Acquisition
Salesforce Acquires Listen Labs to Give AI a Better Ear for Customers
Listen Labs uses AI agents to design research studies, recruit participants, conduct in-depth interviews and synthesise findings.
Agentic AI
CXNova combines customer data, business information and real-time signals to adapt experiences as interactions unfold
Leadership Moves
She joins Persistent after more than four years at TCS, where she most recently served as Programme Director for Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, Process Optimisation and Digital Transformation
AI Agents
Unlike conventional ChatGPT conversations, where users typically provide instructions for each task, dots are designed to pursue broader goals over extended periods.
Partnerships
The platform can be used for enterprise workflows, including security operations, document processing and HR automation.
Partnerships
The collaboration will combine Gnani AI’s Voice AI capabilities with Melento’s agentic AI orchestration framework to build workflows where AI agents can listen to customers, understand context, make decisions and take action across enterprise processes.
AI Agents
The NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform combines open-source software with hardware-based security to provide governance and control across the full agent stack.
Funding
The new funding will be used to scale Palette Neat, SiMa.ai’s agentic software environment for Physical AI.
Gadgets
Microsoft recently launched new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus processor.
Cloud
The agreement will use Akamai Cloud’s distributed AI infrastructure and software to support Anthropic’s AI workloads at scale.
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Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Rohit Chatterjee, Global Head and Senior Partner at Keystone, will lead the India effort.
Kumar would work with InMobi’s leadership and teams to strengthen cyber resilience, digital trust, security governance and risk management across the company’s global operations.
The resulting Map of Work can then be used to identify opportunities for process redesign and build agents, workflows and automations.
Qualcomm is launching two versions, including an “Extreme” variant aimed at higher-performance devices.
Importantly for enterprises, the approach does not require biological hardware.
The companies said the combination is designed to give organisations a ready-to-deploy sovereign AI stack.
Gupta joins Akasa Air from Dish TV, where he served as Corporate Head of IT from 2019 until his departure on August 31, 2026.
The model, Laya, was developed by Nandhakishor Mukkunnoth, who is based in the Southern part of India and teaches Generative AI through his Instagram account.
"The metric we care about most, the holy grail, is completion. If we are able to improve completion, everything else follows."
For developers, Googlebook includes a full terminal environment and support for tools such as Claude Code and Antigravity CLI
Before joining Lupin, Bansal served as Head of Artificial Intelligence at Mahindra and Mahindra from July 2025 to August 2026, where he led the group’s enterprise-wide AI strategy.