Meta has entered an agreement with Reliance Industries to lease their first AI-enabled data center in India to serve one of their fastest-growing communities.

Meta and Reliance Industries today announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership with an agreement for an AI-enabled data center in India. Located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, this investment reaffirms Meta’s deep commitment to India, bringing infrastructure that powers our products and AI capabilities needed to deliver personal superintelligence to one of our largest and fastest-growing communities globally. As part of the agreement, Reliance will build a data center with 168 MW capacity, which Meta will lease, with options to scale.

“We’re proud to be working with Reliance to build our first AI-enabled data center in India. This world-class facility in Jamnagar will help us scale our AI infrastructure globally while deepening our long-term investment in India’s economy.”
– Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Meta

Meta is leasing capacity at a new Reliance data center in Jamnagar, India, powered by renewable energy and cooled with desalinated seawater. Meta will cover the full cost of the energy and water supporting the facility. This investment is a significant milestone in Meta’s global infrastructure expansion and deepens our long-standing strategic partnership with Reliance — one that spans connectivity, commerce, and AI innovation in one of the world’s most dynamic digital markets.

Source: META

Search profiles are a dedicated, shareable space to highlight content across social media, video and news platforms, and help audiences find accurate and up-to-date information about sources on Search.

People can easily follow a source from their new Search profile, so they’re more likely to see content from that source on Discover on the Google app.

Search profiles give publishers and creators a central place to showcase their latest articles, videos and social posts. People can easily follow sources from their profile, so they’re more likely to see that content on Discover, found on the home screen of the Google app. Search profiles can be accessed on mobile via a creator or publisher’s knowledge panel (the information box on Search for notable people, places and things), by tapping the name of a publisher or creator on Discover, or through a direct URL.

To start, publishers and creators with a sizable following on at least one major social or video platform can claim their Search profile and customize it with an avatar, bio, website, social media and video platforms, and other important content. Claiming a profile may trigger the creation of a knowledge panel for eligible publishers and creators. If you already have a knowledge panel, it will be enhanced with your updated avatar, latest content, and a direct profile link.

Search profiles will initially launch in the US. In the future, we’ll look to expand Search profiles to more publishers and creators around the world, and add more capabilities to make profiles even more useful. We look forward to seeing how these new profiles help publishers and creators shape their presence and highlight their work on Search.

Source: Google

Anthropic is calling for top AI labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose societal risks.

The ability to slow global AI development would “likely be a good thing,” the company said Thursday in a blog post that disclosed internal data documenting how quickly its most advanced models are improving.

The post, written by the head of its internal research institute and a company co-founder, noted that model advances appear to be on a path toward “recursive self-improvement,” when AI systems can improve on their own without human intervention. Some AI insiders have seen that threshold as a potential marker of danger and enormous societal upheaval.

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” the post, written by Marina Favaro and Jack Clark, says. It proposes a global agreement on how to potentially slow development and a mechanism for verifying that competitors are respecting it.

The post cautions that recursive self-improvement hasn’t yet happened and isn’t inevitable, “but could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.”

The $1 trillion startup warns artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention

Anthropic has recently emerged as the front-runner in a ferocious competition for AI supremacy with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Jason Henry for WSJ

Source: WSJ

Info Edge reports that Shiksha’s decline in traffic from AI-powered search is now directly impacting billings.

Q4 FY26 billings dropped 13% year-over-year, the platform’s first decline in six quarters.

CEO Hitesh Oberoi acknowledged the “AI Search headwinds,” noting that Google increasingly answers queries directly rather than directing users to websites.

Shiksha is the education arm of Info Edge. It reported a 13% decline in billings to Rs 45.1 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 (Q4 FY26), down from Rs 51.8 crore in the year-ago quarter.

Shiksha is now focusing on domestic counselling, AI voice bots, and service-led monetisation instead of traffic-driven growth.

Source: Medianama