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Bengaluru: Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation, in collaboration with Toshiba Software India Private Limited, announced the winners of the GridDB® Cloud IoT Hackathon, an initiative designed to encourage students, developers, and startups to build scalable, real-time IoT applications using GridDB Cloud Database Service. Held from October 29 to December 14, 2025, the hackathon attracted over 250 entries from across India, spanning healthcare, finance, IoT, and knowledge management. Five finalist teams advanced to the in-person finale in Bengaluru on January 31–February 1, 2026, where they refined their proof-of-concept (PoC) solutions with mentorship from GridDB technical experts. Deevia Software (Bengaluru) secured first place…

Bangalore: At the India AI Summit, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today announces a proposed venture under the India AI Mission to build sovereign, scalable GW-scale NVIDIA AI factory infrastructure to reinforce India’s position as a global AI powerhouse. This partnership is aimed at India’s enterprises, policymakers, industry leaders, global off takers, and analysts seeking production-grade AI capacity anchored in India’s digital and industrial transformation. It integrates L&T’s engineering, infrastructure development, and execution with NVIDIA AI infrastructure including NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, Networking, NVIDIA-accelerated storage platforms from leading providers, the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software stack, and reference architectures to enable rapid, secure…

Bharat Forge a leading manufacturing and engineering company and VVDN Technologies, a global provider of product engineering and manufacturing services, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to record their broad understanding to explore a strategic collaboration across key technology-driven sectors. Under the MoU, the parties intend to jointly pursue opportunities in next-generation technologies across the Automotive, Defence, AI, and Datacentre domains. The strategic partnership is established to drive innovation and jointly develop the next generation of products for Automotive, Defence, and AI server platforms, leveraging their complementary strengths in engineering, manufacturing, and technology innovation. In alignment with the rapidly…

Hon’ble Union Minister for External Affairs Dr. S. Jaishankar inaugurates GEC 2026;Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra & Chief Patron of Future Economic Cooperation Council,Shri Devendra Fadnavis, emphasises India’s position as a trusted convenor of inclusive global economic partnerships Mumbai: Dr. S. Jaishankar, Hon’ble Union Minister for External Affairs, today inaugurated the Global Economic Cooperation (GEC) 2026, a three-day, high-level, international forum convened by the Future Economic Cooperation Council (FECC). The forum is being organised in cooperation with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India, and the Government of Maharashtra, with the support of Shri Devendra Fadnavis, Hon’ble Chief…

Hexaware Technologies [NSE: HEXT] has launched an open version of RapidX®, its agentic AI platform for software engineering, with native integration with Replit. The collaboration enables enterprises to move efficiently from rapid prototyping to production-ready applications. The integrated environment allows business users to translate natural-language requirements into working prototypes, while RapidX® applies engineering discipline, architecture guidance, and governance controls to scale solutions for enterprise deployment. This unified approach supports both new application development and modernization initiatives, helping reduce delivery risk and improve time-to-value. As part of the expanded partnership, Hexaware and Replit are launching dedicated Replit squads to support enterprise…

FiMI currently powers UPI Help Assistant, an AI-powered conversational support system for UPI users National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) today released FiMI (Finance Model for India), a domain-specific language model built for India’s payments ecosystem, at the India–AI Impact Summit 2026. Developed in-house by NPCI, FiMI currently powers NPCI’s UPI Help Assistant and is designed to address limitations observed in general-purpose large language models when applied to high-scale, high-trust payment workflows. FiMI has been built to natively understand the complexity of Indian payment systems, including UPI, covering transaction dispute handling, mandate lifecycle management, and regulatory and ecosystem queries. The model went…

The ASME Engineering Education Seminar & Workshop on Drone Technology was held at REVA University under the Mechanical Engineering Education Summit (MEEd). Organised by ASME Foundation India, the programme focused on aligning engineering education with real-world drone applications, regulatory frameworks, and industry requirements. The seminar highlighted drone technology as a multidisciplinary system integrating mechanical design, electronics, simulation, and digital intelligence. Experts emphasized that industry now requires engineers who combine technical depth with practical exposure and business awareness to build scalable UAV solutions across defence, agriculture, logistics, and infrastructure sectors. Mr. Madhukar Sharma, President and Director, ASME India Private Limited, noted…

AICTE-approved programme designed for tech professionals aspiring to become entrepreneurs; aligned with ‘Viksit Bharat @ 2047’ Bengaluru: Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), India’s pioneering institution in entrepreneurship education, today in Bengaluru announced PGDM in “Entrepreneurship for Tech Startups, which is an AICTE-approved management programme designed to empower tech professionals with entrepreneurial learning, mentorship, and venture-building support to help convert their high-potential ideas into successful startups. The newly announced Tech Startups specialization focuses on growing areas like EdTech, HealthTech, FinTech, AI-based businesses, and digital ventures that scale. It is designed with a practical bent, aiming to equip aspiring entrepreneurs with…

Bangalore: Larsen & Toubro Vyoma (Vyoma), the next generation sovereign AI cloud and digital infrastructure platform by L&T, today announced the launch of its Sovereign Cloud Platform (SCP), an AI-first cloud infrastructure designed to meet the growing enterprise and public-sector demand for data sovereignty, regulatory compliance and secure AI adoption. The platform will bring expertise in hyperscale cloud engineering, GPU computing and advanced AI workloads. As part of this rollout, Codincity Digital Technologies will act as the exclusive strategic partner for customer workload migration and modernisation, as well as for accelerating AI-native use cases built on Vyoma’s AI and data…

·       Collaboration launches in telecommunications with dedicated Anthropic Center of Excellence, expanding across financial services, manufacturing, and software development · Infosys TopazTM and Anthropic’s Claude models, including Claude Code, combine to automate complex workflows, accelerate software delivery, and build agentic AI solutions across industries Bengaluru: Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced a strategic collaboration with Anthropic, an AI safety and research company, to develop and deliver advanced enterprise AI solutions to companies across telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development. The collaboration will begin in telecommunications with a dedicated Anthropic Center of Excellence to build and deploy…