Online festive sales fizzle; Snowflake CEO on AI’s impact on softwareHappy Monday! Festive ecommerce sales have slowed down this year, we tell you why. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
19 Oct, 2026, 02.02 PM IST
China's AI data centre boom faces Return-on-Investment test as financing costs rise: Goldman SachsGoldman Sachs examined three business models in China's data centre sector: traditional powered-shell facilities, integrated AI data centre...
19 Oct, 2026, 12.43 PM IST
Voice AI’s future lies in outcome-based pricing: Exotel’s Sachin BhatiaBhatia linked pressure on the per-minute pricing model to venture capital funding and a crowded market, where providers compete to offer in...
19 Oct, 2026, 12.43 PM IST
DeepSeek pushes out updated AI model it says is faster, leanerThe firm unveiled the V4.1-Flash-1017 late Saturday afternoon with a series of posts on X saying the update had “stronger benchmark perform...
17 Oct, 2026, 09.53 PM IST
What is Meta’s Muse Spark Open and what can it do?An open-weight model is an AI model whose core components — the numerical parameters learned during its training, known as its weights — ar...
16 Oct, 2026, 06.29 PM IST
I’ll believe it when I see it: Figma boss on AI restraint calls“It’s a nice thing to say, and I’ll believe it when I see it,” the 33-year-old Field -- one of the youngest American billionaires --told ET...
16 Oct, 2026, 10.54 AM IST
Flipkart ex-staff push for Esop buyout; Wipro, Tech Mahindra’s Q2 reportHappy Friday! Former Flipkart employees are asking Walmart to cash out their vested stock options. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning ...
16 Oct, 2026, 09.09 AM IST
Voice-first India is reshaping OpenAI’s priorities: Applications CTOIndian users frequently switch between English and Hindi during the same conversation, a behaviour OpenAI wants its models to understand an...
16 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
India needs AI-enabled creative stack, forward-looking IP framework: Gaurav BanerjeeGaurav Banerjee emphasized the need for India to create an AI-enabled creative stack during the CII Big Picture Summit. He suggested that c...
15 Oct, 2026, 10.54 PM IST
How AI is Powering the Future of Citizen ServicesIndia is a diverse land, and reflecting the country’s linguistic diversity has been a long-held ambition for technology, AI included. Now, ...
15 Oct, 2026, 05.35 PM IST
Gnani AI adds tone and pace controls to its multilingual speech model Timbre v3.0Gnani AI introduced Timbre v3.0, enabling businesses to control AI voice parameters like pace and expression. The model supports text-to-sp...
14 Oct, 2026, 01.59 PM IST
Build some, buy some, lock into none: Aditya Birla Capital's Pankaj Gadgil on buying AIGadgil said companies should retain the ability to build their own tools without waiting to recreate solutions available in the market.
14 Oct, 2026, 01.30 PM IST
Meta says its new AI models on par with OpenAI, AnthropicMeta on Monday unveiled two new "frontier" artificial intelligence models called Wonder and Wonder Full, which the company claims perform a...
13 Oct, 2026, 10.38 AM IST
AI startup Sarvam in talks for $300 million top-up; valuation may double to $3 billionThe startup builds Indian-language AI models and applications for government agencies and businesses, including banks and insurers. Its cus...
13 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Intel CEO says Chinese frontier AI model adoption has been 'very fast'At a recent panel, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan discussed the swift integration of Chinese frontier AI models like DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM. He note...
12 Oct, 2026, 01.23 PM IST
Mexico busts network that used AI to clone VIP voicesThe security ministry said Thursday that the former treasurer of the state of Michoacan, his wife, children, and a bodyguard, were all arre...
09 Oct, 2026, 11.09 PM IST
ElevenLabs hears a global tune in Indian voice AI deploymentsElevenLabs, recently valued at $22 billion, is expanding its research, engineering, and deployment teams in the country, which is now its s...
07 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST