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Microsoft Introduces Project Perception as a New Agentic Security System to Protect Against AI-Powered Cyberattacks
Microsoft has introduced a new cyber stack that brings together multiple AI agents to work together and offer enhanced security against cyberattacks. Dubbed Project Perception, the cyber stack primarily aims to protect organisations against AI-powered cyber threats by using multiple AI agents that continuously learn system defences, bringing together signals, context, AI models, and specialised agents. The new Project Perception enables three classes of AI agents to work in coordination to identify and investigate threats from AI-powered attacks, while also taking corrective action against them. The cyber stack itself comprises multiple layers, including the specialised agents and AI models, with specified capabilities.
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Coforge Grows Q1 Profit Even as Encora Dents Costs; AI Engineering Dominates Quarter
One-off acquisition, integration, and legal expenses weighed on Coforge's June-quarter earnings, pulling profit down 15.3% from the previous quarter.
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AI Now Makes Up 8% of Infosys’ Revenue. But Is That Enough?
The company wants investors to focus on AI’s growing contribution to revenue. But a guidance cut, slowing demand and pricing pressure suggest its broader growth trajectory still depends far more on its legacy business than its fast-growing AI practice.
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EXL Certified as a Best Firm for AI Professionals
The global data and AI company earned AIM's certification based on employee feedback highlighting enterprise-scale AI work, learning opportunities, and a collaborative culture.
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Cognizant Expands Anthropic Partnership, Embeds Claude AI Across Enterprise Platforms
Cognizant will integrate Anthropic’s Claude models into its AI platforms, train more than 40,000 employees on frontier AI technologies and deepen deployments across manufacturing, life sciences and financial services.
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Behind the Cameras at CJP Protests: The AI Data Powering State Surveillance
Law enforcement agencies in India have been using facial recognition technology for some time now. But the scope has grown from finding missing children to surveilling protesters.
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Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
Weeks before itsexpected acquisition by SpaceX closes, AI coding startup Cursor is making its biggest push into India yet, launching its first country-specific subscription as the company bets on one of the world’s largest developer markets to drive its next stage of growth. On Monday, the startup introduced Cursor Start, a ₹649-a-month (about $7) subscription built specifically for India — and priced well below Cursor’sstandard $20-a-month Pro subscription. The move reflects India’s growing importance to Cursor’s business. The startup says India is already its third-largest market globally and home to its highest concentration of power users, with its user base in the country more than tripling over the past year. That scale, coupled with India’s deep pool of software engineering talent, made it the first market where Cursor chose to localize pricing, Simon Green, Cursor’s head of Asia-Pacific and Japan, told TechCrunch. “We felt that we had an opportunity there to right-size the commercial model and drive scale,” Green said. “The technical competency of the country and the engineering talent that already exists make it a very natural fit.” India has emerged as one of the world’s largest software developer hubs. Earlier this year, GitHubsaidthat the country has more than 27 million developers on its platform, second only to the U.S., with more than two million joining in 2026 alone. Cursor Start includes access to Cursor’s Composer 2.5 model and Grok 4.5, with higher usage limits than the free tier, alongside cloud agents, its iOS app, plugins, Model Context Protocol support, hooks, and skills. The startup said the plan is aimed at developers who need more AI-assisted coding capacity than the free tier offers without upgrading to its full Pro subscription. The lower-priced plan is intended to broaden access rather than replace Cursor’s flagship offering, Green said. Unlike the $20-a-month Pro subscription, Start does not include access to frontier AI models from providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic, or advanced features including Bugbot, Auto Mode, Automations, and the Cursor SDK. The plan is billed in Indian rupees and supports payments through credit and debit cards as well as India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Green told TechCrunch that Cursor would use multiple checks to ensure the India-only subscription is available only to individual users in the country, including measures to deter people from accessing the plan through virtual private networks (VPNs). Cursor is not alone in tailoring its pricing for India. OpenAI and Anthropic havealso rolled outIndia-specific plans over the past year as global AI companies compete for users in one of the world’s fastest-growing AI markets. While Cursor Start is initially limited to India, Green told TechCrunch that the startup could expand localized pricing to other markets if the model proves successful. “We will continue to do everything we can to fuel the demand and serve those clients that are using us,” Green said. “Now, if this model proves that we could take it to other markets, perhaps we will. But I think it’d be crazy to say we would never do it elsewhere.” OpenAI provides one precedent for this strategy, havinglaunched its sub-$5 ChatGPT Goin India beforeexpanding the lower-priced subscriptionto other markets. In addition to the localized pricing strategy, Cursor is also expanding its presence in India through new hires. Green told TechCrunch that the startup recently hired its first salesperson in India and expects another leader to join in Delhi. The company is also building out its a government affairs office, alongside three technical customer support hires, as it expands its presence in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Mumbai. Cursor’s enterprise push is still in its early stages in India, Green said, where adoption has so far been driven largely by individual developers, startups, and universities. He said Cursor sees significant opportunities in sectors including banking and large enterprises as it expands its local sales efforts. Green said, the India-specific pricing was designed to be commercially sustainable rather than a loss leader. He said the lower-priced plan is viable because it is built around Cursor’s own AI models, which carry lower operating costs than relying primarily on third-party frontier models. Cursor’s India expansion comes a little over a month after Elon Musk’s SpaceX agreed to acquire the AI coding startup in a $60 billion all-stock deal, following SpaceX’sblockbuster initial public offering. The acquisition is expected to close in Q3. However, SpaceX has beenpartneredwith Cursor since April to develop a next-generation “coding and knowledge work AI.” Green said Cursor will continue to operate independently until the transaction closes and that the company’s India expansion plans were already in motion before the deal. Once the acquisition closes, however, Green said SpaceX’s existing presence in India through Starlink could help Cursor expand faster by lowering commercial and operational barriers.
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Microsoft Unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, Claims 50% Lower AI Security Costs
The launch marks Microsoft’s first in-house AI model built specifically for cybersecurity and software vulnerability detection.
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NVIDIA Invests in Ilya Sutskever’s SSI to Scale Superintelligence AI
NVIDIA is reportedly investing $5 billion in SSI. The partnership gives the startup access to NVIDIA’s next-generation AI infrastructure.
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Anthropic Rejects Calls for a Ban on Open-Weight AI Models
The AI startup instead called for tighter chip export controls, action against large-scale distillation, and mandatory safety testing for advanced AI models.
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Cursor Launches ₹649 Monthly India Plan with UPI Payments
New Cursor ‘Start’ subscription targets India’s growing developer base with Grok 4.5, Composer, cloud agents and higher usage limits, positioned between the company’s Free and Pro tiers.
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodeiresponded on Monday afternoonto murmuring in the industry that his company somehow supports efforts by the U.S. government to ban open-weight Chinese models, or possibly open-weight models generally. “Anyone who has read my past writing should know that I don’t regard such bans as a useful measure, but let me state it clearly so that there is no doubt:Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” he wrote, emphasis his own. His response came after Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang took to X (his first poston the platform) to sharean open letter on Fridayin which Nvidia and a long list of other AI companies including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia urged policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. While that letter did not mention China specifically, the debate in the industry has centered on allegations that Chinese AI labs are growing in capability often by stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts. One method is distillation, where an AI bombards another model with prompts to learn how it works. Amodei said in the blog post published Monday that he views open-weight models as falling into a different bucket than the threat China poses. “Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good: they don’t cost anything besides the compute needed to run them, and they provide value to businesses, developers, and researchers.” Amodei said in his post that he has longstanding fears about AI, but businesses using open-weight models, even ones from China, are not among them. His fear is that “authoritarian governments” will build models that are more powerful than those in the U.S. to achieve “permanent military superiority” and/or use AI to repress their own people. He said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) isn’t the only authoritarian government he’s concerned about, but it is the “most capable.” Amodei also said he fears AI will enable “biological attacks” not just cybersecurity ones. And, in his view, open-weight models are more dangerous in those scenarios because it’s difficult to apply guardrails to them or monitor their usage. He also noted, citing a UK AI Security Institute report, that once open-weights are released they cannot be withdrawn This runs counter to what open source advocates argue: that access to powerful open models not controlled by a single entity helps defenders protect themselves. Amodei listed actions he believes would thwart China, including restricting its access to powerful chips (which has been a longstanding U.S. policy) and calling for a formal crackdown on distillation. The U.S. has threatenedsanctions against Chinaif it determined there was IP theft involving U.S. models. Interestingly, Amodei also said he supportsgrowing efforts, some led by the U.S.,to create a model safety testing organization, especially if the entire world, including China, agreed to submit to it. “I think this idea is actually close to a consensus: I have been heartened both that the Trump administration has moved in this direction in recent months, and by recent industry proposals that would apply such testing to the most capable models regardless of their country of origin or whether they are open or closed (while exempting less capable models, such as those from startups and academia, entirely),” Amodei wrote. “Note that to be effective,” he added, “testing would need to be global, which means even the CCP would need to be on board. I think this may actually be possible … limited cooperation around preventing AI biological weapons may be possible because it is in China’s interest too.”
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