Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses

Google takes Dreambeans to India in bid to bring AI-generated personal stories to the masses

Google has launched its experimental AI app Dreambeans in India, its first market outside the U.S., as the company looks to tap the world’s second-largest internet market to bring personalized visual stories drawn from users’ digital activity to a broader audience. On Monday, Google expanded Dreambeans, available on Android and iOS, to India with support…

Read More

Walmart’s Flipkart is quietly building a food delivery challenger in India

Flipkart, the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce giant, is preparing to challenge India’s food-delivery duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy. It is entering a fiercely competitive market that has defeated even previous attempts by Amazon and Google to break in. The Bengaluru-based company is testing its food-delivery service internally and has expanded the trial from a few hundred…

Read More

India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

AI agents from multiple providers accessed personal data and confidential material at Indian organizations during research and testing, India’s cybersecurity agency said Thursday. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said it had received “multiple voluntary disclosures from AI model providers” whose models, during research and evaluation runs on the open internet, “had reached the…

Read More

Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI

As manufacturers across industries strive to reduce their reliance on Chinese suppliers, Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25 million to expand its AI-powered approach to producing specialty chemicals and critical materials, with semiconductors, defense and energy emerging as key growth markets. The all-equity strategic round was led by Hitachi Ventures, with customers Henkel and Teknor…

Read More