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ChatGPT's biggest market in the world is now India. Next stop: UPI
India has become ChatGPT's largest market by weekly active users, with the local base doubling since January, OpenAI India managing director Prabhjeet Singh said. The company is pushing voice and Hindi, working on entry-level phones, and will announce UPI and payments features in the coming weeks.
Telcos will have to declare where AI sits in their networks: TRAI gives until 27 November
TRAI's draft guidelines, dated 30 October, would make licensed telecom operators answerable for every AI system they run, in-house or bought, and require equipment vendors to disclose where AI sits inside their products. Comments are open until 27 November.
AI will run your network. TRAI's draft rules ask who answers when it gets it wrong
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has released draft guidelines on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in telecom networks and services, and invited public comments until November 27. The draft applies the seven principles of the India AI Governance Guidelines, released in February 2026, to operators such as Jio, Airtel, Vodafone Idea and BSNL. No penalties or mandatory audits are proposed yet.
Twenty hours of AI for classes 9 to 12, and a chapter on spotting deepfakes
NCERT has released an introductory module on computational thinking and artificial intelligence. It covers how machines learn from examples, how to detect deepfakes and where the ethical boundaries around personal data lie.
Centre to begin consultation on an AI law, says Vaishnaw
The government will start a consultation process in the coming weeks to frame legislation on artificial intelligence, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday. IT Secretary S. Krishnan said the Centre recognises that AI needs more regulation, pointing to cyber incidents in which AI agents escaped their sandboxes.
An AI agent that works while you're away: Anthropic's Claude Duet hooks into 6,000+ apps
Anthropic has unveiled Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent built on Claude Opus 5.5 that keeps working in the background when the user steps away. It connects to more than 6,000 apps, seeks approval before payments, and is in limited US preview.
Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $13 billion in AI's biggest deal yet
Chipmaker Nvidia will acquire Hugging Face, a leading platform for AI models and datasets, for $13 billion. Chief executive Jensen Huang announced the move in a blog post. More than 18 million developers use the platform.
Chatterjee Group arm to build 2GW of AI-ready data centres across India in seven years
Cortex DC, an arm of The Chatterjee Group, has entered India's data centre sector with a plan to build 2 GW of AI-ready capacity over seven years. Its first facility is targeted within 18 months of construction starting, and 51 per cent of its energy will come from green sources.
AI supercluster for India as Vultr launches first cloud region
Cloud provider Vultr has launched its 34th global cloud data centre region in Chennai, alongside an AI supercluster built on AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs starting at 20 MW. The company says it is the largest AMD Instinct deployment in India.
Nutanix co-founder Ajeet Singh's AI startup Different raises $48 million
Ajeet Singh, co-founder of Nutanix and ThoughtSpot, has launched Different, an AI marketing technology startup that has raised $48 million in a seed round led by General Catalyst, with Lightspeed participating. The startup has teams in San Francisco and Bengaluru.
Indian AI lab's speech model beats global rivals in 10 languages
Chariot, an AI research lab founded by former Google DeepMind and Meta FAIR researchers, has launched Chariot-1-ASR Realtime. The company says it made fewer errors than every rival tested across 10 of India's most spoken languages. It is one of the first four teams picked under the IndiaAI Mission.
Telcos want AI to check your network, not vans full of test gear
Telecom operators want the way network quality is measured to be overhauled, arguing that artificial intelligence and network analytics can cut their dependence on the traditional drive-test process. The Department of Telecommunications has planned a joint committee to examine and simplify the existing service-quality framework.
Google's $15-billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam to power Indian-language tools
Google's planned $15-billion artificial intelligence hub in Visakhapatnam will help scale AI applications across India, from healthcare screening to Indian-language tools, while serving the company's own products and outside cloud customers, a senior Google executive has said. The first phase is due to open in 2028.
Deepinder Goyal teases Dark.ai, a new AI venture under Eternal
Zomato founder and Eternal vice-chairman Deepinder Goyal has teased Dark.ai, a new artificial intelligence venture that will sit under Eternal. Details remain scarce, and the announcement came on the day of Eternal's September-quarter results.
Maharashtra Leading in the Field of Artificial Intelligence
Maharashtra will emerge as the country's leading AI innovation hub, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said while announcing Mumbai Tech Week 2026. The May 29 and 30 event at Jio World Convention Centre will showcase AI with companies including Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Cloud.