Gnani.ai Raises $10 Mn from Aavishkaar Capital to Power Next-Gen AI Voice Agents

Gnani.ai Raises $10 Mn from Aavishkaar Capital to Power Next-Gen AI Voice Agents

Founded in 2016 by Ganesh Gopalan and Ananth Nagaraj, Gnani.ai launched its voice-first AI model, Inya, at the India Impact AI Summit 2026.  Gnani.ai’s B2B agentic AI solutions improve the customer experience for large enterprises and customer-facing businesses across the BFSI, telecommunications, e-commerce, and healthcare sectors.  “We recently launched Vachna TTS (text-to-speech) that can voice…

AI Tools and Digital Payments Are Transforming Contractor Workflows in 2026

AI Tools and Digital Payments Are Transforming Contractor Workflows in 2026

Anyone who works in the trades knows that time is the hardest thing to get more of. Between answering customer calls, writing estimates, managing crews, ordering materials, and keeping jobs moving, most contractors finish the day feeling like there was never quite enough time to get everything done. For years, technology promised to help solve…

ICP Price Hits $2.27% Amid Crypto Slump on AI and Payments

ICP Price Hits $2.27% Amid Crypto Slump on AI and Payments

Internet Computer’s ICP token experiences an uptick even though the entire crypto market is struggling. The project has launched a new AI “skills” tool, which helps developers build smart, AI-powered apps on the network. ICP is now live in more than 137 SPAR Switzerland stores. Internet Computer (ICP) has proved its resilience amid the broader…

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers or…

California’s last nuclear power plant has turned to AI to solve its big paperwork problem

California’s last nuclear power plant has turned to AI to solve its big paperwork problem

Diablo Canyon is California’s last operating nuclear power plant.PG&E Generative AI is tackling a PG&E nuclear plant’s massive headache: millions of pages of paperwork. The ChatGPT-like tool significantly cuts down the time needed to find documents at Diablo Canyon. It’s the first generative AI tool used on-site at a US nuclear power plant. In 2016,…

AI App Store and Third-Party Integrations to Debut at WWDC 2026

AI App Store and Third-Party Integrations to Debut at WWDC 2026

The upcoming updates are expected to enhance Siri itself, making it behave more like a standalone app. It may accept voice and text input, retain access to past conversations, and integrate smoothly with third-party AI services. The new feature will work while maintaining Apple’s privacy-first approach. Most processing is expected to occur on-device or in…