Do AI Music Tools Truly Understand Indian Classical Music? Risks, Realities, And The Road Ahead – Outlook Business

Do AI Music Tools Truly Understand Indian Classical Music? Risks, Realities, And The Road Ahead – Outlook Business

Artificial Intelligence has rapidly entered the world of music, with tools now capable of composing melodies, generating vocals, and even mimicking styles. Platforms like OpenAI and Google DeepMind are pushing the boundaries of what machines can create. This raises an important and urgent question for Indian Classical Music: Do these AI systems actually have authentic…

Indian AI-focused start-ups bag nearly $650 million in funding in 2025, says report

Indian AI-focused start-ups bag nearly $650 million in funding in 2025, says report

India’s AI ecosystem is continuing to witness strong capital support, with AI start-ups collectively raising $643 million in funding in 2025, a slight increase of 4.1 per cent in 2024, an analysis of the top 100 Indian AI start-ups from management consulting firm Zinnov, shows. The top 100 AI start-ups have also posted a combined…

Best Game Development Outsourcing Companies for Indian Clients in 2026

Best Game Development Outsourcing Companies for Indian Clients in 2026

Introduction Game development in India is growing fast. More startups, more publishers, and more studios trying to build the next big hit. But there’s a problem. Building a full team is expensive and slow. Finding the right people takes time, and delays can kill momentum. That’s where outsourcing comes in. For Indian clients, outsourcing is…

Mint Explainer | Anthropic biotech bet and AI’s growing importance for Indian pharma

Mint Explainer | Anthropic biotech bet and AI’s growing importance for Indian pharma

Anthropic already partners companies that specialize in helping organizations adopt AI for life sciences work. These include the likes of Caylent, Deloitte, Accenture, KPMG, PwC, Quantium, Slalom, Tribe AI, and Turing. Its pharma clients include Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, Genmab, 10x Genomics, and Axiom Bio.

Indian IT Majors Bet Big on Dedicated AI Business Units

Indian IT Majors Bet Big on Dedicated AI Business Units

Indian IT giants—Wipro, Infosys, TCS, HCLTech, LTIMindtree, Mphasis, and Birlasoft—are driving enterprise growth through dedicated AI business units. Artificial Intelligence is no longer a peripheral capability for Indian IT services giants—it’s becoming the core of their business models. Over the past three years, leading firms have carved out dedicated AI business units (BUs), signaling a structural…

Adobe announces free access to AI-powered creative tools for Indian students

Adobe announces free access to AI-powered creative tools for Indian students

At the India AI Impact Summit, Adobe announced an investment aimed at expanding access to its AI-powered creative and productivity tools for students in India. It will provide applications including Firefly, Photoshop and Acrobat free of charge to students through accredited higher education institutions across the country. The offering includes access to software, curriculum, training…

Advocates Push for Indian Digital Infrastructure and Language Models, ETTelecom

Advocates Push for Indian Digital Infrastructure and Language Models, ETTelecom

NEW DELHI: The Centre should categorise digital infrastructure, considering its significance for artificial intelligence (AI)-backed applications, according to industry executives. They added that the country also needs to develop an “Indianised” language model, which will represent and serve the diverse citizen groups. “I think India should declare digital infrastructure as the most essential commodity, just…

How serious is AI risk to Indian IT services companies? Vishal Sikka explains

How serious is AI risk to Indian IT services companies? Vishal Sikka explains

Artificial intelligence (AI) could begin to affect Indian IT services companies by changing how certain types of enterprise work are delivered, especially tasks that are repetitive and prescriptive in nature, according to Vishal Sikka, Founder and CEO of Vianai and former CEO of Infosys. “If you look at the application of generative AI to knowledge…

Indian Telcos Compete Through Digital and AI Services

Indian Telcos Compete Through Digital and AI Services

Bharti Airtel customers have limited time to claim the company’s complimentary Adobe Express Premium subscription, which was announced earlier this year as part of its digital rewards programme. The offer is available to all Airtel users, including broadband, prepaid, and postpaid subscribers, and provides access to the premium version of Adobe’s design and content creation…

Bharat Vistaar AI Platform Launched To Support Indian Farmers

Bharat Vistaar AI Platform Launched To Support Indian Farmers

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Budget 2026: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during her Budget 2026 speech, announced Bharat Vistaar, a new multilingual, AI-powered digital platform designed to strengthen the last-mile delivery of agricultural knowledge across India. The tool aims to make scientific farming advice easier to access for farmers,…