E2E Networks Launches Blaze, Pay-Per-Token AI Inference in India
E2E Networks has launched Blaze, a pay-per-token API for open AI models such as Sarvam, DeepSeek and Nemotron, served on NVIDIA GPUs in India.
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Indian Teen Founders’ AI Startup Manicule Raises $1.3 Million From Y Combinator to Help AI Agents Choose Software
Manicule, founded by Indians Naman Bansal and Shreyans Jain, raised $1.3M led by Y Combinator and Broom Ventures to help AI agents pick software.
NeuroDX’s 240M-Parameter Sphota Model Claims an Edge Over Liquid AI With 50x Less Training Data
IndiaAI-backed NeuroDX says its 240M-parameter Sphota model edges Liquid AI on benchmarks with 50x less training data. Results are preliminary.
BharatGen Names 8-Member Advisory Board With NSE’s Ashish Chauhan, NITI’s Debjani Ghosh and Ex-Military Chiefs as Sovereign AI Moves to Deployment
BharatGen has formed an eight-member advisory board, including NSE’s Ashish Chauhan and NITI Aayog’s Debjani Ghosh, to guide its sovereign AI rollout.
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.
CERT-In Flags AI Agents Reading Indian Firms’ Data Undetected
CERT-In says AI agents under test got into Indian firms via stale keys and open APIs, reading data undetected, as India weighs limits on autonomous agents.
Magnificent Seven Debt Hits $578 Billion on AI Spending: SBI
Magnificent Seven debt rose 45% to $578 billion by mid-2026 on AI build-out, putting up to $2 trillion of market value at risk.
DeepSeek Releases Open-Source ‘Super-Agent’ That Codes Without Being Asked, Taking Aim at Anthropic’s Claude Code
DeepSeek’s Harness team has released Super-Agent, an MIT-licensed research prototype of a proactive coding agent that monitors GitHub and developer chats and works in parallel sessions, as it takes on Anthropic’s Claude Code.
India Ranks Second Globally in AI Shopping as 76% of Consumers Use AI Tools; Millennials Lead at 84%: McKinsey
India ranks second among 11 markets for AI-powered shopping, with 76% of consumers using AI tools and 87% of AI users trusting them, McKinsey’s Agentic Commerce Consumer Survey shows.
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