CXO XPERTS
Sarvam AI Startup Programme Fuels Indic AI Builders
Sarvam AI has introduced the Sarvam Startup Programme, providing early-stage companies with up to 12 months of API credits, priority engineering support and production-ready infrastructure to build multilingual AI applications without backend complexities. Founders Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar positioned the initiative to empower India’s developer ecosystem with high-quality models fluent in 22+ Indian languages and English, enabling full agency in creating voice agents,...
Quest Global’s 90% Women Engineers Lead Diversity Gains
Quest Global reports that 90% of its women employees—nine in ten—hold technical and engineering roles, far exceeding global STEM benchmarks where women comprise about...
TCS Eyes More Hyperscaler AI Data Centres for India’s 10GW Need
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is in advanced discussions with multiple hyperscalers to construct additional AI data centres in India, following its agreement with OpenAI...
Seqrite Flags Supply Chain Attacks as India’s Stealthiest 2026 Cyber Risk
Seqrite, the enterprise security arm of Quick Heal Technologies, has warned that software supply chain attacks have become one of the most dangerous and...
IIIT-H SyPy Secures AI Blockchain and Mobile Frontiers
The Security and Privacy Research Group (SyPy) at IIIT Hyderabad systematically uncovers architectural weaknesses in AI pipelines, blockchain networks, mobile ecosystems and distributed systems...
Cloudflare Report: AI Drives Log-In Threat Shift
Cloudflare Threat Intelligence Report 2026, analysing 230 billion daily blocked threats, documents a paradigm shift where adversaries prioritise ‘logging in’ over ‘breaking in’, using...
France’s 15.8M Medical Data Breach via Cegedim Vendor
A cyberattack on Cegedim Santé, a key software provider to France’s health ministry, compromised 15.8 million administrative medical files in late 2025, with 165,000...
ISACA Revamps ITAF to Anchor Digital Trust and AI Audit
ISACA has released the 5th edition of its IT Audit Framework (ITAF), updating the profession’s core reference for planning, performing and reporting IT audit...
India 82% Talent Gap Tops Global AI Skills Crunch
India faces an acute talent shortage with 82% of employers struggling to fill roles in 2026, surpassing the global average of 72% and ranking...
OpenAI Builds GitHub Rival Amid Service Woes
Reports indicate that OpenAI is developing a code-hosting platform to rival Microsoft’s GitHub, driven by recent service disruptions that affected engineer productivity and highlighted...
Gartner Warns of 10% PC Smartphone Decline on Memory Surge
Gartner projects worldwide PC shipments to fall 10.4% and smartphone shipments to drop 8.4% in 2026 compared to 2025, marking the lowest device volumes...
Cohere Health GCC Scales Clinical AI from Hyderabad
US-based Cohere Health has launched a Global Capability Centre in Hyderabad, positioning India as a core element of its global operating model for AI-powered...
Kaspersky Exposes Hidden Notepad++ Attack Chains
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team has uncovered at least three distinct infection chains in the Notepad++ supply chain compromise, with two previously undocumented,...
