India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a formal notice to X on January 1 flagging serious lapses in how the platform is managing Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot.  The government has directed X to undertake a comprehensive technical and governance review of Grok's prompt processing and output generation, with a requirement to submit a detailed action taken report within 72 hours. Rather than allowing companies to self-regulate AI safety, the government i

Meta acquired Manus, a Singapore-based AI agent startup, for more than $2 billion on December 30. Manus launched in spring 2025 and reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue by December, making it one of the fastest-growing AI applications. Meta has invested heavily in building its own AI models such as Llama and Meta AI, but these internal efforts apparently moved too slowly for Zuckerberg. Rather than wait for internal teams to build agent capabilities, Meta purchase

SK Telecom, which is also South Korea’s leading mobile operator, announced the release of A.X K1 on December 28. It is a 519-billion-parameter AI model trained by a consortium of South Korean companies as part of the government's "Sovereign AI Foundation Model" project.  The model represents Korea's ambition to become a top-three global AI power alongside the United States and China. The advancement is more geopolitical than technical. At 519 billion parameters, A.X K1 is com

China has released new draft regulations aimed specifically at governing artificial intelligence systems that mimic human communication patterns.  The rules represent the first major regulatory framework that addresses the behavioral and psychological impacts of interactive AI systems. The requirements are as follows: AI service providers must actively identify users' emotional states and monitor for signs of dependence on the service. If users display extreme emotions or add

Image on Unsplash Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi recently launched AILA (Artificially Intelligent Lab Assistant), an AI system that conducts scientific experiments with minimal human intervention.  The team demonstrated the system controlling an Atomic Force Microscope, which is a highly complex nanotechnology instrument, where it made real-time decisions during experiments and analysed results without manual supervision. AILA operates through a simpl

Image on Unsplash Nvidia announced that it is acquiring Groq (not Grok), an AI accelerator company founded in 2016 by former Google TPU engineers, for approximately $20 billion. It is Nvidia's largest acquisition ever. Groq built specialized hardware designed specifically for AI inference, which is the process of running trained models on new data. While everyone focuses on training the biggest models, Groq focused on running them efficiently at scale. The company built chips

Image on Unsplash Fujitsu announced on 24th December the development of Kozuchi Physical AI 1.0, a framework integrating physical and agentic AI. The technology combines NVIDIA's software stack with Fujitsu's own systems to automate confidential business workflows. But the more significant announcement came the same day. The University of Tokyo and Fujitsu launched a trial starting in January 2026 to shift computational workloads between regional data centers based on real-ti

Image generated with Gemini Making Science, a global digital acceleration consultancy, announced on December 23 the launch of AWAKE Venture Studio. The model is designed to identify, prototype and scale both internal proprietary AI solutions and independent AI-native startups. The studio operates from centers in Chicago, Madrid and Tbilisi. The company claims to have achieved a 2x acceleration in tech feature development through its internal integration of AI agents. One star

Image generated with Gemini Digantara announced that it's pivoting from space debris tracking to missile detection. The Indian startup launched its first commercial surveillance satellite called SCOT in January 2025 and now plans to launch 15 more satellites by 2026-27 specifically for tracking missiles and early warning systems. CEO Anirudh Sharma explained the logic behind this. The company's expertise came from monitoring fast moving space objects in low Earth orbit. That

Image on Unsplash Adobe announced on December 16 that Firefly is now offering unlimited video generation. This removes the friction points that used to slow down AI video creation. No more credits, generation limits, and waiting periods between attempts. Earlier this year, OpenAI released Sora 2, Google expanded Veo 3, and a handful of Chinese companies built models that can generate multi-minute videos with solid continuity. The video generation market has suddenly matured t

Image on Unsplash Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has upgraded TCS BaNCS, its core banking platform, with a new tool called AI Compass. The tool lets banks build and use their own AI agents without writing code. Banks have been waiting for tools that let them implement AI without infrastructure investment or hiring specialized teams. TCS BaNCS AI Compass addresses that directly. It includes pre-built agents for common banking use cases, machine learning capabiliti

Image on Unsplash Yahoo Finance awarded OpenAI its 2025 Company of the Year on Monday, selecting the AI model company over Nvidia, the semiconductor giant that has dominated headlines and stock prices throughout the year.  The story is no longer about who makes the best chips. The story is now about who makes the best models. For most of 2025, Nvidia occupied the center of the AI investment narrative. The company's GPUs are the infrastructure layer that everyone building AI m

Image on Unsplash Google unveiled Project Suncatcher this week, an initiative to launch a constellation of solar-powered satellites equipped with AI processing chips into Earth's orbit.  The project promises unlimited access to renewable energy and a way to move the carbon footprint of AI training away from data centers on the planet. The company plans to launch the first prototypes in 2027. AI data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity, and that electricity demand

Image on Unsplash Nvidia launched Nemotron 3, a family of open-source AI models. This marks an unusual shift for the world's most dominant semiconductor manufacturer.  The models are designed to be faster, cheaper, and more efficient than previous offerings, and the company is positioning them as an answer to the rise of open-source models from Chinese AI laboratories that have begun challenging Nvidia's market dominance. Nvidia has spent the past two years dominating the har

Image on Unsplash A Stanford University report released this week places India as the world's third-most competitive nation in artificial intelligence development and deployment, behind only the United States and China.  India is moving into the top tier alongside established AI powerhouses despite having entered the frontier race way more recently than Silicon Valley or Beijing. The report measures competitiveness across multiple dimensions including research output, corpora

Image on Unsplash OpenAI announced GPT-5.2 on Thursday, marking an accelerated response to Google's Gemini 3. Gemini displaced OpenAI from the top position on leaderboards in November and prompted CEO Sam Altman to declare code red at the company.. The new model comes in three variants. ‘Instant’ for fast information retrieval and writing, ‘Thinking’ for complex tasks like coding and planning, and ‘Pro’ for highest-accuracy scenarios requiring advanced reasoning. OpenAI claim

Image in Unsplash Disney announced on Thursday that it would invest one billion dollars in OpenAI as part of a three-year partnership. They will be integrating more than two hundred characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars franchises into Sora, OpenAI's video generation tool. The partnership is a significant moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence and intellectual property. Disney, instead of restricting access to its characters, is in fact collaboratin

Image on Unsplash Microsoft announced on 9th December that it would invest $17.5 billion in India by 2029, making it the company's largest investment ever in Asia. The announcement came immediately after CEO Satya Nadella met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss India's AI ambitions. Microsoft's commitment follows similar announcements from Google, which pledged $15 billion to establish an AI hub in Andhra Pradesh. Similarly, Amazon announced it would invest $35 billi

Image on Unsplash Bitcoin miners across America are shifting from their industrial-scale data centers to artificial intelligence factories. This is because profitability of cryptocurrency mining has collapsed to the point where the economics no longer make sense. Bitcoin mining operations have historically required massive amounts of electrical power and cooling capacity specifically optimized for the solving of cryptographic puzzles. Those same resources are now being redire

Image on Unsplash India announced through a government official at a Silicon Valley tech conference on Friday, that the country plans to launch a voice-enabled large language model before the global Artificial Intelligence summit scheduled for New Delhi in 2026. This will be the first effort in developing domestic AI capabilities that are tailored to Indian languages and use cases. Abhishek Singh, a government official representing India's AI ambitions, outlined an expansive

Image on Unsplash OpenAI is developing a new large language model called Garlic that is designed specifically to rival Google's Gemini 3 and Anthropic's Opus 4.5. It will be a competitor model in advanced reasoning and coding capabilities, in particular. The announcement shows that OpenAI is not just responding to Google's competitive threat by improving existing models. They are building an entirely new model architecture from scratch specifically designed to beat what Googl

Image on Unsplash Amazon Web Services announced at its re:Invent conference on Tuesday that it had developed a new class of AI agents called Frontier Agents. They are capable of working autonomously and at scale for extended periods, meaning they can operate for hours or days without any human intervention whatsoever. The company unveiled three specific frontier agents that represent different use cases and capabilities. The first is an agent called Kiro that functions as a v

Image on Unsplash Sam Altman informed OpenAI employees on Monday that the company was declaring a code red initiative because Google's advancement with Gemini 3 posed a serious threat to OpenAI's market position. So now, every other project at the company would be paused while the organization focused entirely on improving the everyday user experience of ChatGPT. The code red directive instructed the company to prioritize personalization options for users and to increase the

Image on Unsplash Apple announced on December 1 that Amar Subramany, an experienced engineer from Google and Microsoft, is taking over as the company's new head of artificial intelligence, replacing John Giannandrea who has led Apple's AI efforts for seven years. The change suggests that Apple is dissatisfied with the pace at which its AI capabilities are advancing relative to competitors. The company has faced criticism for being slow to integrate AI features into its device

Image on Unsplash Microsoft released a new AI model called Fara-7B on November 28 that can understand what is happening on your computer screen by looking at a single screenshot. The model is lightweight enough to run on a regular PC without specialized hardware. Previous models required either expensive cloud computing or high-end graphics cards to process visual information from screenshots. Fara-7B changes that calculation by running efficiently on consumer hardware while

Image on Unsplash Chinese tech companies including Alibaba and ByteDance are conducting training for their most recent artificial intelligence models in data centers across Southeast Asia now. The reason for this is because The United States has imposed strict export restrictions on advanced semiconductors to prevent China from developing cutting-edge AI technology. But these restrictions apply within China. They do not apply in Southeast Asia. By moving their AI training ope

Image on Unsplash On November 24, Trump signed an executive order that instructed the US Department of Energy to create a platform where private AI companies can access federal scientific datasets to train their models. The order is called the Genesis Mission, and it is framed as part of a race for technology dominance against China. The Department of Energy has 60 days to create a list of 20 scientific and technology challenges that the country cares about, including nuclear

Image on Unsplash Meta is in talks to use Google's custom-designed AI chips, known as tensor processing units or TPUs, in its data centers by 2027. They may also rent TPUs from Google's cloud division as early as next year. Till now, Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market. Almost every major tech company building AI infrastructure has relied on Nvidia's GPUs. This year, Meta alone is spending between 70 and 72 billion dollars on AI infrastructure. What changed is that compan

Image on Unsplash Russia’s top AI executive recently compared artificial intelligence development to the nuclear race. Alexander Vedyakhin, who oversees Sberbank’s AI transformation, said only seven countries currently possess their own AI technologies, and nations without sovereign models risk being “left behind”. Vedyakhin emphasized that Russia must develop at least two or three indigenous large language models rather than relying on “retrained foreign models,” especially

Image on Unsplash Trump is preparing an executive order to prevent states from regulating AI, according to a CNN report on November 20. The order would create an “AI Litigation Task Force” in the Justice Department tasked with challenging state-level AI regulations and replacing them with more lenient federal rules. The draft instructs the attorney general to contest laws around deepfakes, algorithmic bias, and AI safety that states have already passed. The administration wan

Understanding the Current AI Landscape Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, recently issued a warning. He stated that no company would be immune if the AI bubble bursts, including Google itself. In a BBC interview, he acknowledged that the current moment feels extraordinary. However, he also pointed out that it contains many irrational elements. Alphabet’s stock has surged by 46% this year. This increase is driven almost entirely by investor enthusiasm surrounding AI capabilities and

Google just rolled out Gemini 3, and it’s scoring higher on reasoning benchmarks than GPT 5 Pro. The model hit a score of 37.4 on the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark, designed to measure high-level reasoning and general expertise, compared to GPT 5 Pro’s 31.64.  Google released it just weeks after OpenAI launched GPT 5.1 and Anthropic released Sonnet 4.5, continuing a pattern of increasingly rapid model releases across the industry. What’s interesting is that the frontier has

Image on Unsplash Google DeepMind released WeatherNext 2, an AI weather model that can generate forecasts eight times faster than previous systems and produce hundreds of possible weather outcomes in under a minute. Traditional physics-based supercomputer models take hours to run the same scenarios. WeatherNext 2 does it with a new approach called a Functional Generative Network, which generates the full range of possible forecasts in a single pass.  The result is not just sp

Image on Unsplash Jeff Bezos stepped back into an operational CEO role for the first time since leaving Amazon in 2021. He is co-leading Project Prometheus, a newly announced AI startup backed by $6.2 billion in funding, partly from Bezos himself.  This might be a signal that the next frontier in AI is not digital agents or chatbots, but systems that design and engineer physical things including rockets, cars, chips, and factories. Project Prometheus has already assembled nea

Image on Unsplash OpenAI released GPT-5.1 this week, and the update signals a shift in how frontier models are being deployed nowadays. Instead of a simple capability jump on benchmarks, the new version introduces a “reasoning effort knob” that lets developers dial down the amount of computation spent on a given task, with early reports showing two to three times faster responses than GPT-5 on standard workloads at similar accuracy. The good implication is that frontier model

Image on Unsplash India's AI infrastructure is about to expand significantly. Reliance Industries announced on November 13 a second 1 GW AI data centre facility in Andhra Pradesh, operating as a twin to its existing gigawatt-scale centre in Jamnagar. The announcement, signed in the presence of the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, marks one of the largest private AI infrastructure commitments in Asia. The facility is designed to host the world's most advanced GPUs, TPUs, and AI

India released its AI Governance Guidelines this week, and the approach is about as far from Europe’s AI Act as you can get (MeitY, 2025). The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology published the framework on November 5, outlining a hands-off regulatory model where sector-specific regulators handle enforcement rather than a single, binding AI law. The guidelines operate on principles like trust, innovation over restraint, and fairness that set the direction withou

Image on Unsplash For years, the frontier AI playbook was predictable. You’d train a model, license it, and watch others build on top of it. Microsoft’s latest move changes that. The company has stood up a super intelligence unit under Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, to train advanced models in‑house, and reworked its OpenAI deal so it can pursue independent R&D without waiting on a partner’s roadmap. Suleyman plainly stated that Microsoft “needs to be self‑sufficient i

Image on Unsplash India’s AI story has long been told on borrowed infrastructure. But this week, Google moved some of the horsepower home. The company expanded local AI compute on its Hypercomputer stack with Trillium TPUs, so enterprises and public-sector teams can train and serve Gemini models inside India’s borders. This means lower latency and fewer compliance acrobatics.​ The second shoe is even more interesting. IIT Madras’ AI4Bharat  has opened the Indic LLM‑Arena – a

Image on Unsplash Google has added a new “Vibe Coding” experience to its AI Studio platform. The goal: let users go from a descriptive idea to a working AI-powered app in minutes, without needing to manage all the underlying code, APIs or models. Key features include: Prompt-to-app workflow:  Users describe their desired app in natural language (for example, “a photo-editing app that turns selfies into line-drawings”), and AI Studio, powered by Gemini models, wires up the rig