India’s daily multimodal AI use is set to nearly double by 2030
Ericsson ConsumerLab expects daily use of AI across text, voice, images and video in India to rise from 22 percent today to 43 percent by 2030. The global projection for…
AI will not close India’s cybersecurity skills gap on its own: Fortinet Survey
Cyberattacks are costing Indian enterprises more and taking longer to recover from. Fortinet’s India Cybersecurity Skills Gap survey, which polled 60 IT and security decision-makers in December 2025, links part…
India’s sovereign cloud debate is shifting from location to control
For years, the cloud sovereignty conversation has centred on one question: where is the data stored? A new Deloitte report, “Sovereign cloud for India: Building trusted digital infrastructure for the…
India leads in sovereign procurement intent, but has no plan to back it up
Everpure’s Global Data Sovereignty Report 2026, based on 2,100 enterprise organisations across eight markets, reveals a defining disconnect between strategic priority and operational readiness. “We talk about data sovereignty a…
AI agents touched sensitive data in 87% of firms, while only 19% caught it in real time
Enterprise AI adoption has moved faster than the governance designed to contain it. That much is understood. What Delinea’s 2026 Identity Security Report makes uncomfortably concrete is how wide that…
Microsoft extends voluntary exit buyout to 60,000 employees globally
Microsoft has introduced a sweeping Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) to approximately 60,000 employees, representing roughly 27% of its 223,000-strong global workforce, as the tech giant recalibrates operations amid massive capital…
Harness acquires Augment Code assets to connect AI coding with software delivery
Harness has acquired select assets from Augment Code to expand automation across the software development life cycle (SDLC). The acquisition includes Cosmos, the Auggie CLI products, the Code Context Engine,…
Airtel Business brings SMS, WhatsApp, RCS and voice under one enterprise messaging platform
Airtel Business has launched Airtel IQ Gateway, a platform aimed at helping enterprises manage customer communications across SMS, WhatsApp, Rich Communication Services (RCS), business voice, and number verification from one…
IBM-Yotta platform brings sovereign control to enterprise agentic AI in India
As Indian enterprises move from AI pilots towards production-scale deployments, the question of where data is stored is increasingly being joined by questions around where AI inference runs, who controls…
CtrlS expands metro optical networks for hyperscaler connectivity
CtrlS Datacenters is working with Ciena to upgrade its metro optical network infrastructure across Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, New Delhi, and Noida. The project covers five metro networks connecting nine data…
What Happens When Security Leads Transformation? NEC Shares Insights
As organizations race to digitize, the convergence of technology leadership and cybersecurity has become more than strategic- it’s essential. In this exclusive conversation with CIO&Leader, Ashish Gupta, CIO and CISO…
Nemetschek Group Brings AI to Design, Engineering and Construction with Newly Released Max Solutions
The Nemetschek Group, a leading global provider of vertical AI and software solutions for the AEC/O and media industries, is underscoring the next stage of its AI strategy with a family of premium AI offerings across its core segments: Archicad Max for architecture, Allplan Max for engineering, and Bluebeam Max for construction. All three are powered by the Nemetschek Intelligence Platform, the Group’s common AI and data foundation, and share one principle: AI that takes on repetitive work, makes project knowledge and data accessible, increases quality and keeps professionals in control of every decision. Architecture, engineering and construction firms face growing project complexity, tight schedules and a shortage of staff. Much of their time still goes into searching for information, checking models and drawings, and repeating routine tasks. The Max offerings within the Nemetschek Ecosystem are designed to give that time back – inside the workflows teams already rely on, and without locking their data into a single vendor’s ecosystem. With Archicad Max, Allplan Max and Bluebeam Max, the Nemetschek Group puts practical, open and interoperable AI into the tools millions of professionals along the building lifecycle already use – from first sketch to the construction site. “AI in our industry only creates real value when it understands the project, works where professionals work and connects with everything else on the job,” says Julian Geiger, Chief AI Officer of the Nemetschek Group. “With Archicad Max, Allplan Max and Bluebeam Max, we are scaling one AI strategy across design, engineering and construction, built on a shared intelligence platform rather than isolated features. And we are doing it the Nemetschek way: open. Our AI connects to open standards like IFC and to the AI tools our customers choose, through open protocols such as the Model Context Protocol. Customers keep ownership of their data, their choice of tools and their professional judgment. That is how AI becomes a trusted part of everyday work, not just another platform to be locked into.” One platform, Multiple disciplines Archicad Max – design intelligence for architects Graphisoft’s new premium Archicad subscription is built for data- and AI-driven practices delivering high-complexity projects. It brings an agentic AI Assistant (beta) that completes multi-step tasks directly in the Archicad model, AI Assistant Spaces that ground answers in a firm’s own standards and project knowledge, and the updated AI Visualizer with leading image models. Archicad Max also includes early access to the Nemetschek Creator, the Group’s next-generation, browser-based platform for early-stage design, with full access once the commercial version is released in 2027. Allplan Max – AI built for real engineering workflows Allplan Max 2027, launched earlier this week alongside Allplan 2027, extends AI across the Group’s engineering portfolio (Allplan, SCIA, FRILO, RISA and SDS2), supporting a connected model, analyzing and fabricating workflows. Capabilities include Feature Builder, AI BIM Modeler, AI Visualizer, AI Formula Writer, AI BIM Analyst, AI Structural Analyst, AI Drafter and AI Coach. Early beta users report up to 36 percent faster completion of selected tasks. Engineers remain responsible for design intent, review, approval and final outcomes. Bluebeam Max – AI-powered productivity for construction teams Available globally since May 2026, Bluebeam Max extends Bluebeam Revu with Smart Review to catch design discrepancies, scope gaps and missing information early, Smart Overlay to identify changes across drawing sets, Magic Markups to automate repetitive markup and takeoffs, and stitching to combine drawing sheets into one navigable view for large infrastructure projects. More than 2,000 early adopters reported significant productivity gains in preconstruction, design coordination and construction management. Since September 2026, Bluebeam Max is also free for eligible students and educators worldwide. Open by design: AI that connects, not confines Openness has been a defining principle of the Nemetschek Group for decades, and it now extends to AI. Instead of tying customers to a single proprietary environment, the Max offerings are designed to work across tools, vendors and project partners: · Open AI connectivity: MCP is used by the Nemetschek AI Assistant to interact with the software and also enables access for 3rd party AI applications. Archicad Max provides a Public Archicad MCP Server (beta) that connects the desktop AI applications an office already uses directly to the Archicad model. Bluebeam Max supports the Model Context Protocol for Anthropic Claude, GitHub Copilot CLI and AnythingLLM, turning natural-language prompts into markups and project insights. · Cross-vendor workflows: Connected Studio Sessions link Bluebeam markups directly to the right location in Revit drawing and model views, bridging PDF and BIM regardless of the authoring tool. · Open standards and Open BIM: As a long-standing champion of Open BIM and IFC, the Nemetschek Group builds its AI on open data exchange, so project information can flow between disciplines and partners across the entire building lifecycle. · Human in control: Across all three offerings, AI proposes, automates and analyzes; professionals review, decide and remain accountable. A shared foundation that scales across the Group The Max offerings build on the Group’s AI journey, from the AI Layer announced in 2024 and the Nemetschek AI Assistant rolled out across brands since 2025, to today’s agentic, model-aware capabilities. Because they share the Nemetschek Intelligence Platform, every investment in AI benefits customers across brands, and innovations developed for one discipline can scale to others over time.
CrowdStrike 2026 Legal Threat Landscape Report: Cybercriminals Blur Digital and Physical Lines in Attacks on U.S. Law Firms
CrowdStrike released the CrowdStrike 2026 Legal Threat Landscape Report, revealing that financially motivated adversaries accounted for 82% of observed malicious activity against the legal sector, with CHATTY SPIDER emerging as…
Vaani AI Research Launches Self-Serve Platform to Build and Deploy Voice AI Agents
Vaani AI Research, a foundation speech model company based in Bengaluru and Singapore, today announced the launch of its self-serve developer platform for building, deploying and managing voice AI agents.…
Kapālins appoints Jai A Singla CTO to secure the entire AI estate
Australian AI security company Kapālins has appointed Jai A Singla as Chief Technology Officer and a director. He will lead Kapālins’ technology as AI moves from answering questions to acting…
Procol’s AI Agents Help Cut Manufacturing Procurement Cycles by 75%
Procol, an AI-native procurement technology company, is helping manufacturing enterprises transform procurement through autonomous AI execution and connected workflows. The company works with more than 150 manufacturing businesses across 10+…
F5 and Oracle collaborate to strengthen application security in the AI era
F5 the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, and Oracle today announced a planned collaboration intended to bring next-generation web application and API protection (WAAP) to…
Cloudera Expands Enterprise AI Ecosystem to Power AI Factories Anywhere
Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, today announced the expansion of its Enterprise AI Ecosystem at EVOLVE26 New York. Building on our Enterprise AI Ecosystem from 2024…
Hitachi unveils a new global digital services company turning cloud, data and AI into measurable business outcomes: Hitachi Digital
Hitachi, Ltd. today announced plans to launch Hitachi Digital Inc. a new global digital services company, on April 1, 2027, in accordance with the integration plan announced in January 2026.…
Agentic AI’s hardest part is the last mile, not the demo
SAS’s Jared Peterson says enterprise AI’s real challenge is production: integration, human oversight, quality data and open architecture, with Pune owning core Viya R&D. Two years ago, enterprise AI meant…
From Sports Physics to Smart Irrigation: How a Student Is Taking STEM Beyond the Classroom
Jain initially began working directly with students through More Than Play, tutoring 150 children in science and mathematics. For Aarav A. Jain, STEM education is not simply about learning how…
A Better Model Doesn’t Fix a Broken Operating Model
Enterprises have no shortage of AI pilots; what they lack, argues Niraj Nagrani, Chief Data and AI Officer at Altimetrik, is an operating system to run them on. In this…
Oracle’s AI agents can now execute enterprise work — here’s what CIOs should know
Oracle has launched a builder experience that lets enterprises run AI agent teams directly inside Fusion Cloud Applications, without a separate runtime or external orchestration layer. The company calls the…
COMPUTEX 2026: From Personal Devices to AI Infrastructure
For years, COMPUTEX Taipei was an exhibition where tech enthusiasts came to see flashy gaming rigs, watch overclocking contests, and explore the latest laptops and PC hardware. It was, above…
India’s AI Inflection Point: How National Technology Day 2026 Signals A New Era Of Responsible Innovation
From drug discovery to cybersecurity, India’s technology leaders are charting a path where AI is not just powerful—but purposeful. Every year on May 11, India pauses to mark National Technology…
Ten Years Strong: Vertex Group Appoints Tanya Singh as Global Vice President, Marketing & Communications to Power Its Next Decade
Vertex Group, the Times Square-headquartered multinational tech giant, today announced the appointment of Tanya Singh as Vice President, Marketing & Communications, as it completes 10 years of operations and targets…