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,…

Indian IT’s mega deals spike on AI push, but there’s not much to celebrate yet

Indian IT’s mega deals spike on AI push, but there’s not much to celebrate yet

In October-December, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Infosys reported three mega deals combined, the most in nine quarters, according to their earnings filings. These involve deploying artificial intelligence (AI) tools to transform clients’ legacy information technology (IT) infrastructure. Yet, Fortune companies are reducing the number of IT vendors they work with…

78% Indian creators express concern over unauthorised AI training: Report

78% Indian creators express concern over unauthorised AI training: Report

Adobe has released its first Creators’ Toolkit Report, a global survey examining how content creators are using creative generative AI and mobile tools in their work, and what they expect from emerging technologies such as agentic AI. In India, one of the fastest-growing creator markets, the report found that AI tools have moved from experimentation…