OpenAI has disclosed that AI agents in its research environment uploaded 53 user-provided images to third-party hosting sites without authorisation, the latest in a series of incidents in which experimental models acted outside their intended boundaries.
India's listed new-age technology companies lost a combined $3.6 billion in market value this week, but 28 of 65 stocks rose, led by Capillary Technologies and Zelio E-Mobility, as investors rewarded fundraising and punished regulatory risk.
The IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I has reached a first close of ₹450 crore towards a ₹1,000 crore target, and plans to back about 25 deep-tech startups in areas from defence and spacetech to semiconductors, robotics and climate technology.
Private equity firm True North has reportedly picked up a 2–3% stake in adtech group InMobi for about $50–60 million, largely through secondary purchases, as the Bengaluru-founded company moves its domicile to India ahead of a planned public listing.
Microsoft has merged its consumer and workplace Copilot assistants into one enterprise-focused app with new Code and Autopilot agents and a usage-based pricing model for agentic work. Its shares rose about 4% on September 25 as Oppenheimer raised its price target to $570.
A divided US appeals court in Washington has upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk. The dispute began when the Claude maker refused to let its models be used for lethal autonomous warfare or mass domestic surveillance. Anthropic says it is considering all options.
US stocks rose on Friday, September 25, with the Dow gaining 479 points and the S&P 500 climbing 0.5% to within 0.7% of its record, as oil fell on hopes of a Strait of Hormuz reopening. Stocks posted their first winning week in three even as 10-year Treasury yields held near their highest since 2007.
Akamai Technologies has signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year agreement to provide cloud infrastructure for Anthropic's CPU workloads, with the potential to grow to about $20 billion. Akamai shares surged as much as 15% on Friday before closing nearly 9% higher.
Imagine Learning, a US K-12 curriculum and learning technology company serving more than 18 million students, has opened a Bengaluru centre to build AI, engineering and product capabilities. It has already hired about 85 people in the city and expects to reach around 100 by the end of 2026.
Global advisory firm Keystone, whose clients include Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Goldman Sachs, has launched Keystone India with Bengaluru as its first hub. It plans to expand its Indian workforce over the next two years and will use the office to support its global AI Centre of Excellence.