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Enterprise AI infrastructure has long scaled in familiar ways: more workloads, more racks, larger campuses, and bigger c...
29/05/2026

Enterprise AI infrastructure has long scaled in familiar ways: more workloads, more racks, larger campuses, and bigger cloud commitments.

That model still works when the goal is broad compute accumulation. It becomes less reliable when AI moves from pilots to live operational dependency.

As production AI spreads into sectors such as industrial automation, healthcare diagnostics, logistics, surveillance and remote operations, infrastructure planning has to account for more than capacity. Compute concentration risk, terrestrial buildout delays, latency limits and foreign cloud dependency are becoming board-level issues.

Model oversight without compute-location oversight leaves a strategic blind spot.

Ahead of MIT Sloan Management Review India’s AI Research Forum in Bengaluru, Shivani Tiwari spoke with Narendra Sen, Founder and Chief Executive of RackBank® and NeevCloud®, and Saraniya P., Vehicle Director, Agnibaan SOrTeD, AgniKul Cosmos, on the future of AI infrastructure across sectors.

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Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his papacy to argue that artificial intelligence cannot be governed by technol...
26/05/2026

Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his papacy to argue that artificial intelligence cannot be governed by technology companies alone, placing the Vatican’s moral authority behind a widening debate over who should control the systems now reshaping work, war, education and public life.

In Magnifica Humanitas, released on Monday, 25 May, Leo warned that AI risks deepening the concentration of power in the hands of a small group of private actors, and called for legal frameworks, independent oversight and political responsibility to guide its development.

The document, formally titled On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, positions AI as an institutional challenge.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/the-vatican-enters-the-ai-governance-debate/

26/05/2026

| The global AI boom has produced a familiar headline race. Who trained the largest model? Who raised the most capital? Who built the fastest-growing platform? That race is real. It has also concentrated power among a small number of companies with the compute budgets to compete at that layer.

The more open and consequential contest is happening elsewhere. In the infrastructure that makes AI work in production. In the tooling that moves enterprises from pilots to operations. In the language models trained on Indian speech. In diagnostic systems reading scans for hospitals with limited specialist access. In hiring platforms reaching workers, English-language AI was never built to serve.

This is where India has a structural advantage few markets can match. Talent density, cost discipline, domestic scale and the sheer diversity of problems waiting to be solved.

Ahead of MIT Sloan Management Review India’s AI Research Forum in Bengaluru, we identified 20 organizations selected for technical differentiation, funding momentum and the potential to shape how enterprises, institutions and a billion individuals engage with artificial intelligence. From Sarvam and BharatGen to 5C Network and Vahan.ai, these are builders working at the layer that will determine whether India’s AI moment produces lasting infrastructure or impressive demos.

These are not necessarily the loudest names in the room. They are among the most consequential.

MIT SMR India’s AI Research Forum makes its India debut in Bengaluru on 23 July, bringing together enterprise leaders, researchers and practitioners to examine how autonomous AI is moving from experimentation to governed deployment at scale.

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The full list: https://mitsloanindia.com/twenty-ai-builders-shaping-indias-intelligent-future/

Avataar Gan.AI Soket AI Labs Shodh AI Vahan.ai NeuroDX Fractal Analytics Academy KOGO AI SquadStack.ai ZenteiQ.ai Neysa Staqu Technologies AgniKul Cosmos Genloop gnani.ai 5C Network BharatGen Sarvam Tech Mahindra QNu Inc

Studies of the airline industry show that resilience does not have to come at the cost of efficiency. Managers in a vari...
25/05/2026

Studies of the airline industry show that resilience does not have to come at the cost of efficiency.

Managers in a variety of industries can meet both objectives by ensuring that operational performance metrics reflect true customer priorities; using predictive analytics and data-driven insights to allocate system buffers where they generate the most meaningful resilience benefits; and shaping the options offered to customers to improve their company’s resilience to disruptions.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/resolve-the-conflict-between-efficiency-and-resilience/

25/05/2026

Why Indian CXOs are Moving Fast on AI Agents

Ahead of MIT Sloan Management Review India’s AI Research Forum in Bengaluru, Vidyashree S spoke with Ankur Kothari, Co-founder and COO of Automation Anywhere, on how agentic AI and agentic process automation is gaining ground across sectors.

Kothari said organizations across Automation Anywhere’s customer base, including global capability centers (GCCs), are combining AI with automation to drive end-to-end process automation. Some are running specific departments and functions in autonomous mode using AI agents and AI assistants, he said.

Adoption is rising sharply in oil and gas globally, alongside financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare, which have led adoption over the years, Kothari said, adding that pharmaceuticals is among the fastest-moving sectors in use-case deployment.

Watch the full interview to know more.

AI Research Forum (AIRF) makes its India debut in Bengaluru on July 23, bringing together enterprise leaders, researchers and practitioners to examine how autonomous AI is moving from experimentation to governed deployment at scale.

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Advait Energy Transitions Ltd said it signed an agreement with Norway’s TECO Fuel Cell Technology AS to set up a framewo...
22/05/2026

Advait Energy Transitions Ltd said it signed an agreement with Norway’s TECO Fuel Cell Technology AS to set up a framework for hydrogen fuel cell manufacturing in India, as the country seeks to build domestic clean-energy supply chains.

The memorandum of understanding was signed on 18 May during the third India-Nordic Summit in Oslo, the company said in an exchange filing.

The signing was witnessed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

The companies plan to work on local manufacturing, adaptation and deployment of hydrogen fuel cell technology for stationary power, heavy-duty transport and maritime applications.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/advait-energy-signs-norway-pact-for-hydrogen-fuel-cell-manufacturing/

Google said it is making the biggest upgrade to its search box in more than 25 years, adding artificial intelligence fea...
22/05/2026

Google said it is making the biggest upgrade to its search box in more than 25 years, adding artificial intelligence features that can answer complex queries, generate interactive results and run agents in the background.

The changes, announced at Google I/O, deepen the company’s shift from conventional search results toward AI-generated answers and task-based search.

Google said AI Mode has surpassed 1 billion monthly users one year after launch, while AI Overviews now reaches 2.5 billion monthly users, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said.

Google is also rolling out information agents inside Search. The agents will monitor the web, news, social posts and real-time data such as finance, shopping and sports information, then send synthesized updates when conditions set by users are met.

Information agents will launch first for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer.

Read more: http://mitsloanindia.com/article/google-overhauls-search-with-ai-agents-interactive-results/

OpenAI on Tuesday introduced a new offering called Guaranteed Capacity, allowing eligible customers to secure long-term ...
22/05/2026

OpenAI on Tuesday introduced a new offering called Guaranteed Capacity, allowing eligible customers to secure long-term access to computing power as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure rises.

The program lets customers make one- to three-year commitments, with discounts increasing based on annual commitment levels, OpenAI said.

The offering is designed for production systems, customer-facing applications and AI agents that need predictable access to OpenAI compute, the company said.

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/openai-offers-guaranteed-compute-as-ai-capacity-tightens/

Anthropic has hired Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s founding members and a former Tesla AI executive, adding a high-pro...
22/05/2026

Anthropic has hired Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s founding members and a former Tesla AI executive, adding a high-profile researcher to its pretraining team as competition for AI talent intensifies.

“I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative,” Karpathy said in a post on X, adding that he is “excited to get back to R&D.”

The appointment comes as Anthropic competes with OpenAI and other frontier-model developers to build more capable AI systems, with talent becoming a key battleground alongside compute capacity, model performance and enterprise adoption.

https://mitsloanindia.com/article/anthropic-hires-andrej-karpathy-for-claude-pretraining-team/

Analog Devices, a US power-management semiconductor firm, said it will acquire Empower Semiconductor, a Silicon Valley s...
22/05/2026

Analog Devices, a US power-management semiconductor firm, said it will acquire Empower Semiconductor, a Silicon Valley startup focused on power delivery for AI processors, in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.5 billion.

The deal will add Empower’s integrated voltage regulator and silicon capacitor technologies to ADI’s portfolio. The companies said the combination will help deliver power closer to processors, shorten the power-delivery path and improve efficiency in higher-density systems.

“AI infrastructure is fundamentally reshaping how power must be delivered,” Vincent Roche, ADI’s Chief Executive Officer and chair, said in the statement. He said energy has become “the most persistent constraint to scaling next-generation systems.”

Read more: https://mitsloanindia.com/article/analog-devices-to-buy-empower-semiconductor-for-1-5-billion/

Most conversations about agentic AI begin with software. Coding assistants, customer service agents and enterprise knowl...
21/05/2026

Most conversations about agentic AI begin with software. Coding assistants, customer service agents and enterprise knowledge workflows have shaped the early imagination of what autonomous systems can do.

Engineering-led sectors face a different test.

When AI enters products, plants, industrial systems and regulated operating environments, the question is not only whether it can improve productivity. It is whether organizations can trust AI-enabled systems to operate within real-world constraints, where failures may affect safety, reliability, compliance, cost and customer outcomes.

In this context, AI adoption depends on more than model performance. It requires clear guardrails, validation loops, domain-specific accountability and the ability to connect digital intelligence with physical systems.

Ahead of MIT Sloan Management Review India’s AI Research Forum in Bengaluru, Kaumudi Kashikar Gurjar spoke with Amit Chadha, CEO and Managing Director of L&T Technology Services, on the company’s Engineering Intelligence strategy and why AI in engineering may not follow the software playbook.

The discussion examines how engineering enterprises are thinking about agentic AI, where adoption may move faster, where caution is justified, and why the next phase of AI advantage will depend on operating discipline as much as technical capability.

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