Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how consumers discover and choose food products, prompting global food companies to rethink both marketing and product innovation strategies. Unilever says AI is now playing a central role in helping its food brands stay visible, relevant, and competitive...
NatFirst, a Hyderabad-based packaged food data infrastructure startup and parent company of TruthIn, has released findings from what it describes as India’s largest AI-assisted packaged food label analysis, highlighting widespread use of palm oil, artificial additives, excess sugar and high so...
Walk into any restaurant tech conference in India and you’ll hear the same conversation. AI menus. AI recommendations. Loyalty engines. Smart kiosks. Voice ordering. Every panel, every demo, every pitch deck is about the guest.
Now walk into the kitchen of that same restaurant at 11 pm, after...
There is a moment in most AgriTech product demonstrations where the presenter zooms into a glowing satellite map, crop health data pulsing in real time, AI-generated yield predictions scrolling across a clean dashboard. The room is impressive. Investors nod. But 8,000 kilometres away, a rice farmer ...
Bayer is expanding its AI-driven digital agriculture ecosystem in India through FarmRise, its farmer-centric digital platform, which now reaches more than 5 million registered farmers nationwide.
At the centre of Bayer’s phygital strategy is the integration of artificial intelligence and digi...
Rockwell Automation, the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, is helping make one of the most energy-intensive systems in frozen food manufacturing more efficient. Its PlantPAx modern distributed control system (DCS) powers a new autonomous AI-a...
In an exclusive interview with AI Spectrum, Navneet Ravikar, Chairman & Managing Director of LeadsConnect Services Pvt. Ltd. and CEO of BL Agro, discusses how ICCRI and KEDAR–PARVATI are redefining agricultural intelligence by moving beyond conventional dashboards to function as advanced o...
In a dairy plant, value does not disappear dramatically. It leaks quietly.
It leaks when a cheese batch misses its ideal cut point by minutes. It leaks when a spray dryer runs slightly outside its energy window. It leaks when membrane fouling is detected after performance has already declined. It l...
Findability Sciences, the SoftBank-backed Enterprise AI company, launched LactaAI, an industrial intelligence platform purpose-built for dairy and whey processing plants. Depending on plant scale and product mix, LactaAI is designed to help large dairy operations unlock between Rs 2.35 crore and Rs ...
As artificial intelligence reshapes industries worldwide, global brewers are increasingly tapping into its transformative potential. At HEINEKEN, GenAI is no longer just a technological upgrade; it is becoming central to how the company rethinks supply chains, innovation, and regional strategy acros...
PepsiCo announced a strategic, multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud to strengthen its digital foundation and leverage the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to help teams move from insight to action more quickly and consistently at scale.
PepsiCo is working with Google Cloud to transform its ex...
Airbus Defence and Space has been selected as a technical partner in the Coffee Canopy Partnership. This groundbreaking initiative, led by JDE Peet’s, one of the global leading coffee companies (owning brands like L’Or, Senseo, Tassimo, Jacobs, Douwe Egberts...), aims to create the wor...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming drug discovery and biological research, offering unprecedented capabilities to accelerate development timelines and deepen understanding of complex diseases. However, a major barrier remains: most life science researchers lack expertise in machine lear...
Datassential, the leading food and beverage intelligence platform, announced the launch of AI chat within Datassential One, a new generative AI capability that enables teams to move instantly from questions to trusted, data-backed answers. AI chat transforms how users access Datassential One, empowe...
As agriculture confronts mounting pressures from climate volatility, rising input costs, and tightening regulatory frameworks, precision farming is rapidly transitioning from a niche innovation to a strategic necessity. At the forefront of this shift is ZenaTech, which is leveraging artificial intel...
Olam Group has announced a definitive agreement to divest its 100 per cent stake in Mindsprint Pte. Ltd. to Wipro Limited for a cash consideration of $375 million, subject to closing adjustments. The move forms part of Olam’s Updated 2025 Re-organisation Plan, aimed at monetising assets and de...
Cargill has been named a winner in the 2026 BIG AI Awards, presented by the Business Intelligence Group, recognising the company’s leadership and innovation in applying artificial intelligence to transform the global food and agriculture system.
The award highlights Cargill’s integ...
Source.ag, the data and AI platform for professional greenhouse horticulture, announced a significant breakthrough to its AI-powered Harvest Forecast model for tomatoes. The next-generation model introduces fundamental changes to how it is trained, updated, and improved, leveraging state-of-the-art ...
