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ASSOCHAM, Primus Unveil AI-Led Manufacturing Report at Odisha Conclave 2025

18th June 2025 The ASSOCHAM–Odisha State Development Council, in collaboration with strategy consulting firm Primus Partners, released a pioneering report titled “AI-Driven Manufacturing: Innovation, Efficiency & Sustainable Growth” at the Odisha Manufacturing Conclave 2025.

The report provides an all-inclusive analysis of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the manufacturing sector globally and in India, enhancing productivity, operational efficiency, sustainability, and resilience across key industries such as steel, mining, green energy, logistics, and infrastructure.

Key Highlights of the Report:

• Sectoral transformation: Real-world case studies from Odisha and beyond on how AI is driving predictive maintenance, quality control, smart logistics, and intelligent automation.
• Odisha at the forefront: The state’s AI-first approach, including the Odisha AI Policy 2025 and the Odisha AI Mission, positions it as a national model for AI integration across core industrial sectors.
• Global competitiveness through ESG: AI’s role in enabling responsible manufacturing—reducing emissions, optimizing energy use, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Public-private partnerships: A call to strengthen collaboration between government, industry, academia, and startups to foster scalable and ethical AI deployment.
• Future-ready workforce: Strategic emphasis on AI-integrated skilling and capacity building, particularly in MSME clusters and technical institutions.

The Odisha Manufacturing Conclave 2025 served as the official launch platform for the report, bringing together senior government officials, industry leaders, policy experts, innovators, and academic institutions. The event facilitated high-level dialogue on India’s readiness to embrace AI-led industrial transformation, with Odisha showcased as a key accelerator in driving intelligent, inclusive, and sustainable manufacturing.

AI is not just optimizing manufacturing—it’s redefining it. Globally, AI-driven factories have achieved up to 40% productivity gains and 90% defect detection accuracy. As India embraces Industry 4.0, Odisha stands uniquely positioned with 41.2 MTPA steel capacity, 55% of India’s iron ore output, and a robust digital ecosystem. This report outlines how Odisha can lead India’s AI-led industrial leap, balancing innovation with sustainability and making ‘Made in India’ globally competitive and future-ready,” said Mr. Pankaj Lochan Mohanty, Chairman, Odisha State Development Council, ASSOCHAM.

“Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping global manufacturing, with over 80% of manufacturers already adopting AI across operations. Studies show AI can reduce defects by 66%, cut material costs by 12.5%, and speed up production cycles by 20%. Odisha, with its proactive AI policy and sectoral pilots, is leading from the front. The state’s industrial base, combined with digital readiness, presents a compelling opportunity to create globally competitive, ESG-aligned manufacturing hubs. This report offers a practical roadmap to harness AI for economic growth, sustainability, and resilience—especially for MSMEs, which stand to gain the most from targeted skilling, infrastructure support, and innovation partnerships,” added Mr. Kanishk Maheshwari, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Primus Partners.

As India charts its course through the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Odisha’s proactive policies, sectoral strengths, and digital ambition position it as a frontrunner in shaping the future of smart manufacturing. The insights and recommendations in the report aim to guide stakeholders across the ecosystem in building a resilient, tech-enabled, and globally competitive manufacturing landscape.

C5i Launches AI Impact Model to Optimize ROI from Enterprise AI Investments

Ajit Sivadasan, President and Global Head of Ecommerce at Lenovo, said: “We have always been at the cutting edge of leveraging data and technology. We have a long list of AI program opportunities, and we will leverage the AI impact model to prioritize within that list to optimize business impact.” Sivadasan highlighted how this powerful approach helps prioritize and optimize AI investments for maximum ROI.

Ashwin Mittal, Executive Chairman of C5i commented: At C5i, we’re all about driving business impact for clients. For organizations investing in AI, there is a huge promise of organizational value but, in practice, business impact is hard and one doesn’t always get the impact they expect. Also, organizational time and resources are limited, so leaders need a dependable way to prioritize their AI investments from hundreds of use cases. The AI Impact Model goes beyond prioritization to also prescribe steps to enhance business impact from selected programs.”

Dr. Mohanbir Sawhney, Clinical Professor of Marketing and Director of the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation at Kellogg School of Management and co-creator of the model, said: “While companies are still experimenting with AI, they can afford to be explorative, but when you want to deploy AI at scale, you do need to think more carefully about returns and causal drivers of impact. The time has come to move beyond proof-of-concept and get serious about driving tangible value from enterprise-grade AI. The AI Impact Model assesses the impact of AI, generative AI, and agentic AI on business growth, productivity, and innovation in diverse organizational contexts, and helps business leaders to unlock value at scale by prioritizing their investments.”

Fujifilm Launches LTO Ultrium 10 Data Cartridge in India

New Delhi, 18^th June 2025: FUJIFILM India, a wholly owned subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, Tokyo a diversified conglomerate whose focus stretches from imaging to healthcare, electronics and business innovation, announces the launch of “FUJIILM LTO Ultrium 10 Data Cartridge” (LTO-10), a magnetic data storage tape cartridge that achieves a maximum recording capacity of 75 TB per cartridge (30 TB for uncompressed data), enabling the secure and cost-effective storage of large amounts of data.

Sharing his excitement about the new launch, Mr. Koji Wada – Managing Director, FUJIFILM India said, “At FUJIFILM India, we are committed to delivering innovative products and solutions that embody our Group purpose of ‘Giving Our World More Smiles.’ By blending diverse ideas, unique capabilities, and extraordinary people, we aim to create solutions that bring joy and smiles to the world. The launch of LTO Ultrium 10 marks a major milestone in our mission to support enterprises with scalable, secure, and future-ready data storage solutions. As the volume of data generated globally continues to soar, it is important that businesses have access to technologies that can safeguard mission-critical information efficiently and cost-effectively.”

Adding on, Mr. J Solomon Sukumar, Associate Director – Recording Media & Industrial Products, FUJIFILM India stated, “With LTO-10, we are introducing a powerful combination of innovation and security for data-centric enterprises in India. The use of fine hybrid magnetic particles enhances recording density while maintaining data integrity and durability, even in high-volume storage environments. From BFSI and healthcare to government and research, organizations today require offline, air-gapped storage that can stand up to evolving cybersecurity threats. LTO-10 empowers them with a dependable solution that not only reduces long-term storage costs but also supports regulatory compliance and business continuity in a rapidly digitizing world.”

LTO-10 is the 10th generation of the LTO Ultrium standard for magnetic tape storage media^*1. The new generation provides a substantial 1.67x increase in storage capacity from the previous generation (LTO-9, 18 TB uncompressed). ^*2 This increase was achieved through Fujifilm’s use of proprietary “fine hybrid magnetic particles,” developed by combining its nanoparticle design technologies used in next-generation Strontium Ferrite (SrFe) particles and Barium Ferrite (BaFe). This is the first time that “fine hybrid magnetic particles” have been used in an “LTO Ultrium” series data cartridge, and supports systems that securely and safely store even larger volumes of data at low cost.

In addition to enabling stable read/write operations^*3, tape offers lower initial implementation costs compared to hard disk drives (HDDs)^*4, making it a cost-effective solution for data storage. Furthermore, tape offers “air gap” data protection, physically isolated from the network, thereby minimizing the risk of data damage or loss caused by system failures, exposure to computer viruses and cyberattacks.

The amount of data generated worldwide grows exponentially with the spread of technologies such as autonomous driving, medical imaging, AI, and IoT, and is expected to reach 175 zettabytes in 2025^*5. Furthermore, compliance with laws and regulations that govern data storage obligations requires that data storage providers, companies, research institutions, and other organizations securely store large amounts of data for long periods of time.

*1 Linear Tape-Open, LTO, the LTO logo, Ultrium and the Ultrium logo are the registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Quantum in the United States and other countries.

*2 “FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 9 Data Cartridge” compatible with the 9^th generation of the “LTO Ultrium” specification.

*3 Optimized material design enables high-precision tracking and excellent running durability of magnetic heads.

*4 Compared based on TCA (Total Cost of Acquisition) per 1TB. Superiority confirmed for data storage volumes of 10PB or more. Based on Fujifilm’s research.

*5 Source: Brad Johns Consulting, LLC “Improving Information Technology Sustainability with Modern Tape Storage” (2022)

*6 Producer share, according to Fujifilm.

1．Product name： FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 10 Data Cartridge

2．Release date: June 13, 2025

3．Model numbers, packaging formats and prices:

See your Fujifilm Sales Representative for Pricing Details and Ordering.

4． Main features of “LTO-10”:

(1) Achieves a maximum recording capacity of 75TB, approximately 1.7 times that of previous generation LTO-9 cartridges

One of the keys to increasing the capacity of magnetic tape is improving the areal recording density, which indicates the amount of data that can be recorded per unit area. LTO-10 incorporates “fine hybrid magnetic particles” developed by combining nanoparticle design technologies used in both “Strontium Ferrite (SrFe) magnetic particles” a next-generation magnetic material, and “Barium Ferrite (BaFe) particles” currently used in high-capacity data storage tapes, and has adopted this material for the first time in the “LTO Ultrium” series. By further reducing the particle size of the magnetic material and improving its magnetic properties, Fujifilm has increased the areal recording density of magnetic tape by approximately 1.7 times compared to current products.

(2) Storage media that can securely store data at lower cost

    Compared to HDDs, the initial introduction cost can be reduced, enabling the storage of large amounts of data at a low cost

    Data can be stored in an air-gapped state isolated from the network, minimizing the risk of data loss or destruction due to system failures, ransomware, or hacking, and ensuring the safe storage of important data.

5．Main specifications:

Google launches Google Safety Engineering Centre, India at Hyderabad

Hyderabad, June 18, 2025: Google today inaugurated its Google Safety Engineering Centre, India (GSEC India) in Hyderabad, the first such facility in the Asia-Pacific region and fourth globally.   Telangana Chief Minister Shri Anumula Revanth Reddy inaugurated the facility along with the IT Minister Shri D. Sridhar Babu. It marks a pivotal milestone in the company’s commitment to securing India’s digital future. The inauguration follows the unveiling of Google’s Safety Charter for India’s AI-led Transformation in Delhi on 17th June.

GSEC in India will serve as the operational heart where strategic commitments transform into tangible solutions; and represents a unique convergence of Google’s global safety expertise, bringing together teams focused on privacy and security engineering, and advanced cybersecurity capabilities under one strategic umbrella to address India’s distinct digital landscape.

GSEC India  will operationalise the three foundational pillars of Google’s Safety Charter—keeping end users safe from online fraud and scams, strengthening cybersecurity for government and enterprise infrastructure, and building AI responsibly—while serving as a regional hub for developing solutions across the broader APAC region.

Preeti Lobana, Country Manager and Vice President, Google India, said, ” For India’s digital engine to keep growing and powering its ambitious future, we must keep building trust in how users and enterprises access the digital landscape. With the inauguration of GSEC India today, we are bringing our global experience and expertise—from cutting-edge AI to foundational cybersecurity and user protection—to realize this commitment. Safety is a shared responsibility and this launch is a call for the entire ecosystem to come together and collaborate to make the entire chain stronger and smarter.”

Heather Adkins, Vice President of Engineering, Google Security, highlighted, “At Google, safety is built into everything we do, grounded in our ‘secure by design, secure by default’ philosophy. AI represents an inflection point for digital security – a force multiplier that narrows the gap between defenders and attackers, even eliminating it entirely in some cases . With GSEC India, we’re situating these capabilities in India to serve its unique landscape and also be a lighthouse for our global security efforts.”

Shri Anumula Revanth Reddy, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Telangana, emphasised, “The establishment of GSEC represents a pivotal moment in Telangana’s journey toward becoming a global hub for cybersecurity innovation. This first-of-its-kind facility in the Asia-Pacific region affirms Hyderabad’s crucial role in developing privacy, safety, and cyber-defence solutions for the next billion users, placing our state at the forefront of global digital safety efforts. With Telangana’s GSDP projected to reach ₹16.5 lakh crore and IT/ITeS exports rising to ₹2.7 lakh crore, supporting over 9.5 lakh high-skill jobs, GSEC’s presence will attract top-tier safety engineers and foster collaboration with academic institutions to tackle India’s unique cybersecurity challenges while creating thousands of direct and indirect employment opportunities.”

Shri D. Sridhar Babu, IT Minister, Telangana, stated, “The inauguration of GSEC India demonstrates the power of public-private partnerships in building a secure digital infrastructure for our nation. This center will serve as a catalyst for innovation in cybersecurity, responsible AI development, and digital safety—areas critical to India’s vision of becoming a global technology leader. We welcome Google’s significant investment in Telangana’s ecosystem and look forward to the transformative impact this facility will have on strengthening our state’s position as a premier destination for cutting-edge technology research and development.”

Operationalising India’s Digital Safety Blueprint

GSEC India addresses India’s rapidly evolving threat landscape—where APAC accounts for half of all global APT activity and India faces projected cybercrime losses of up to ₹20,000 crore by 2025—through a comprehensive, proactive approach combining AI-powered threat detection, ecosystem collaboration, and forward-looking policy measures. The facility will operationalise advanced AI and large language models (LLMs) to power real-time scam alerts on Android via Gemini Nano, strengthen Google Play Protect, and enhance fraud detection across Google Pay, Search, and Gmail. It will also tackle AI-driven deception through adversarial testing, AI-assisted red teaming, and tools like SynthID to watermark AI-generated content. GSEC India emphasises ecosystem collaboration and intelligence sharing via platforms like the Global Signals Exchange (GSE), supports education and user awareness initiatives tailored to India’s scale and linguistic diversity, and advances research in areas like Post-Quantum Cryptography through partnerships such as its work with IIT-Madras.

Building on a Strong Foundation in Telangana

Google’s nearly two-decade partnership with Telangana began with its first Indian office in Hyderabad in 2004—one of Google’s  largest base outside the U.S. This longstanding collaboration has driven impactful initiatives, including the AnthroKrishi project using AI for sustainable agriculture, traffic optimization systems with Hyderabad Police, and the launch of a Google Startup Hub to accelerate AI adoption. The partnership also extends to skill development through the Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK), enabling access to Google’s IT Support Certificates to prepare citizens for the digital economy, underscoring the state’s commitment to leveraging technology for inclusive growth.

Global Hub for Safety Innovation

GSEC India lies at the core of Google’s mission to advance ethical and responsible AI development through rigorous model testing for safety and fairness, robust content policies, and user-focused transparency tools. As a regional innovation hub, the centre will lead the development of scalable safety solutions tailored to India’s unique needs, while also supporting Google’s global vision for a safer internet. Its strategic role includes close engagement with policymakers, partners, and customers across APAC, reinforcing India’s position as a key driver in the region’s digital transformation.

The inauguration of GSEC India represents a transformative moment for digital safety in the Asia-Pacific region, combining Google’s cutting-edge technology capabilities with India’s fresher talent ecosystem to build a safer, more resilient digital future for billions of users worldwide.

QMentisAI by QualiZeal Slashes Software Testing Timelines by 60 Percent with Innovative Generative AI

India, June 2025—QualiZeal, a U.S.-based quality engineering (QE) firm with Global Capability Centers (GCCs) in Hyderabad, has recently launched QMentisAI, a Generative AI-powered QE platform that has garnered significant interest across the software testing community. Frost & Sullivan recently recognized QMentisAI with the 2025 Indian GenAI Quality Excellence Platform—Best Practices Award for Industry Excellence.

The award-winning, enterprise-grade platform is designed to reduce software testing timelines by up to 60% across key functions—requirement refinement, test design, and test automation—while achieving nearly 95% accuracy, transforming how testing is conducted at scale.

Equipped with 18 advanced capabilities—including user story refinement, test design, test automation scripting, and defect report enhancement—QMentisAI integrates GenAI throughout the testing lifecycle, significantly improving tester productivity.

It addresses common QE challenges such as poorly written user stories, manual test script generation, inefficient defect documentation, collaboration gaps among distributed teams, and time constraints in Agile environments. The platform leverages advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) within an agentic architecture, combined with QualiZeal’s deep domain expertise, to overcome complex QE roadblocks.

“QMentisAI embodies our vision of combining cutting-edge technology with human expertise to deliver superior results,” said Madhu Murty, Co-Founder & Head of India Operations, at QualiZeal. “By harnessing GenAI and a human-in-the-loop approach, we’re enabling teams to reduce manual effort, accelerate delivery, and achieve unprecedented efficiency.”

While GenAI powers core QE processes, its human-in-the-loop model ensures expert validation to refine outputs and uphold quality. QMentisAI is industry-agnostic, built for flexibility and scale, and includes future-ready features such as synthetic data creation, risk assessment, a prompt library, and performance and security testing.

“As software engineering evolves, QMentisAI is our answer to bridging the gap between technology and human ingenuity,” said Pradeep Govindasamy, Co-Founder, President & CEO, of QualiZeal. “Its ability to reduce manual effort, accelerate timelines, and foster seamless collaboration makes it a game-changer for teams striving for excellence.”

The platform cuts up to 80% of manual effort in test case design and defect documentation, significantly shortens project timelines, and enhances communication among globally distributed teams.

Heena Juneja, Industry Principal at Frost & Sullivan, commented on QMentisAI’s transformative impact, “Frost & Sullivan recognizes QualiZeal for redefining the QE landscape through its groundbreaking platforms, QMentisAI and QualiCentral. The company enables faster, more efficient, and highly reliable software deployments by integrating GenAI into QE workflows—delivering value across industries beyond just automation.”

QualiZeal is continually enhancing QMentisAI with features like root cause analysis, security testing, accessibility support, and agentic AI capabilities—reaffirming its commitment to inclusive, future-proof QE solutions.

Mphasis Recognized as a Contender in Application Modernization and Multicloud Managed Services Evaluation Report

Mumbai, June 18, 2025 Mphasis, an Information Technology provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, today announced that it has been included as a ‘Contender’ in The Forrester Wave™: Application Modernization And Multicloud Managed Services, Q1 2025 by Forrester Research, Inc.

According to the report, Mphasis serves an important role in its specialized industries, bringing extensive experience in transaction-intensive industry modernization and legacy technologies. The evaluation recognizes Mphasis’ skills in high-performance IBM legacy environments, making it well-suited for modernization efforts involving legacy platforms in the banking, finance, and airline industries.

“We believe this recognition by Forrester highlights our dedication to driving transformation through specialized modernization solutions,” said Srikumar Ramanathan, Chief Solutions Officer, Mphasis. ” Clients value our deep domain expertise in modernizing legacy systems and integrating multi-cloud capabilities. This acknowledgement reinforces our commitment to helping enterprises optimize operations, scale efficiently, and achieve sustainable growth in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.”

In an extensive evaluation, Forrester researched, analyzed, and scored fifteen top providers in the application modernization and multi-cloud managed services sector based on strategy and current offering. The report serves as a valuable resource for organizations seeking partners to navigate complex modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.

Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here .

AI Overhyped Yet Underused as 86 Percent Miss Full Potential Says GoTo Study

AI Underdelivers at Work: 62% of Employees Say AI is Significantly Overhyped, But 86% Admit They Aren’t Using AI to Its Full Potential According to New Research from GoTo

June 18, 2025, India – GoTo, the leader in cloud communications and IT, today announced the release of a new research report: The Pulse of Work in 2025: Trends, Truths, and the Practicality of AI. The report summarizes the findings of a survey of 2,500 global employees and IT leaders on AI use and sentiment, conducted in partnership with research firm Workplace Intelligence. Among the study’s key findings: despite widespread anticipation about AI’s positive impact on workforce productivity, most employees feel they were overpromised on its potential. In fact, 62% believe AI has been significantly overhyped.

However, this is likely because employees aren’t making the most of what these tools have to offer. The majority (86%) admit they’re not using AI tools to their full potential, and 82% say they aren’t very familiar with how AI can be used practically in their day-to-day work.

All told, employees estimate that they’re spending 2.6 hours a day — or 13 hours per week — on tasks that could be handled by AI. This means that in the U.S. alone, businesses could be missing out on more than $2.9 trillion annually in greater efficiency.*

“Employees are already using AI and are seeing clear productivity gains, yet despite these benefits, our latest research shows people still view AI as overhyped. While many recognize its value, they don’t yet see it as the revolutionary change they were promised. This gap likely exists because many workers admit they aren’t realizing AI’s full potential or don’t know how to apply it in practical ways,” said Rich Veldran, CEO of GoTo. “The solution is clear: companies must go beyond just providing access to AI by ensuring employees have both the right tools and the right education. By equipping teams with effective training and clear guidelines, organizations can empower their workforce to unlock the true, transformational impact of AI.” 

Other key findings include:

• AI is handling some tasks for employees — just not the ones their bosses think: Instead of using AI to save themselves time in their day-to-day work, 54% of employees admit they’ve used it for sensitive tasks or high-stakes decision-making such as tasks requiring emotional intelligence (29%), tasks impacting safety (25%), and ethical or sensitive personnel actions (16%) — despite knowing they shouldn’t. An alarming 77% of these workers also say they don’t regret using AI for these tasks.

• Another potential reason for AI’s underuse — employees don’t trust the tools: 86% of employees aren’t very confident in the accuracy and reliability of AI tools, and 76% say they often provide outputs that need to be refined or revised by users.

• Smaller companies are falling behind: At the smallest companies — those with 50 employees or less — just 59% of workers use AI and 46% say they don’t know how to use AI to save time or improve their work. At larger organizations, however, closer to 80% are using AI.

“Contrary to what you might think, it’s not just older workers who are struggling to realize the benefits of AI tools,” said Dan Schawbel, Managing Partner, Workplace Intelligence. “Younger workers also admit they’re not using these tools to their full potential. In fact, 74% of Gen Z employees say they aren’t very familiar with how to use AI practically in their day-to-day work. This highlights the importance of equipping all generations with the tools and education to use AI safely and effectively.” 

The research also describes solutions to help close the AI adoption gap:

• Give employees the tools they want: Employees say an AI virtual assistant (88%), AI tools that automate certain work tasks (86%), AI communication tools (83%), generative AI tools (81%), and an AI chat/messaging assistant to communicate with customers (73%), would be most valuable for them, but roughly only 4 out of 10 say their company offers these.
• Improve policies and training to prevent AI misuse: Just 45% of IT leaders say their company has an AI policy in place. Both employees (81%) and IT leaders (71%) believe AI tools need better instructions and guardrails for proper usage. 87% of employees also feel most workers are not being trained properly to use AI tools.
• Be purposeful about AI implementation and ROI measurement: At companies using AI, 21% of IT leaders admit their company is adopting AI or buying AI tools just because they think they should — not after careful consideration or with a clear plan in mind. What’s more, nearly half (49%) of IT leaders say their company isn’t measuring the ROI of AI tools very well.
• Recognize that a small investment can have a major impact: 77% of IT leaders say their company would only need to spend an extra $20/month or less per employee on AI tools to save each employee an additional one hour a day in greater efficiency.

• Help IT leaders understand the employee perspective: The survey revealed that IT leaders and employees aren’t always seeing eye-to-eye when it comes to AI use, practicality, reliability, and more. Companies that take steps to address these disconnects will be well-positioned to maximize the benefits of AI for their organization.

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Ambrane Launches PowerMini 10, Ultra-Compact Powerbank with 10,000mAh Capacity

New Delhi, June 17th, 2025: Ambrane, a leading name in mobile accessories and consumer electronics, launches its Made-in-India PowerMini 10 Power Bank. This ultra-compact powerbank offers a glimpse into the brand’s upcoming product lineup. No taller than a lipstick, the PowerMini 10 boasts a powerful 10,000mAh capacity in a pocket-friendly form, designed to seamlessly fit into today’s fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle. Priced at ₹1399 and backed by an 6-month warranty, the PowerMini 10 is available in four vibrant colours, on the Ambrane website along e-commerce platforms like Amazon.

In line with current trends, PowerMini 10 is an easy choice for busy Millennials & fun-loving Gen Z who show a preference for vibrant & stylish designs. Blending style with convenience, the powerbank features an inbuilt cable which doubles as a carrying hook for effortless portability. With compact size, it easily slips into any pocket and is hangable from any backpack.

The powerbank offers versatile charging options, including a built-in Type-C cable, a Type-C port, and a USB-A port to power your everyday tech essentials. Further, it integrates the brand’s proprietary BoostedSpeed™ charging technology, ensuring faster and more efficient charging. It’s built to withstand everyday commutes and outdoor adventures alike, making it a reliable power supply.

Speaking on the launch, Ashok Rajpal, Managing Director of Ambrane, said, “We didn’t want to just make another powerbank, we wanted to create a powerbank you’d actually want to carry. It’s stylish, smart, and matches your modern lifestyle. The PowerMini 10 is our answer to bulky bricks and tangled cables.”

Ambrane commands nearly one-third of India’s powerbank market share, with all its products, including the PowerMini 10, proudly designed and manufactured at its state-of-the-art facility in Sonipat, near Delhi.

Operant AI Launches MCP Gateway: enterprise-grade runtime defense for MCP-Connected AI Applications

Bengaluru, June 17 , 2025 : Operant AI, the world’s only Runtime AI Defense Platform, has launched MCP Gateway, an expansion of its flagship product, AI Gatekeeper™ platform that secures AI systems built on the increasingly adopted Model Context Protocol (MCP). As more companies use open-source MCP servers and AI agents, MCP Gateway stands out as the only enterprise-grade solution that protects these critical workflows in real time, with the industry’s first active-blocking capabilities for API security.

With over 1,000 MCP servers deployed globally, MCP has become a key protocol enabling large language models (LLMs) to connect securely with external tools, APIs, and data systems. According to Gartner, by 2026, 75% of API gateway vendors and 50% of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) vendors will adopt MCP features—highlighting its role in AI-driven workflows. In India, where the AI market is projected to reach $17 billion by 2027 as per NASSCOM, MCP is gaining traction among enterprises in sectors like IT services, fintech, and healthcare.

However, this explosive growth has also introduced critical vulnerabilities. From prompt injection attacks to shadow AI deployments, organizations are grappling with a new wave of threat vectors—compounded by the rise of modular, multi-agent systems. As autonomous agents multiply, so do the risks, with limited visibility or control over how these agents behave, what data they access, and how they interact. This includes emerging attack paths such as inter-agent spoofing, where one compromised agent can manipulate or mislead others in the network.

MCP Gateway addresses these gaps by actively blocking threats and delivering real-time protection across every layer of the MCP stack—from local tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Desktop to enterprise AI agents running on AWS Bedrock, Azure, and Google Vertex AI.

“While MCP is a powerful AI integration framework, the growing adoption of open-source MCP servers also brings new challenges around security and governance,” said Vrajesh Bhavsar, CEO and co-founder of Operant AI. “Many organizations are deploying these tools without full visibility into their behavior, data access, or usage. MCP Gateway helps close this gap by providing enhanced security, observability, and control across the MCP ecosystem.”

Comprehensive Security for the AI Agent Era

Unlike traditional guardrails and static cyber-security tools, MCP Gateway is purpose-built for the inter-connected AI agent era, empowering organizations to safely and effectively leverage AI agents and MCPs through three core capabilities:

1. MCP Discovery: Complete Visibility Into AI Agent Ecosystems
2. Automatic real-time MCP tool catalogs and AI agent discovery across all environments
3. Live traffic graphs and telemetry showing active access patterns between AI agent clients and MCP servers
4. End-to-end visibility from development tools to cloud deployments, eliminating shadow MCP server blind spots
5. Comprehensive discovery spanning coding agents to remote AI agents in multi-cloud environments
6. MCP Detections: Advanced Threat Detection for AI-Specific Risks
7. Real-time detection of sensitive data leakage to and from AI agents and MCP tools
8. Identification of emerging agentic AI threat vectors, including tool poisoning, jailbreaks, and unauthorized access
9. Supply chain security monitoring for vulnerabilities in local MCP servers and misconfigurations in remote servers
10. Trust and risk scoring for all MCP servers in the environment
11. MCP Defense: Proactive Protection and Governance
12. Enforcement of MCP trust zones with live blocking of untrusted servers and tools
13. Prevention of sensitive data and IP leakage through real-time flow blocking and auto-redaction
14. Least privilege execution controls and granular access permissions for the MCP tool usage
15. Centralized governance framework for enterprise-wide AI agent and tool management
16. Rate limiting and encryption standard enforcement for all MCP communications

Ecosystem Partnership Strategy

Operant AI is launching the MCP Gateway with a comprehensive ecosystem partnership program designed to secure the entire MCP vendor landscape. Operant AI is working closely with MCP vendors and AI tool providers to deliver pre-integrated security tooling, helping partners secure their customers by embedding AI Gatekeeper’s runtime defenses directly into their MCP offerings.

“We’re not just securing MCP applications – we’re enabling the entire ecosystem,” said Ashley Roof, Co-Founder and CMO at Operant AI. “Our partnership approach mirrors our successful sales enablement programs with model providers, creating a security foundation that allows MCP vendors to serve enterprise customers confidently.”

MCP Gateway is currently available as part of the AI Gatekeeper platform, with comprehensive integration support for existing MCP servers and AI agent deployments. The solution supports all major cloud platforms and development environments where MCP applications are deployed.