IT services company Infosys on Wednesday (April 15, 2026) announced it has signed up seven-time Grand Slam Champion Carlos Alcaraz as its global brand ambassador. Further, Infosys — leveraging Infosys Topaz, an AI-first offering powered by generative and agentic AI technologies — will now work with Alcaraz and his coaching team to develop an AI-powered … Read more
Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral, Reddit-style forum for AI agents. Moltbook’s creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. It comes after Peter Steinberger, the creator of Openclaw, joined OpenAI after also being courted by Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t score OpenClaw’s creator, but he has scooped up the guys behind … Read more
US-based global investment giant, General Atlantic, has valued the popular social media platform, TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, at $550 billion as the company is now looking to sell equity stake owned in the Chinese firm, reported the news agency Reuters, citing people aware of the development. General Atlantic’s stake sale of ByteDance marks the first … Read more
There has been a lot of concern around Indian IT majors in recent days that AI would significantly impact their business. Now Infosys has announced a strategic collaboration with Anthropic, to develop and deliver advanced enterprise AI solutions to companies across telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development. Collaboration launches in telecommunications with dedicated Anthropic Center … Read more
Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu has pushed back against fears of mass job losses, saying white-collar roles will not vanish anytime soon because of artificial intelligence, in contrast to warnings made earlier by Microsoft AI’s chief executive officer, Mustafa Suleyman. Responding to another post on X (formerly Twitter), Vembu wrote, “The quoted post makes a strong … Read more
An Indian-born executive is now at the centre of a market shock that wiped out billions of dollars from global software and IT services firms. Rahul Patil, the chief technology officer of AI startup Anthropic since October 2025, is being credited with driving the shift behind the company’s latest Claude release, which jolted investors and … Read more
A planned $600 billion artificial intelligence spending splurge by big tech firms in 2026 is adding to investor unease as they assess the implications for profitability as well as a potential existential threat to software firms. Shares of Amazon, which had announced a $200 billion capital expenditure outlay, slid 7% on Friday while Alphabet lost … Read more
India is entering a decisive phase of growth, driven by AI that has the potential to transform industry, infrastructure and energy systems. From advanced manufacturing to energy production, AI is already moving to the core of industrial operations. As it does so, the pressure is mounting to meet its significant power demands. For decades, geopolitics … Read more
When Saahil Goel says, “We renamed ourselves to Shiprocket,” he is not talking about a cosmetic rebrand. He is referring to a moment when a 14-year-old company finally recognised what it truly was and what it was meant to build. “I think for the first time, the whole company felt it,” he says. For the … Read more