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Lucknow hosted the Uttar Pradesh Regional AI Impact Conference 2026, alongside the Fourth Meeting of the AI for Economic Growth and Social Good Working Group. The conference brought together policymakers, international organisations, industry leaders and researchers to discuss responsible and inclusive AI adoption, with healthcare as a key focus area. Organised by the Ministry of

India’s office market closed 2025 at an unprecedented high, defying global uncertainty and workspace contraction trends, with gross leasing touching a record 83.3 million sq ft—the highest ever recorded in the country, according to a JLL report. The milestone was driven by aggressive expansion from global capability centres (GCCs), surging demand for flexible workspaces, and

A report from Epoch AI examines the economics of reinforcement learning (RL) environments, a market that has become a core input into how frontier AI models are trained. Based on interviews with 18 people across RL environment startups, neolabs and frontier AI labs, the report brings together insights on how RL environments are built, priced,

The Tamil Nadu government has signed an MoU with Sarvam AI to set up India’s first full stack Sovereign AI Park in Chennai, committing an initial investment of ₹10,000 crore to create a state controlled AI ecosystem where data, models and computing infrastructure stay within a trusted boundary. The agreement was exchanged on January 13

HCLTech has entered into a multi-year partnership with the Magnum Ice Cream Company (TMICC), the world’s largest ice cream business, to design, build, and manage a future-ready digital and IT infrastructure as TMICC transitions into an independent, publicly listed company. As part of the collaboration, HCLTech will deploy its AI Force platform to embed AI

US-based startup, SiMa.ai announced a partnership with Kaynes Semicon, to expand high-performance Physical AI solutions in India and abroad. The collaboration brings together SiMa.ai’s hardware and software platform with Kaynes Semicon’s semiconductor assembly and testing capabilities (OSAT).  The companies aim to use these capabilities to deliver Make in India electronic systems for AI and machine

TCS has made it clear that its workforce trimming is not over yet. The country’s largest IT services company has now signalled that more exits are coming in the March quarter as it moves toward a planned 2% reduction in headcount. During its Q3 earnings call, senior executives confirmed that the company is only halfway

Anthropic has announced Cowork, a new autonomous AI agent built on Claude, designed to extend Claude’s capabilities beyond chat and coding into general knowledge work. Cowork is positioned as “Claude Code for the rest of your work.” While Claude Code is primarily used by developers, Cowork is designed for anyone who wants Claude to independently