Sarvam AI positions itself as India's full stack sovereign AI platform. It offers a suite of artificial intelligence solutions built entirely on domestic compute infrastructure. The platform supports speech to text, text to speech, translation, document digitisation, multilingual dubbing, and conversational AI across Indian languages. It has processed more than 10 billion tokens. It also delivers a median latency below 100 milliseconds and a 99.9% uptime service level agreement. The company recently introduced Sarvam Circle. It is also showcasing its latest innovations at the Sarvam Epoch
Google has launched "Ask Google Pay" in India, a Gemini-powered artificial intelligence assistant integrated into the Google Pay app. The new opt-in feature enables users to analyse their spending, receive personalised financial insights, and understand complex financial concepts through natural text or voice conversations. The AI assistant allows users to ask questions like how much they spent on dining last week. It analyses transaction history and credit report data to provide tailored insights and recommendations instead of simply displaying past transactions. In addition to spendin
Microsoft has unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first generative artificial intelligence model designed specifically for cybersecurity, as the company steps up efforts to strengthen its security business through AI-powered threat detection. During an event in San Francisco, Microsoft said the model, when paired with OpenAI's GPT-5.4, outperformed rival offerings from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on the CyberGym benchmark, while delivering comparable results at roughly half the cost. The new model will power Project Perception, a suite of AI agents capable of identifying security vulnerab
Indian astronomers, along with international collaborators, have reported the rare discovery of a Blue Straggler Star (BSS) caught in the process of formation, providing some of the strongest direct observational evidence yet for how these unusual stars are created. The research team, led by scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), studied the binary star system TIC 327546480 in the Collinder 261 star cluster, located around 9,500 light-years from Earth. Blue Straggler Stars are hotter, brighter, and more massive than other stars of a similar age within the same clust
China has completed and tested the world's largest superconducting fusion magnet, marking a significant step in its ambitious effort to develop an "Artificial Sun" capable of producing clean energy through nuclear fusion. Developed by the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the toroidal field superconducting magnet measures 21 metres in height, 12 metres in width and weighs 582 tonnes. It is a key component of China's fusion energy programme and will be used in the China Fusion Engineering Demonstration Reactor (CFEDR). The magnet is designed to generate a
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Pawan Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka, the founders of Skyroot Aerospace, and congratulated them for the Vikram-1 mission success, describing the interaction as an engaging discussion on India's growing private space ecosystem. On X, the Prime Minister said the success of Vikram-1 featured prominently in the conversation, alongside discussions on the company's journey and plans. "A great interaction with Pawan Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka of Skyroot Aerospace. The success of Vikram-1 naturally featured prominently in our discussion, with many
A group of students from Khalifa University has developed an AI-based startup called Hartum Compliance to simplify cybersecurity compliance for organisations using artificial intelligence and automation. The platform was founded in 2025 and is currently preparing to launch pilot projects with early partners. It is supported by Cyber E71, a startup ecosystem backed by the UAE Cyber Security Council, and is focused on helping organisations improve their cybersecurity compliance requirements. The platform is designed to reduce the amount of manual work involved in compliance by guiding org
A team of five BTech students from Dumka Engineering College in Jharkhand developed an autonomous water cleaning robot to clean the Shiv Ganga pond at Basukinath Dham during the Shravani Mela, which begins on July 3. 'Nautes Revival Bot is an Autonomous Water Cleaning Robot', designed as a final-year engineering project and is now set for real-world deployment. A live demonstration of the robot is scheduled to take place before it begins regular operations during the annual pilgrimage. The project was developed over five months to provide an efficient solution for cleaning pollute
NASA's NISAR satellite has captured an unusual radar image revealing a frozen landscape beneath Antarctica's ice that resembles a hummingbird with outstretched wings. The striking formation is not a naturally carved shape but the result of a mountain disrupting the slow movement of glacial ice. The image is centred on Nunatak Zaterjesshyjsja, a rocky mountain peak in East Antarctica that rises above the surrounding ice. While the mountain remains stationary, the glacier flows around it, creating distinctive cracks, stress patterns and shifting ice formations that together resemble a hummin
A 16-year-old student from Ontario, Canada, has developed an AI-powered robotic sea turtle capable of swimming autonomously, maintaining a preset depth and detecting microplastics in lakes and oceans. The innovation earned Evan Budz the $50,000 Gordon E. Moore Award for Positive Outcomes for Future Generations at the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). The idea was inspired by a snapping turtle Budz observed during a family camping trip in Ontario. After spending nearly 4,000 hours designing and refining the project, he created a robotic turtle equipped with a