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Recognized as the first global technology company to join initiative, strategic alliance will fast-track the adoption of programmable networks and unlock new monetization opportunities for CSPs worldwide

NEW YORK and NOIDA, India, Oct. 15, 2025 — HCLTech, a leading global technology company, and GSMA, a global organization unifying the mobile ecosystem, are collaborating to advance the GSMA Open Gateway initiative, which works toward enhancing customer experiences, streamlining application development and unlock new revenue streams for the global telecoms industry. As the first and only global technology company to join the initiative and a trusted technology partner in the Open Gateway ecosystem, HCLTech reinforces its commitment to fostering openness, driving monetization and accelerating innovation across the telecom network.

By enabling ‘Network as a Platform’ models, the GSMA Open Gateway initiative is redefining how Communication Service Providers (CSPs) expose and consume network capabilities through standardized APIs. As one of the fastest-growing global SIs in the telecom industry, HCLTech will contribute its cutting-edge solutions, deep domain expertise and extensive system integration (SI) experience to scale the initiative globally.

HCLTech’s contributions will include:

A converged network monetization platform to unlock new revenue streams.
A secure and scalable network API layer to enable autonomous networks.
Agentic AI solutions integrated with native network APIs.
End-to-end implementation and integration services tailored for Open Gateway environments.
Industry-specific use cases across 10+ verticals, including manufacturing, energy, government, automotive, travel, healthcare and financial services.

“We are not just joining an initiative — we are shaping the future of telecom,” said Anil Ganjoo, Chief Growth Officer, Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications at HCLTech. “Our alliance with GSMA reflects our commitment to empowering CSPs with agile, programmable networks. With our proprietary IP, AI capabilities and global scale, we are positioned to deliver real-world impact across the telecom value chain.”

“We are delighted to welcome HCLTech to the GSMA Open Gateway partner community,” said Henry Calvert, Head of Networks at GSMA. “With their proven expertise across 200+ CSPs globally and broad digital transformation capabilities, HCLTech will play a key role in accelerating adoption and delivering innovative, real-world use cases.”

With participation from over 79 mobile operator groups, representing 291 carrier networks and nearly 80% of mobile connections around the world, Open Gateway is becoming a foundational pillar of the future telecom architecture. This partnership underscores a pivotal shift in the industry—where collaboration, openness and innovation converge to create the networks of tomorrow.

14th October 2025: Lexar, a global leader in storage solutions, is unveiling the future of storage innovation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) era, at Gitex Global 2025, the world’s largest tech and startup event taking place from 13 to 17 October at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The company is showcasing the world’s lightest, toughest, and fastest memory solutions, at the Lexar stand located in Hall1, Stand H1-25.

With artificial intelligence (AI) reshaping industries and everyday life—projected by IDC to contribute $19.9 trillion to the global economy by 2030—reliable, high-speed storage is becoming more critical than ever. Lexar’s products are recognized for their large capacities, fast performance, and proven reliability, making them essential tools for AI developers, professional creators, gamers, and PC enthusiasts alike.

“Traditional memory solutions are no longer adequate for today’s demanding AI workloads. The future lies in high-capacity storage that enables faster data processing. Lexar’s all-flash arrays and SSDs, known for their speed and dependability, are becoming the go-to solutions for enterprises working on large-scale AI projects. Simultaneously, the booming imaging services sector in the Middle East is driving demand for our professional-grade storage solutions designed specifically for content creators,” said Mr. Fissal Oubida, General Manager – Middle East, Africa & India, Lexar.

Bringing the future of memory forward

One of Lexar’s standout innovations at the event is Lexar’s thumb-sized Professional Go Portable SSD with Hub – the world’s lightest portable SSD at just 13 grams. This groundbreaking innovation is optimized for the iPhone 16/17 series and Android devices, and is specifically designed for content creators to shoot seamless video from a mobile phone. Also taking the spotlight is the Armor Series, which includes the world’s first stainless steel SD cards—ARMOR GOLD and ARMOR SILVER PRO. These cards are built for durability, with strength up to 37 times that of standard SD cards, offering photographers, videographers, and content creators unmatched reliability for their demanding workflows. Another highlight is the ARMOR 700 Portable SSD, a rugged, high-speed storage solution offering up to 2000MB/s read/write speeds and full cross-platform compatibility—perfect for mobile professionals.

The CFexpress 4.0 Series is also making waves, with Type-B DIAMOND, GOLD, SILVER, and Type-A GOLD cards engineered for lightning-fast performance. Designed for 8K video and ultra-high-res photography, these cards cater to creators who demand top-tier speed and capacity.

Elevating the Gaming Experience

Lexar hasn’t forgotten the gaming community. At GITEX, the company is showcasing its ARES RGB 2nd Gen DDR5 Desktop Memory, featuring SK Hynix DRAM chips with speeds up to 8000MT/s (and 6000MT/s CL26), designed for elite desktop gaming performance. For handheld gamers, Lexar introduces the PLAY PRO microSD Express Card, which integrates PCIe technology for blazing-fast speeds—up to 900MB/s read and 600MB/s write—offering dramatically faster load and download times.

Engineered for AI developers, gamers, and creators, Lexar is showcasing two next-generation SSDs: the Lexar Professional NM990 PCIe Gen5.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD and the Lexar Professional NM1090 PRO PCIe Gen5.0 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD. Both these SSDs utilize PCIe 5.0 technology to deliver incredible speeds—up to 14,000MB/s read and 11,000MB/s write—nearly doubling the performance of Gen 4 drives, providing superior performance for serious gamers and professional rendering.

“As the Middle East region solidifies its position as a global hub for gaming and imaging, Lexar’s high-performance products empower users to push creative and technological boundaries. From lightning-fast PCIe 5.0 SSDs to the latest microSD Express technology for handheld gamers, we offer a full suite of data storage innovations designed to help our customers scale and succeed in the digital world,” concluded Oubida.

Philips Evnia Unleashes a New Era of Gaming with Groundbreaking QD OLED Monitor Lineup in the Middle East

Cairo, Egypt , 13 October 2025 : MMD Singapore the manufacturer of Philips displays, announces the launch of its latest and most advanced line of Philips Evnia QD OLED gaming monitors in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The new series, featuring the 34M2C8600 (34” UltraWide), 32M2N8800 (32” 4K UHD), and 27M2N8500 (27” Quad HD), is designed to deliver an unparalleled visual experience, combining breathtaking image quality with ultra-high refresh rates for both competitive and casual gamers.

This new generation of Evnia monitors leverages cutting-edge Quantum Dot OLED (QD-OLED) technology, which merges the perfect blacks and infinite contrast of OLED with the vibrant, wide colour gamut of Quantum Dots. The result is a picture with stunningly accurate colours, deeper blacks, and a lightning-fast response time, ensuring every scene is rendered with incredible clarity and depth, free from motion blur.

A Monitor for Every Playstyle

The new lineup caters to the diverse needs of the regional gaming community:

• The Immersive All-Rounder (34M2C8600): This 34-inch curved UltraWide WQHD (3440×1440) monitor offers a deeply immersive 1800R viewing experience with a 175Hz refresh rate. It is perfect for gamers who crave a panoramic field of view and enhanced productivity, featuring a built-in KVM switch and 90W USB-C Power Delivery for streamlined connectivity.
• The Visual Powerhouse (32M2N8800): For gamers who demand the ultimate in detail and smoothness, the 32-inch 4K UHD (3840×2160) model delivers a pristine picture at an incredible 240Hz refresh rate and 0.03 response time. The Compact Ergo Base allows users to effortlessly adjust the monitor’s height, tilt, and swivel, ensuring optimal viewing comfort and efficiency.
• The Competitive Edge (27M2N8500): Built for speed and precision, the 26.5-inch Quad HD (2560×1440) monitor boasts a blistering 360Hz refresh rate and 0.03 response time. Certified by both NVIDIA® G-SYNC® and AMD FreeSync™ Premium Pro, it is engineered to provide the smoothest, most responsive experience for professional esports athletes and serious competitors.

All three models are certified with VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400, ensuring exceptional shadow detail and contrast in high dynamic range content. They also feature Philips’ innovative AI-enhanced Ambiglow, which projects light onto the wall behind the screen that dynamically adapts to the on-screen content, extending the immersion beyond the display and into the room.

“The gaming market in the UAE and Saudi Arabia are among the most vibrant and rapidly growing market/industries in the world, with a community that has a sophisticated understanding of technology and a passion for premium experiences,” said Carol Anne Dias, Deputy Sales Director, Middle East & Africa for Philips Monitors. “With this new Evnia QD OLED series, we are not just meeting the high expectations of regional gamers; we are exceeding them. We are delivering a fusion of speed, colour accuracy, and immersive technology that truly sets a new benchmark, allowing gamers to experience their favourite worlds as they were meant to be seen”.

Designed for Gamers, by Gamers

The Evnia series is packed with gamer-centric features, including:

• SmartImage Game Mode: Pre-calibrated settings for FPS, Racing, and RTS genres.
• Smart Crosshair: Enhances in-game aiming with a dynamic crosshair that adapts to the background.
• LowBlue Mode & Flicker-Free Technology: Reduces eye strain during extended gaming sessions.
• Evnia Precision Center Software: Allows for deep customization and control of monitor settings directly from the desktop.
• Microsoft Dynamic Lighting: Synchronizes the Ambiglow lighting with other supported RGB peripherals for a unified ecosystem.

NIFTEM-K Signs Strategic MoUs with IIIT Hyderabad and IIT Hyderabad to Strengthen Research, Innovation, and Academic Collaboration

Hyderabad, October 11, 2025 : National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli (NIFTEM-K)  an Institute of National Importance (INI) under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India — has entered into Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with two premier institutions: the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H). These strategic collaborations aim to foster excellence in research, innovation, academic exchange, and human resource development in food technology, digital transformation, and allied sectors.

The MoUs were formally exchanged between Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Director, IIIT-H, Prof. B. S. Murty, Director, IIT-H, and Dr. Harinder Singh Oberoi, Director, NIFTEM-K. These agreements mark the beginning of partnerships designed to leverage the complementary strengths of NIFTEM-K and the two institutes to address national and global challenges through interdisciplinary research and innovation.

Under the MoUs, the scope of collaboration includes several key areas:

• Research and Development: Joint development of industrially funded and government-supported projects, with outcomes including publications, patents, and technology transfers being jointly owned by the partnering institutions.
• Capacity Building: Organization of workshops, seminars, conferences, symposia, and hands-on training programs to enhance knowledge and practical skills in food science, food engineering, postharvest management, interdisciplinary sciences, data analytics, and food business management.
• Internships and Placements: Facilitation of student internships and placements, supporting professional development and bridging academia with industry.
• Joint Certificate Programmes: Launch of joint certificate programs (physical or online), subject to mutual agreement and statutory approvals, aimed at promoting industry-ready skills and knowledge.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Harinder Singh Oberoi emphasized, “These collaborations bridge the gap between food technology, digital innovation, and interdisciplinary research, creating new opportunities for students, researchers, and the industry.”

This dual MoU initiative marks a significant milestone in strengthening India’s food innovation ecosystem, combining NIFTEM-K’s expertise in food science, processing, and entrepreneurship with IIIT-H’s technological prowess and IIT-H’s research excellence.

Dubai, 11 October 2025 – JMR Infotech, a global leader in digital transformation and banking technology solutions and an Oracle Platinum Partner, will participate in Oracle AI World 2025, taking place October 13–16 in Las Vegas. The company will demonstrate how AI, combined with Oracle technologies, can help organizations make smarter decisions, improve efficiency, and accelerate growth.

Building on nearly two decades of experience delivering banking technology solutions globally, JMR Infotech combines deep domain expertise with AI-driven innovation to help organizations transform how they operate and make decisions. At Oracle AI World 2025, the company will showcase solutions that leverage intelligent applications, agentic AI for rapid implementations, and AI-powered accelerators — designed to help enterprises turn data into actionable insights, accelerate digital initiatives, and achieve measurable
business impact.

Jayafar Moidu, Founder & CEO of JMR Infotech, will represent the company at Oracle AI World and will be available to meet with attendees to discuss practical ways and tailored strategies to leverage AI for business impact.

“Oracle AI World is an ideal platform to explore the possibilities of AI in enterprise transformation,” said Jayafar Moidu. “We look forward to engaging with industry leaders, sharing insights from our global experience, and helping organizations make AI work for their business.”

Attendees will have the opportunity to explore how JMR Infotech can partner with them to unlock AI’s potential and drive meaningful transformation across their organizations.

Samsung Launches Galaxy M17 5G with Segment-First OIS Camera, Enhanced Durability & AI Features in India

GURUGRAM, India, October 10, 2025: Samsung, India’s largest consumer electronics brand, today announced the launch of Galaxy M17 5G, the latest addition to its popular Galaxy M series. Galaxy M17 5G builds on the success of Galaxy M16 5G, one of Samsung’s best-selling smartphones in India, and continues Samsung’s legacy of bringing cutting-edge AI innovations to a wider audience.

Galaxy M17 5G comes with a sleek and stylish design, “No Shake Camera” with OIS, and intelligent AI-driven features at an affordable price. It delivers best-in-segment AI capabilities along with Super AMOLED display, camera, security, calling experience, and operating system upgrades.
 
“At Samsung, meaningful innovation is about introducing technology that truly empowers our consumers to make a difference. With Galaxy M17 5G, we are carrying forward the M series philosophy of Monster innovations by introducing OIS enabled ‘No shake camera’ in the INR 10000-15000 segment along with next-level durability, AI capabilities, and a slim design to cater to the aspirations of Gen Z customers, who want to capture their non-stop adventures,” said Akshay S Rao, Director, MX Business, Samsung India.

Monster Camera with OIS

Galaxy M17 5G introduces the “No Shake Camera” in the INR 10000 INR 15000 segment with a  50MP OIS triple-camera system that is designed to capture blur-free photos and shake-free videos. The high-resolution main sensor, paired with Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS), reduces motion blur and compensates for hand movements, ensuring sharp pictures when shooting handheld videos. The versatile triple-lens setup – comprising an Ultra-Wide Camera and Macro Camera – offers flexible framing for every scene. Galaxy M17 5G comes with segment-leading 13 MP high resolution front camera for stunning selfies.

Monster Durability with Slim Design

With design at its core, the Galaxy M17 5G is just 7.5 mm slim and features a premium camera deco, which is complemented by segment’s leading Corning® Gorilla® Glass Victus® for superior durability. The device also features IP54 rating for dust and splash resistance. This protection safeguards against accidental drops and scratches, offering users complete peace of mind. Galaxy M17 5G will be available in flaunt-worthy colours – Moonlight Silver & Sapphire Black.

Monster AI Experience out of the Box

Galaxy M17 5G introduces Circle to Search with Google, further advancing the democratisation of mobile AI across the Galaxy ecosystem. Developed through a collaboration between Samsung and Google, Circle to Search offers users a seamless and intuitive way to search for information related to images, text, and music. In addition, Galaxy M17 5G features Gemini Live, delivering a new AI experience through real-time visual conversations powered by AI. With intelligent, AI-driven assistance, users can interact more naturally and complete everyday tasks with ease. The Galaxy M17 5G runs on Android 15 with One UI 7 straight out of the box, offering a clean, intuitive, and customisable user experience.

Segment’s Leading Display with Monster Performance

Galaxy M17 5G features segment’s leading 6.7 inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display with 1100 nits HBM peak brightness for better colour contrast, providing an immersive viewing experience. Powered by the 6nm-based Exynos 1330 processor, the Galaxy M17 5G delivers fast and power-efficient performance, ideal for seamless multitasking.  These monster features are supported with 5000mAh battery for extended periods of browsing, gaming, and binge-watching. Galaxy M17 5G also supports 25W fast charging, providing users with more power in less time.

Monster Galaxy ExperiencesSamsung reinforces its commitment to customer satisfaction with six generations of OS upgrades and six years of security updates with the Galaxy M17 5G, ensuring users enjoy the latest features and enhanced protection well into the future.

Galaxy M17 5G comes with On-device Voice Mail, allowing callers to leave a message when a call goes unanswered, a segment-first feature. It comes with Samsung Knox Vault, Samsung’s most advanced, hardware-based security innovation, safeguarding user data against both hardware and software threats. Additionally, features such as Voice Focus reduce background noise, ensuring clearer and more immersive call quality. It also features Samsung Wallet with “Tap & Pay” functionality, enabling consumers to make secure payments effortlessly with just a tap.

India, October 10, 2025: Thousands of companies are racing to build AI agents, but many struggle to make them truly useful in daily workflows. The key lies in context, and the richest context comes from conversations. Yet, conversational data—an organization’s most valuable knowledge—has long remained trapped in unstructured chats and messages. Slack, the work operating system for the agentic enterprise, is unlocking that potential.

Today, Slack announces the next evolution of its platform, empowering partners and developers to securely connect AI with the rich corpus of customer-owned conversational data. With new tools like the Real-Time Search (RTS) API, Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, and enhanced developer resources including prebuilt Block Kit Tables, Slack enables developers to build secure, flexible, and context-aware AI agents. These agents move beyond generic responses to deliver personalized, high-accuracy assistance—unlocking new levels of productivity and collaboration.

Leading innovators including Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Writer, Dropbox, Notion, Cognition Labs, Vercel, and Cursor are already building on Slack to deliver intelligent, agent-based experiences that live natively within the platform—bringing AI directly into the flow of work.

Slack: The Natural Home for Modern AI Apps and Agents

Enterprises today face fragmentation—with over 200,000 SaaS tools and an average of 1,000 apps per organization, employees lose productivity through endless switching and duplication. By embedding AI-powered applications directly in Slack, developers help companies unify workflows and turn Slack into the 2% of IT budget that maximizes returns on the other 98%.

Key benefits include:

• Unlocking Unstructured Data: Securely tap into Slack’s collective knowledge to enrich AI, saving teams an average of 97 minutes per week.

• Accelerating Decisions: By combining app data (like Salesforce or Workday) with Slack conversations, companies achieve 37% faster decisions and 36% quicker customer responses.

• Boosting Productivity: Seamless integration eliminates context switching, enabling AI to amplify team efficiency and output.

• Driving Adoption: With 1.7 million apps used weekly in Slack, developers overcome the adoption barrier—95% of users say Slack-integrated tools make their apps more valuable.

• Ensuring Security: Slack’s enterprise-grade compliance and granular permissions keep data safe while powering intelligent collaboration.

Salesforce Executive Perspective

“India is home to one of the world’s most vibrant developer ecosystems. With these new Slack capabilities, partners can securely build deeply context-aware AI agents that make work more intelligent, collaborative, and productive. We’re excited to see how our ecosystem leverages these innovations to accelerate business outcomes.”Rahul Sharma, Vice President – Sales, Salesforce India

A Deeper Look: Powering Trusted, Context-Aware AI

Slack’s platform redefines how users and AI interact, positioning agents as trusted companions.

• RTS API: Offers real-time, permission-based access to conversational data—unlocking collective intelligence securely, without data replication.

• MCP Server: Simplifies and standardizes how AI models and agents connect to Slack data, enabling contextual, permission-aware interactions.

Together, these technologies enable developers to build smarter, more reliable AI agents that can securely search, analyze, and act on Slack data—reducing hallucinations and improving trust.

New Developer Innovations

• Slack Work Objects: Create dynamic, rich app previews within conversations, allowing users to take actions (e.g., mark tasks complete) without leaving Slack.

• Agentic Developer Tools: Updated CLI for Bolt apps, AI best practices, and prebuilt UI components simplify the build process.

• Slack Marketplace: Central hub for secure, discoverable apps and agents—uniting human-AI collaboration within a trusted ecosystem.

With these advancements, Slack cements its position as the foundation for the agentic enterprise where human collaboration meets intelligent automation to transform how the world works.

NEW DELHI, India, October 9, 2025: SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, today unveiled the SolarWinds® AI Agent along with a range of expanded AI features aimed at speeding up the transition to autonomous operational resilience.

Modern IT environments are increasingly distributed and fragile, with nearly half of IT leaders reporting unexpected outages despite rating their resilience highly in this year’s SolarWinds IT Trends Report. SolarWinds AI Agent is built to bridge this “resilience gap” by giving IT teams an intelligent, context-aware system that predicts issues, automates responses, and reduces the cognitive burden on practitioners.

Built on AI by Design principles and expanding the company’s well-known Secure by Design framework into the AI era, the new offerings deliver conversational, agentic AI to daily operations enhancing detection, diagnostics, and remediation.

The SolarWinds AI Agent: A Digital Team Member for IT Ops

The AI Agent will function as a reliable teammate in observability, incident response, and service management, enabling IT professionals to:

• Resolve incidents faster. Automatically summarize outages, gather diagnostics, identify probable root causes, and suggest remediation steps.
• Use natural language. Ask questions about system health, compare metrics, get recommendations, and launch multi-step workflows—all with plain-language commands.
• Simplify observability management. Configure and manage SolarWinds Observability directly through the agentic interface.

“The SolarWinds AI Agent is more than a feature—it’s a foundation for a new way of working,” said Krishna Sai, Chief Technology Officer, SolarWinds. “By embedding intelligent, context-aware AI into IT workflows, we’re helping teams move beyond reactive firefighting to proactive innovation.”

Expanded AI Capabilities Available Now

Alongside the AI Agent, SolarWinds introduced new AI-powered features that deliver immediate impact:

• Root Cause Assist (Generally Available): Cuts troubleshooting time by generating clear root-cause analyses based on alerts and anomalies.
• Dynamic Threshold Enhancements (Available Now): Extends automated thresholding to additional metrics, decreasing noise and false positives.
• AI Query Assist (Tech Preview): Enhances database performance by analyzing query patterns and proposing faster, more efficient rewrites.

Coming in 2026

Looking ahead, more features are scheduled for 2026, such as incident correlation, automated runbook execution, and knowledge base creation to further improve autonomous resilience.

• SolarWinds AI Incident Correlation for Service Desk will automatically identify groups of related incidents and recommend opening a problem management workflow to address the root cause. 
• SolarWinds AI Knowledge Base Generation for Service Desk will utilize GenAI to produce new knowledge base articles based on the most common solved incidents, expanding the customer’s centralized knowledge repository and offering more self-service options for employees.
• Automated Runbook Execution will allow teams to automatically execute predefined standard operating procedure steps as part of first-touch response, diagnostics gathering, or suggested fixes before a human intervenes. 

“For the past year, we’ve focused on operational resilience—the ability to protect, maintain, and quickly recover systems even during disruptions,” said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and CEO, SolarWinds. “With the AI Agent and expanded capabilities, we’re taking the next step: helping customers achieve autonomous operational resilience, where IT runs smarter, faster, and more securely with minimal manual intervention.”

“Every IT leader is under pressure to do more with less, but outages and complexity continue to slow teams down,” Ramakrishna continued. “With the SolarWinds AI Agent, we are reducing the mean time to detect and resolve issues by putting automation, observability, visualization, and remediation into a single, intelligent cycle.  The result is stronger resilience, greater productivity, and more time for teams to focus on innovation.”

Availability

The SolarWinds AI Agent enters Tech Preview today in SolarWinds Observability SaaS, and broader availability across the SolarWinds portfolio is planned for 2026.

For more information, visit www.solarwinds.com

SolarWinds Day

SolarWinds Day provides a front-row seat to the future of IT operations, powered by AI, automation, and full-stack observability. Join SolarWinds for the keynote announcements of these latest innovations, and stay for the THWACKcamp sessions, where customers and experts get technical about optimizing systems, resolving tickets, managing databases, and responding to critical issues in your hybrid environments. Learn more and register at events.solarwinds.com/the-future-of-it-arrives..

• Americas: Wednesday, October 8 – 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CT
• EMEA: Thursday, October 9 – 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. GMT

APJ: Thursday, October 9 – 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. SGT

Contrails AI Raises Dolar 1M Pre-Seed to Advance Its Multimodal AI Engine for Tackling Growing GenAI Threats

Bangalore, October 9, 2025: Contrails AI, a Trust & Safety-tech AI startup, raised $1M in a pre-seed round, led by Huddle Ventures and IAN Group. Founded by Digvijay Singh (AI Researcher and Product Leader) and Amitabh Kumar (Global Trust & Safety Practitioner), Contrails AI is on a mission to safeguard internet companies in the age of GenAI.

The internet, once a space for connecting humans and sharing knowledge and experiences worldwide, is now flooded by bots and “AI slop,” leading to an explosion of machine-made, uncontrolled, and unrestrained content online.

This shift pushes us closer to a “dead internet,” where 99.99% of content is counterproductive or malicious AI-Generated Content (AIGC). Consequently, it will erode digital trust and accelerate threats like brand and identity theft, social engineering at scale, critical misinformation, online illegal abuse, and outright financial fraud.

Contrails AI is reimagining how platforms manage risk and govern GenAI content. Its proprietary Forensics & Manipulation Detection AI delivers real-time analysis with layered explainability, enabling platform review teams to detect, assess, and act on threats proactively. As AIGC proliferates beyond human-scale moderation, Contrails AI helps create walled gardens of trusted, safe environments, preserving user trust and platform integrity.

AI-powered cyberattacks are surging in both volume and form factor. Easy access to GenAI and media manipulation tools has led to over half of organisations seeing weekly phishing attacks, resulting in losses of dolar 17,700 every minute. Additionally, two out of three Fortune 500 company executives have encountered a deepfake or voice spoof attack.

Existing solutions are often limited to a single modality or locally limited coverage. Contrails AI tackles this threat with a multimodal approach across video, image, audio, and text, merging fraud detection with forensic DNA analysis and global data expertise.

This pre-seed funding accelerates the company’s zero-to-one journey by fueling the US and EU pilots running across industries such as marketplaces, media houses, financial firms, and leading digital platforms.

Commenting on Contrails AI’s mission to redefine digital content safety, Amitabh Kumar, Co-Founder, shared, “Trust & Safety is no longer a back-office concern; it has become a boardroom priority. At Contrails AI, we translate complex safety challenges into strategic advantages, spanning across policy, content moderation, and AI guardrailing. This allows us to build moderation and governance frameworks powered by AI, helping digital platforms scale while balancing automation and human oversight.”

“Digital content, online communities, and the internet are going to explode because of the acceleration brought on by GenAI technologies. We are on a mission to safeguard online spaces and ensure that these communities thrive in a safer, intended way. For the past decade, we’ve been closely monitoring the evolving tactics, tools, and emerging attack surface area of bad actors. Contrails AI is our answer, an enterprise-grade solution engineered to proactively safeguard the digital communities of today and tomorrow at scale,” added Digvijay Singh, Co-Founder, Contrails AI.

From 500,000 in 2023 to 8 million in 2025, deepfake files have grown 16-fold, prompting stronger investor and regulatory demands for user protection online.

“By rebuilding Trust & Safety on the internet, Contrails AI is solving one of the biggest challenges endured by today’s digital era. It is well-poised to build a product in an industry where the inflection point is arriving soon. The teams’ credibility within this space is crafted well to deliver a truly global solution. With a multimodal approach and founder-led vision, they are in a league of their own, and we wish the team the best in their ambitious endeavour,” said Sanil Sachar, Partner, Huddle Ventures.

Ajai Chowdhry, Board Member, IAN Group, and Co-Founder, HCL, pointed out, “The team at Contrails AI is tackling digital content risk with unmatched precision and enterprise-ready solutions, setting a benchmark for the industry.”

Contrails AI combines deep-tech innovation with multimodal AI expertise to engineer a compliance-ready safety infrastructure that safeguards digital ecosystems globally. By partnering with the world’s leading innovators in services and technology, the company is driving adoption of Trust & Safety solutions while building an interconnected, secure digital ecosystem.

Hyderabad, 9th October 2025: IIT Hyderabad (IIITH), India’s premier research-led institute in information technology has collaborated with TalentSprint, Part of Accenture, a leading global education company powered by AI, to offer advanced programs for professionals seeking to lead in the era of Generative AI (GenAI).

This enduring partnership of over 7 years brings together IIITH’s pioneering expertise in AI research and TalentSprint’s proven excellence in online program delivery to empower professionals with next-generation AI capabilities. Building on the success of legacy AIML programme, which has trained and transformed thousands of professionals in advanced AI and machine learning, the launch of this Certificate Programme in Generative AI and Prompt Engineering marks a decisive step forward in creating a future-ready AI workforce.

Generative AI is transforming the world today. From writing code and developing products to automating customer experiences, GenAI has become central to how industries innovate and scale. According to recent reports, over 78% of global organizations are actively exploring or investing in GenAI capabilities. However, there exists a significant gap between the demand and supply of skilled professionals equipped to work with advanced AI systems, particularly in areas such as LLM tooling, responsible AI design, and real-time engineering.

Recognizing this urgent need, IIIT Hyderabad, in collaboration with TalentSprint, has introduced a high-impact, research-backed programme designed to bridge this talent gap. The programme is further anchored by the No. 1 ML Lab at Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS), IIIT Hyderabad – a center of excellence driving advanced AI research and innovation across India. The programme combines academic depth with industry-aligned learning, equipping participants with hands-on experience in building and deploying GenAI applications.

Prof Sandeep K Shukla, Director, IIITH emphasizes, “Generative AI represents one of the most transformative shifts in computing. Our curriculum goes beyond theory to offer participants deep insights into the GenAI stack; from prompt engineering to LangChain and vector databases. It empowers professionals to design, build, and deploy intelligent systems that drive real-world impact.”

Ideal for experienced professionals, this three-month immersive learning programme is delivered in a blended format, combining live interactive classes by IIITH faculty with mentor-guided labs and a capstone project. Participants will gain hands-on experience building applications using OpenAI and Hugging Face APIs, mastering LangChain and vector databases such as FAISS and Chroma, designing enterprise-level prompt engineering strategies, developing RAG pipelines and deploying intelligent systems in practice, and learning to create ethical and explainable AI systems.

The programme’s structure ensures flexibility for working professionals while maintaining academic rigor. Participants will also gain access to IIITH’s prestigious alumni network, opening doors to a lifelong learning ecosystem and leadership opportunities in AI-driven domains.

This thoughtfully curated programme will help participants not only understand GenAI fundamentals but also build solutions with purpose—transforming them into practitioners capable of leading enterprise-scale AI adoption.