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IndiaAI Mission CEO Abhishek Singh to Now Head NTA
As the head of IndiaAI Mission, Abhishek Singh focused on deploying AI at scale across public systems.
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NVIDIA Invests $2 Bn in Marvell to Expand AI Infrastructure
The investment accompanies an expanded partnership to scale AI systems and networking technologies.
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TSMC Targets 3nm Chip Production in Japan by 2028
The Taiwanese chipmaker outlines an advanced manufacturing timeline and capacity for its second Japan facility.
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Surgical robots are Not New. Intelligent Ones are
Tata Elxsi is developing AI-enabled solutions for surgical robots and healthcare systems.
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Claude Code Leak Was a ‘Manual Error’, and ‘No one Was Fired’
Claude Code head Boris Cherny confirmed the leak and the root cause, calling it an ‘honest mistake’.
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Shopify Cuts Inference Cost by 75x Using Qwen 3 for Merchant Data Extraction
Shopify’s multi-agent framework based on DSPy and Qwen 3 has doubled the quality compared to the previous single-prompt baseline with GPT-5.
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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project
Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open-source project LiteLLM. The AI startup told TechCrunch on Tuesday that it was “one of thousands of companies” affected by a recent compromise of LiteLLM’s project, which was linked to a hacking group called TeamPCP. Confirmation of the incident comes as extortion hacking group Lapsus$ claimed it had targeted Mercor and gained access to its data. It’s not immediately clear how the Lapsus$ gang obtained the stolen data from Mercor as part of TeamPCP’s cyberattack. Founded in 2023, Mercor works with companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to train AI models by contracting specialized domain experts such as scientists, doctors, and lawyers from markets including India. The startup says it facilitates more than $2 million in daily payouts and wasvalued at $10 billionfollowing a $350 million Series C round led by Felicis Ventures in October 2025. Mercor spokesperson Heidi Hagberg confirmed to TechCrunch that the company had “moved promptly” to contain and remediate the security incident. “We are conducting a thorough investigation supported by leading third-party forensics experts,” said Hagberg. “We will continue to communicate with our customers and contractors directly as appropriate and devote the resources necessary to resolving the matter as soon as possible.” Earlier, Lapsus$ claimed responsibility for the apparent data breach on its leak site and shared a sample of data allegedly taken from Mercor, which TechCrunch reviewed. The sample included material referencing Slack data and what appeared to be ticketing data, as well as two videos purportedly showing conversations between Mercor’s AI systems and contractors on its platform. Hagberg declined to answer follow-up questions on whether the incident was connected to claims by Lapsus$, or whether any customer or contractor data had been accessed, exfiltrated, or misused. The compromise of LiteLLMoriginally surfacedlast week after malicious code was discovered in a package associated with the Y Combinator-backed startup’s open-source project. While the malicious code was identified and removed within hours, the incident drew scrutiny due to LiteLLM’s widespread use around the internet, with the library downloaded millions of times per day, per security firm Snyk. The incident also prompted LiteLLM to make changes to its compliance processes, includingshifting from controversial startup Delveto Vanta for compliance certifications. It remains unclear how many companies were affected by the LiteLLM-related incident or whether any data exposure occurred, as investigations continue.
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OpenAI Raises $122 Bn at $852 Bn Valuation, Unveils AI Superapp
OpenAI said it is generating $2 billion in revenue per month.
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With Sora Gone, Google Launches Cheaper Video Model
Google Veo 3.1 Lite costs less than half as much as Veo 3.1 Fast.
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India’s National Informatics Centre Risks Missing the AI Moment
From shared AI infrastructure to cloud redesign, NIC must rethink systems, scale, and governance to stay central to India’s AI push.
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OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise
OpenAI has closed a deal to raise $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date as the company is expected to hit the public markets this year. The round will add to OpenAI’s war chest as it spends enormous amounts of money on AI chips, data center buildouts, and hiring top talent. SoftBank co-led the round alongside Andreessen Horowitz, D.E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, and T. Rowe Price Associates, with participation from Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft. About $3 billion came from individual investors via bank channels. OpenAI is also going to be included in several ETFs managed by ARK Invest, giving more people access to the private company’s stock to broaden its shareholder base in advance of its reportedlyupcoming IPO. OpenAI also said it expanded its revolving credit facility to about $4.7 billion, supported by several of the top global banks. The facility remains undrawn, the company said, which suggests it’s bolstering its financial flexibility as it ramps spending on compute and infrastructure, rather than responding to near-term liquidity needs. The company’spress releaseon the raise reads less like a typical blog post than a draft of an S-1; it’s heavy on the flywheel metaphors, digs into revenue per compute unit, and offers the kind of TAM-justifying language that institutional investors drool over. OpenAI included updates on revenue and user numbers, claiming it’s generating $2 billion in revenue per month and taking a shot at competitors: “At this stage, we are growing revenue four times faster than the companies who defined the Internet and mobile eras, including Alphabet and Meta.” The company also said it has more than 900 million weekly active users in consumer AI and over 50 million subscribers, with search usage nearly tripling in the last year. OpenAI said its ads pilot is bringing in more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue in under six weeks, opening up a serious potential revenue stream for the company that built its user base without ads. The AI giant claims momentum is mirrored on the business side, which now makes up 40% of its revenue (up fromaround 30% last year) and is “on track to reach parity with consumer by the end of 2026.” Its growth across agentic workflows, the company said, is driven by its newest model GPT-5.4. Finally, OpenAI also called itself an “AI superapp,” making it clear that it wants to own the primary interface for how people use AI. All of it adds up to a single message: OpenAI is building its public market narrative in real time, and this round is as much about anchoring IPO expectations as it is about the capital itself.
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Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features
Salesforce, the cloud software giant, has beenremaking its businessaround AI, and at a small gathering in San Francisco on Tuesday, CEO Marc Benioff and his team unveiled the latest results of those efforts: an updated version of Slack, with a plethora of new AI features. The most significant of these is a serious glow-up for its AI agent, Slackbot. The30 new features, which will be available in the coming months, followa January updatethat gave Slackbot agentic capabilities — including the ability to draft emails, schedule meetings, and sift through your inbox for specific information. Perhaps the most notable feature announced Tuesday is what the company calls reusable AI-skills — which allow users to define specific tasks for Slackbot that, once created, can be applied in a variety of different scenarios and contexts. Slackbot comes with a built-in library of AI-skills, Salesforce says, but users can also create their own custom versions. Once these skills are set up, they significantly reduce the work an employee might need to do. For example, a user can trigger a skill using a simple command in Slack — say, “create a budget” for an upcoming event — prompting Slackbot to pull together all relevant information from a company’s Slack channels, as well as any connected apps or data sources, to create an actionable plan. The bot will then automatically set up a meeting to discuss the plan, inviting relevant employees based on their titles. Slackbot now also functions as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) client — meaning it can connect to and coordinate with outside services and tools. Among those is Agentforce, Salesforce’s AI agent development platformlaunched in 2024. Through that connection, it can “route work or prompt questions to Agentforce or any agent or app in your enterprise” the company says, with the agent finding the most relevant and efficient path for the information, without human intervention. According to Rob Seaman, Slack’s interim CEO and former chief product officer, Slackbot can also now transcribe meetings and summarize them. If a meeting participant happens to zone out, thus missing critical details, they can just ask Slackbot to produce a recap of the meeting, including any action items assigned to them. The agent can also now operate outside of Slack and monitor your desktop activities — Salesforce lists “your deals, your conversations, your calendar, and your habits” as the kinds of data it draws on. Based on that context, the bot will make actionable suggestions or draft follow-ups for critical tasks. Seamanhas said thatprivacy protections are built into this design and that users have the ability to adjust permissions as needed. In short: Salesforce is clearly trying to take Slack beyond its roots as an enterprise communication tool and position it as a more versatile platform that can handle a wider variety of business tasks. The hope seems to be that, by flooding it with AI, Slack can become an indispensable part of enterprise users’ core business processes. Benioff let his team walk through the major features on Tuesday but remarked, during his keynote, that the five years since Salesforce acquired Slack had been an “incredible journey,” one that had delivered “two and a half times revenue growth.” He added: “We have about a million businesses running on Slack. It’s been a huge growth story.”
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