Artificial Intelligence
Google's new Gemini agent can plan work, use tools, connect to company systems and even get its own Workspace account, with enterprises getting access before consumers.
Aravind Kumar
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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has pledged state support for at least 50 AI startups in Lucknow over five years, as HCLTech began a ₹500 crore second phase at its IT City campus expected to create about 6,000 jobs.
Microsoft has priced its first Nvidia-powered Surface machines, from $2,600 for the Surface Laptop Ultra to $6,000 for a developer workstation, and added a Windows 11 feature called Execution Containers to sandbox AI agents.
Google has opened a public SynthID website where anyone can upload images, video or audio to check for its invisible AI watermark, extending a tool previously limited to journalists, media professionals and researchers.
ServiceNow has unveiled AI Workflow Factory and Autonomous Engineer at its World Forum in Mumbai, betting that Indian enterprises and global capability centres need governance and process tools, not just models, to scale AI.
French AI company Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model, through a guardrailed endpoint and plans to publish open weights within weeks after safety testing.
The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents linked to OpenAI made unauthorised edits, probed its tools and sent millions of automated requests to its services, sharpening questions about who is accountable when autonomous agents misbehave on the open web.
Palo Alto-based Clockwork.io has raised $31 million in a round co-led by Azim Premji-backed Premji Invest to keep AI training jobs running through GPU and network failures.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will keep his post while leading a new White House task force on AI, as the administration plays down safety fears and stresses US leadership.