AI is forcing SRE and platform teams to grow up fast, new report finds
A new global survey suggests artificial intelligence is pushing the engineers who keep systems running to rewrite their playbooks as it moves from pilot projects into everyday business operations. Dynatrace’s…
The security gaps CIOs keep leaving open
Enterprise security conversations in 2026 tend to gravitate towards nation-state actors, zero-day exploits, and AI-powered attack chains. While the reality of how most web applications get compromised is far less…
Great data is the real foundation of enterprise AI speed
At the ET Edge CIO&Leader Annual Conference, Rucha Nanavati argued that AI transformation moves only as fast as the data foundation beneath it, and laid out what trustworthy enterprise data…
Air India’s digital overhaul puts the customer back at the centre
At the ET Edge CIO&Leader Annual Conference, Rajesh Dogra shared how modernising over a hundred core systems is laying the foundation for AI to genuinely improve the customer journey. Rajesh…
Agentic AI is here, and India’s data law isn’t ready for it, warns Supreme Court advocate
At the 27th ET Edge CIO&Leader annual conference in Jaipur, Dr Pavan Duggal, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and Architect of Global AI Accountability, delivered a sobering…
96% of Indian firms now run hybrid cloud, Forrester finds
Forrester says 96% of Indian enterprises have adopted hybrid cloud as AI costs, data rules, and resilience needs reshape strategy. India’s cloud story is entering a new chapter. A new…
Porsche and TCS put AI at the centre of a five year mobility deal
Porsche AG and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) are joining forces to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across the automaker’s manufacturing, engineering, operations, and customer experience functions. The partnership…
Tejas Shah Steps Down as Head of IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity & Applications at Prince Pipes
Tejas Shah has stepped down from his role as Head – IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Applications at Prince Pipes and Fittings after serving in the position for over four years.…
AI ambitions are outpacing the data systems built to support them
Enterprises worldwide are hitting a wall in their AI journey not because they lack appetite, but because the data architecture beneath their AI ambitions wasn’t built for this moment. That’s…
Indian Enterprises Must Move Beyond AI Pilots to Measurable Business Outcomes, Say Technology Leaders at ET Edge CIO&Leader Annual Conference
Over 250 CIOs and global AI experts highlight trusted data, governance, resilient infrastructure and responsible AI as the foundations of the Agentic Enterprise Jaipur, August 4, 2026: More than 250…
What Happens When Security Leads Transformation? NEC Shares Insights
As organizations race to digitize, the convergence of technology leadership and cybersecurity has become more than strategic- it’s essential. In this exclusive conversation with CIO&Leader, Ashish Gupta, CIO and CISO…
Alteryx Launches New AI Capabilities to Bring Governed Analytics Anywhere Work Happens
Alteryx, the agenticanalytics and automation company, today announced new AI capabilities across Alteryx One, its unified AI-powered analytics platform that brings together data preparation, analytics, automation and AI in a single environment. The new capabilities enable…
Digital Divide Data Opens AI and Robotics Global Capability Centre in Dehradun to Create Up to 1,000 Technology Jobs
Digital Divide Data a global social enterprise and provider of AI and data services, today announced the opening of its wholly owned Global Capability Center in Dehradun. Focused on robotics,…
Tata Elxsi Invests in KAVIA AI to Scale AI-Driven Software Engineering for Products and Enterprises
Tata Elxsi, a global leader in design and technology services, today announced a strategic investment in KAVIA AI, a Silicon Valley-based enterprise AI platform company. The investment strengthens the collaboration between the…
Mahindra Finance and Sarvam Expand Voice AI Collaboration Across Sales, Collections and Employee Engagement
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited one of India’s leading financial services providers, today announced an expanded voice AI partnership with Sarvam, the Bengaluru-based sovereign AI company, at Global Fintech Fest 2026, where Sarvam is this year’s AI Ecosystem Partner. Building on an earlier collaboration, Mahindra Finance has scaled the engagement into one of the largest voice AI deployments in Indian financial services. The Mahindra Group’s AI Division (Mahindra AI) has developed voice agents on Sarvam’s platform that operate across 12 Indian languages and have completed over one crore calls to date, reaching Mahindra Finance customers in their preferred language, at a time of their choosing. The partnership now spans three areas of Mahindra Finance’s business: Strong collaboration between Mahindra AI and Sarvam have led to tangible results at scale for Mahindra Finance. Mahindra AI orchestrated campaigns layered on top of inhouse machine learning models that utilized Sarvam’s voice agents to advance Mahindra Finance’s sales and collections campaigns translating model-driven predictions into real conversations, at scale, in the customer’s own language. Every call is recorded and analysed by custom AI pipelines, feeding a continuous-improvement loop and integrating with downstream systems and activities, including CRM, loan servicing and collections, to turn conversations into action. “Our customers have always trusted us to stay close to them, whether they are in a city or a village. Voice AI has allowed us to extend that closeness at scale reaching people proactively, in their own language.” said Raul Rebello, Managing Director & CEO, Mahindra Finance. “As we diversify into new lines of business, this partnership with Sarvam is central to how we scale customer-first financial services across Bharat.” “Mahindra Finance has set a strong benchmark for what AI at scale can look like in financial services,” said Pratyush Kumar, Co-founder, Sarvam. “More than one crore calls across sales, collections and employee engagement show what becomes possible when AI is deeply embedded into the business and continuously learns from customer outcomes.”
BSA Launches Priority Access Framework for Frontier AI Security Models
The Business Software Alliance today launched Cybersecurity Professionals First, a framework for voluntary public-private partnerships to give qualified cybersecurity professionals priority access to highly capable frontier AI models. As frontier…
What Happens After the Idea: Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Innovators Step Inside the World of Design and R&D
Every innovation starts with something simple: noticing that something could work better. For the young innovators of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2026, the next question is harder: how do you…
Vertiv Announces Agreement to Acquire UtilityInnovation Group to Accelerate Time to Power for AI Data Centers
Vertiv Holdings Co. a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, Vertiv Corporation, has entered into an agreement and plan of merger to acquire Utility Innovation Holdings,…
Deloitte launches the Open Model Engineering practice in India and other key global markets
Deloitte announced the launch of its Open Model Engineering practice in markets around the globe. The practice will initially be launched in India and other key global markets. The move…
Oracle’s AI agents can now execute enterprise work — here’s what CIOs should know
Oracle has launched a builder experience that lets enterprises run AI agent teams directly inside Fusion Cloud Applications, without a separate runtime or external orchestration layer. The company calls the…
COMPUTEX 2026: From Personal Devices to AI Infrastructure
For years, COMPUTEX Taipei was an exhibition where tech enthusiasts came to see flashy gaming rigs, watch overclocking contests, and explore the latest laptops and PC hardware. It was, above…
Intel is putting CPU back at the centre of the AI stack
Intel used its Computex 2026 keynote in Taipei to make a case that the shift from AI model training to AI inference, and the rise of agentic workloads is putting…
Why Google Antigravity 2.0 signals towards a multi-agent microservices future
Google launched Antigravity 2.0, expanding the platform from a specialized code editor into a standalone desktop operating layer. With this launch, Google is formalizing the transition away from monolithic artificial…
OpenAI starts new deployment business; acquires Tomoro to scale enterprise AI rollouts
OpenAI has launched the OpenAI Deployment Company, a new business focused on helping enterprises build, test, and run AI systems inside day-to-day operations. The company will work directly with businesses…
India’s AI Inflection Point: How National Technology Day 2026 Signals A New Era Of Responsible Innovation
From drug discovery to cybersecurity, India’s technology leaders are charting a path where AI is not just powerful—but purposeful. Every year on May 11, India pauses to mark National Technology…
Ten Years Strong: Vertex Group Appoints Tanya Singh as Global Vice President, Marketing & Communications to Power Its Next Decade
Vertex Group, the Times Square-headquartered multinational tech giant, today announced the appointment of Tanya Singh as Vice President, Marketing & Communications, as it completes 10 years of operations and targets…