This week in AI
3 Aug – 10 Aug 2026
Teaching AI to speak India
Artificial intelligence can chat, translate and answer questions but only if it understands your language. At IIT Madras, researchers at AI4Bharat are travelling across India, collecting voices, preserving dialects and teaching AI to understand the country’s incredible linguistic diversity.
The Hindu Technology · 9 Aug
Government examines Meta’s recommendation system for intermediary status
The Centre is examining whether Meta’s recommendation systems and paid content promotion align with its intermediary status under India’s IT Act, amid concerns over content moderation, deepfakes and unlabelled AI content.
YourStory · 8 Aug
Sarvam AI | All about the Bengaluru startup’s plans for a trillion-parameter model
Sarvam AI’s plan has clear geopolitical implications, but developing a trillion-parameter model is a huge challenge.
The Hindu Technology · 8 Aug
India’s healthcare AI race isn’t about bigger models. It’s about better diagnostics
AI is bound to have an impact on the future of medicine. But the most valuable thing that AI will do for us will definitely be beyond substituting doctors or automating clinical decisions.
YourStory · 7 Aug
India’s drug regulator has not adopted AI for regulatory approvals: Govt
In response to the AI use in drug approval query, J.P. Nadda said CDSCO continues to rely on scientific and technical review for regulatory decisions and the Subject Expert Committee examines clinical trial approvals. The post India’s drug regulator has not adopted AI for regulatory approvals: Govt appeared first on M…
MediaNama · 6 Aug
Peptris is using AI to find drug candidates to shorten the time it takes for laboratory validation
The Bengaluru-based company builds models that generate molecules and predict how they will behave, and has licensed its lead candidate to a US developer.
YourStory · 5 Aug
Foxconn vendor Agile Robots acquires majority stake in XNG Automation to scale up local production
"We have acquired a majority stake in Bengaluru-based XNG Automation to expand our local production of automation solutions," Agile India managing director Saravanan Solaiappan said without sharing financial details of the deal.
Economic Times Tech · 4 Aug
Pre-dawn emails and empty desks: inside the sudden layoffs at Visa India
The Visa layoffs show how AI is changing employment in multinational technology companies, with automation, tighter spending and workloads shifting months before thousands of roles were eliminated.
Mint Technology · 4 Aug
Outcome-first AI: redesigning enterprise service delivery at scale
By Gayatri Guha When EY GDS Partner Tanu Garg took the stage at DevSparks Bengaluru 2026, she challenged one of the most common assumptions about enterprise AI: that its primary role is automation. “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not about making existing processes faster. It is about rewirin
YourStory · 3 Aug
Nike, Adidas and Puma once sourced from this Punjab city. What happened?
Jalandhar once dominated India’s sports goods exports, but Chinese competition and slow automation sharply reduced its global lead.
YourStory · 3 Aug
Announcing the 2026 cohort of Google Play Accelerator India
Google Play Accelerator India has announced its 2026 cohort, featuring 20 pioneering AI-powered startups from diverse sectors
Google India Blog · 3 Aug