October 2026

Proven enterprise and AI technology leader joins Hammerspace to scale sales execution, expand strategic partnerships and capitalize on accelerating AI infrastructure demand Hammerspace, the high-performance data platform for AI anywhere, today announced the appointment of John McKillop as Vice President of Americas Sales. McKillop joins Hammerspace amid accelerating demand for its AI data infrastructure, bringing […]

Live2.ai, an artificial intelligence startup that helps brands analyse social media activity and manage marketing campaigns, has raised ₹130 crore in a pre-Series B funding round led by IvyCap Ventures, according to an announcement on October 27. The round includes primary capital for business expansion and a secondary component that provides partial liquidity to early

The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old former Amazon software engineer who died in February, sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on October 27, alleging that ChatGPT advised their daughter to reduce her seizure medication without medical supervision and hide the changes from her doctors. The wrongful-death lawsuit was filed by Qun Wan and Meiqin

Cloud company Akamai has launched two services for deploying AI models and running AI agents, as the cloud infrastructure provider expands its AI offerings for enterprises. Akamai Inference provides managed access to open-weight and custom AI models through OpenAI-compatible APIs, while Akamai Agent Sandbox provides an isolated environment for executing code written by AI agents.

The author believes we are at a turning point as a species – and even in the shadow of big tech it’s up to us how we want to proceed ‘I am a storyteller by trade,” writes Jeanette Winterson on the first page of her 2021 book 12 Bytes, an idiosyncratic and thought-provoking series of

Ravi Vasantraj, Global Delivery Head at Mphasis, tells the story of a $40 million yacht that would not start. Technicians charging $5,000 per visit came and went without fixing the problem. Then a mechanic from the garage arrived with a hammer, knocked once on the engine, and got it running. His bill: $400,000. In an

CopperPilot, a startup building an AI design agent for hardware engineers, has raised $390,000 from Neon Fund, alongside investments from US-based angel investors.  Founded in October 2025 by Aditya NG, Mohit Bagur, and Anish Harsha, the startup is building an AI agent that converts plain-English descriptions into manufacturing-ready circuit board designs.  The company is also

India is working on a dedicated data centre policy as it looks to expand its AI infrastructure while addressing concerns over power availability, water use and the cost of running large computing facilities. Junior IT Minister Jitin Prasada announced the proposed policy on October 14 at an event organised by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA)

Vyoma.AI, Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T) AI cloud and data centre business, has broken ground on a 52 MW AI-ready data centre in Chennai as it expands its infrastructure to support AI workloads and cloud computing. The company held a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility on October 28. The data centre will use direct-to-chip liquid cooling

Independent audit by MJD Advisors looked at Atombeam’s controls for security, availability and confidentiality Atombeam, an AI technology company that enables organizations to dramatically increase the bandwidth of their existing infrastructure with software alone, today announced that it has completed a SOC 2® Type 2 external examination covering its operations, systems, and managed services supporting