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OpenAI Spent $34 Billion in 2025: Report
OpenAI generated $13.07 billion in revenue but incurred a $20.9 billion operating loss.
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At One Point, Cursor Accounted for Up to 50% of Anthropic Revenue: Report
The relationship later came under pressure as Anthropic expanded into AI coding tools, prompting Cursor to accelerate development of its own models.
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Why a Cybersecurity Company Entrusted Bengaluru GCC With Worldwide AI Product Decisions
N-able says Bengaluru teams now build AI features and shape cybersecurity product decisions for global markets.
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SpaceX to Acquire Cursor in $60 Billion All-Stock Deal
The acquisition formalises a relationship that began earlier this year between the two companies.
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Wipro to Certify 10,000 Employees on Anthropic's Claude Models as it Launches Dedicated AI Centre
Wipro is deepening its enterprise AI push with a dedicated centre for Anthropic's Claude models and plans to certify 10,000 employees over the next 18 months.
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Deeptech Startup SiMa.ai Unveils Agentic Software, SoM to Reduce Reliance on NVIDIA GPUs
The company says its new platform cuts the time to deploy physical AI from months to days.
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Redrob AI Wants to Become Bharat’s Career Agent
With support for over 30 Indian languages and partnerships with nearly 100 universities, the company aims to help users overcome language and geographic barriers that often limit access to career opportunities.
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Google Partners With FBI, Carriers to Fight AI-Powered Scam Network Linked to Millions of Fraud Texts
Google has launched a coordinated effort to disrupt a large-scale cybercrime operation accused of using artificial intelligence tools to run phishing scams that impersonated trusted brands and targeted smartphone users through fraudulent text messages. The company has filed a lawsuit against the group, is working with the FBI and major US telecom operators, and is backing legislative measures to tackle AI-enabled fraud. The move comes as cybercriminals increasingly use AI tools to scale phishing campaigns and make scam messages more convincing.
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Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions
In 2017,Respond.ioset out to solve a simple problem: businesses couldn’t keep up with customers who had moved to messaging apps. Today Respond, with its customer conversation management software, has become one of the tech success stories of Malaysia. The startup, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, has raised a $62.5 million Series B round led by Camber Partners, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst and existing investors. It last raiseda $7 million Series Ain 2022.The company has grown to $35 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), growing 169% year-over-year, at a 30% profit margin, it tells TechCrunch. Co-founder and CEO Gerardo Salandra, who worked at IBM and Google before joiningRuntastic, a fitness tracking app that was sold to Adidas in 2015, founded Respond in Hong Kong in 2017 alongside Hassan Ahmed (CTO) and laroslav Kudritskiy (COO). The team relocated the business to Malaysia two years later. The platform helps mid- to large-sized B2C businesses drive revenue from customer conversations across multiple messaging channels including WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Messenger, Line, Telegram, WeChat, voice calls and web chat. It also uses AI agents to automatically handle high volumes of customer inquiries, qualify leads and close sales without human intervention. Salandra described its core customers as “high-consideration” businesses, where customers need to talk to someone before buying, such as healthcare, automotive, retail, education and travel. “You don’t go to a website, put your credit card, and buy a car; you chat with someone, you ask a lot of questions,” he said. Its sweet spot is companies with 200 to 10,000 employees. The rise of AI has raised an obvious question for platforms like Respond: Can tools like ChatGPT simply replace what they’ve built? Salandra thinks his foothold is strong enough to stop such encroachment, should it come. The company is currently processing 2 billion messages per quarter. “If I just look at the numbers, every day that AI becomes more prominent, we grow faster,” he told TechCrunch. “We are not seeing what the public SaaS markets are seeing.” Part of that comes down to pricing, he said. Unlike enterprise software competitors that charge per seat, Respond charges based on the volume of customer conversations, meaning it doesn’t matter whether a human or an AI is answering. “When fewer humans use your product, they make less money,” he said. “But we don’t charge like that.” The incumbent platforms, particularly those dominant in North America and Europe, were built around email and phone calls. “The platforms that exist, they bolted on messaging as a second thought. They’re very email focused, they’re very call focused, but when it comes to messaging, it’s an afterthought,” Salandra said. That volume of message data creates a feedback loop, according to the CEO. More messages mean better AI. Better AI attracts more customers. More customers generate more messages. “This is what we call the data flywheel,” Salandra said. He added that the head start matters for any upstart AI company, as well. “Because we started so long ago and we have such a strong foundation, we can provide better AI compared to someone who just entered into the messaging space.” With the new capital, Salandra said the company plans to pursue hiring, organic growth and acquisitions. The CEO has two types of buying targets in mind: bolt-on technology that fits into its existing ecosystem, and established teams with strong customer bases in strategic markets like Europe and North America. “Imagine how many months I can save if I find the right company that maybe already has the clients and the team,” he said. “I can save myself six months to a year through an acquisition.” He confirmed the company is already in talks with a couple of potential targets. The geographic push makes strategic sense. Respond currently generates roughly 30% of its revenue from APAC, 30% from Latin America, and 20% from the Middle East and Africa, leaving North America and Western Europe at just 20%. But Salandra says those regions are now its fastest-growing. “They took longer to make the change, but now they’re moving very rapidly into messaging channels,” he said, adding that he expects both regions to become the company’s largest segment within two to three years. Despite the fresh injection of capital, Salandra is cautious about what comes next. “We don’t want to be a growth at all costs company,” he said. “Even with this money, we’re going to be very disciplined.” But Salandra has bigger plans in mind. “My favorite outcome?” he said. “Ringing the bell at Nasdaq.”
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MeitY Urges IT Industry to Embrace AI Transformation, Focus on Reskilling Workforce
The consultation highlighted how client expectations are evolving from traditional process outsourcing to end-to-end digital transformation services powered by AI.
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Govt Bets ₹25,530 Crore on AI to Fix India’s Broken Ration System
India’s PDS has been one of the world’s largest food security networks, serving more than 80 crore beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act.
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Women-Led AI Hackathon WitchHunt 2026 Crowns Winners Across Health, Education, Climate & Smart Cities Segments
WitchHunt 2026 concluded in Bengaluru with 6,151 participants from 23 states, producing 373 working AI prototypes that tackle challenges across four impact sectors.
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