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Updated 3h agoWhat's happening: India AI Summit sparks $240B investment pledge led by Reliance, Adani and Google
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 announced a historic $240 billion AI investment pledge. Reliance committed $110 billion for AI infrastructure over seven years, Adani pledged $100 billion through 2035, and Google disclosed a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam along with new subsea cable routes. The Indian government also added 20,000 GPUs to its AI arsenal.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $110B in corporate funding
News•Jan 29, 2026
DPI and PODTECH Partner to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Deployment Globally
Datalec Precision Installations (DPI) and PODTECH have formed a global partnership to deliver pre‑staged, deployment‑ready AI infrastructure as hyperscaler demand squeezes data‑centre capacity in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The alliance combines DPI's worldwide data‑centre services with PODTECH's 60‑plus technical specialists in telemetry, power, and server commissioning. Together they offer a full AI‑lifecycle suite—from connectivity and NVLink fabric to GPU testing and SAT/FAT validation. AI workloads now account for roughly 75% of hyperscaler capital expenditure, intensifying the need for rapid, turnkey solutions.
By AiThority
News•Jan 29, 2026
Cursor Slashes Codebase Indexing From Four Hours to 21 Seconds
Cursor, an AI coding assistant, reduced codebase indexing from over four hours to just 21 seconds. The speed gain comes from reusing existing indices across team members using Merkle‑tree hash comparison, which syncs only changed files. The new indices boost...
By THE DECODER
News•Jan 29, 2026
Broker Insights Updates VISION Platform to Reshape Commercial Cover
Broker Insights has launched an upgraded VISION platform that leverages artificial intelligence to pinpoint commercial insurance gaps, especially in cyber and management liability, and to accelerate quoting and binding. The solution connects brokers with carriers such as AXA and Hiscox...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 29, 2026
The Slopaganda Era: 10 AI Images Posted by the White House - and What They Teach Us
The White House has posted ten AI‑generated images that parody political figures, a practice scholars label “slopaganda.” These visuals combine low‑effort AI tools with overt trolling, blurring the line between official communication and internet meme culture. The Trump administration’s embrace...
By The Guardian AI
News•Jan 29, 2026
Google Appears to Be Preparing Voice Cloning for Gemini 3 Flash
Google has uncovered a hidden “Create Your Voice” option in its AI Studio when using the Flash Native Audio Preview model tied to Gemini 2.5 Flash. The button opens a recording interface for users to upload voice samples, indicating an upcoming voice‑cloning...
By THE DECODER
News•Jan 29, 2026
Making the Financial Case for a Data Streaming Platform in 2026
Enterprises are now pressured to operate at machine speed as AI reshapes expectations, making real‑time data streaming platforms (DSPs) a strategic necessity rather than a future upgrade. CFOs are urged to calculate the cost of doing nothing, since delays can...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 29, 2026
Why a Lack of Governance Will Hurt Companies Using Agentic AI
Businesses are rapidly integrating agentic AI, with 41% of firms using autonomous systems in routine operations. Yet only 27% report mature governance frameworks to monitor these tools, creating a stark risk gap. Real‑world incidents, such as robotaxis stalling during a...
By Fast Company AI
News•Jan 29, 2026
Digi International Announced the Acquisition of Particle
Digi International announced a $50 million cash acquisition of Particle, a subscription‑based edge‑to‑cloud platform that currently generates about $20 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). The deal lifts Digi’s IoT Products and Services segment ARR by roughly 60%, expanding it from $32 million...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Economic Survey 2025-26 Says AI Job Panic May Be Overstated, Highlights Robust Institutions as ‘Need of the Hour’
The Economic Survey 2025‑26 softens earlier warnings about AI‑driven job losses, suggesting that fears may be exaggerated. It emphasizes that AI can boost productivity and create employment if supported by strong institutional frameworks. The report highlights AI’s experimental nature and urges...
By Indian Express AI
News•Jan 29, 2026
Alpha Omega Launches Continuum Automation Framework
Alpha Omega announced the Continuum Automation Framework, a unified ecosystem of AI‑driven accelerators designed to help federal agencies modernize, migrate, and secure mission‑critical systems. The platform comprises four modular components—Design, Code, Connect, and Secure—that replace manual processes with an end‑to‑end...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Laserfiche Expands AI Data Capture with Auto-Classification
Laserfiche announced a major upgrade to its AI‑driven Smart Fields engine, adding automatic document classification and intelligent auto‑tagging. The new features let users describe desired data with natural‑language prompts, enabling the system to identify invoice, transcript, or contract types and...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Applied Computing and KBR to Launch AI-Based Solution for Optimized Ammonia Production
Applied Computing and KBR have unveiled INSITE 3.0, an AI‑driven platform that embeds physics‑based models to optimize ammonia plant operations. The solution leverages Applied Computing’s Orbital AI and KBR’s 75‑year ammonia expertise, targeting lower emissions, higher yields, and improved safety....
By AiThority
News•Jan 29, 2026
SAP Cloud Revenues Rise on AI Boost - with More to Come, Says CEO Christian Klein
SAP reported a robust Q4, with total revenue reaching €9.68 billion and cloud revenue climbing 26% to €5.61 billion, driving full‑year cloud sales to €21.0 billion, up 23% YoY. CEO Christian Klein highlighted that over two‑thirds of Q4 cloud orders now embed business...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 29, 2026
Bright Pattern Brings AI-Powered Customer Engagement and Workforce Management to GITEX 2026 Cairo
Bright Pattern, a global AI‑powered omnichannel contact‑center vendor, announced its participation at GITEX 2026 in Cairo, Egypt, scheduled for 11‑12 February. At the expo, the company will demonstrate its end‑to‑end customer‑engagement platform featuring virtual agents, real‑time transcription, summarization, interaction analytics,...
By AiThority
News•Jan 29, 2026
Brivo Unveils 2026 Trends in Video Surveillance Report
Brivo released its 2026 Trends in Video Surveillance report, highlighting seven key trends shaping enterprise security. The study notes cloud‑based AI is now standard, enterprise cloud adoption is at a tipping point, and regulations around privacy and PII are becoming...
By AiThority
News•Jan 29, 2026
Introducing the Klaviyo App in ChatGPT
Klaviyo has launched a new app that embeds its marketing automation data directly into OpenAI’s ChatGPT. By tagging @Klaviyo, marketers can query real‑time campaign performance, revenue trends, and unsubscribe drivers, receiving results as interactive cards and plain‑language recommendations. The integration...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 29, 2026
20i Launches the Web Industry’s First Unlimited Managed Hosting Assistant
20i has introduced Twentie, the web industry’s first unlimited managed hosting assistant, embedded directly into its platform. The AI‑driven tool accesses live account data to generate custom PDF and CSV reports, analyze performance metrics, and help with tasks like marketing...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Deezer Makes It Easier for Rival Platforms to Take a Stance Against AI-Generated Music
Deezer has opened its AI‑generated music detection system to rival streaming services, extending a tool that tags and removes AI tracks from recommendations and royalty pools. The platform processes about 60,000 AI‑created songs each day, with 85% of those streams...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Jan 29, 2026
Cassava and AXON Join Forces to Drive AI Innovation for African Firms
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks announced a strategic partnership to build Africa’s first end‑to‑end Operator‑as‑a‑Service (OaaS) platform, combining AXON’s AI‑ready, real‑time digital‑twin technology with Cassava’s 110,000 km high‑speed fibre backbone. The solution will deliver a multi‑tenant, AI‑managed network that can provision...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
AI Adoption Advances in Manufacturing Amid Economic Headwinds
Rootstock’s 2026 State of Manufacturing Technology Survey shows AI has become mainstream, with 94% of manufacturers deploying some form of artificial intelligence. Predictive AI usage rose to 48%, and investments are shifting toward supply‑chain planning and process optimization. Despite economic...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Adcom Transforms Communication Training with Its AI-Enabled Communication Labs
Adcom Designs, a Bay Area learning firm, launched AI‑Enabled Communication Labs that replace lecture‑based training with hands‑on, practice‑focused sessions. The labs integrate artificial intelligence from the start, offering customized workshops lasting two hours to two days for groups of ten...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 29, 2026
NIST’s AI Guidance Pushes Cybersecurity Boundaries
NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation released a formal Request for Information targeting secure practices for autonomous AI agents, signaling a shift from broad, principle‑based AI risk guidance to concrete, operational controls. The agency highlighted the limits of treating...
By CSO Online
News•Jan 29, 2026
The Sensor Suite for Autonomous Vehicles: LiDAR, Radar, Cameras and Sensor Fusion
Autonomous vehicles rely on perception rather than pure AI to make safe decisions, and that perception emerges from a heterogeneous sensor suite of cameras, LiDAR, radar and auxiliary devices. Each sensor brings complementary strengths—cameras offer semantic richness, LiDAR supplies precise...
By Robotics & Automation News
News•Jan 29, 2026
Acumatica Summit 2026 - Taking the Pulse of Cloud ERP, AI, and Customer Realities
Acumatica Summit 2026 highlighted the company’s AI‑first roadmap, unveiling a trial of an AI assistant that will reach general availability in the fall. The event emphasized that SMB customers want AI capabilities embedded in the platform without the burden of...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 29, 2026
AI Digital Twins Aim to Protect Astronaut Mobility on Deep Space Missions
West Virginia University researchers are creating AI-powered digital twins that replicate each astronaut's movement and muscle activation patterns to monitor neuromuscular health during long‑duration microgravity missions. By combining motion‑capture, wearable sensors, virtual‑reality tasks and physics‑based simulations, the models can predict...
By SpaceDaily
Social•Jan 29, 2026
AI Agents Improve Instantly with Each Compute Boost
We've had a pretty wild new AI Agent feature that we've almost released twice, but then right as we get close, a new technical breakthrough makes the agent substantially better than before. The pace of new best practices emerging in...
By Aaron Levie
News•Jan 29, 2026
ImmuniWeb Reports Double-Digit Growth and Platform Advances
ImmuniWeb reported an all‑time sales record for 2025, maintaining double‑digit year‑over‑year growth while staying profitable. The company rolled out four major AI Platform updates, adding AI‑specific testing for web, mobile, API, LLM vulnerabilities and post‑quantum encryption readiness. Independent ISO 9001 and...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 29, 2026
NSFOCUS Unveils Enhanced AI LLM Risk Threat Matrix for Holistic AI Security Governance
NSFOCUS announced an upgraded AI LLM Risk Threat Matrix, adding 14 new threat categories that focus on AI agent, multimodal, and Multi‑Agent Communication Protocol (MCP) vulnerabilities. The matrix expands coverage across identity, application, model, data, and infrastructure security throughout the...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 29, 2026
Questom (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineer
Questom, a YC‑backed startup building AI‑driven sales agents, is hiring a founding engineer with a $125K‑$150K salary and 0.75%‑1.5% equity. The role focuses on building high‑performance systems that integrate CRMs, communication channels, and agentic workflows, rather than mastering a specific...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 29, 2026
AI-Enabled Scams Rose 500% in 2025 as Crypto Theft Goes ‘Industrial’
TRM Labs reports a five‑fold surge in large language model‑powered scams in 2025, propelling AI‑generated deepfakes, voice clones and synthetic images into mainstream fraud. Crypto theft amounted to $35 billion, a slight dip from 2024, while illicit crypto wallet inflows jumped...
By Cointelegraph
News•Jan 29, 2026
OpenMind Unveils Robot App Store
OpenMind has launched a dedicated App Store for robots, positioning it as a software distribution layer for quadruped and humanoid platforms. The marketplace, built on the company’s OM1 modular operating system, aims to close the gap between rapidly evolving hardware...
By AI Business
News•Jan 29, 2026
Barq Group and Elroy Air to Establish $200 Million Joint Venture in Abu Dhabi to Manufacture Autonomous Aircraft
Barq Group and U.S.‑based Elroy Air have signed a $200 million joint‑venture agreement to build a manufacturing plant in Abu Dhabi for the Chaparral autonomous hybrid‑electric VTOL cargo aircraft. The facility will serve commercial and humanitarian customers across the MENA region,...
By Robotics & Automation News
News•Jan 29, 2026
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks Partner to Launch Operator-as-a-Service Platform Across Africa
Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks have announced a joint venture to launch an Operator‑as‑a‑Service (OaaS) platform across Africa. The cloud‑native solution will enable telecom operators and new entrants to provision network services without heavy infrastructure investment. Targeting more than 30...
By PaySpace Magazine
News•Jan 29, 2026
PredIG: A Clear Predictor for T-Cell Epitope Immunogenicity
Researchers introduced PredIG, an interpretable machine‑learning platform that predicts T‑cell epitope immunogenicity with higher accuracy than existing tools. The model integrates peptide sequence, structural conformation, and immune‑environment context, and was validated across multiple independent cohorts. By revealing the biological drivers...
By Bioengineer.org
Podcast•Jan 29, 2026•36 min
Ep. 205: How to Use AI for B2B Storytelling Without Losing Your Brand | Nick Usborne
In this episode, Nick Usborne explains how B2B marketers can harness AI for scalable content while preserving their brand’s unique voice. He stresses that the only defensible moat is a company’s authentic story, not generic narratives or tone, and reveals...
By B2B Marketers on a Mission
Social•Jan 29, 2026
Scaling AI Developer Infrastructure: Lessons From Meta’s Internal Agent
Office Hours: Building Developer Infrastructure at Scale with Jim Everingham In the world of AI, how do the very best companies build their developer infrastructure? To answer that question : On Tuesday, February 24, I’ll be hosting an in-person fireside chat with...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Jan 29, 2026
Robotics Demos Lag Far Behind Real-World Production
there is massive arb between robotics demos you see on twitter and what very few companies have in large-scale production today and no, the gap isn't in favor of the twitter demos.
By Nathan Benaich
Blog•Jan 29, 2026
Wunderkind + Klaviyo: Turning Anonymous Traffic Into Our Next Growth Chapter
In this episode, the hosts announce Wunderkind’s integration into the Klaviyo App Marketplace, turning the former competitor into a strategic partner. The discussion explains how Wunderkind’s real‑time identity resolution and AI‑driven decisioning layer can be embedded directly within Klaviyo’s email...
By eCommerce Fastlane
Social•Jan 29, 2026
QMD Launches Native Query Extender, Boosting Expansion Performance
QMD now has its own natively trained query extender model https://t.co/b89CmKIknV Seems to do much better at query expansion in my tests. try it out.
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Jan 29, 2026
Rolv's AI Speed Breakthrough Shows Promising Results
Months ago I shared Rolv with you and he shared that he had a major performance breakthrough for running AIs. His breakthrough is proving itself. Will share the final results when it's up, but his math is working out to...
By Robert Scoble
News•Jan 29, 2026
Software Company Bonds Drop As Investors' AI Worries Mount
Investors are pulling back from software company bonds as rapid AI advances raise doubts about business model stability. High‑profile moves like Google’s AI assistant launch and funding for Decagon AI have intensified fears, driving bond prices lower worldwide. While some...
By Slashdot
Social•Jan 29, 2026
Brayden's Architecture Beats ChatGPT for Molty Reports
The second "Ultimate Molty Report." Thanks @blevlabs. If it weren't for Brayden's cognitive architecture these reports wouldn't be nearly as good as if I used, say, Grok or ChatGPT to write them.
By Robert Scoble
Social•Jan 29, 2026
New AI Releases and Viral Moltbot Report Incoming
Tomorrow morning @higgsfield_ai and @AnthropicAI will drop something crazy. And I'm about to drop another @moltbot report. My first one got viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
By Robert Scoble
News•Jan 29, 2026
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers are fueling a surge in U.S. natural‑gas power development, with projects that could add up to 252 GW of gas‑fired capacity—nearly a 50 percent increase in the nation’s gas fleet. More than a third of this new demand is directly...
By WIRED AI
Social•Jan 29, 2026
VCs Can't Fund Ex‑OpenAI Founders Indefinitely
“VCs can’t just keep giving OpenAI employees billions of dollars to start a new company forever” VCs: https://t.co/lVyo5wnDoI
By Turner Novak
Social•Jan 29, 2026
Reviving BabyAGI Amid Surge of Build Energy
it’s been so fun watching the build energy this past week, i had to start rebuilding babyagi again last night :)
By Yohei Nakajima
News•Jan 28, 2026
Decagon AI Raises $250M at $4.5B Valuation to Scale AI Concierge Platform
Decagon AI announced a $250 million Series D round that lifts its valuation to $4.5 billion. The funding, led by Coatue Management and Index Ventures, will accelerate the rollout of its AI concierge platform, which leverages large‑language models across chat, email and voice...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
We 'Want to Encourage Other People in Our Generation to Be the Types of People Who Do Not Even Want...
Gabriela Nguyen, a 24‑year‑old Harvard graduate, quit smartphones and founded Appstinence, a nonprofit that helps people disengage from addictive technology. The organization promotes a "5D Method"—Decrease, Deactivate, Delete, Downgrade, Depart—to guide users toward a tech‑free lifestyle. Appstinence offers free coaching,...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 28, 2026
Dynatrace Intelligence Aims to Advance Autonomous Software Operations
Dynatrace announced Dynatrace Intelligence, an agentic operations system that blends deterministic, real‑time intelligence with AI agents to push enterprises toward autonomous software operations. Built on the Grail data lakehouse and Smartscape, the platform delivers explainable insights that act within predefined...
By SiliconANGLE
Social•Jan 28, 2026
AI Brand Rankings Unreliable; Track Mention Frequency Instead
Ranking position in AI responses is meaningless. Across repeated runs of the same prompt, LLMs almost never return the same list of brands in the same order. In many cases, they don’t return the same list at all. New research...
By Amanda Natividad