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…
Enterprise AI must go to the data, not the other way around
Cloudera is pitching its Anywhere Cloud platform to Indian banks and regulators as a way to run AI across clouds and data centres without moving sensitive data. Many companies can…
Google Cloud Bets on India’s SMBs To Close The ‘AI Value Gap’
Google Cloud made a clear pitch to India’s smaller businesses: AI is no longer only for big enterprises. At Cloud Day India 2026, held at Andaz Delhi on October 28,…
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…
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…
Quick Heal Introduces Seqrite NOVA to Fast-Track DPDP Compliance for Businesses
Quick Heal Technologies Limited through its enterprise cybersecurity brand Seqrite, today announced Seqrite NOVA Data Privacy, an AI-powered offering designed to simplify and accelerate the DPDP compliance journey for small…
Datadog Gives Teams Complete Visibility and Control of Real User Sessions with RUM Profiling, Managed Archive and Export Pipelines
Datadog, Inc. the leading AI-powered observability and security platform, today announced the general availability of three new capabilities in its Real User Monitoring (RUM) suite: RUM Profiling, Managed Archive and…
Vertiv targets up to 30% more cumulative AI token output in first 12 months using NVIDIA DSX, Polar deploys approach at Norway site
At NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Vertiv Holdings Co. and NVIDIA introduced an AI factory approach that combines rapid configuration and virtual validation of pre-engineered reference architectures with factory-built deployment. The approach…
Akamai Launches AI Inference Service and Agent Execution Environment
Bringing managed model serving and isolated execution for AI agents to Akamai Cloud, Akamai today introduced two foundational products for its AI stack: Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox. With…
Arrowhead AI launches Fletch, a voice model built for how India and Southeast Asia actually speak
Arrowhead AI, a Bengaluru-based voice AI company serving banks, lenders, insurers and consumer businesses, has launched Arrowhead Fletch, an in-house text-to-speech (TTS) model designed for multilingual customer conversations across India…
Cognizant Research Finds Rising Security Investment Alone Isn’t Enough in the AI Era
97% increased cybersecurity budgets, but even best-in-class performance in individual security areas leaves significant exposure New findings from Cognizant’s 2026 Cybersecurity Pulse Poll show that enterprises are increasing security investment but…
Palo Alto Networks Introduces Cortex Cloud SaaS Security to Protect Connected Enterprise Environments
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, today announced Cortex Cloud SaaS Security, bringing SaaS security directly into the broader cloud security experience, unifying posture, identity, data, and AI security…
Godrej Enterprises Group strengthens AI capabilities across its workforce
Godrej Enterprises Group a diversified engineering and design-led conglomerate, is strengthening AI capabilities across its workforce as part of its efforts to democratise agentic AI and enable employees to apply…
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…