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HCLTech Bags $1.14 Billion AI Deal From Fortune Global 50 Firm

HCLTech's $1.14 billion deal runs until December 2031, with an option to extend for another five years.

HCLTech has signed an AI-led contract worth an estimated $1.14 billion with a Europe-headquartered Fortune Global 50 company, one of the Indian IT major’s biggest deals in recent years.

Microsoft Launches Microsoft Frontier Company With $2.5 Billion AI Bet

Microsoft's Frontier Company will embed 6,000 engineers directly with enterprise customers.

Backed by an investment of $2.5 billion the company will provide a unique combination of skills inclusive of deep industry knowledge, change management and continuous improvement experience, and enterprise-grade AI engineering expertise.

“For India, Sovereign AI Cannot Sensibly Mean Technological Isolationism”: Former G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant

Amitabh Kant, former G20 Sherpa and former CEO of NITI Aayog, argues that India must stay 'rooted in its own capability, connected to the world.'

“A country is not sovereign because it owns every technology it uses. It is sovereign when it is not dependent on a single provider, a single geography or a single political decision”, says Amitabh Kant in an exclusive interview with AI FrontPage.

First UN AI Report Warns Global South Shut Out of AI Governance

António Guterres presents the UN scientific panel's first AI assessment on July 1, 2026, ahead of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva. (Photo: UN)

The 40-member Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa — released its first report on July 1, warning that AI safeguards are failing to keep pace with capabilities and that the Global South remains locked out of both AI development and governance. Guterres to governments: “Do not wait.”

Palantir CEO Slams “Tokenmaxxing” by AI Companies, Bats for AI Sovereignty With Product Launch

Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticised the token-based business model of AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, days after the company posted a nine-point manifesto on AI sovereignty. (Representative image)

In a post on X, the company said AI sovereignty determines an institution’s future, adding that sovereignty is the precondition for choice — and slammed “tokenmaxxing,” the pursuit of high AI token usage that it says creates an addictive feeling of false progress.

55% UK Employees Admit Using Unapproved AI Tools at Work: Report

55% of UK Employees Use Unapproved AI Tools at Work KnowBe4 Report

The report titled “From Agentic Risk to Human Wins” has revealed that 55% of employees admit to using unapproved AI tools, while 1 in 10 knowingly entered sensitive information into AI platforms despite understanding the risks.

Anthropic Re-instates Claude Fable Worldwide, Says Willing to Share Mythos with Other Nations

Anthropic announced Wednesday that it will reinstate Claude Fable model worldwide for users after ban by US government

On June 12, U.S. government had put Claude Fable and Claude Mythos under export control citing national security.

‘A Data Centre Should Produce Water, Not Drink It’: Uravu Labs’ Swapnil Shrivastav

Swapnil Shrivastav, co-founder and CEO of Uravu Labs, at the company's Bengaluru pilot facility, where its liquid-desiccant system extracts water from air using waste heat. (Photo: Uravu Labs / handout)

He Watched His College Run Out of Water. Now He Wants Data Centres to Make It.
A profile on Uravu Labs CEO Swapnil Shrivastav.

Amid Frontier AI Control Debate, Google’s AI Governance Plan Pitches a New U.S. Regulator

Google's white paper proposes a federally overseen Frontier AI Regulatory Organisation to oversee the most advanced AI models. (Image: Representational)

Google’s new white paper calls for a federally overseen Frontier AI Regulatory Organisation (FARO) to set safety standards for the most advanced models, while pushing the government to adapt existing laws for everyday AI tools like chatbots

NVIDIA, Palantir Put Nemotron Open Models Inside US Government Systems

NVIDIA and Palantir have partnered to run Nemotron open models in sovereign, air-gapped environments for US government agencies. (Image: NVIDIA / Palantir)

NVIDIA and Palantir have joined forces to deploy Nemotron open models inside secure, air-gapped environments for US government agencies and critical infrastructure operators.