unspooling of the economy itself. In particular, the Citrini scenario looks at the implications of integrating AI agents into the economy at large, and what it would mean when outside contractors get replaced by cheaper in-house AI. It’s similar to theDeath of SaaSscenario, but Citrini goes further, implicating any business model that involves optimizing transactions between companies. As you might expect, the report is causingquiteastironline. Not everyone is buying it — even Citrini describes it as more of a scenario than a prediction — but it’s not so easy to name the specific point where you think the scenario goes wrong. Personally, I’m not sure companies are ready to hand off purchasing decisions to AI agents, no matter how smart they are. But in Citrini’s scenario, most of the impacted decisions have already been handed off to third-party contractors, so it’s not quite as implausible as it seems.
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Top 15 AI Startups Powering India’s Self-Reliance Mission
From foundational models to applied platforms, domestic builders are creating an end-to-end AI ecosystem rooted in Indian data and needs.
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Amazon Opens Second-Largest Asia Office in Bengaluru
The 1.1 million square feet campus, spread across 12 floors on a five-acre site, can accommodate more than 7,000 employees.
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LTM Lands $100 Mn Deal With European Medtech to Support Hearing Devices
LTM’s pact with a European medtech marks its first win after the rebrand.
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AI May Reset Indian IT’s Pyramid Model, But Not Fresher Hiring
Industry voices repeatedly stress skills evolution, AI literacy and the accelerating pace of learning.
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‘We are Not in the Race to Build Data Centres’: Nikhil Malhotra
The Tech Mahindra CIO spoke to AIM about Project Indus and why the company decided to outsource heavier compute.
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This 23,000-Employee MNC is Betting on Pune Nano GCC for AI Solutions
Orbia’s Pune GCC houses roughly one-third of its global IT talent pool.
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Apple Said to Be Developing Visual Intelligence Models for AI Pendant, Other Upcoming Wearables
Apple is developing new AirPods models with cameras, while also foraying into new AI-powered wearable categories, a report recently highlighted. The company is said to be working on an AI-enabled pendant that could be worn around the neck, which might feature a suite of sensors and cameras to answer user questions based on their surroundings. Now, Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman has shared more details about the AI models that will power these wearables. The Cupertino-based tech giant is reportedly working on its own visual models for the upcoming devices. First introduced with the iPhone 16 Pro series in 2024, Visual Intelligence is part of the Apple Intelligence suite of tools.
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