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Kiran Mani Joins OpenAI, Will Lead APAC From Singapore

OpenAI has appointed Kiran Mani, CEO of JioStar's digital division, as Managing Director for Asia-Pacific.

OpenAI has appointed Kiran Mani, CEO of JioStar's digital division, as Managing Director for Asia-Pacific.

Voice-based payments are set to expand digital commerce access in India as Razorpay partners with Sarvam AI to enable transactions in local languages.

The distributed inference framework, co-developed with Red Hat, IBM Research, CoreWeave, and NVIDIA, moves under Linux Foundation governance to standardize Kubernetes-based AI serving.

ClimateAi uses machine learning on satellite, oceanic, and atmospheric data to help food and agribusiness companies see crop yield disruptions coming months before they happen. Its customers include Dole, Driscoll's, Suntory, and Oatly. Almost no one outside the industry has heard of it.

OpenAI retires Instant Checkout and shifts focus to product discovery, rolling out richer comparison tools, image-based search, and conversational browsing to all free and paid users this week.

Sarvam AI, the Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup founded in 2023, is in advanced talks to raise up to $250 million from Nvidia, Accel and HCLTech at a $1.5 billion valuation. The deal, if finalized, would make Sarvam one of India's youngest unicorns and signal growing global confidence in India's push for sovereign AI infrastructure.

David Dugan, former VP of Global Clients and Agencies at Meta, has joined OpenAI as Vice President of Global Ads Solutions, a move that highlights OpenAI's growing ambition in the advertising space.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launched the National AI Skilling Initiative on March 23, in partnership with Google and YouTube.

NVIDIA and Emerald AI announced that they are partnering with six leading U.S. energy companies AES, Constellation, Invenergy, NextEra Energy, Nscale Energy & Power and Vistra to develop a new generation of AI data centers designed to connect to the power grid faster and operate as flexible energy assets.

Sysdig announced runtime security for AI coding agents at RSA Conference 2026, bringing real-time visibility into autonomous development tools such as Claude Code, Codex and Gemini. The new capabilities are designed to detect risky behavior including unauthorized credential access and reverse shells as enterprises rapidly expand their use of AI-assisted development workflows.