October 2026

Human beings struggle with emergency communication. Chatbots can help—if people take them seriously.

LTM has launched GCC Origin, a dedicated business unit to help enterprises establish, operate and transform global capability centres (GCCs) in India. The unit will operate as a standalone business within LTM, with dedicated leadership, sales and delivery teams. Shailendra Singh will lead it, reporting to Venu Lambu, CEO and MD of LTM. “The role

Recognition highlights Virtusa’s ability to transition enterprise workflows from basic AI assistance to autonomous, machine-executed operational systems powered by stringent runtime safeguards. Virtusa, a global AI-native engineering services company, today announced it has been named a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens® Agentic AI Services 2026 global study. Virtusa was specifically recognized as a Leader

Data preparation startup Prophecy Inc. today launched DataGPT, a new service that allows business analysts to run complete data workflows from inside OpenAI Group PBC’s ChatGPT, Anthropic PBC’s Claude and Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot. Each answer arrives with a visual map of the steps that produced it. The service goes after a workaround that has become common

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)

As AI automates routine finance work, the repetitive tasks that once defined entry-level accounting are disappearing, and advisory services are moving to the center of how firms create value. That shift leaves colleges racing to prepare graduates for a job that looks very different from the one in the textbooks. Closing the gap between classroom

New research finds 70% of companies navigate AI output errors, driving over 60% to prioritize shared knowledge foundations and cost savings over new AI revenue AI hallucinations are prevalent, as one in four (25.6%) companies reported incorrect or fabricated AI outputs occurring very frequently while almost half (45.2%) stated AI confabulates occasionally. Only 27.9% said

Labor government under pressure to create social media watchdog as new online safety standards bill passes lower house The federal government wants to ban AI chatbots which seek to create “emotional intimacy” after prime minister Anthony Albanese raised the alarm in a heartfelt speech about children treating these agents as their “best friend”. But Labor

One of England’s top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn.

OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, potentially reducing its reliance on NVIDIA as it expands computing capacity to train and run its AI models, according to a report by The Information. The planned purchase could strengthen Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business, which competes with NVIDIA’s graphics processing units (GPUs) for AI workloads.