Latest AI News
Hyderabad Startup Deep Algorithm Raises ₹16 Cr to Expand AI-Driven Identity Security Platform
Hyderabad-based cybersecurity startup Deep Algorithm’s Pre-Series A funding was led by Unicorn India Ventures.
View
Google Wants Your Employees to Manage Agents, and That May Rewire Work Itself
The Gemini Enterprise portfolio integrates tools that enable employees to manage AI agents rather than perform repetitive tasks.
View
LTM Sees 45% Surge in Q4 Profits, AI Push Deepens
The company also pointed to efficiency gains under its Fit4Future program and a strong deal pipeline.
View
Google's Gemini App Might Be Updated With Brighter UI, Redesigned Layout on Android: Report
Google is reportedly testing a refreshed and more vibrant design for its Gemini app on Android, hinting at a broader effort to improve usability and visual appeal. The update appears to focus on simplifying navigation while making the interface feel more modern and engaging. As Google continues to refine its AI offerings, these changes could help Gemini feel more polished and intuitive for everyday use, especially as competition in the AI assistant space grows across platforms and devices.
View
RBI Said to Evaluate Cybersecurity Risks Linked to Anthropic’s Mythos Amid Concerns of Unauthorised Access
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is said to be holding talks with global regulators, domestic lenders, and government officials to assess potential risks linked to Anthropic's new artificial intelligence (AI) model, Mythos. According to a report, RBI's preliminary assessment points towards Mythos potentially raising cybersecurity concerns by expediting the discovery and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. The development comes following reports of unauthorised personnel gaining access to Anthropic's Mythos, which is touted to be “so powerful that it could enable dangerous cyberattacks”.
View
Google Unveils New Gemini-Powered Features, Workspace Intelligence and More at Google Cloud Next 2026
Google has unveiled a broad set of updates for its Google Workspace at Google Cloud Next 2026, with a strong focus on AI-powered productivity and smarter collaboration. The company introduced Workspace Intelligence, a system that can interpret relationships between files, projects, and collaborators across apps like Docs, Slides, and Gmail to enable more advanced, automated workflows. These updates are said to highlight Google's effort to make Workspace more intelligent and automated, though some features may continue to be updated before they are widely released.
View
Deeptech's Hardware Problem: ‘Make in India’ Can't Survive Without Scale
India’s deeptech hardware ecosystem has largely been built on the assumption that domestic demand will follow innovation. But that is increasingly being challenged.
View
India’s app market is booming — but global platforms are capturing most of the gains
India’s mobile app market is generating record revenue, with in-app purchases crossing $300 million in the first quarter, up 33% year-over-year, according to Sensor Tower — but much of that spending is flowing to global platforms. Non-gaming apps were the main driver of growth in Q1, generating over $200 million in in-app purchase revenue — rising 44% year-over-year and increasing their share of overall spending, Sensor Towersaidin its report. The gains were led by categories including utilities, video streaming, and generative AI. The progress reflects a broader shift in India’s app market, where annual in-app purchase revenue has risen from $520 million in 2021 tomore than $1 billion in 2025and is projected to reach $1.25 billion this year, per Sensor Tower. While downloads have stabilized at around 25 billion a year, time spent on apps continues to grow, pointing to deeper engagement and a greater willingness among users to pay for digital services. Much of India’s spending in Q1 was captured by global platforms, with Google One, Facebook, ChatGPT, and YouTube among the top earners. Domestic players were more prominent in video streaming, with JioHotstar and SonyLIV ranking highly. A similar pattern emerged in downloads, where ChatGPT, Instagram, and the Chinese short-drama app FreeReels led the market, followed by Indian apps including Story TV, JioHotstar, and Meesho. India’s app market has matured on the download side, but monetization is strengthening as usage deepens and digital payment habits become more embedded, Donny Kristianto, principal market insights manager at Sensor Tower, told TechCrunch. Despite the gains, India remains a relatively low-spending market, generating about $0.03 in revenue per download, compared with more than $0.20 in Southeast Asia and Latin America, Sensor Tower data shared with TechCrunch showed. While newer categories are driving growth in India’s mobile app market, spending remains concentrated in a handful of mature segments, particularly productivity, social media, and video streaming apps, which dominate the top rankings. Video streaming alone accounts for about half of the top 10 revenue-generating apps, underlining its outsized monetization power, the data showed. Even so, shifts in user demand suggest room for further growth. Generative AI apps saw downloads rise 69% year-over-year, with ChatGPT ranking among the top apps by both installs and revenue. India has long been ChatGPT’slargest marketby users, while other AI apps are alsogaining ground. Short drama platforms are growing even faster, with downloads up more than 400%, led by apps like FreeReels. The trend suggests India’s app market is still early in its monetization journey, even as new categories expand what users are willing to pay for.
View
India’s Data Centres Grow Fast, Water Risks Grow Faster
Water costs under 2% of a data centre’s operating budget, yet up to 60% of that comes from already stressed cities, with no requirement to measure or disclose usage.
View
Infosys Partners With OpenAI to Push Enterprise AI Adoption
Infosys has partnered with OpenAI to deploy its AI coding agent Codex across enterprise workflows, as clients move from AI pilots to scaled adoption.
View
Hands on with X’s new AI-powered custom feeds
Bluesky isn’t the only companyleaning into AIto help build custom feeds, it seems. Amid aslateof recentproductreleases, X this week announced the launch of Grok-powered Custom Timelines, which let you dive into one of over 75 specific topics through curated feeds that can be pinned to your home tab. The company touted the feature as one of the “biggest changes” to the app to date, saying it uses Grok’s AI to not only build these custom timelines but also personalize them for individual users. The custom feeds are arriving at the same time as X has announced it isshutting down X Communities, a feature that had allowed people to create their own member-based communities around various topics, but saw declining use. Today we're announcing two product changes for organizing communities on X:1. XChat now supports joinable links for groupchats. Create a public link & share direct to Timeline. With support for 350 members per chat (and growing), Groupchat Links are the fastest way to bring…pic.twitter.com/GNcRB99Opc On X, the company’s head of product,Nikita Bier, notedthat the custom timelines work even better for topics you already engage with. A rep for X explained to TechCrunch that the custom timelines aren’t based on traditional signals like keywords or hashtags. Instead, the company said, Grok reads every post, understands it, and then adds topic labels. This is made possible by the AI models from Grok owner xAI, the company thatacquired X last year, tying the two services even closer together. At launch, the custom timelines are available only to Premium subscribers on iOS. Android support is in the works. All Premium subscription tiers can access this feature. To use the feature, simply scroll to the right past your “For You” and “Following” feeds on X, as well as any other personal lists you may have pinned. Then tap the plus ( + ) sign to choose which custom timelines you want to pin to your home tab. (Choose wisely, because you can only pin up to 10 topics or lists!) You can also reorder your selected topics from the same screen. Once pinned, you can tap on any of the feeds from your home tab across platforms to browse your pinned custom feeds. Notably, the second position in each feed was filled by an ad — which suggests X just found a way to increase its ad inventory. That matters: X’s ad business has reportedly beenstrugglingsince Musk’s acquisition, withconflictingreportsabout whether things have improved. Ladies and gentlemen, today we're launching one of our biggest changes to 𝕏Introducing Custom TimelinesThis feature allows you to pin a specific topic to your home tab. With support for over 75 topics, you can dive deep into your favorite niche on X.It's powered by Grok's…pic.twitter.com/9jkIEXvubj The initial topics are broad and fairly standard — high-level categories similar to the type of sections you might find on news sites. These include subjects like Business & Finance, Sports, Technology, Politics, Stocks & Economy, News, Science, Movies & TV, Food & Drink, Art, Real Estate, Home & Garden, Beauty, Education, Gaming, and others. Beyond the broader sports category, there are also options for following specific sports, including American football, baseball, basketball, boxing, soccer, golf, MMA & wrestling, racing & motorsports, rugby, snow sports, ice hockey, tennis, cricket, Formula 1, cycling, and the Olympics. (Oh, and esports, if you want to count that.) Pop culture and tech topics also make up many of the available categories, with the former allowing you to pin topics like celebs, music, concerts, country music, dance, electronic music, fashion, pop, K-pop, J-pop, podcasts, hip-hop, and jazz. Alongside the Technology category, you can also follow special interests like Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency — two perennially popular topics on X. There are also categories for things that overlap with Elon Musk’s various businesses and interests, like robotics, software development, space, and biotech. Other general categories include things like anime, digital art, photography, career, pets, design, marriage & family, shopping, mental health, and more. Worth flagging: The initial set of news-related topics leads with the Iran conflict, crime, and elections at the top of suggestions. While this likely reflects the current conversations taking place on X, it’s also an example of how a product decision can influence what news people see. A cleaner solution might be to organize the dozens of options into larger high-level categories listed in alphabetical order, with the subcategories appearing when you tap each. That would allow X to greatly expand its “news” categories beyond these big three. There could also be concern about these timelines being built by Grok, which was ostensibly created to be politically neutral and “truth-seeking,” but inpractice has often skewed rightor amplifiedmisinformation. In our own testing though, the custom timelines did not seem to lean obviously right or left. In a handful of test scrolls, the feeds drew from a range of outlets like ABC, CBS, CSPAN, AP, Reuters, AFP, Daily Beast, The Hill, Foreign Policy, Puck, The Atlantic, The Economist, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, Forbes, and the BBC (not all of which I follow), alongside commentary from various pundits. Whether these custom feeds will dramatically change how people use X remains to be seen. For the most part, people tend to want to see the things they care about appear in their main algorithmic feed. But the custom feeds do allow for exploring new interests or dipping into topics only when they’re relevant — like pulling up a sports feed when the game is on. Combined with X’s new “Snooze Topics” option for the For You feed, you can more precisely tailor your X to your liking. Today we're also rolling out a tool to snooze topics on your For You tab—if you ever want to crank up or turn down the slop.Rolling out now on iOS and Web for Premium subscribers.https://t.co/fXIHmwhKO4pic.twitter.com/xESabDu295
View
Google updates Workspace to make AI your new office intern
At Google Cloud Next this week, the tech giant announced a bevy of new updates to Workspace, its subscription-based productivity suite aimed at professionals. As you might expect, the updates are heavy on AI, integrating new automation tools into various workflows — everything from drafting emails to organizing Google Sheets. Overall, the changes are clearly designed to give office workers a leg up in their pursuit of less busy work. Here’s some of what is new: Workspace Intelligence. Workspace Intelligence,a new AI systembuilt into Google’s office suite, is designed to automate assistance across various tasks. The system draws on a user’s Workspace data, including their Gmail, Calendar, Chat, and Drive (Docs, Slides, and Sheets). Google has given users administrative control over what the AI system can see and access. Users can disable Workspace Intelligence’s access to particular data sources at any time. The tradeoff: The more data the system has access to, the more it’s able to assist in those particular areas. Build and fill out Google Sheets with Gemini. A number of new features allow users to both build and fill out Google Sheets, the company’s spreadsheet tool. Users can construct sheets by prompting Gemini to construct them. Prompts can include things like formatting and data retrieval, allowing Google’s AI system to do much of the work a human would’ve previously needed to do. At the same time, Gemini also helps with data entry,automatically filling out Sheetswith “prompt-based” filling. Google claims that its new feature allows users to populate the spreadsheets “9x faster” than manual entry, because the system is designed to infer what you’re going to enter. Anothernew Sheets featureallows users to convert unstructured data into organized tables. AI writing capabilities. Google has also brought newnew AI writing toolsto Google Docs. Users can now use Gemini to “generate, write, and refine” documents. The feature is powered by the company’s Workspace Intelligence system, which draws on data from a user’s Drive, Chat, and Gmail archives, as well as the internet, to assist with editorial tasks. Users merely prompt Gemini to help them write or edit their documents. Users can prompt Gemini to “help me write” or ask it to “match” their writing style so that it can effectively mimic their voice. Realizing thatenterprise customersare where the money is, tech companies are racing to deploy the most convenient and efficient office tools — applications that can make the average worker’s life a matter of degrees easier. Google has a certain advantage; its office products are already deeply embedded in workplaces worldwide, giving it a built-in audience for these AI upgrades. But Microsoft, Apple, and a growing field of startups are all competing for the same turf.
View
