Cognizant Claude Group Gets 25,000 Staff and a Managed Service
Cognizant forms a 25,000-strong Claude Frontier Capability Group and launches a managed service to run Anthropic’s Claude in production for clients.
Artificial intelligence
Froncort.AI Gets $2.3M Google.org Grant for AI TB Screening
Pune startup Froncort.AI gets a $2.3 million Google.org grant to build mAI-NETRA, an offline AI app guiding health workers to TB hotspots in 8 districts.
Google TPU 8tx Brings Confidential Computing to AI Inference
Google TPU 8tx brings hardware-level confidential computing to AI inference, while TPU 8i Max doubles compute and HBM bandwidth for long-context AI agents.
Meta Sets Muse AI Agent India Price at ₹1,799 Ahead of Launch
Meta has set Muse AI agent India prices at ₹1,799 for Power and ₹8,999 for Maximum ahead of launch, though card payments by the agent do not work yet.
Govt May Push Indigenous AI Models in Defence, Critical Sectors
India may ask defence, aerospace and other critical sectors to use indigenous AI models from the IndiaAI Mission and avoid foreign frontier AI.
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 AI Models
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, faster and cheaper frontier AI models with stronger coding and cyber defence for enterprises.
Sashikumar Sreedharan Joins Sarvam AI as President and CBO
Sashikumar Sreedharan, ex-Google Cloud India MD, joins Sarvam AI as President, CBO and board member to scale its enterprise and government AI business.
Anthropic Buys 1.7 GW of Gas Generators in $3.4 Billion Deal
Anthropic gas generators deal: the Claude maker bought 1.7 GW of generator orders for about $3.4 billion, the FT reports, as AI power demand outruns grids.
NSE Deploys Liquid Cooling for AI, Readies Room for 224 GPUs
NSE has deployed direct-to-chip liquid cooling for AI workloads in its on-premises data centre, with GPUs set to pass 80 this quarter and scale up to 224.
Jefferies Flags Possible AI Capex Peak, Lifts India to 14%
Jefferies says the AI capex cycle may have peaked as funding costs rise, and has lifted India’s weight in its Asia ex-Japan portfolio to 14% from 12%.
