After initially testing its AI-powered “Prompted Playlist” feature in New Zealand and recently launching in the U.S. and Canada, Spotify announced on Monday that it’s rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.
The Prompted Playlist feature allows users to create custom playlists by simply describing what they want to listen to in…
All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit
February 24, 2026
With an eye toward luring more AI investment to the country, India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads…
Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate
February 23, 2026
Different AI labs have different priorities. OpenAI has traditionally focused on consumer users, for instance, while its rival Anthropic tends to target enterprises. Elon Musk’s xAI, we discovered recently, has been placing particular emphasis on video-game…
AI’s promise to indie filmmakers: Faster, cheaper, lonelier
February 23, 2026
A Filipino man walks through the backyard of his childhood home in rural Hawai’i, his footsteps swooshing through the grass. Birds chirp, contributing to the tropical din, as he approaches a shrine at the base of a starfruit tree. He bends to inspect a framed black-and-white photograph of a woman, her hair in a 1950s side part.
Suddenly, a gust of wind shakes the tree’s branches…
Peak XV announced on Friday that it has raised $1.3 billion across new India and Asia-focused funds. The firm, which now manages more than $10 billion in assets, is sharpening its focus on artificial intelligence and cross-border bets amid intensifying competition for deals…
Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing
February 20, 2026
Tech investors haven’t given up on the dream of making physical products with the same speed and ease as coding software.
Executives at Freeform, a startup developing a novel 3D-printing system for metal components, told TechCrunch that the company raised a $67…
OpenAI has partnered with India’s Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-ready data center capacity in the country, with plans to scale to 1 gigawatt. The move is part of a broader push to deepen the company’s enterprise and infrastructure footprint in one of its fastest-growing markets.
OpenAI announced on Thursday that the partnership with the Tata Group is part of its Stargate…
OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership
February 20, 2026
As India pitches itself as a global hub for applied artificial intelligence, OpenAI has partnered with Pine Labs to integrate AI-driven reasoning into the fintech firm’s payments stack, automating settlement and invoicing workflows in a move the companies say could…
Marketing is one of the few operations no industry can afford to ignore, which is why we have a veritable host of AI-powered marketing tools being shoved into marketers’ faces today. All the social platforms, from Facebook and Instagram to TikTok, and major incumbents…
OpenAI is expanding its footprint in India and moving into the country’s higher-education system through partnerships with leading academic institutions. The move comes as the South Asian nation seeks to scale AI skills and build domestic capacity in one of the world’s largest talent markets.
On Wednesday, OpenAI said it was partnering with six public and private higher-education…
