Tag: Digital Sovereignty
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,...
Oracle Layoffs Fund AI Data Centre Push Amid Cash Squeeze
Oracle is planning thousands of job cuts across divisions as it grapples with a cash crunch from aggressive AI data centre buildout to support major clients including a $300 billion OpenAI agreement, xAI and Meta, as Bloomberg News first reported. The reductions, potentially broader than typical rolling cuts, may begin this month and target roles expected to diminish under AI automation, coinciding with an...
MeitY Issues Apple Notice After Spyware Alerts
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued a notice to Apple following a new wave of "mercenary spyware" threat notifications sent...
Microsoft’s $17.5 B India AI Commitment
Microsoft’s latest US$17.5 billion investment marks a significant acceleration in India’s drive to localize artificial intelligence infrastructure, expand sovereign cloud capabilities, and democratize AI access...
IT Minister Vaishnaw Switches to Zoho in Swadeshi Tech Push
Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, announced on X (formerly Twitter) that he has shifted to Zoho, India’s leading homegrown software...
Deutsche Telekom and SAP Eye EU AI Centre
Deutsche Telekom, SAP, Ionos, and retailer Schwarz have joined forces to propose the development of a large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) data processing centre in...
STL & C-DOT Secure India’s Quantum Future
In a significant leap for India’s quantum communication ambitions, the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) and Sterlite Technologies Ltd. (STL) have successfully demonstrated...
India’s Health Data at Risk: AI and Digital Colonialism
India is facing growing scrutiny over the cross-border flow of its sensitive health data, as global corporations increasingly look to low- and middle-income countries...
