Amnic Unveils Amnic AI: A Context-Aware FinOps OS

Los Altos, CA, USA; Bangalore, India  May 8, 2025  Amnic, a leading cloud cost observability platform, today unveiled Amnic AI, a FinOps OS powered by AI agents, and built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amnic AI functions as an operating layer and helps create seamless management of core FinOps tasks and processes. With Amnic AI, businesses can deploy specific FinOps agents, reclaim hours of debugging costs, build persona-specific reports, perform RCA, and carry out daily FinOps-related operations. The contextual awareness of each of the agents allows them to augment everyday FinOps processes, tailor outcomes to roles across FinOps, DevOps, SRE, Finance and Management to maximize their financial investments on the cloud.
“With Amnic AI, we are delivering context aware agents that move away from the traditional system of ‘click and visualize’ to an interface that is built for the demands of today’s AI-native world,” said Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan, Co-founder of Amnic. “Our goal is to democratize the understanding of cloud costs across stakeholders in the organizations while empowering FinOps professionals with an autopilot to move at an unprecedented speed and efficiency. Delivering role based contextual cost insights to every stakeholder in the organization remains at the heart of our mission.”
Amnic AI is initially rolling out four FinOps agents:
  • Amnic X-Ray: High-level spend analysis; benchmarking; identifies areas of inefficiency and optimization focus.
  • Amnic Insights Agent: Natural language insights, FOCUSTM aligned personalized by persona (CFO, CTO, FinOps, DevOps); cloud-aware and role-aware.
  • Amnic Governance Agent: Proactive anomaly detection, RCA (root cause analysis), budgeting alignment, and forecasting.
  • Amnic Reporting Agent: Auto-generates stakeholder-specific reports (e.g., C-level vs. Product Team) with context-appropriate depth.
Amnic AI’s FinOps OS allows the agents to mirror the entire cloud cost lifecycle across the Inform, Optimize and Operate phases of FinOps, turning cloud cost management into a system of insights. While the X-Ray agent operates across discovery, to diagnose the overall financial health of the cloud infrastructure, spend and determine areas that are unusually high. The Insight Agent allows users across roles to query using natural language, reveal where the excess lies and the cost usage patterns across network, storage, computer, data transfer and more. The AI agents can measure the outcome, quantifying cost savings and operational impact.
The Governance agent performs anomaly checks, conducts RCA, manages forecasting and checks budget alignment, across various teams to ensure costs stay under control.
The Reporting agent manages the end to end of the reporting toolchain across the various stakeholders in the organizations, aligns it to the language of their business unit and requirements, and can be set up on a cadence to ensure reports are either instantly generated or sent at pre-determined timelines or intervals.
Amnic AI uses Amnic’s powerful Cloud Cost Observability Engine to simplify complex cost analyses for technical and non-technical stakeholders alike. Built on Amazon Bedrock, Amnic AI uses Claude Sonnet 3.5 v2 and Claude Sonnet 3.7. It is also powered by AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Relationship Database Service (RDS), Amazon S3, and more.
Amnic AI will be available on AWS Marketplace starting from May 7, 2025, allowing customers across the globe to purchase it directly from their AWS accounts. Amnic is an AWS ISV Accelerate Partner, and has used AWS Marketplace to achieve go-to-market scale and business growth across Asia-Pacific and North America. Amnic’s technology infrastructure is built on AWS services and products, and it has helped Amnic accelerate the development and deployment of its product offerings, including FinOps OS, bringing AI agents to the hands of FinOps practitioners around the globe. Last year, Amnic also launched Amnic Co-Pilot, an AI assistant for Kubernetes cost management, and built on a suite of advanced AWS technologies, including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and underlying GPU nodes.
“Amnic exemplifies how startups can use AWS’s AI and global infrastructure to solve critical business challenges,” said Kumara Raghavan, Head, Startups, AWS India and South Asia. “Built on Amazon Bedrock and our comprehensive cloud services, Amnic’s transformative enterprise-grade FinOps solution helps businesses across industries optimize their cloud investments. We’re thrilled to support Amnic’s journey as they scale globally and continue innovating with AI.”
Early estimates indicate that businesses can manage over 30% of their daily FinOps processes and save approximately 3 hours a day using Amnic AI. Among early Beta users, Amnic AI’s agents have demonstrated a host of tangible benefits, including:
  •  Complete cloud cost health check and analysis in under 30 seconds
  • Saving up to 24 hours a month on reporting-based tasks
  • Helping FinOps practitioners reclaim two hours each day on daily scheduled processes
  • Identifying anomalies and performing RCA to correlate cost spikes within deployment levels, reducing time spent debugging by nearly 90%
  • 2x faster cost breakdowns for specific stakeholders within the organization using simple, natural language queries
  • Helping improve resource utilization by as much as 37% with continuous and autonomous cost observability
Early responses from Beta users:
“Having tried Amnic AI early on, the efficiency is tangible, freeing up a significant portion of our time when it comes to routine work around our cloud costs. We are able to generate reports in minutes as opposed to the 6 hours a week spent on curating data and building them, while we are able to gain answers to complex questions in seconds,” Abhra Dasgupta,  Senior Director, Uni.
Traditional FinOps solutions have heavily relied on FinOps practitioners investing significant hours navigating the complexities of the multiple tools they utilize for their cloud cost optimization. Amnic AI simplifies the assimilation, contextualization, and operationalization of multi-cloud spend management, aligning to the FOCUSTM specs and engaging users in natural language queries. Amnic was founded in 2021 as a Cloud Cost Observability Platform, helping businesses understand their cloud costs at the most granular level. The launch of Amnic AI marks a leap forward in the way teams engage with their cloud costs.

Slack Marketplace Adds 25 New AI Apps to Boost Workplace Productivity

8th May 2025, Bangalore: Are you drowning in a sea of SaaS apps, constantly switching screens, and struggling to keep everything updated? You’re not alone, the average number of SaaS solutions used by companies is 112. But what if you could bring all those tools – and the power of AI- into one central hub? Enter the Slack Marketplace.

The Slack Marketplace is where partners and developers are sharing solutions, they’ve built that bring all these apps into the flow of work, where employees are already spending their time, in Slack. And these aren’t just typical apps – Slack’s innovative partners are building AI-powered apps that bring the productivity of generative AI into users’ work streams. These AI apps can help users surface information, provide recommendations, generate helpful summaries, and more, all in the same conversational interface you are already using to get work done.

Slack’s partners and developers understand how important it is to bring people, apps, and data into one work operating system, giving each employee their own command center and time back in their day. That’s why there are 25 new AI apps on the Slack Marketplace that put AI to work for use cases from drafting content, surfacing market research, managing sales, running DevOps, IT, HR, and beyond. Every one of these AI apps makes Slack more useful, drives adoption, streamlines the flow of work, and inspires a new use case.

Here is the current lineup of AI apps available now or coming soon in the Slack Marketplace:

 Apps for productivity

  • Asana: Surfaces project insights and recommendations, such as status, blockers, next steps, and more, within the context of Slack conversations.
  • Clockwise: Optimizes work calendars with the ability to quickly schedule and reschedule meetings within Slack conversations and create easy-to-book scheduling links.
  • Graph: Empowers engineering teams with instant, context-rich answers based on GitHub, Jira and Linear data, all without leaving Slack.
  • UiPath: Enhances productivity through a combination of automation and enterprise-grade tools.

 Apps for content generation and analysis

  • Adobe Express: Enables employees to design, collaborate on and speed up visual content creation right in their workflow.
  • Amazon Q Business: Answers questions, provides summaries, generates content, and securely completes tasks based on data and information in the customer’s enterprise systems.
  • Box: Provides AI-powered content insights that help analyze uploaded account contracts, quickly answer competitive questions from internal documents, and summarize reports.
  • Cohere: Streamlines content creation by accessing information from company data sources during search, summarization and content generation, while keeping data secure and isolated from their AI models.
  • Glean: Surfaces relevant internal knowledge with ease, giving instant access to company information, answers to common business questions, and insights.
  • Perplexity: Expands knowledge with an AI answer engine that searches the web, providing cite-able strategic insights, prospect research and summaries of public customer opinions.
  • Writer: Provides easy access to custom AI apps, analyzes company data and generates on-brand content to boost team collaboration, streamline work and drive informed decisions.

 Apps for sales, service, or marketing

  • Dovetail: Brings teams closer to customers by accessing deeper customer knowledge and insights to help teams make more customer-centric product decisions.
  • Gainsight: Boosts customer retention with immediate, data-driven answers to customer-related questions, generated content like emails, and customer success best practices and guidance.
  • Highspot: Increases sales team efficiency and success with conversational search and by surfacing high-impact sales content right in the flow of work.
  • Jasper: Scale end-to-end marketing workflows and keep every output on-brand with easy access to 100+ marketing apps right in the flow of work.
  • Productboard: Empowers product teams with AI-powered customer feedback analysis directly in Slack. Product managers can instantly analyze voice of customer data, co-author insight documents, and identify key customer needs without leaving their workflow.

 Apps for HR and IT

  • BambooHR: Simplifies HR processes and enables employees to instantly self-serve needs like HR information access, PTO requests and checking who’s out of the office.
  • Copado: Automates and streamlines DevOps processes, including simplifying sprint planning, automating test workflows and improving deployment efficiency.
  • Moveworks: Automates employee support with instant resolution of IT, HR and facilities-related service requests.
  • PagerDuty: Streamlines and enhances incident management workflows directly within Slack, delivering real-time insights, automated responses and intelligent recommendations.
  • Ravenna: Streamlines IT operations with automated help desk ticket creation, instant answers and auto-generated knowledge base articles, all directly within Slack.
  • Rootly: Manages incident response with an SRE copilot that examines critical incident data to summarize conversations, automate root cause analysis and draft stakeholder updates.
  • Wiz: Enhances security with real-time threat intelligence, automated incident response, proactive vulnerability insights and automated remediation recommendations.

 Discover trusted AI apps in the Slack Marketplace

The most important part of any AI solution is security, making your data and systems stay in your control. Not only are these AI apps innovative and powerful, they are trusted. As with any AI solution in Slack, every one of these AI apps is held to meet Slack’s high security standards. With 25 AI apps already available and 10-plus on the way in the next few months, the Slack ecosystem is rapidly building AI apps that fuel a powerful experience in Slack, empowering people to get work done in one conversational interface. Explore the Slack Marketplace today to find AI apps that boost your productivity.

 Salesforce Comments:

Rahul Sharma, Vice President – Sales, Salesforce India, shared “With new AI apps now available in the Slack Marketplace, we’re seeing a powerful shift in how work gets done – right within the conversational interface employees already use daily. According to Slack’s Workforce Lab, desk workers globally spend 41% of their time on repetitive, low-value tasks. That’s a significant drain on innovation and output. But now, with more AI-powered apps and Agentforce in Slack, we’re entering a whole new era of workplace transformation, unlocking agentic productivity for every employee. It enables organizations to turn on a dedicated, always-on digital labor force in Slack, seamlessly integrating them into conversations as a natural part of your team’s flow of work. AI agents in Slack have the potential to transform employee productivity at a scale rarely observed in history.”

Lifechart’s Guttify Secures Dollar 360K from Unichem Labs Family Office

New Delhi, 7th May 2025 Lifechart, a fast-scaling health-tech startup focused on gut wellness, has raised $360,000 in an extended seed round for its premium gut health brand Guttify, led by Prajay Advisors, the family office of the founders of Unichem Labs, Dr. Prakash Mody and Jayendra Shah.

Launched just a month ago, Guttify has quickly gained investor confidence with its diagnosis-first approach—a first-of-its-kind model in India’s growing $18 billion gut wellness market. Unlike most D2C wellness brands offering generic solutions, Guttify combines clinically validated products, instant DIY diagnostic kits, and personalized Ayurveda-based regimens.

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This $360K raise follows a $500K seed round in October 2024, backed by Expert Dojo, Agility Ventures, Sunn91 Ventures, government seed schemes, and super angels like Nitish Mittersain and Ahana Gautam—bringing Lifechart’s total funding to over $1 million in record time.

Speaking on this, Mr. Mukul Shah, Founder & CEO of Lifechart, said, “We are solving gut health at its root through affordable at-home testing and personalized care. Guttify is not just a product brand, it’s a wellness ecosystem built on diagnosis-first science.”

Guttify’s first offering, a DIY saliva-based pH test kit to detect acidity, is already available on the official website of Guttify, with more kits priced as low as INR 99 set to launch in the coming months.

The latest round adds to the company’s momentum, with earlier backing from Expert Dojo (US VC), Agility Ventures, Sunn91 Ventures, and angel investors such as Nitish Mittersain (Nazara Technologies) and Ahana Gautam (Open Secret). The funds will be used to expand diagnostic R&D, grow distribution, and scale both Guttify and Lifechart’s product portfolio.

In a joint statement, Dr. Prakash Mody and Jayendra Shah said, “We see Guttify filling a glaring gap in India’s gut health space—diagnosis. We’re excited to support Mukul again in his mission to build the Indian version of Viome, tailored for Bharat’s needs. His execution ability, proven with Yolo Bus, gives us strong confidence in Guttify’s future.”

With Guttify, Lifechart is positioning itself as a category creator, aiming to bring precision diagnostics and targeted gut wellness to India’s urban masses—starting with Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities.

Zindi and Cassava Technologies Unite to Spotlight African AI with 85K Data Scientists

Zindi Supports Cassava Technologies with 85 K Zindians to showcase African AI innovation

DUBAI, UAE –  6 May 2025 – Zindi, the leading professional network for data scientists and AI developers in emerging markets, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Cassava Technologies, a global technology leader of African heritage, to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaas) across the African continent.

This partnership represents a significant step in accelerating digital transformation in Africa and will see the two organisations collaborate on several initiatives. These include using Cassava’s GPUaaS capabilities for Zindi’s AI solution development and identifying opportunities for both organisations to leverage one another’s platforms and ecosystems.

As Africa’s pioneering data science competition platform, Zindi collaborates with companies, non-profit organisations, and government institutions to develop, curate, and prepare data-driven challenges. This partnership underscores their mutual commitment to nurturing AI talent and innovation throughout the continent.

Zindi CEO and Co-Founder, Celina Lee states:

“Zindi is thrilled at the opportunity to partner with Cassava Technologies to strengthen African datasets and address local problems with locally developed solutions. Using Cassava’s GPU capabilities, which are essential for handling the large and complex computations that AI and machine learning models require, and collaborating on the launch of a competition specifically aimed at nurturing Africa’s AI talent will not only expose entrepreneurs and innovative solutions; it will help build new skills and create employment opportunities,”

With the signing of this MOU, Cassava and Zindi are set to make significant inroads in Africa’s AI landscape. The partnership supports Cassava’s objective of providing world-class digital solutions and advancing responsible AI adoption, innovation, and growth in Africa. This follows its recent announcement of its plans to build Africa’s first AI factory and the 2024 launch of Cassava’s AI business.

Hindustan Zinc accelerates research in emerging Zinc Battery technology

Udaipur, 05th May 2025: Hindustan Zinc Limited , India’s only and the world’s largest integrated zinc producer, sees early breakthrough in the research of next-generation zinc-based battery technologies. The research targets delivering higher energy efficiency, improved safety and longer operational life. The company is pioneering emerging zinc battery technology to support the ongoing clean energy transition.

Zinc has emerged as a powerful alternative to lithium owing to its abundance, stability and cost effectiveness. While the lithium market continues to face supply constraints and rising costs, zinc-based systems present a more economical, and geopolitically secure pathway for India’s energy ambitions. Zinc-based batteries are increasingly recognized for their superior safety (non-flammable), long cycle life, wide temperature operability, and recyclability. They deliver dependable backup power for 3 to 72 hours, utilize non-hazardous raw materials and have a greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint nearly six times lower than conventional technologies. The proven use of zinc-based materials in high-demand sectors such as aerospace, marine, renewable energy, data centers, 5G network and mission-critical infrastructure further reinforces their reliability and adaptability.

Towards this end, Hindustan Zinc has collaborated with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru to develop sustainable energy storage solutions. Early-stage research findings indicate potential for significant technological advancements and future commercial scalability. The world is witnessing a rapid evolution in the battery industry and zinc-based batteries have the potential to transform the sustainable energy storage solutions market.

Under the MoU signed with JNCASR in August 2024, Hindustan Zinc is advancing the development of Zinc-Ion batteries. Commenting on the development Prof. Prem Senguttuvan, said, “The team is focusing on novel zinc anode formulations, coupled with advanced electrolytes. We have made noteworthy progress in electrode/electrolyte interface engineering, which is very encouraging”.

Complementing this, a second collaboration with IIT Madras, formalized in October 2024, is targeting the design of a 1 kWh rechargeable Zinc-Air battery module using a 6/12-cell stack. The project, led by Professor Aravind Kumar Chandiran from the Department of Chemical Engineering, prioritizes rechargeability, structural integrity, interface durability and overall battery longevity. Speaking on the development, Prof. Chandiran, highlighted, “These batteries are an emerging solution for electric vehicles, grid-scale energy storage and consumer electronics”.

According to a recent BloombergNEF report, the global energy storage market is projected to expand at a 21% CAGR, reaching 442 GWh by 2030. Hindustan Zinc’s ongoing innovation efforts are well-aligned to meet this growing demand while enhancing India’s energy independence.

Commenting on the development, Mr. Arun Misra, CEO – Hindustan Zinc Limited, said “The battery segment is primed for innovation as the world shifts towards long-lasting and environmentally friendly energy sources. We at Hindustan Zinc, are poised to play a key role in supporting this transition through the production of critical metals like zinc. Our collaborations with two of India’s premier research institutes reflect our commitment to advancing cutting-edge innovations that can redefine the future of energy storage. Batteries have the potential to accelerate this shift through energy storage and we aim to drive responsible innovation and long-term impact across the value chain.”

Hindustan Zinc is leveraging its metallurgical expertise and advanced electrowinning capabilities to drive innovation. The company is also utilizing proficiency with critical materials including commercial-grade electrodes and performance additives to advance the battery revolution. Hindustan Zinc is playing a catalytic role in scaling these technologies for industrial-scale production. The company has also signed a MoU with a leading US-based battery manufacturer AEsir Technologies for cutting-edge nickel-zinc battery technology. By providing technical inputs, specialized commercial alloys and industry linkages, Hindustan Zinc is fast-tracking the journey from laboratory success to real-world deployment.

Hindustan Zinc Limited, a Vedanta Group company, is the world’s largest integrated zinc producer and the third-largest silver producer. The company supplies to more than 40 countries and holds a market share of about 75% of the primary zinc market in India. Hindustan Zinc has been recognized as the world’s most sustainable company in the metals and mining category for the second consecutive year by the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment 2024. The company also launched EcoZen Asia’s first low carbon ‘green’ zinc brand, produced using renewable energy. As a world leader in the metals and mining industry, Hindustan Zinc is pivotal in providing critical metals essential for the global energy transition for a sustainable future.

MG Teases ADAS in Upcoming Windsor PRO

Gurugram, May 5, 2025 – JSW MG Motor India recently announced that the MG Windsor PRO will be launched soon in the Indian market.  The upcoming car will include new features that shall enhance the overall appeal of the MG Windsor for customers. In a newly released video, the company has indicated that the Windsor PRO will be equipped with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), providing additional safety with every drive.

The Windsor PRO will be offered with Level 2 ADAS, which offers 12 major features and three levels of warnings – audio, visual, and haptic–always ensuring the safety of occupants. A few examples of these features include Traffic Jam Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control, and Lane Departure Warning, among others.

The MG Windsor, India’s best-selling EV since its launch, combines a sedan’s expanse with a SUV’s versatility, making it a premium offering for discerning consumers who seek both value and class. The MG Windsor PRO will feature new tech features like Vehicle-to-Load and Vehicle-to-Vehicle, enabling customers to utilise the vehicle beyond mobility usage.

Productivity SaaS for education is changing: a wake-up call for schools

Rex Huang

Rex Huang, Director of Enterprise Application Group at Synology

April 5, 2025: For schools that have relied on productivity SaaS solutions for years, it’s a pivotal moment to reassess long-term needs. With providers like Google ending free unlimited storage in 2022 and Microsoft’s recent updates to their education offerings, institutions face significant challenges, including increased costs and reduced functionality. These developments underscore the importance of adopting systems that provide stability, scalability, and control.

After January 2025, Microsoft rolled out significant changes to its Microsoft 365 Education plans, including retiring the Office 365 A1 Plus plan, reducing storage pools to 100TB per tenant, and restricting some licenses to web-only applications without their counterpart desktop versions, including Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

These adjustments may push schools toward higher-cost paid plans or force them to reallocate resources to maintain functionality, prompting many to reevaluate their reliance on SaaS solutions. Beyond financial implications, there are also rising concerns over data privacy and compliance. Educational institutions manage high loads of sensitive information such as student records, financial data, and research. This makes them prime targets of cyberattacks, which target nearly 80% of institutions annually (Netwrix, 2024). Furthermore, compliance with regulations such as FERPA and GDPR requires secure, private, and auditable data management practices, which some SaaS solutions may struggle to meet.

Shifting to an on-premise productivity solution offers educational institutions increased control over their data, cost predictability, and storage scalability. Unlike SaaS offerings, prone to subscription price hikes and unpredictable removals to their service features, on-premise solutions can provide a stable framework more suited for long-term needs. Locally stored data also ensures privacy, helping schools meet compliance requirements while protecting sensitive information.

Some on-premise productivity solutions like Synology Office Suite enhance collaboration and communication with tools for secure file storage, granular sharing permissions, real-time document editing and instant messaging, supporting both group projects for students and file management among faculty.

For IT administrators, these solutions simplify management with centralized dashboards, system health monitoring, and auditing tools for compliance. Advanced access controls also enable efficient delegation of tasks across IT teams, ensuring smoother workflows and stronger oversight of digital infrastructure.

While changes from major SaaS providers might disrupt operations in the short term, they also provide an opportunity for educational institutions to reassess the suitability of their current systems. On-premise productivity solutions provide a sustainable pathway to address cost concerns, enhance security, and build a resilient digital foundation for evolving educational needs of educators and students alike.

POCO Drops Mega Discounts on Best-Selling Smartphones During Flipkart’s SASA LELE Sale!

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POCO Smartphones at Record-Low Prices – India’s Fastest-Growing Online Smartphone Brand Joins the Mega Sale!

Mumbai, 4th May 2025 – If you’ve been eyeing a smartphone upgrade, the moment is NOW. POCO, India’s fastest-growing online smartphone brand, is bringing its biggest price drops yet for Flipkart’s Big Savings Days 2025 – also known as the SASA LELE Sale. Till 8th May, grab POCO’s top-selling smartphones at their lowest-ever prices.

Whether you’re chasing flagship firepower or value-packed 5G phones, this sale has something mad for everyone.

POCO’s Big Deals Line-up:

Sr No Product Variant Sale Price (with Bank Offers)
1 POCO C71 4+64 (Airtel) ₹5,799
2 POCO C71 4+64 ₹6,499
3 POCO C71 6+128 ₹7,299
4 POCO C75 4+64 ₹7,699
5 POCO C75 4+128 ₹8,499
6 POCO M7 6+128 ₹9,499
7 POCO M7 8+128 ₹10,699
8 POCO M6 Plus 6+128 ₹9,999
9 POCO M6 Plus 8+128 ₹10,999
10 POCO M7 Pro 6+128 ₹11,999
11 POCO M7 Pro 8+256 ₹13,999
12 POCO X7 5G 8+128 ₹15,999
13 POCO X7 5G 8+256 ₹17,999
14 POCO X7 Pro 8+256 ₹22,999
15 POCO X7 Pro 12+256 ₹24,999
16 POCO F6 12+256 ₹22,999

(All bank offers apply on HDFC, Axis, and ICICI CC/DC transactions via full swipe or EMI.)

Why POCO’s May 2025 Sale Is a Game-Changer:

POCO X7 Series – Power Meets Sleek

POCO X7: Segment’s toughest 1.5K AMOLED 3D Curved Display, powered by MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Ultra, 5500mAh battery, and 50MP Sony LYT-600 camera.

POCO X7 Pro: Segment’s most powerful phone. MediaTek Dimensity 8400 Ultra, 6550mAh battery, 50MP Sony LYT-600 camera, and HyperOS 2.0.

POCO M7 Series – All-Round 5G Champions

POCO M7: India’s fastest 5G phone under ₹10K. Snapdragon 4 Gen 2, 6.88” display, 50MP Sony camera, 5160mAh battery, and up to 12GB RAM.

POCO M7 Pro: Brightest in class with 6.67” GOLED FHD+ AMOLED (2100 nits), 50MP Sony LYT-600, 5110mAh battery, and 45W fast charging.

POCO C Series – Budget Brilliance

POCO C71: Segment’s biggest 6.88” HD+ display with 120Hz refresh, Android 15, TÜV Eye Protection, and 12GB RAM.

POCO C75: Most affordable 5G phone with Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 (4nm), 50MP Sony camera, and IP52-rated design.

Bonus Picks

POCO M6 Plus: 6.79” FHD+ 120Hz display, Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 AE, 108MP camera, HyperOS, 33W fast charging — all under ₹10K.

POCO F6: Lowest priced Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 phone with 6.67” OLED 1.5K display, 50MP dual camera, HyperOS (Android 14), and 90W charging.

POCO is rewriting the value game this summer – whether you search for best POCO phone dealsflagship killer smartphones, or budget 5G Android phones, this is where the internet stops scrolling and starts buying.

Add to cart. Grab before it’s gone. Brag later.

Harnessing AI to Transform Vision Research

3 May 2025 ,Salt Lake City, Utah — Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way we comprehend, detect and treat eye conditions, bringing new hope to millions worldwide. During the upcoming week (May 4 – 8) at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Salt Lake City, Utah, researchers will share breakthroughs on how AI is influencing the future of eye and vision health research and patient care, from enhancing clinical decision-making to simplifying workflows to equip patients with educational tools to create personalized care plans.

Scientists at the Annual Meeting will discuss multiple uses of AI, as well as share promising future applications, such as how advanced tools can more precisely detect early signs of diseases like diabetic retinopathy (DR) and glaucoma, sometimes even before symptoms appear. Automated screening tools can support underserved areas where access to specialists may be limited.

Researchers will show also how AI-powered algorithms — sets of rules that help computers learn from data — examine risk factors, track disease progression and identify disease trends that can inform public health strategies. AI can assess patient data to aid them and their doctors in recommending appropriate, personalized treatment plans. Some AI tools can enhance eye imaging techniques, assisting ophthalmologists in identifying and classifying abnormalities faster and with greater accuracy. Beyond the clinic and labs, there will be studies presented at the Meeting on how AI has improved assistive technology for individuals with vision loss (e.g., apps and devices that can support navigation and accessibility in everyday life).

This is just a small sample of the groundbreaking new research that will be featured at the ARVO Annual Meeting, signaling a transformative era for eye and vision science. As AI continues to evolve, it will bring even more innovative solutions that can enhance vision health and positively impact lives around the world.

UiPath Unveils First Enterprise-Grade Agentic Automation Platform

BANGALORE, INDIA — 3 May , 2025 — UiPath, a global leader in agentic automation, today launched its next-generation UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, a groundbreaking platform designed to unify AI agents, robots, and people on a single intelligent system. With open and secure orchestration at its core, the platform transforms workflows by enabling the creation, deployment, and management of highly reliable AI agents, robots and people with unmatched scalability, flexibility, and compliance.

The UiPath Platform for agentic automation is easily accessible through a free trial on uipath.com, enabling everyone to begin building, deploying, and managing agents. Select capabilities will remain in preview and are expected to reach general availability throughout May.

 Breaking Down the Barriers to Enterprise AI

While conversational AI and agent-based assistants have demonstrated isolated value, scaling AI across the enterprise has remained elusive. Key blockers include security and compliance risks, lack of reliability, stalled pilot programs, and fear of vendor lock-in.

The new UiPath Platform directly addresses these challenges, combining decades of leadership in automation with a new, agentic architecture that is purpose-built for business-critical workflows.

“With this launch, we fully enter our second act,” said Daniel Dines, Founder and CEO of UiPath. “We’ve built a platform that unifies AI, RPA, and human decision making so companies can deliver smarter, more resilient workflows without added complexity. As models and chips commoditize, the value of AI moves up the stack to orchestration and intelligence. That’s where UiPath leads. But we also lead in empowering people—to be more creative, more productive—and to reach their full potential. That’s where UiPath’s mission continues.”

What Is Agentic Automation?

Agentic automation brings together proven RPA, AI models, and human expertise into cohesive workflows where people, robots, and AI agents work synergistically to optimize processes and drive enterprise efficiency. These agentic workflows are intelligent, adaptive, and governed—enabling automation that is not only powerful, but trusted.

Key Capabilities of the UiPath Platform for Agentic Automation

 UiPath Maestro™—Seamless Orchestration for AI Agents, Robots, and People
UiPath Maestro is the new orchestration layer at the heart of the platform. It automates, models, and optimizes complex business processes end to end with built-in process intelligence and KPI monitoring to enable continuous optimization. Maestro provides the centralized oversight needed to safely scale AI-powered agents across systems and teams.

Agentic Workflows You Can Trust
Through a controlled agency model, UiPath ensures AI agents operate within clearly defined guardrails—ensuring security, predictability, and performance. The platform features robust governance, real-time vulnerability assessments, and stringent data access controls to protect enterprise environments.

We are targeting 95%+ agent accuracy with every launch. Reliability and trustworthiness are core to our Agent Builder roadmap, and we’re focused on delivering agents capable of human-level performance—with the right controls in place,” commented Raghu Malpani, Chief Technology Officer at UiPath.

Power for All Developers—From Low Code to Full Code
The platform empowers business technologists and seasoned developers alike with intuitive low-code tools and advanced coding environments. Developers can rapidly prototype agents in UiPath Agent Builder within UiPath Studio, while having the opportunity to customize when needed. This means both technically oriented business professionals and experienced programmers can easily create sophisticated, scalable automations that can adapt to complex business requirements and evolving enterprise needs.

“With Agent Builder, our developer community of more than three million professionals worldwide can build agents directly into existing workflows,” noted Graham Sheldon, Chief Product Officer at UiPath. “We’ve also unlocked more powerful customization options for full-code developers—expanding the horizon of what’s possible.”

 An Open, Multi-Agent Framework for the Enterprise
UiPath integrates with third-party agent frameworks including LangChainAnthropic, and Microsoft, supporting sophisticated multi-agent systems that work across complex, cross-functional workflows. We partnered with Google Cloud on its new, open protocol called Agent2Agent (A2A), which will allow AI agents to communicate with each other, securely exchange information, and coordinate actions on top of various enterprise platforms or applications. This open approach breaks down silos and future-proofs enterprise automation strategies.

Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain, highlights the importance of this collaboration for the ecosystem: “We want to enable developers of all types to build agents. We’ve seen a key part of this be AI observability, and we’re excited to integrate LangSmith with UiPath to help even more builders ship agents with confidence. Additionally, our collaboration with UiPath on the Agent Protocol ensures that LangGraph agents can seamlessly participate in UiPath automations, broadening their reach and enabling developers to build more cohesive, cross-platform workflows.”

 Intelligent Document Processing at Scale
The new UiPath IXP (Intelligent Xtraction & Processing) solution introduces multi-modal, AI-based classification and extraction for unstructured data. Built for high-complexity use cases like claims adjudication, loan origination, and electronic batch records, IXP brings enterprise-grade scale to document processing.

 Innovation in Agentic UI Automation and Performance
With this latest release, UiPath has also introduced UI Agent for computer use, now in private preview—a natural language-driven agent that understands user intent, plans multi-step tasks, and executes actions across interfaces autonomously.

“By combining our deep heritage in UI Automation with the latest advances in agentic technology, we’ve built a UI Agent that doesn’t just mimic clicks—it understands intent, plans ahead, and takes action autonomously,” added Malpani. “This is a major step forward in enabling agents that can navigate real-world enterprise interfaces with precision and purpose.”

 Ecosystem Momentum

Since the private preview was launched in January 2025, the UiPath Platform for agentic automation has seen rapid traction:

  • Thousands of autonomous agents created with over 75,000 agent runs
  • 11,000+ Academy agentic developer course enrollments
  • 450+ partners that have started or completed agentic automation courses
  • 30+ Fast Track (1) agentic automation partner badges awarded
  • Hundreds of customer use cases identified and created

“Our partnership with UiPath has elevated Cathay’s digital leadership in the aviation industry by harnessing the full power of automation, AI, and generative AI,” said Lawrence Fong, Director Digital and IT at Cathay. “Agentic automation is the next big leap in AI transformation that will allow companies to rapidly scale, make smarter decisions, and quickly adapt to changing business demands. Cutting-edge technologies will empower enterprises to go beyond workflows and into the realm of intelligent orchestration — where AI doesn’t just support the way people work, but completely transforms it.”