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Business updates

Hexaware unveils new Agentic AI tool in hunt for organic growth

Hexaware Technologies's pivot of sorts to Enterprise AI comes at a time when the Navi Mumbai-based IT firm has shrunk, according to latest quarterly results.>

Age aware AI, parental controls: OpenAI details safeguards for teens in India

Days before the India AI Impact Summit, OpenAI blueprints a rethink of how AI should interact with teenagers.>

India sticks to e-cigarette ban in snub for Philip Morris

With over 100 billion sticks sold annually, India is seventh-largest cigarette market by volume, where tobacco kills more than a million people a year.>

Heineken to cut up to 6,000 jobs because Gen Z isn't drinking enough beer

Heineken’s forecast on beer sales is “slightly more damp”, Jefferies says, even as rival Carlsberg raises its operating profit outlook for 2026.>

Akasa Air co-founder Praveen Iyer quits in second high-level exit in 3 years

Praveen Iyer was part of Akasa Air's founding team that includes the family of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and aviation industry veterans Vinay Dube and Aditya Ghosh.>

Exclusive | AI voices, impersonations: Truecaller reveals India’s scam menace

Scam communication is no longer confined to phone calls or shoddily written text messages, instead spreading rapidly across messaging apps >

FedEx's Raj Subramanian, Adobe's Shantanu Narayen to lead US CEO delegation to India AI Impact Summit

The USISPF is the “Official Partner” of the India AI Impact Summit scheduled for 16–20 February in New Delhi, deepening the AI ties between the US and India.>

White House amends India-US trade deal fact sheet to ‘adjust’ language

The updated fact sheet for the India-US trade agreement removes mention of pulses and changes language around digital services.>

Neural Dispatch: Perplexity’s Model Council, Meta’s Avocado and Super Bowl ads

The biggest AI developments, decoded. 11 February 2026.>

Salesforce said to embark on layoffs to cut up to 1,000 jobs

The affected roles included marketing, product management, data analytics and Agentforce AI product, Business Insider reports, citing LinkedIn posts.>

Credits : HTimes