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Data Centre in a Box: The Future of AI Infra May Be Prefabricated
As AI drives an unprecedented surge in computing demand, modular and prefabricated data centres are emerging as efficient solutions.
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Microsoft Makes Copilot’s Agentic Features in Word, Excel and PowerPoint Generally Available
Microsoft made Copilot's agentic capabilities generally available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Wednesday. The new features are being expanded to the different paid tiers of Microsoft 365, and the agentic features will be set as the default. The Redmond-based tech giant said these features will allow Copilot to not only answer queries, but also take action directly on the document. While Copilot will be the main chatbot, users will be able to pick from a large selection of third-party artificial intelligence (AI) models.
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Adobe Previews New Agentic AI Workflows for Marketing Tasks at Adobe Summit 2026
Adobe shared several previews of how its artificial intelligence (AI) and agentic features can help transform marketing workflows. These previews were showcased at the Adobe Summit 2026 during the Sneaks sessions, where the company presents early-stage projects that are currently in the research and development (R&D) stage. These are built by the software giant's scientists, engineers, product managers, and designers. This year, the focus was on marketing workflows and how AI can reimagine content production and branded experiences.
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In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
Amazon just scored a major coup with Meta thanks, once again, to Amazon’s own homegrown chips. Meta has signed a deal to use millions ofAWS Gravitonchips to power its growing AI needs, Amazon announced Friday. Note that the AWS Graviton is an ARM-based CPU, (a central processing unit, the chip that handles general computing tasks) not a GPU (a graphical processing unit). While GPUs remain the chip of choice for training large models, once those models are trained, AI agents built on top of them are causing a shift in the type of chip is needed. Agents create compute-intensive workloads like real-time reasoning, writing code, search, and the the coordination involved in managing agents through multi-step tasks. AWS’s latest version of Graviton was designed specifically to handle AI-related compute needs, the company says. This deal brings more of Meta’s cash back to AWS instead of competitors like Google Cloud. Last August,Meta signed a six year, $10 billion deal with Google Cloud, though Meta had, until then, primarily been an AWS customer that also used Microsoft Azure. We couldn’t help but notice that AWS timed the announcement of this deal right as the Google Cloud Next conference wrapped up, like a virtual smirk at its cloud rival. Google, of course, also makes its own custom AI chips andannounced new versions of them at the show. True, Amazon makes its own AI GPU as well: the Trainium, which, despite its name, is used for both training and inference — the stage that happens after a model is trained, when it’s actively processing prompts. But Anthropic had already swooped in with a deal announced earlierthis month that commandeered many of those chipsfor years to come. The Claude maker agreed to spend $100 billion over 10 years to run its workloads on AWS — with a particular focus on Trainium — while Amazon agreed to invest another $5 billion (bringing its total to $13 billion of investment) into Anthropic in return. Ultimately, the Meta deal is allowing Amazon to showcase a huge AI customer as a proving point for its homegrown CPUs. These are chips that compete with Nvidia’s new Vera CPU, which is also ARM-based and designed to handle AI agentic workloads. The difference, of course, is that Nvidia sells its chips and AI systems to enterprises and cloud providers (including AWS). AWS only sells access to its chips through its cloud service. Earlier this month Amazon CEO Andy Jassytook aim at Nvidia and Intel in his annual shareholder letter, saying that enterprises want better price-performance ratios for AI, and that he intends to win deals on that basis. This also means the pressure couldn’t be higher on Amazon’s internal chip building team to deliver, a team thatwe visited last month in an exclusive tour of their lab.
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TCS Expands Google Cloud Partnership to Push AI-Led Autonomous Enterprise Shift
The collaboration will help enterprises move from AI pilots to fully autonomous, AI-native operations, rolling out new agentic AI offerings.
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Why SpaceX’s $60 Bn Cursor Bet is a Playbook for All Future AI Deals
The SpaceX-Cursor deal links compute power with developer reach as Elon Musk’s company tests a path to owning the AI coding layer.
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OpenAI Introduces GPT-5.5 Series AI Models With Improved Agentic Coding and Knowledge Work
OpenAI, on Thursday, introduced a new major update to its GPT-5 series artificial intelligence (AI) models. Bringing it to GPT-5.5, the new models are said to offer improved intent understanding, agentic coding, and reasoning capabilities. The San Francisco-based AI giant claims that the models outperform Anthropic's latest Claude Opus 4.7 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro models across a wide range of tasks. These large language models (LLMs) are first rolling out to the company's paid subscribers, and via the application programming interface (API).
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Why Amaravati's Quantum Computer is Unlike Any Other Global Facility
A new open-access testbed aims to help India design, test, and scale quantum hardware within the country.
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‘I Am Sick and Tired of Constant Upskilling Expectations in Indian IT’
AI demand is rising fast, but engineers feel trapped between shifting expectations and constant relearning.
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DeepSeek Releases V4 Pro, Challenging OpenAI, Anthropic on Key Benchmarks
DeepSeek’s new models bring a 1 million-token context window, dual reasoning modes, and API compatibility.
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OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.5 For Agentic Coding and Autonomous Workflows
OpenAI said GPT-5.5 is its “smartest and most intuitive” system yet, capable of understanding intent faster and completing tasks in one go.
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Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment
Sierra, the customer service agent startup founded byBret Taylor, announced on Thursday that it has acquired theYC-backed French startup Fragment, which helps businesses integrate AI into workflows. This is Sierra’s third public acquisition. It previously bought Japan-based enterprise AI solutions company Opera Tech (which it acquired in late March) and voice agent company Receptive AI (which it also announced it acquired in late March). Fragment co-founders Olivier Moindrot and Guillaume Genthial will be joining the Sierra team. In a blog post, Taylor and his co-founder, Clay Bavor, wrote that Moindrot and Genthial will bring “valuable strength” to Sierra’s “agent development efforts in France.” Terms of the deal were not announced. PitchBook estimates that Fragment raised around $2 million through its seed round. Taylor, who also serves as OpenAI’s chairman of the board, co-founded Sierra alongside Google alum Bavor after stepping down as co-CEO of Salesforce in early 2023. The startup claims Casper, Clear, and Brex as customers and has raised more than$630 million in funding to date, from investors including Sequoia and Benchmark, giving it a $10 billion valuation.
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