Avanade Report: 75% of Indian Firms Yet to See AI Returns
Avanade AI report: 75% of Indian leaders say AI has not yet paid back its cost, even as 28% let generative AI run processes without human sign-off.
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Only 3% of Indian Firms Have AI-Ready Data Even as 69% Plan to Spend More on AI: Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet’s AI Momentum Survey finds 69% of Indian firms will raise AI spending, but only 3% have fully AI-ready data, versus 8% globally.
HCLTech Brings AI Agents to Mainframe Operations
HCLTech’s new AI-Powered Operations puts skill agents and AI assistants inside mainframe environments, with human oversight, to cut toil and speed fixes.
Salesforce Gives CIOs a Kill Switch for AI Agents, Adds Live Evals and Hard Spending Caps to Agent Fabric
Salesforce has added Agent Evals, API Evals, an Agent Kill Switch and hard budget limits to Agent Fabric, its cross-platform control plane for AI agents, so enterprises can catch failing or costly agents and take them offline before customers notice.
Anthropic Files for Nasdaq IPO With $16.3 Billion in Half-Year Revenue; India Is Claude’s No. 2 Market but Gets Barely a Mention
The Claude maker’s S-1 shows revenue of about $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, its first quarterly operating profit, and more than $800 billion in compute commitments. India, Claude.ai’s second-largest market by usage, gets almost no mention, even as Indian IT stocks fell on the news.
Zoho Turns Analytics Into an Agentic Platform, Putting Six AI Agents and a Business Context Layer at the Core
Chennai-headquartered Zoho has rebuilt Zoho Analytics as an agentic analytics platform, where a super agent with six sub-agents handles analysis, dashboards, data prep, formulas, ML code and SQL, grounded in a native semantic layer and ontology.
Cognizant Puts 25,000 Professionals Behind OpenAI With New Frontier Capability Group
Cognizant has brought more than 25,000 professionals into a dedicated OpenAI delivery group focused on Codex-led software engineering, legacy modernisation and agentic customer operations.
Freshworks Acquires Robusta to Bring AI SRE Agents for Outage Investigation to Freshservice
Freshworks has acquired Robusta Dev, an AI incident-investigation startup whose agents act like an always-on site reliability engineer, and will build its technology into Freshservice and align it with FireHydrant.
Who Is Liable When an AI Agent Gets It Wrong? DSCI Releases Industry Guidance for Agentic AI
The Data Security Council of India’s discussion paper, AI Liability: Industry Guidance for Agentic AI, maps established legal doctrines onto autonomous AI systems and argues that each player in the value chain is responsible for what it could decide and had the tools to enforce.
LTM Launches ‘GCC Origin’ to Build Agentic-by-Design Global Capability Centres in India
LTM, formerly LTIMindtree, has launched GCC Origin, an independently operated business unit that uses its BlueVerse agentic AI ecosystem to help enterprises set up, run, scale and transform AI-native global capability centres in India.
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7 AI Questions India Needs to Answer Next
30-09-2026
