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AI Goes Mainstream: Gemini User Base Soars to 950 Million Worldwide

July 23: Google’s artificial intelligence platform Gemini has crossed 950 million monthly active users, marking a significant milestone in the global adoption of generative AI technologies, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced.

Pichai said the rapid expansion of Gemini reflects the growing interest in AI-powered solutions among individuals, businesses, and developers. The platform has gained momentum by offering advanced capabilities designed to assist users with tasks including information discovery, content creation, productivity enhancement, learning, and problem-solving.

The milestone highlights the accelerating growth of the artificial intelligence ecosystem, as companies and users increasingly integrate AI tools into everyday digital activities. Google has continued to expand Gemini’s capabilities across its products and services, focusing on improving user experiences and enabling more efficient workflows.

The increasing adoption of Gemini comes as competition in the AI sector continues to intensify, with technology companies investing in next-generation models, infrastructure, and innovative applications. Google has emphasized its commitment to developing AI responsibly while making advanced technologies more accessible globally.

Pichai said the company will continue to invest in AI research and development to enhance Gemini’s performance, expand its applications, and support users across consumer and enterprise segments.

SK Telecom Leads Global Technical Standardization for Physical AI

SEOUL, Korea, July 23 — SK Telecom (SKT) announced that a new standardization work item on robot data production and utilization systems was adopted at the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) international standardization meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland from July 14 to 22.

The adopted work item, “Signalling Requirements and Architecture for Robot Data Factory (RDF),” is SKT’s proposal to systematically produce and utilize data required for AI training of intelligent robots such as humanoids.

ITU-T is the telecommunication standardization sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a specialized agency of the UN, and develops international standards in the information and communications field. ITU has around 1,000 institutions, companies, and research organizations from some 190 member countries participating.

Robot motion data is akin to “practice problems” used to train robot AI. For robots to become smarter, they need “many” “good problems.” However, the way this data is created and exchanged differs by robot model and onboard software, making it difficult to achieve compatibility between different systems.

With the recent growth of the robot industry, demand has been increasing for large-scale, high-quality motion data needed for robot AI to learn how to grasp and move objects and use tools. However, because institutions and companies have collected and managed data in different ways, it has been difficult to secure sufficient scale and consistent quality.

Accordingly, SKT proposed a new standardization work item to ITU-T Study Group 11 (SG11) to define the roles of the key functions comprising RDF, its interworking structure, and data exchange methods. Following review and discussion by ITU-T members, the proposal was adopted as a new standardization work item at the July meeting

This work item divides the RDF structure into five layers: Service, Robot Model·Data, Infrastructure, Device, and Management.

SKT plans to establish the role of each layer and the interworking specifications between layers, enabling functions to be easily connected, replaced, and expanded across different robots and platforms.

SKT has been working to build and advance a digital twin platform for manufacturing AI. Building on this, the company is expanding into a robot learning platform that generates robot task data for use in AI training. SKT explained that the adoption of this work item was made possible by the digital twin, AI, and data capabilities it has accumulated over time.

Through this standardization work item, SKT plans to strengthen the utility of its digital twin-based robot learning platform, which is being prepared for launch in the second half of the year. Furthermore, building on this international standardization discussion, SKT aims to expand cooperation with domestic and international robotics and AI companies and research institutions, contributing to the revitalization of the robot data ecosystem.

“With the adoption of this new standardization work item, SKT has established a foundation for leading international standards discussions, leveraging the digital twin and AI capabilities it has accumulated in the Physical AI field,” said Choi Dong-hee, Head of AI Strategy Planning Office at SKT. “Going forward, building on our technological competitiveness spanning robot learning platforms and AI models, we will continue to spearhead international standardization in robotics.”

Kore.ai Names Uma Sandilya Chief Commercial Officer, Placing Sales, Marketing, and Strategy Under One Leader

Appointment follows a year of accelerating customer growth, the launch of the Artemis edition of the Kore.ai Agent Platform, and Leader placements from Gartner and Forrester 

SAN MATEO, Calif., July 22, 2026 – Kore.ai, the global leader in enterprise AI platforms and agentic applications, today named Uma Sandilya Chief Commercial Officer. Sandilya takes end-to-end ownership of sales, go-to-market (GTM), marketing, and strategy, uniting the company’s commercial functions under a single leader as enterprise buyers move agentic AI from pilots into production. 

Enterprise AI has reached the moment Kore.ai was built for. Buying decisions that once sat with individual departments now consolidate at the CIO level and cover the full lifecycle of AI agents rather than single tools. This appointment gives Kore.ai one commercial owner to meet it, accountable from first contact through delivered value. 

Sandilya joined Kore.ai in 2025 as Chief Growth Officer, bringing more than two decades of enterprise AI experience working with C3.ai and McKinsey. As Chief Commercial Officer, he takes direct leadership of the global sales organization, including the Americas and International sales teams, along with the growth, marketing, and corporate strategy functions. 

“Enterprise AI is entering its third wave, where governance, observability, and trust define success at scale,” said Raj Koneru, Founder and CEO of Kore.ai. “The next phase of our growth requires a commercial organization built the way we built our platform: one foundation with one accountable owner. Uma has shaped our commercial engine since the day he joined, and he is the right leader to run it end to end.” 

The move caps a year of accelerating customer growth and expanding industry recognition. In May, the company launched the new-generation Kore.ai Agent Platform, Artemis edition. Gartner named Kore.ai a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms in 2025 and again in 2026. Forrester named the company a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ Conversational AI Platforms in multiple categories: Cognitive Search, Customer Service, and Employee Service. The Kore.ai platform now powers more than 11 billion interactions per year and has supported more than 500 large enterprises worldwide. 

“Every enterprise I’ve sat across the table from this year has asked the same question: how do we accelerate time to value from agent deployments? What sets Artemis apart is that it’s built for what comes after the first ten agents – the governance, the observability, the reliability enterprises need to scale,” said Sandilya. “My focus is to bring Artemis to more of the market through a unified growth, sales, and marketing engine, and deliver tangible business outcomes for our customers.” 

Kore.ai also appointed Rajavardhan Nalluri as Chief Customer Operations Officer, reporting directly to the CEO. Nalluri has spent more than 11 years at Kore.ai, where he has led engineering through multiple phases of growth while working directly with customers across industries. In the new role, he leads the company’s forward-deployed engineering, customer support, and cloud operations and infrastructure organizations. His mandate is to make customer delivery a competitive edge by ensuring predictable deployments, stronger support, deeper partner enablement, and measurable customer satisfaction as agentic AI moves into production. 

Alongside these two major appointments, Kore.ai also expanded the integrated demand generation organization under Chief Marketing Officer Peter Mullen. The commercial structure matches the position Kore.ai staked out with Artemis. Much of the market sells tools that create agents or control layers added after the fact. Kore.ai has built the harness: a single platform that builds, deploys, manages, and optimizes enterprise AI agents, with governance defined from the first line and enforced separately from the model. Artemis compiles that governance before any agent goes live, which lets enterprises operate AI systems that they can audit and scale.

Veraify Launches Groundbreaking AI-Native Security Platform Built for the AI Workforce Era

New Platform Puts Enterprises in the AI Drivers Seat, with More Control over Shadow AI, AI Workforce, and Sensitive Data Movement, Securing AI Adoption Without Slowing Innovation

SUNNYVALE, CA – July 22, 2026 – Veraify today introduced a new AI-native security platform designed to help enterprises safely adopt artificial intelligence at scale, powered by Cloudbrink. Veraify’s comprehensive, AI-native approach combines endpoint intelligence, AI-aware policy enforcement, data protection, and secure high-performance connectivity in one platform for AI governance, visibility, and protection.

Built for a world of AI agents, copilots, autonomous workflows, and shadow AI, Veraify gives organizations the visibility, governance, data protection, and guardian agent capabilities, along with the high-performance secure access required for the next generation of enterprise operations. Delivered under a new platform brand from Cloudbrink, Veraify is a next-gen approach to securing AI that addresses how AI gets used in a way that traditional ZTNA and SASE architectures don’t.

“As we evaluated AI security platforms, we found that many approached the problem using architectures designed for the SASE or web browsers,” said Aziz Kapadia, Field CISO at Cogent Security. “They could inspect browser traffic and some app traffic, but they weren’t built to provide visibility into the growing number of AI agents, desktop applications and embedded AI capabilities running directly in apps and on endpoints. We selected Veraify powered by Cloudbrink because its architecture was designed for where enterprise AI security is actually heading, not where it was yesterday.”

Veraify builds on Cloudbrink’s proven high-performance connectivity architecture and expands it into a complete AI security platform designed for how work is changing.

For the last decade, enterprise security architectures were built around humans accessing applications. AI changes that model.

AI agents, copilots, coding assistants, and autonomous workflows now access data, applications, APIs, and infrastructure directly. These interactions create new security challenges that traditional cloud proxy and browser-centric architectures were never designed to solve. According to a Gartner study, 69% of organizations suspect or have evidence that employees are using prohibited public GenAI tools. This unapproved “shadow AI” can significantly increase risk to an organization, leaving them vulnerable to privacy breaches and data loss from employees entering customer or employee data, proprietary company information, or code into an AI prompt while looking for help.

“Every major technology shift creates a new security architecture. The PC created endpoint security. The cloud created SASE. AI requires something different,” said Prakash Mana, CEO of Cloudbrink. “AI agents and assistants are becoming digital workers with access to enterprise data, but most companies have very limited visibility or control over what this AI technology is doing. We created Veraify to give enterprises the confidence to adopt AI safely.”

Veraify solves the most urgent AI security challenges  by empowering organizations to:

• Discover Every AI Interaction. Identify sanctioned and unsanctioned AI tools, agents, copilots, and services. Agent-based policy enforcement captures all AI traffic and enforces policy at the source/endpoint. AI traffic cannot bypass the agent, ensuring full visibility, governance controls, and evidence recording for compliance.
• Protect Sensitive Data Before It Leaves. Prevent employees and AI agents from exposing private information, code, customer data, or intellectual property. Advanced DLP capabilities include a built-in PII catalog to begin AI protection within minutes and eliminate constant DLP policy updates when PII data types and formats change. Multi-level content inspection monitors and secures PII across AI prompts, documents, or images, including images inside files uploaded to AI.
• Anticipate and Prepare for New AI. Automated learning and discovery of new AI platforms and agents that are not in the integrated top 100 AI catalog eliminates the need for customers to continually manually configure the detection logic for new platforms
• Govern Humans and AI Agents Together. Apply identity, device, data, and AI-aware policies from a unified control plane regardless of the origin.
• Secure AI Without Sacrificing Performance. Enable AI adoption without forcing users into slow legacy SASE and DLP architectures they then bypass, leveraging the Cloudbrink high-performance connectivity architecture.

Veraify is powered by Cloudbrink’s proven high-performance secure connectivity architecture, which was built from the beginning for a world where users, applications, and data are distributed everywhere. Veraify incorporates and expands the SAFE AI capabilities previously introduced by Cloudbrink, layering on new technology to give broader AI visibility, governance, endpoint-aware protection, and secure access capabilities into a unified AI-native platform.

Unlike traditional security models that force traffic through centralized inspection points, the Cloudbrink architecture provides the foundation for Veraify’s AI-native approach — delivering endpoint intelligence, zero-trust access, AI-aware policy enforcement, and high-performance connectivity without compromising the user experience.

“Cloudbrink provides the technology foundation. Veraify defines the next generation platform for securing AI adoption,” said Manohar Reddy, Head of Products at Cloudbrink. “Veraify extends the foundation we built with Personal SASE into this AI-native era — combining secure access, AI visibility, data protection, and performance into one platform. With Veraify, customers do not have to choose between enabling AI innovation and protecting the business. Organizations can get the controls they need to govern AI adoption while preserving the fast, seamless experience users expect.”

Veraify powered by Cloudbrink is available now. Current Cloudbrink customers can request Veraify for free for a limited time. For a demo of Veraify’s capabilities, go to: https://veraify.ai/book-a-demo/

iPhone 17 Series Powers Apple’s India Growth with 44 pc Shipment Share

New Delhi, July 22: The iPhone 17 series accounted for 44 per cent of Apple’s smartphone shipments in India during the second quarter of 2026, highlighting strong demand for the company’s latest flagship devices, according to industry data.

The impressive contribution from the iPhone 17 lineup reflects growing consumer preference for premium smartphones in India, supported by advanced features, improved technology, and increasing demand for high-end devices.

Market analysts said Apple’s continued expansion in India has been supported by rising purchasing power, wider retail availability, attractive financing options, and growing interest among consumers in premium digital ecosystems.

The company’s performance also highlights the increasing importance of India as a key market for global smartphone brands, with consumers showing greater adoption of premium devices and advanced mobile technologies.

Industry experts noted that Apple’s focus on local manufacturing, stronger supply chains, and enhanced customer reach has further strengthened its presence in the Indian market.

The growth of the iPhone 17 series underscores the changing dynamics of India’s smartphone sector, where premiumisation and technology-driven experiences are becoming major factors influencing consumer choices.

India’s Data Centre Boom Poised to Power Digital Future, Capacity Seen Reaching 6.5 GW by 2030

New Delhi, July 22: India’s data centre industry is poised for significant expansion, with installed capacity expected to quadruple to 6.5 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, according to a new report, underscoring the country’s emergence as a global digital infrastructure hub.

The projected growth is being driven by rapid digital transformation, increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, 5G services, data localisation requirements, and rising demand for secure digital storage across industries.

The report noted that India’s expanding digital economy, supported by growing internet penetration, e-commerce, fintech, and enterprise digitisation, is creating unprecedented demand for world-class data centre infrastructure.

Industry experts believe continued investments in advanced technology, renewable energy, high-speed connectivity, and reliable power infrastructure will be key to sustaining this growth while improving operational efficiency and environmental sustainability.

The expansion of data centre capacity is expected to strengthen India’s technology ecosystem by supporting innovation, enhancing cloud capabilities, enabling AI-driven applications, and attracting greater domestic and global investments.

The report highlights that the sector is set to play a pivotal role in India’s digital growth story, reinforcing the country’s position as one of the world’s fastest-growing destinations for digital infrastructure and technology investment.

realme NARZO 100x 5G first sale goes live on July 22

New Delhi, July 22: realme, the most popular smartphone brand among youth,  announced the first sale of the realme NARZO 100x 5G. The smartphone will be available for purchase starting July 22, 2026, across Amazon.in and realme.comThe realme NARZO 100x 5G is engineered to deliver ‘Non-Stop Power. Non-Stop Fun’, featuring the segment’s biggest 8000mAh Titan Battery with 45W Fast Charge for extended, worry-free usage. Powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 6300 6nm Octa-Core Processor, the smartphone combines a 6.8-inch 144Hz Ultra Bright Display and the segment’s largest 5300mm² AirFlow Vapour Chamber Cooling System, ensuring smooth gaming, immersive entertainment, and reliable everyday performance.

The smartphone also features a 50MP Dual AI Camera with intelligent features such as AI Portrait Lighting and AI Eraser, along with Gemini Live for a smarter user experience. Wrapped in a sleek 8.8mm Floating Light Design, the realme NARZO 100x 5G comes with AI Pulse Light, offering 9 colour options and 5 glowing modes, along with game and music synchronization for a more personalized experience. It has also passed a rigorous 48-month fluency test for long-lasting smoothness. Built to last, it features ArmorShell™ Protection, MIL-STD-810H military-grade shock resistance, and IP65 dust and water resistance, offering the perfect combination of power, durability, and style.

Samsung Steps Into U.S. Credit Card Market with Galaxy Card Launch

July 22: Samsung has entered the U.S. credit card market with the launch of the Galaxy Card, expanding its digital ecosystem beyond smartphones and consumer electronics while strengthening its presence in financial services.

The new credit card is aimed at offering Galaxy users a more connected digital experience by combining payments, rewards, and mobile services within Samsung’s ecosystem. The launch marks the company’s latest effort to build deeper relationships with consumers through integrated technology solutions.

The Galaxy Card will allow users to manage their accounts digitally, access payment features, and benefit from rewards linked to eligible purchases. Samsung expects the initiative to encourage greater engagement among its growing base of Galaxy device users.

The move places Samsung in direct competition with other technology companies that have expanded into financial services, including Apple’s credit card offering. As technology firms increasingly explore digital payments and financial products, competition in the sector is expected to grow further.

Industry experts believe Samsung’s entry into the credit card market reflects a broader trend of technology companies moving beyond hardware to provide complete digital experiences. By combining devices, software, and financial services, companies are looking to create stronger connections with customers.

With the Galaxy Card launch, Samsung aims to strengthen its ecosystem and establish a greater foothold in the evolving digital finance landscape.

AVer Expands into Commercial Drone Market with AI Vision Intelligence, Targeting High-Value Enterprise Applications

 Taipei, Taiwan – July 21: AVer Information Inc., an award-winning provider of AI audio-video solutions, is expanding into the commercial drone market by focusing its R&D on AI Vision Intelligence — the intelligent vision systems that power autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). As the global drone market enters a new phase of rapid growth, advanced optical imaging and AI vision are emerging as key drivers of industry transformation. Leveraging its expertise in professional optical imaging and Edge AI technologies, AVer is extending its innovations into commercial UAV applications, opening new opportunities in one of the industry’s fastest-growing markets while creating a long-term growth engine for the company.

“After years of developing AI-powered imaging solutions for the market, AVer has built deep expertise in Edge AI computing and image optimization,” said David Kuo, President of AVer Information Inc. “These capabilities have become the intelligence to power the eyes of next-generation autonomous drones. Beyond strengthening our core imaging technologies, they also create new opportunities through technology licensing and cross-industry collaboration, supporting AVer’s next phase of growth.”

Within the commercial drone market, AVer is focusing on two high-value applications with strong market potential:

lInspection of Industrial Facilities and Critical Infrastructure Traditional inspection of power grids and pipelines is costly, labor-intensive, and potentially hazardous. As industries increasingly adopt automated drone docking stations for remote inspections, maintaining image stability under strong winds at high altitudes remains a key technical challenge. By applying its precision PTZ technologies to drone gimbals and combining them with proprietary AI image stabilization algorithms, AVer enables drones to capture sharp, high-powered optical zoom images even in challenging conditions, allowing operators to accurately detect structural cracks, oil leaks, and other critical defects while reducing inspection costs.

lSmart Warehousing and Autonomous Indoor Logistics Labor shortages continue to accelerate warehouse automation and the adoption of dark warehouses. However, reliable drone operation under low-light conditions remains a significant technical barrier. Drawing on years of expertise in professional optics, low-light image enhancement, AI noise reduction, and intelligent object recognition, AVer enables drones to accurately identify barcodes, OCR text, and shelf anomalies even in dimly lit warehouse environments, significantly improving inventory efficiency.

Building on its strong foundation in AI-powered audio-video solutions, AVer is extending its Edge AI technologies into the commercial drone market. This strategic expansion not only brings AVer’s proven optical imaging expertise into a new high-growth industry, but also creates a new engine for future revenue and business growth.

Rohde & Schwarz supplies conformance test systems to Marquistech for India’s first GCF RTO and PTCRB ATL lab

July 21: Marquistech has expanded its operations in Noida to build India’s first fully equipped conformance recognized test organization (RTO) lab for GCF and authorized test lab (ATL) for PTCRB testing based on Rohde & Schwarz systems. With this addition, the test house increased its local test capabilities for mobile devices, IoT products and wireless modules with support for 4G and 5G conformance, NB-IoT NTN, CAT-M, NB-IoT, MCX and location based service (LBS) certification.

Caption: Conformance test solutions from Rohde & Schwarz

Marquistech has selected Rohde & Schwarz to equip its conformance and EMI/EMC test lab in Noida, India, with various systems for GCF and PTCRB certification testing. The investment includes the R&S TS8980FTA-3A RF/RRM full type approval system, the CMX500 radio communication tester for protocol conformance, the R&S TS-LBS positioning test system for location based service testing and the R&S TS9982 and R&S TS9975 EMI/EMC test systems.

With this expanded setup, Marquistech has become the first fully equipped conformance test house in India for both certification programs. The lab, strategically located in the Delhi National Capital Region, is aimed at serving companies in the mobile, IoT and wireless module markets, at a time when India is gaining importance as an export focused electronics manufacturing location.

The newly installed systems from Rohde & Schwarz support legacy 4G as well as advanced 5G features, including non-terrestrial networks (NTN) and mission-critical communications (MCX), and lead in numbers of validated test cases covered. Additionally, Rohde & Schwarz has provided regulatory testing capabilities for EMC and EMI at the site to enable abroad range of services offered. This helps the test house minimize costs and reduce reliance on outsourced testing. For customers, it reduces the time to complete a certification campaign.

Marquistech has been active for some time as a GCF field testing RTO. With the expansion of their site in the Delhi National Capital Region, the company has now extended its global operations to conformance testing. This adds a broader local test offering for device makers that need certification support during development and before market entry.

Prashant Jain, VP, Marquistech, said: “Our goal is to provide a globally competitive certification hub for GCF and PTCRB testing, delivering quality, flexibility and faster time-to-market. Together with Rohde & Schwarz, we are helping strengthen the global wireless certification ecosystem.”

The local support structure provided by Rohde & Schwarz was a decisive factor for Marquistech. Rohde & Schwarz operates a major development site nearby with integrated laboratories that cover the wireless product lifecycle for conformance solutions, supported by local engineering and application teams.