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According to PwC, AI demand and recurring chip and hardware upgrades could drive global data centre investment to $31.6 trillion by 2050, rising towards $50 trillion if adoption accelerates, while power availability will play a pivotal role in determining where the capital flows.
The new framework covers six pillars and 10 categories across chip design, fabs, packaging, equipment, materials and talent, with India targeting one lakh semiconductor design engineers over five years.
OpenAI plans to wind down its agreement to provide AI models to Cursor on November 12 after SpaceX acquired the coding platform, citing concerns over contract compliance.
Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1 billion for its Machine Age Fund to invest in the physical infrastructure powering AI, including chips, data centers, networking, storage and robotics.
Google DeepMind and Google Research have expanded their WeatherNext family of AI weather models with WeatherNext Cyclones, a system designed specifically for tropical cyclone forecasting. The model predicts a cyclone’s track, intensity and wind structure. Google says its three-day forecasts are as accurate as what prior models could provide for the next two days, giving… Continue reading Google Advances WeatherNext AI From General Weather Forecasting to Specialized Cyclone Predictions
The researchers say AI agents could put corporate interests ahead of users, as the companies behind them pursue their own commercial interests and the agents’ broad access to personal data raises privacy concerns.
The partnership will help Porsche industrialise AI at scale and accelerate the development and deployment of AI applications across its value chain.
India’s Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal is leading the country’s largest-ever business delegation of over 200 representatives to Japan from August 24. The four-day visit covering Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka prioritises semiconductors, artificial intelligence, clean energy and advanced manufacturing to deepen economic ties.
AI agents are now the primary consumers of AI tokens. OpenRouter data cited by a16z shows agents use nearly five times as many tokens as humans, with agentic consumption rising 14-fold since February 2026 to reach 7.3 trillion tokens. The shift is driven by agents’ iterative, goal-oriented workflows and is already influencing enterprise infrastructure and traditional automation tools.
The statewide rollout is set to begin October 1, 2026, while Adalat AI is joining Y Combinator as it plans to expand across India and the Global South.
