- AI & Deeptech17 minutes ago
Palo Alto Networks To Acquire Portkey To Boost AI Security Play
The Platform Tax: Why Palo Alto Networks Just Swallowed the AI Gateway The acquisition of Portkey isn't just another line item in a firewall giant’s shopping spree. It is a calculated strike against the "Shadow AI" chaos currently paralyzing enterprise CTOs and a signal that the governance layer is where the next decade of cybersecurity value will be captured.
- EV & Mobility36 minutes ago
E2W Registrations Plunge 27% In April; Ola Electric Bucks Trend With 20% Jump
The Consolidation Paradox: Why the E2W Bloodbath is a Feature, Not a Bug Total electric two-wheeler sales just hit a brutal seasonal wall, yet the industry leader is widening the gap. For founders, the April data isn't just a slump—it’s a masterclass in why vertical integration is the only moat that matters when subsidies vanish.
- Web3 & Blockchain45 minutes ago
Australia Flags Tokenized Money as Future Payment Rail Issue
The Great Unbundling: Why the RBA is Done Waiting for "If" and Moving to "How" Australia’s central bank has officially pivoted. After years of "watching and waiting," the RBA just greenlit a transition from pilot to production, flagging tokenized money as the definitive future for the nation’s $2 trillion wholesale market. For founders, the signal is clear: the infrastructure is being rebuilt, and the era of "experimental" blockchain is dead.
- Funding1 hour ago
The Gift Economy: How Udora's $10M Bet Reveals Dubai's Quiet Play for MENA's Occasion Commerce Stack
Dubai, eCom, Funding converge in a market segment most Western investors have consistently underestimated — gifting — and the numbers are starting to make them look foolish for doing so.
- Climate & Energy1 hour ago
CleanTech’s 88% Arbitrage: Polycycl and the New Math of Waste to Energy
CleanTech’s 88% Arbitrage: Polycycl and the New Math of Waste to Energy DECK: Most plastic recycling is a performative failure. By targeting the non-recyclable "residue" that investors usually avoid, Polycycl is attempting to turn the circular economy’s biggest liability into its most predictable revenue stream.
- AI & Deeptech1 hour ago
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says AI spending driving layoffs, flags possible further cuts
The Silicon Tax: Why Your Headcount is Zuckerberg’s New GPU Fund Meta is trading humans for H100s. In a brutal town hall that sent ripples from Menlo Park to Bangalore, Mark Zuckerberg signaled that the "Year of Efficiency" wasn't a phase—it’s the new permanent tax on talent to pay for a $145 billion AI bet.
- Tech4 hours ago
The Cupertino-Delhi Nexus: Apple, India, and the Multi-Decade Bet on the Next iPhone Supercycle
The Cupertino-Delhi Nexus: Apple, India, and the Multi-Decade Bet on the Next iPhone Supercycle
- eCommerce5 hours ago
The Battle for Big Bazaar Ends with a Whimper and a Modest Bank Transfer
A multi-year corporate war that dismantled India's second-largest retailer concludes with a ₹11 crore settlement, leaving enterprise leaders with a textbook case in strategic attrition.
- eCommerce5 hours ago
The $105 Million Exit of Skio Signals the End of the Mega-Round Era
In a market still reeling from the hangover of blitzscaling, a lean Shopify subscription tool just proved that $8 million in venture capital is enough to build a nine-figure cash exit.
- Gaming5 hours ago
The Jakarta Accord: Roblox Formalizes Under-16 Protections to Secure Its Future in Indonesia
By aligning with the Ministry of Communication and Informatics’ newest safety mandates, the global gaming giant is trading universal platform logic for a seat at the table in the world’s most significant emerging digital economy.
- Funding6 hours ago
The Great Decoupling: Why AMD and Airbus Are Placing a $20M Bet Against AI’s Walled Gardens
As Singapore-based Featherless.ai closes a $20 million Series A, the real story isn't the capital—it’s the architectural rebellion. By making 30,000 open-source models production-ready, the startup is testing whether the future of compute belongs to the hyperscalers or the sovereign disruptors.
- Tech6 hours ago
The Cupertino Contradiction: Why Apple Was Caught Napping by Its Own Silicon Success
Apple spent years trying to convince us the iPad was the future of computing. On April 30, 2026, Tim Cook effectively admitted the market disagreed, as a massive surge in AI-driven Mac demand left the world’s most calculated supply chain playing catch-up.
- AI & Deeptech6 hours ago
The Trillion-Dollar Ghost: Anthropic’s $900B Valuation is the Final Stress Test for Private Capital
As the board prepares for a May decision on a $50 billion capital call, Anthropic is no longer just a research lab—it is a sovereign-scale infrastructure play testing the limits of venture math and global compute.
- Funding6 hours ago
The Silicon Sovereignty Gamble: Why Calligo’s $15M Bet on RISC-V is a Stress Test for Indian Deeptech
As Bengaluru-based Calligo Technologies negotiates a crucial $15 million Series A, the stakes extend far beyond a single balance sheet. This is a high-wire act for India's "Design-Linked Incentive" era, testing whether indigenous hardware can actually decouple from global giants.
- EV & Mobility23 hours ago
ICRA Downgrades Ola Electric’s Rating Amid Rising Competition, Declining Sales
When a Credit Rating Tells the Story a Founder Won't: What ICRA's Ola Electric Downgrade Really Means Credit rating agencies are not known for drama. Their language is clinical, bureaucratic, occasionally impenetrable. Which is why, when ICRA files a downgrade and writes that a company's timeline to profitability has been "extended" due to "material underperformance," you need to translate that into plain language: something has gone badly wrong, and the reckoning is arriving on schedule.
- Funding23 hours ago
Ctruh Raises $2.5 Mn To Build Extended Reality Tools For Enterprises
Ctruh Just Raised $2.5M to Make Enterprise XR Stop Being a Rich Man's Game There's a quiet absurdity sitting at the heart of the extended reality industry that nobody talks about loudly enough: for all the breathless forecasting about spatial computing and immersive commerce, the practical reality for most businesses has been exactly the same for a decade — hire expensive specialists, buy proprietary hardware, integrate bloated SDKs, and pray the 3D render doesn't crash someone's browser. The technology has advanced. The accessibility hasn't.
- Social Media1 day ago
YouTube Bringing Free Picture-in-Picture to iPhone Users Outside the U.S.
YouTube's Goodwill Gesture to the World Is a Calculated Squeeze on Its Own Revenue Free picture-in-picture for non-Premium iPhone users outside the US sounds like a handout. It's actually a data play, a competitive hedge, and a quiet admission that $62 billion in annual revenue still isn't enough engagement to sleep on.
- Tech1 day ago
Google Search Revenue Grew 19% In Q1, Pichai Cites AI
How Does Google Grow Search Revenue 19% While Making Search Worth Less to Everyone Else? Alphabet posted $60.4 billion in Search revenue and queries at an all-time high. The founders winning here aren't the ones still optimizing for clicks
- Business1 day ago
Smartworks Posts ₹17 Cr Profit In Q4, Revenue Crosses ₹500 Cr Mark
Profitable, But Barely: What Smartworks Posts ₹17 Cr Profit Actually Proves Revenue crossed ₹500 crore. Losses flipped to gains. A year ago, none of this seemed certain. But the real story isn't the numbers — it's the structural bet Smartworks is winning.
- eCommerce1 day ago
Meesho to appeal $1.5m tax demand in India
Meesho's ₹1,500 Crore Tax Fight Is About More Than One Bill India's income tax department just handed the country's newest publicly listed e-commerce company a ₹1,499.73 crore demand notice. Meesho says it's wrong. The real question is what it means for every Indian marketplace that came after it.
- Gaming1 day ago
Epic Games Wins Reversal of Stay in App Store Fee Legal Battle
The Fee That Wouldn't Die: What Epic Games' Latest Court Win Really Settles Apple spent five years arguing it was a fair toll-keeper. A federal appeals court just said, again, that it isn't — and now the question isn't whether Apple can charge a fee, but who gets to name the price.
- eCommerce1 day ago
Cars24's Founder Exits Tell You More About Its IPO Than Its Press Releases Do
There's a version of this story where three senior exits in eight weeks at a company preparing to go public looks like a crisis. That version has been doing the rounds on LinkedIn and in WhatsApp groups of investors. It's not the right read.
- Gaming1 day ago
A 19-Year-Old in Ukraine Just Exposed Roblox's $3.6 Billion Blind Spot
Three individuals were arrested by Ukrainian police in Lviv after compromising more than 610,000 Roblox gaming accounts and selling access to them for a total profit of $225,000. The ringleader was 19 years old. He was from Drohobych — a mid-sized city in western Ukraine — and he didn't use anything close to sophisticated nation-state tooling. He used stolen cookie files: technical data that remembers a user in a system and allows logging into an account without re-entering a password. Bleeping ComputerMezha
- Funding1 day ago
Oolka raised ₹130 crore in a Series A led by Accel India
Oolka, a Bengaluru-based fintech startup, has raised ₹130 crore — roughly $14 million — in a Series A led by Accel India, with existing backers Lightspeed and Z47 (formerly Matrix Partners) also doubling down. The round values the company at approximately $87.6 million post-money, a meaningful step-up from its $7 million seed round, which closed in September 2025. Meesho co-founders Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal also participated personally. Entrackr + 2
- EV & Mobility1 day ago
Waymo's First Responder Problem Is Getting Worse as Its Fleet Gets Bigger
Three people were shot dead at a bar called Buford's on West Sixth Street in Austin, Texas. Paramedics were on scene within 57 seconds. And standing between them and the victims was a Waymo robotaxi that had stopped in the middle of the road and wouldn't move.
- AI & Deeptech1 day ago
Elon Musk Just Spent Two Days on the Stand Explaining Why OpenAI's $852 Billion IPO Should Be Stopped
There's a courtroom in Oakland, California where the future of artificial intelligence is currently being decided by a nine-person jury that, as of last Monday, had been carefully selected for their neutral opinions about Elon Musk and AI. That detail alone tells you something about how strange and consequential this moment is.
- Business1 day ago
Tata Electronics Just Hired Its Way to 75,000 Workers. Its Revenue Grew 1,673% in a Year to Get Here.
Five years ago, Tata Electronics barely existed. It was incorporated in April 2020, a vehicle without a clear purpose in the Tata Group's vast portfolio, generating negligible revenue. Today it's a ₹66,601 crore ($8 billion) business adding 15,000 workers at a single plant in Hosur, Tamil Nadu — and it's arguably the most strategically positioned contract manufacturer on Earth.
- Fintech1 day ago
Acko Wants a $2.5 Billion Valuation. It's Still Losing Money. Here's Why That Might Not Matter.
India's insurance penetration sits at roughly 3.7% of GDP. The global average is more than double that. For a country of 1.4 billion people, that gap represents one of the most structurally compelling investment theses in emerging markets — and it's the exact number Acko has been selling to investors since Varun Dua and Ruchi Deepak founded the company in 2016. Nine years later, Acko is trying to sell that story to public markets. Insurance Journal
- AI & Deeptech1 day ago
LinkedIn's New CEO Just Disclosed a Number Microsoft Never Has. Here's Why That's the Real Story.
Dan Shapero had been LinkedIn's CEO for approximately one week when Reuters caught up with him on April 29. What he chose to say in that first major public statement is instructive. He didn't talk about product vision. He didn't talk about the company's 1.3 billion members. He talked about a revenue number — a specific, unprecedented one that Microsoft has never disclosed for any LinkedIn product line in the company's history.
- Web3 & Blockchain1 day ago
MoonPay Paid $100M for a 15-Person Israeli Startup. The Real Purchase Was Its Regulatory Passport.
The arithmetic alone is arresting. Sodot had raised just $4.5 million before MoonPay came calling. It employs 15 people. It's been operating for barely three years. And on April 29, 2026, MoonPay handed over $100 million in stock to own it. Calcali Tech
- Funding1 day ago
SportVot Just Raised India's Largest Sports-Tech Round to Broadcast the 99% of Sport That Nobody Watches
There's a stat in SportVot's pitch that stops you cold: 99% of sporting events worldwide are never recorded, never streamed, never monetised. Not because there's no audience. Because nobody built the infrastructure to reach them.
- AI & Deeptech1 day ago
Yann LeCun Raised $1 Billion for a Startup That Bets the Entire AI Industry Is Wrong
There's a version of the Yann LeCun story that reads as vanity. A 65-year-old Turing Award winner, restless inside a corporate machine, walks out and immediately starts fundraising at a valuation most Series C companies would envy. There are worse ways to frame it.
- eCommerce1 day ago
Karnataka Vs. the Constitution: Why India's Bike Taxi Wars Keep Ending Up in the Supreme Court
The Indian State That Keeps Banning a Business It Admits It Wants to Legalise
- Business1 day ago
AUTOMA 2026 Connects Digital Strategy with Industrial Execution
The industry that skeptics wrote off as a laggard is quietly becoming one of the most serious laboratories for industrial AI — and Amsterdam is where the serious players are comparing notes.
- eCommerce1 day ago
Cashify's Decade-Long Bet on India's Grey Market Is Finally Paying Off
The Gurugram-based recommerce startup didn't kill India's chaotic used-phone trade — it swallowed it whole. With ₹1,096 crore in revenue, a near-profitable balance sheet, and an IPO clock ticking, Cashify's circular economy play is no longer a thesis. It's a business.
- Business1 day ago
From Corporate Life to ‘Number Science’: The Bold Bet That Paid Off
A former IT professional is turning numerology into a structured learning platform. Dismiss it at your peril. India's creator-edtech wave doesn't care about your credibility concerns.
- AI & Deeptech1 day ago
Why Did Jensen Huang Send His Daughter to Negotiate Nvidia's Most Important Industrial Partnership?
South Korea manufactures more industrial robots per manufacturing worker than almost any nation on earth. It has, for years, been the laboratory where the theoretical promise of automated manufacturing meets the unforgiving reality of high-precision, high-volume production. So when Madison Huang — Nvidia's senior director of product marketing for physical AI platforms, and as it happens, the eldest daughter of CEO Jensen Huang — flew to Seoul on April 28, 2026 and spent two days meeting the leadership of Samsung, SK Hynix, LG Electronics, Hyundai Motor, and Doosan Robotics in rapid succession, it wasn't a courtesy tour. It was a sales call on the industrial world's most demanding customers.
- Social Media1 day ago
WhatsApp Bans 9,400 Accounts Over ‘Digital Arrest’ Scams After Supreme Court Crackdown
In a major step toward curbing online fraud, WhatsApp has banned over 9,400 accounts linked to so-called “digital arrest” scams. The action follows heightened scrutiny and directives after intervention by the Supreme Court of India, signaling a stronger push to tackle cybercrime on messaging platforms.
- Web3 & Blockchain1 day ago
When a Steel Giant Decides to Stress-Test Your Blockchain, You've Crossed Into Something Real
The moment that separates a blockchain proof-of-concept from genuine institutional infrastructure isn't the signing ceremony or the press release — it's when a company with 40,000 overseas transactions a year decides to run its actual trade operations through it.
- Tech1 day ago
Lovable Launched a Mobile App Days After Apple Made Life Difficult for Exactly This Type of Company
There's a timing detail buried in Lovable's mobile launch announcement that the company's PR team probably hoped nobody would dwell on. The new iOS and Android app arrived shortly after Apple addressed what vibe coding apps can and can't do on its App Store.
- EV & Mobility1 day ago
What Renault’s New EV Reveals About the Global Auto Industry
The global automotive industry is undergoing one of its biggest transformations in decades, driven by electrification, software integration, and shifting consumer preferences. The launch of Renault’s latest electric vehicle (EV) offers a deeper look into how automakers are adapting to this new reality and what it signals for the future of mobility worldwide.
- Funding1 day ago
Sahi Raises $33 Mn to Expand Trading Suite
India’s fintech ecosystem continues to attract strong investor interest, with trading platforms emerging as a key growth segment. Sahi, a trading-focused startup founded by Dale Vaz, has raised $33 million in a fresh funding round to expand its product offerings and strengthen its position in the market.
- Gaming1 day ago
League of Legends Patch 26.9: New Skins, System Changes & Gameplay Updates
Riot Games has rolled out Patch 26.9 for League of Legends, bringing a wide range of updates across champions, items, systems, and game modes. The patch introduces new gameplay mechanics, reworks to role quests, and fresh content as part of Season 2: Pandemonium, signaling a continued focus on evolving gameplay and player experience.
- Tech2 days ago
Everyone Called It the iPhone Fold. Apple Apparently Had Other Ideas.
Everyone in the tech press picked a name for Apple's first foldable phone, and they picked the same one: the iPhone Fold. It was logical. Descriptive. Borrowed straight from the Samsung playbook. For months, analysts, leakers, and journalists used it as shorthand for what was shaping up to be Apple's most significant hardware launch since the original iPhone.
- AI & Deeptech2 days ago
The Chip That Sanctions Built: How DeepSeek V4 Turned Huawei Into China's Most Important Tech Company
Washington's export controls were supposed to freeze China out of the AI race. Instead, they handed Huawei a captive market of a billion-dollar scale — and DeepSeek just pulled the trigger.
- Funding2 days ago
SportVot Bags ₹32.7 Cr to Take Its Sports Streaming Platform Global
India’s sports-tech ecosystem is gaining momentum as digital platforms continue to redefine how fans consume content. SportVot, a sports streaming and fan engagement platform, has raised ₹32.7 crore in a fresh funding round to accelerate its global expansion plans. The development highlights growing investor interest in niche content platforms beyond mainstream sports broadcasting.
- Social Media2 days ago
WeChat Pay Expands QR Payments to 5 Asian Countries
In a major push to strengthen its global footprint, WeChat Pay has expanded its QR code payment services to five additional Asian countries. The move reflects the growing demand for seamless cross-border digital payments and highlights the rising influence of Asian fintech platforms in international markets.
- AI & Deeptech2 days ago
The $39 Billion Circuit Board Company You've Never Heard Of Is the Clearest Proof the AI Hardware Boom Is Real
Here's a number that puts the AI hardware boom in perspective: Victory Giant Technology's Shenzhen-listed shares gained more than 580% in 2025 alone — making it the top performer in the MSCI Asia Pacific Index. Not a semiconductor company. Not a cloud platform. A printed circuit board manufacturer in Huizhou, Guangdong, founded by a former soldier who learned to sell PCBs at a Taiwanese-owned factory before deciding he could do it better himself.
- eCommerce2 days ago
Unicommerce Bets on AI and Acquisitions in FY27 Amid Rising Ecommerce Complexity
As ecommerce operations become increasingly complex, Unicommerce is doubling down on artificial intelligence and strategic acquisitions to stay ahead. The SaaS platform, known for enabling order management and supply chain automation, is preparing for FY27 with a clear focus on scaling its capabilities through technology and inorganic growth.
- Gaming2 days ago
VALORANT Patch Notes 12.08: Skirmish Ascension, Map Rotation & Premier Return
Riot Games has rolled out Patch 12.08 for VALORANT, bringing a mix of competitive updates, gameplay changes, and bug fixes. The highlight of this patch is the introduction of Skirmish: Ascension, a new experimental ranked mode, alongside a fresh map rotation and the return of Premier for PC players. The update reflects Riot’s continued push toward competitive innovation and player engagement.
- Social Media2 days ago
US Closes Meta Probe Over WhatsApp Message Access
In a significant development for the global tech and privacy landscape, US regulators have reportedly closed their investigation into Meta over concerns related to WhatsApp message access. The move brings temporary relief to the social media giant amid ongoing scrutiny around user data privacy and platform practices.
- Fintech2 days ago
Go Digit Just Posted Its Best Year Yet. The Combined Ratio Still Sitting Above 100% Is the Number That Matters Most.
Founded in 2016 by Kamesh Goyal — a former Allianz executive who spent decades watching the Indian insurance industry fail to become accessible — Go Digit General Insurance went public in 2024 with a promise: that insurance could be simple, transparent, and digital-first without sacrificing the underwriting discipline that makes an insurer financially sound. The FY26 results released on April 28, 2026 show significant progress toward that promise. They also show, in the combined ratio, the distance still to travel.
- Funding2 days ago
Mojro Closes Series A Round at $5.5 Mn With Additional $2.5 Mn Funding
Logistics technology startup Mojro has successfully closed its Series A funding round at $5.5 million, along with an additional $2.5 million in extended funding. This latest capital infusion highlights growing investor confidence in supply chain optimization platforms, especially as businesses increasingly rely on data-driven logistics solutions.
- Fintech2 days ago
India Has 500 Million UPI Users and 111 Million Credit Cards. Credilio's novio Is Building for the 400 Million in Between.
The numbers are stark enough to feel almost deliberate. India has more than 500 million UPI users as of early 2026 — people who have smartphones, bank accounts, and the digital literacy to transact electronically every day. It has approximately 111 million credit cards in circulation. The gap between those two figures — roughly 400 million people who use UPI fluently but have no credit card — is not primarily a gap in desire. It is a gap in what banks are willing to underwrite.
- AI & Deeptech2 days ago
OpenAI Brings Latest AI Models and Codex to AWS Bedrock
In a major shift in the AI cloud landscape, OpenAI has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring its latest AI models and Codex to Amazon Bedrock. This move expands access to OpenAI’s advanced capabilities beyond its earlier cloud limitations and signals a new phase of competition in enterprise AI.
- Fintech2 days ago
Superbank Posts $5.8 Million Q1 Pretax Profit, Signals Strong Financial Momentum
Digital banking platform Superbank has reported a pretax profit of $5.8 million for the first quarter, marking a significant milestone in its financial journey. The performance highlights the growing strength of digital-first banking models and signals improved operational efficiency in a competitive fintech landscape.
- Web3 & Blockchain2 days ago
Polymarket's Push to Re-Enter America Is the Most Important Regulatory Bet in Finance Right Now
In 2022, Polymarket paid the US government $1.4 million and agreed to block every American from its platform. In 2026, the NYSE's parent company has invested $1.6 billion into it, its March trading volume crossed $10 billion for the first time, and it is now in active discussions with the CFTC to undo the very restriction that settlement imposed. That four-year arc — from regulatory exile to mainstream financial infrastructure — is the story of prediction markets' emergence as a genuine asset class. And the chapter being written right now, in conversations between Polymarket's team and CFTC officials, may be the most consequential one yet.
- Funding2 days ago
The ₹25 Crore Round That Proves India's Most Overlooked Fashion Bet Has Finally Arrived
Chikankari is one of India's oldest surviving embroidery traditions. Originating in Lucknow in the 17th century, the craft involves intricate hand-stitching on fine muslin or cotton fabric — a process so labour-intensive that a single garment can take a skilled artisan weeks to complete. For most of its history, that labour intensity was the craft's ceiling: too slow, too expensive, too geographically concentrated to scale beyond Lucknow's bazaars and a handful of heritage boutiques.
- Funding2 days ago
Nutrition Supplements Marketplace HyugaLife Raises ₹100 Cr
India’s health and wellness ecosystem continues to attract investor attention, with nutrition-focused startups gaining strong momentum. HyugaLife, a fast-growing supplements marketplace, has reportedly raised ₹100 crore in a fresh funding round, signaling rising confidence in the country’s rapidly expanding nutrition and fitness market.
- eCommerce2 days ago
Spinny Ropes In Investment Bankers for Potential IPO Next Year: Report
India’s used-car marketplace Spinny is preparing for a major milestone as it eyes a public listing. According to recent reports, the Tiger Global-backed startup has engaged leading investment banks to explore a potential Initial Public Offering (IPO), signaling its intent to enter the public markets in the near future.
- Funding2 days ago
Kovon Raises $250K to Unlock Global Opportunities for India’s Frontline Workforce
India’s workforce is entering a new global phase, and startups are beginning to build the infrastructure to support it. Kovon, a cross-border workforce mobility platform, has raised $250,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by TDV Partners.
- eCommerce2 days ago
Blinkit’s Adjusted EBITDA Surges 9X in Eternal’s Q4
A Sharp Turn in Unit Economics
- Social Media2 days ago
UK Considers Social Media Restrictions for Under-16s
Regulation Without a Blanket Ban
- Web3 & Blockchain3 days ago
Bitget's Blockchain4Youth Hub Tackles Web3's Biggest Hiring Problem — Courses That Lead Nowhere
Here is the paradox at the heart of Web3's talent crisis in 2026: the industry has never hired more aggressively, and it has never been harder for newcomers to break in. Web3 job postings hit all-time highs in 2025, with approximately 8,000 to 12,000 active global positions at any given time — a 47% rebound in hiring, building on a 300% surge in openings from 2023 through 2025. At the same time, developer roles consistently attract near 450 applicants per posting, while non-technical roles draw 60 to 120 — a candidate oversupply that coexists, paradoxically, with companies unable to fill specialised positions for months. Business TodayMEDIANAMA
- Gaming3 days ago
In Kiln, “Weird Little Guys” Matter More Than Censorship
A Sandbox Built for Strange Expression
- EV & Mobility3 days ago
Pony AI, WeRide Expand Robotaxi Fleets Overseas
Chinese AV Firms Look Beyond Domestic Roads
- EV & Mobility3 days ago
Hyundai Is Separating the Car From Its Battery. If It Works, It Changes Everything About EV Ownership.
The battery is the single most expensive component in an electric vehicle, accounting for 30 to 40% of the total purchase price. It degrades with every charge cycle, loses capacity over time, and — in the absence of a subscription or replacement programme — eventually becomes the primary reason a used EV is worth significantly less than its combustion counterpart. For fleet operators running vehicles at ten times the annual mileage of private owners, that degradation happens fast. A taxi running 120,000 kilometres per year will age its battery in roughly three years what a private driver would take a decade to accomplish. Battery anxiety, in the commercial fleet context, is not an abstract psychological barrier. It is a concrete operational and financial problem.
- Fintech3 days ago
Peak XV Exits MobiKwik With $13.8M Stake Sale
A Measured Exit in India’s Public Fintech Market
- AI & Deeptech3 days ago
Google Just Signed the Pentagon's Blank-Cheque AI Deal. The Clause That Matters Is the One Nobody Is Talking About.
Anthropic refused to let Claude be used for fully autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance. The Pentagon blacklisted it — the first time in American history a US company had received a supply-chain risk designation not for a security failure, but for declining to accept a government contract clause. OpenAI signed within hours. xAI was already on board. And on April 28, 2026, Google completed the set.
- Gaming3 days ago
Resident Evil’s Leon Was Named After a 1994 French Action Film
A Cinematic Nod Hidden in Plain Sight
- Gaming3 days ago
Diablo 4’s Cow Level May Finally Appear in Lord of Hatred
A Running Joke That Refused to Die
- Funding3 days ago
Morphing Machines Raises ₹42 Cr, Closes ₹80 Cr Series A
Strengthening India’s Chip Design Ecosystem
- AI & Deeptech3 days ago
OpenAI Reportedly Misses User and Sales Targets
Growth Expectations Meet Market Reality
- Business3 days ago
Pentera Cuts Jobs as It Doubles Down on AI-Driven Security
Restructuring Amid Strategic Refocus
- Fintech3 days ago
Alipay Just Built the Payment Layer for the Agentic Economy — and Nobody in the West Has Caught Up
Every paradigm shift in commerce has required a corresponding shift in payments infrastructure. Credit cards unlocked the department store economy. PayPal unlocked e-commerce. Apple Pay unlocked the tap-to-pay moment. Each time, whoever built the payment layer first set the terms for everyone who came after. Alipay, Ant Group's payments platform, is now making the same bet on agentic commerce — and the numbers suggest it may already have won the first round before most Western competitors finished reading the brief.
- Tech3 days ago
Samsung SDI Swings to Profit on Strong U.S. Battery Demand
Profit Rebound Driven by U.S. Momentum
- EV & Mobility3 days ago
J&T Express Delivered 30 Billion Parcels in 2025. The Logistics Parks and EV Fleet Tell You How.
Ten years ago, J&T Express was an Indonesian startup with a motorcycle fleet and a hunch that Southeast Asia's e-commerce market was about to explode. In 2025, it delivered 30.13 billion parcels across 13 countries, generated $12.2 billion in revenue, more than doubled its adjusted net profit to $425 million, and commissioned its largest global sorting facility in Guangzhou. It also deployed 1,000 autonomous delivery vehicles, expanded to 14 self-built logistics parks covering 1.05 million square metres, and introduced electric trucks into Singapore's fleet. The numbers are extraordinary. The infrastructure decisions that made them possible are worth examining in detail.
- AI & Deeptech3 days ago
India Just Made the World's Cheapest AI Compute Even Cheaper. The Real Test Is What Happens Next.
When Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India provides "the cheapest compute facilities in the world" at ₹67 per GPU-hour, he wasn't exaggerating. AWS charges roughly ₹330 per hour for H100 access. Azure sits even higher at approximately ₹590 per hour for comparable compute. The IndiaAI Mission — India's ₹10,372 crore ($1.1 billion) state-backed AI infrastructure programme — has been systematically forcing those numbers down with every successive procurement round since 2024. The fourth round, completed in April 2026, takes the logic further: next-generation Nvidia B200 GPUs at ₹290.7 per hour for a single unit, a 10% cut from the previous benchmark, and a price point that places cutting-edge Blackwell architecture barely above the cost of the older H100s that most Indian developers were previously using.
- Funding3 days ago
Israeli Quantum Startup Extends Series A to $140M
Fresh Capital for a Long-Term Bet
- eCommerce3 days ago
Alibaba, Temasek Back Lightelligence’s $319M Hong Kong IPO
High-Profile Backers Anchor AI Chip Listing
- AI & Deeptech3 days ago
SK Telecom and NVIDIA Are Building Korea's AI Brain — and the Rest of Asia Is Watching
South Korea has 51 million people, one of the world's highest 5G penetration rates, and a semiconductor industry — anchored by Samsung and SK Hynix — that supplies the memory chips inside nearly every AI system on the planet. It also has a government that decided, early and decisively, that it would not outsource its AI future to Silicon Valley. That political choice created the conditions for what SK Telecom (SKT) and NVIDIA are now building together: a sovereign AI stack so deep, so vertically integrated, and so deliberately designed to outlast any single product cycle that it amounts to a new kind of national infrastructure.
- Social Media3 days ago
Meta Is Beaming Solar Power From Space to Feed Its AI. This Is What Energy Desperation Looks Like — and It's Brilliant.
In 2024, Meta's data centres consumed more than 18,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity. That is roughly enough to power 1.7 million American homes for an entire year — and it was last year's number. The models are larger now. The inference load is heavier. The compute requirements only move in one direction. Meta knows this, and on April 27, 2026, it stopped pretending the problem has a conventional solution.
- Business3 days ago
Microsoft Rolls Out Copilot to 743,000 Accenture Employees
A Landmark Enterprise AI Deployment
- Funding3 days ago
Snabbit Raises $56M to Scale Quick Home Services Platform
Betting Bigger on Instant Home Services
- Fintech3 days ago
DPIIT Unveils ₹10,000 Cr Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0 Guidelines
A Second Wave of State-Backed Capital
- Social Media4 days ago
A 23-Year-Old in a Warsaw Flat Just Rewrote the Record Books for Charitable Livestreaming
The original fundraising goal was 500,000 Polish złoty — roughly $125,000. A modest target for a good cause. It fell so fast that the counter barely had time to register it.
- Gaming4 days ago
Yoshi-P Wants to Make a Single-Player Final Fantasy XIV. The Problem? He Needs Himself to Do It.
In January 2024, Final Fantasy XIV crossed 30 million registered accounts. That figure makes it the second-largest subscription MMO on the planet, sitting just behind World of Warcraft in a genre that many industry analysts had written off as a relic by the late 2010s. For a game that launched in 2010 to catastrophic reviews and had to be entirely rebuilt and relaunched three years later, it is one of the most improbable commercial turnarounds in gaming history. And the man who pulled off that miracle — producer and director Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida — just told the press he wishes he could make a game that abandons everything that makes Final Fantasy XIV what it is.
- Fintech4 days ago
Liberty Mutual Taps Ethos to Rewire Its Life Insurance Experience — And the Timing Is No Accident
Thirty percent of American families would face financial hardship within one month of losing their primary wage earner. One month. Not a year, not a quarter — thirty days. The protection gap affecting 75 million Americans without any coverage and 27 million underinsured policyholders MoneyGeek is not a market failure born of apathy. It's a distribution failure, built over decades of friction-laden application processes, in-person medical exams, and sales models that treated a simple financial product like a luxury purchase requiring specialist guidance. Liberty Mutual just decided that Ethos has a better answer.
- Social Media4 days ago
The UK's Social Media Ban Standoff Is the Most Important Tech Policy Battle You're Not Watching
Jools Sweeney was fourteen years old when he died after attempting a social media challenge. His mother, Ellen Roome, has sat in the gallery of the House of Lords multiple times since, watching peers vote for a law that would have prevented other families from sharing her experience. Each time, the House of Commons — controlled by a Labour government that says it wants to act — has sent the bill back. "How many more children will we lose," Roome said this week, "while the Prime Minister gives himself the option of doing almost nothing?"
- Gaming4 days ago
Xbox Project Helix Is Caught in AI's Shadow — and Microsoft's New CEO Just Said So Out Loud
Data centres don't play video games. But they are increasingly deciding when — and at what price — you get to. The three major memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have made a calculated business decision: prioritise high-margin AI chips for data centres over consumer electronics. Dataconomy The consequences of that decision are now landing squarely on Microsoft's next-generation console ambitions. And for the first time, the company's new leadership is saying so publicly.
- eCommerce4 days ago
Amazon's 100-City Quick Commerce Push in India Is a War Declaration, Not a Product Launch
Two Stanford dropouts built Zepto at 19 and made 10-minute grocery delivery India's new baseline. Zomato bought a struggling Grofers for $570 million and turned it into Blinkit — now worth at least $15 billion. Swiggy wired its food delivery network into Instamart and never looked back. For years, Amazon watched all of this happen from the sidelines, tinkering with Amazon Fresh while the quick commerce segment compounded at 40% annually into a $6–7 billion market. That patience is over.
- Fintech4 days ago
Volkswagen Bets on Wrisk to Rewire the Van Insurance Moment
The moment a small business owner drives a brand-new Volkswagen Transporter off a dealership forecourt, they enter an insurance dead zone. Their finance paperwork is signed. Their vehicle is theirs. But they're legally exposed until they sort cover — often through a price-comparison site that has nothing to do with Volkswagen and everything to do with price commoditisation. That gap has cost OEMs a lucrative loyalty moment for decades. Volkswagen Financial Services UK just decided to close it.
- Tech4 days ago
HCL-Foxconn Taps CTCI for India Semiconductor Plant
Engineering Partner Named for Strategic Fab
- Tech4 days ago
Samsung SDS Secures Rights to Sell OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu
A Strategic AI Distribution Agreement
- EV & Mobility4 days ago
Hyundai Is Betting $1.1 Billion That China Will Forgive It for Being Late
The IONIQ V looks like the future. But Beijing Hyundai sold just 125,726 vehicles in all of 2025. Twenty new models won't fix a distribution problem — or a trust deficit.
- eCommerce4 days ago
India's Ecomm Giants Are Building Agentic AI Storefronts.
India's $400 billion ecommerce market is being quietly rewired. Meesho, Flipkart, and a new wave of D2C brands aren't just adding AI features. They're rebuilding their storefronts to be read, navigated, and transacted by machines — and the investors who understand what that means will have a head start.
- eCommerce4 days ago
The $150 Billion Blind Spot: Why Beauty Brands Ignored Their Most Loyal Spender
Gen X accounts for 44% of beauty dollars spent in the US — more than any other generation. The industry spent a decade looking the other way.
- Web3 & Blockchain4 days ago
The Crypto Foundation Is Selling. The Company Buying It Is Down $6 Billion. Both Think They're Winning.
The Ethereum Foundation just sold 10,000 ETH — the native currency of the blockchain it stewards — to a company that has already lost more than six billion dollars on its ETH holdings. And then, the week after, that company bought 101,627 more.
- Business4 days ago
Taiwan Stocks Briefly Top 40,000 on TSMC Rally
Semiconductor Momentum Lifts the Market
- eCommerce4 days ago
Snabbit's $400M Bet Is Really a Wager on Whether India Will Regulate Itself Out of a Market
The fastest-growing startup in Indian consumer tech isn't an AI company. It's a two-year-old app that sends women into strangers' homes to do the dishes — and investors can't write checks fast enough.
- Tech4 days ago
Your iPhone 17 Isn't Dead. But Apple Has Some Explaining to Do.
A firmware glitch is stranding iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone Air owners with black screens — and Apple's own store technicians are resorting to workarounds.
- Tech4 days ago
SpeakOn's Dictation Hardware Is Smarter Than Its Platform Allows
Notta's MagSafe dictation device shows real promise and real frustration — and exposes a structural problem that no amount of mic upgrades will fix.
- Tech4 days ago
Truecaller Built a 500-Million-User Empire on India's Spam Problem. Now That Empire Has a Ceiling.
The Stockholm-listed caller-ID giant is profitable, growing in premium subscriptions, and genuinely loved by hundreds of millions of users. It's also bleeding ad revenue, watching telecom operators encroach on its core use case, and down 78% from its IPO price. Investors want to know: is this a pivot story or a plateau?
- AI & Deeptech4 days ago
DeepSeek Slashes V4 Pro Prices by 75% — and Western AI Labs Should Be Paying Attention
A 1.6-trillion-parameter model now costs less per token than a cup of coffee per million words. The AI pricing war isn't coming. It's already here.
- AI & Deeptech4 days ago
Hanwha Expands Space Strategy With AI Integration
A Conglomerate’s Strategic Space Bet
- EV & Mobility4 days ago
Tesla Sold 20,964 Cars in South Korea in One Quarter. Every Single One Was Made in China.
For the better part of a decade, South Korea's imported car market was German territory. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi owned the premium import conversation so completely that the question wasn't which German brand led — it was which German brand led by more. That order collapsed in Q1 2026, and the company that collapsed it wasn't Korean. It wasn't European. Technically, it was American.
- eCommerce4 days ago
Indian Ecommerce Firms Build Agentic AI Storefronts
The Shift From Static Catalogs to Intelligent Agents
- Funding4 days ago
Tiger Global wrote Shopflo a $2.6 million seed cheque in 2022
What happened — and why the sequence reveals the thesis
- eCommerce4 days ago
Reliance Retail Expands Ajio Rush to 600+ Cities
Fast Fashion Meets Quick Commerce
- Fintech4 days ago
Groww Just Posted 122% Profit Growth. The Market Around It Is Telling a More Complicated Story.
Groww hit an all-time high of ₹223.65 on April 24 before closing the week at ₹218.05 — a 10% weekly gain on the back of Q4 FY26 results that showed net profit jumping 122% year-on-year to ₹686.4 crore. Screener That's not a beat. That's a statement. In a week when geopolitical pressure, crude oil crossing $100 per barrel, and relentless foreign institutional selling shredded broader sentiment, Groww's numbers landed like something categorically different from the noise.
- Business4 days ago
Petpooja Faces Tax Scrutiny as Pine Labs Buys Shopflo
Petpooja Draws Attention From Tax Authorities
- Fintech4 days ago
Dhan Expands Beyond Brokerage in Fintech Push
Brokerage, once the primary revenue engine, is increasingly commoditized. Zero-commission models, regulatory caps on fees, and aggressive competition have narrowed margins. For digital-first platforms like Dhan, expanding into adjacent financial services is becoming less optional and more structural.
- EV & Mobility4 days ago
Tesla's Seven-Year Broken Promise: What Elon Musk's Hardware Admission Really Costs
The FSD confession wasn't just a product update. It's a slow-motion liability event — and a cautionary tale for every founder who ever pre-sold the future.
- AI & Deeptech4 days ago
South Korea's Hanwha Is Building the World's Most Integrated AI-Space War Machine
The conglomerate that makes howitzers and satellites and autonomous warships is now fusing all three with artificial intelligence. South Korea's strategic bet on space-based AI isn't just a defense play — it's a template for the next generation of tech-industrial power.
- Tech4 days ago
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Is Getting Thicker — and That's Precisely the Point
Dummy unit measurements confirm a bulkier camera plateau on the iPhone 18 Pro Max, while the iPhone Ultra's footprint dwarfs expectations. Together, they signal that Apple is done pretending thinness and performance can always coexist.
- Social Media4 days ago
The World Is Banning Kids From Social Media. Meta, TikTok, and YouTube Have Months to Figure Out How.
Thirteen countries. One threshold age that ranges anywhere from 13 to 16. Fines that can hit $34 million in a single jurisdiction. This is where we are in April 2026: the social media ban for children has gone from a fringe idea floated by anxious parents and op-ed columnists to binding law in many countries already.
- AI & Deeptech4 days ago
Google Is Investing Up to $40 Billion in Its Own Biggest AI Rival — and That Tension Is the Whole Story
Google's landmark Anthropic investment mixes capital, cloud compute, and competitive risk in ways that reveal how the frontier AI race has fundamentally changed who counts as a partner.
- EV & Mobility4 days ago
The Chemical You've Never Heard of Is Quietly Threatening the Global Copper Supply
China's halt on sulphuric acid exports — a low-profile industrial byproduct — is colliding with a war-driven supply crunch to put copper, nickel, and fertiliser output at serious risk.
- EV & Mobility4 days ago
The battery that makes range anxiety a relic — and the geopolitical storm it's sailing into
CATL just announced a cell that goes 1,500 km on a charge and fills up in six minutes. The real story isn't the chemistry. It's who gets access to it.
- AI & Deeptech4 days ago
An Apology Won't Fix the Decision OpenAI Made Before the Tumbler Ridge Shooting
Sam Altman's letter to Tumbler Ridge is the right gesture, offered far too late — and it sidesteps the structural question that nobody in the AI industry wants to answer.
- Gaming4 days ago
Xbox's $1,000 Bet That Consoles Were Never the Problem
The person running Xbox right now has never shipped a game. She holds a second-degree black belt in taekwondo, came from Microsoft's CoreAI division, and only started playing video games after getting the job — under the gamertag AMRAHSAHSA, her own surname in reverse, as if she needed a reminder of how exposed she is.
- Business5 days ago
Lachy Groom Bets on Pronto at $200M as India's House-Help Market Goes Institutional
A Bengaluru startup founded just over a year ago is doubling its valuation in weeks. The deal tells you less about Pronto than it does about where serious global capital is now willing to go.
- Tech6 days ago
The iOS Notification Trap: How Apple's Bug Let the FBI Read Your Deleted XChat, Signal, and iOS Messages
A logging flaw buried inside Apple's push notification infrastructure quietly preserved message contents from deleted apps — long enough for federal investigators to extract them from a defendant's iPhone. The patch is out. The questions it leaves behind are not.
- Social Media6 days ago
X Launches Standalone XChat App on iOS — But the "Everything App" Dream Is Quietly Fracturing
X's new XChat iOS app promises encrypted messaging, no ads, and a clean break from the main platform — but it signals a strategic pivot Elon Musk never publicly announced.
- Business6 days ago
Jio's ₹7,935 Crore Quarter Isn't the Story. The IPO Math Behind It Is.
Five hundred and twenty-four million subscribers. Let that settle for a second. That's more people than the entire population of the United States and Canada combined, all on one network, all generating data, all paying into a single P&L. Jio Platforms' gross revenue for Q4 FY26 rose 13% year-on-year to ₹44,928 crore, net profit climbed 13% to ₹7,935 crore, and EBITDA jumped 18% YoY to ₹20,060 crore with margin expansion of 230 basis points to 52.4%. Refrr For the full fiscal year, Jio Platforms reported revenue of ₹1,72,317 crore and a profit after tax of ₹30,053 crore. Yahoo Finance
- AI & Deeptech6 days ago
When an AI-Native Company Lays Off Its Engineers, Something Is Actually Working
The startup said it was built AI-first from day one. Then it fired 30% of its engineers to prove it.
- Business6 days ago
BlueStone Promised 290 New Stores. It Opened 65. Gold Has a Better Explanation Than You Think.
When BlueStone filed its draft red herring prospectus with SEBI in December 2024, the store rollout math looked unambiguous. The company had projected adding 290 stores across FY26 and FY27. The Researchers That meant roughly 145 new outlets a year for a brand that had spent 13 years proving the market for design-led, digital-first jewellery. Investors bought it. Prosus valued BlueStone at approximately $950 million Indian Startup Times — just shy of unicorn territory — as the IPO machinery revved up. The growth narrative was intact.
- Fintech6 days ago
The Licence Is Gone. Paytm Isn't.
The Reserve Bank of India doesn't do dramatic finales. It does slow, deliberate, well-telegraphed endings — and the cancellation of Paytm Payments Bank's banking licence under Section 22(4) of the Banking Regulation Act, effective close of business April 24, 2026 Tech Times, was precisely that. By the time the order dropped, the bank had been functionally dead for over two years. By March 15, 2024, PPBL had become a non-operational bank, limited to processing withdrawals and facilitating minimal services. Gadget Hacks The RBI wasn't pulling a plug. It was signing a death certificate for a patient already in the morgue.
- AI & Deeptech6 days ago
OpenAI Is Collapsing Its Products Into One. GPT-5.5 Is the Foundation.
The company's latest model isn't just a performance upgrade — it's a calculated step toward merging ChatGPT, Codex, and an AI browser into a single unified product that could lock in enterprise customers for years.
- Gaming6 days ago
PlaySimple Files DRHP for ₹3,150 Cr OFS-Only IPO
A Liquidity Event, Not a Capital Raise
- Gaming1 week ago
Assassin’s Creed Actor Wants Role in TV Adaptation
A Familiar Voice Eyes the Screen
- Gaming1 week ago
Capcom 2026 PC Games Heavily Discounted, Including Pragmata
Major 2026 Titles Get Early Price Cuts
- Gaming1 week ago
Under-Appreciated Schwarzenegger Film Gets 4K Steelbook Release
A Cult Favorite Gets Premium Treatment
- Gaming1 week ago
Diablo 4 Uniques Become a Wild Card in Lord of Hatred
A Shift in Item Philosophy
- Gaming1 week ago
All Ships in Windrose and How to Unlock Them
How Ship Progression Works in Windrose
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
Xpeng, Xiaomi Showcase In-Car AI at Beijing Auto Show
Xpeng and Xiaomi showcased advanced in-car AI systems at the Beijing Auto Show, emphasizing intelligent cockpits, autonomous driving, and AI-powered user interfaces. The presentations highlight intensifying competition in China’s smart EV sector.
- Funding1 week ago
Deep Algorithm Raises ₹16 Cr to Expand AI-Driven Identity Security
Hyderabad-based Deep Algorithm has raised ₹16 crore in a Pre-Series A round led by Unicorn India Ventures. The AI cybersecurity startup will use the funds to expand internationally and strengthen its Continuous Identity Risk Management platform.
- Business1 week ago
CoinSwitch Turns Appraisal Season Into Viral Marketing Moment
CoinSwitch leaned into one of corporate India’s most relatable annual rituals — appraisal season — with a playful on-ground activation in Bengaluru that transformed workplace anxiety into a culturally resonant brand moment.
- EV & Mobility1 week ago
Huawei to Invest $11.7B in Self-Driving Car Technology
Huawei is committing $11.7 billion to accelerate development of self-driving car technologies, marking one of the most substantial investments by a Chinese tech firm into autonomous mobility infrastructure.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
India’s AI Engineering Hiring Surges 59.5%, LinkedIn Data Shows
AI engineering hiring in India has surged 59.5% compared to the previous year, according to data released by LinkedIn. The sharp rise underscores how artificial intelligence has transitioned from pilot experimentation to operational deployment across sectors.
- Fintech1 week ago
Commonwealth Bank Cuts 120 Jobs as AI Automation Expands
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is cutting 120 jobs as part of a broader push to embed artificial intelligence across its operations, underscoring how automation is reshaping workforce structures in global banking.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
Huawei Backs DeepSeek V4 With Ascend AI Chips
Huawei is backing DeepSeek’s newly launched V4 model with its Ascend AI processors, deepening China’s push to build an integrated domestic AI stack amid ongoing semiconductor restrictions.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
DBS Expands AI Program to Help SMEs Adopt Generative AI
DBS Bank is deepening its push into artificial intelligence by expanding programs designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises integrate generative AI into their operations. The initiative reflects a broader shift in how banks position themselves — not only as capital providers, but as digital transformation partners.
- Business1 week ago
TSMC Shares Jump as Taiwan Eases Investment Limits
Shares of TSMC climbed after Taiwan announced changes to investment rules that could enable funds to increase exposure to key domestic companies, including the world’s largest contract chipmaker.
- EV & Mobility1 week ago
Porsche to Add All-Electric Cayenne Coupe to EV Lineup
Porsche is preparing to introduce an all-electric version of its Cayenne Coupe, signaling a further acceleration of its transition toward electrified performance vehicles. The addition builds on Porsche’s expanding EV lineup and reinforces its strategy to electrify core nameplates rather than introduce entirely new ones.
- Business1 week ago
Bob Iger Rejoins Thrive Capital as Advisor After Disney Exit
Bob Iger has rejoined Thrive Capital as an advisor after stepping away from leadership at The Walt Disney Company. The appointment marks a renewed chapter in Iger’s post-operational career and reinforces the growing overlap between media leadership and venture-backed technology investing.
- Social Media1 week ago
Countries Moving to Ban Social Media for Children
Governments worldwide are reconsidering how — and whether — children should access social media. What began as parental concern has evolved into legislative action. Lawmakers across the United States, Europe, and parts of Asia are introducing measures that either restrict access to social platforms for minors or impose strict age-verification requirements. The movement reflects mounting evidence linking excessive social media use to mental health challenges among young users, as well as growing political pressure on platforms to demonstrate accountability.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
Sierra Acquires YC-Backed AI Startup Fragment to Deepen Enterprise Automation Push
Sierra, the enterprise-focused AI company founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, has acquired Fragment, a Y Combinator-backed startup specializing in integrating artificial intelligence into business workflows. The transaction marks Sierra’s third public acquisition and underscores its ambition to build a vertically integrated AI agent platform tailored for large enterprises.
- Social Media1 week ago
Instagram Tests ‘Instants’ App for Disappearing Photos
Instagram is quietly testing a new standalone app called Instants, centered on disappearing photo sharing — a format that defined an earlier era of social media but is now being revisited through a privacy-first lens. The test signals that parent company Meta continues experimenting with lightweight, focused social experiences outside its main app ecosystem.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
Noscroll AI Bot Promises to End Doomscrolling
A new startup called Noscroll is attempting to resolve that tension by building an AI bot designed to consume social feeds on your behalf and deliver condensed summaries of what actually matters. Instead of spending hours refreshing timelines, users receive curated briefings generated by artificial intelligence.
- Social Media1 week ago
WeChat Pay Expands QR Payments to Five Asian Markets
WeChat Pay is broadening its regional reach, expanding QR code payment capabilities to five more Asian markets as part of a push to strengthen cross-border commerce. The expansion reflects rising demand for seamless mobile payments among tourists, students and business travelers across Asia.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
DeepSeek Launches V4 AI Model to Challenge OpenAI
DeepSeek has unveiled its V4 AI model, the latest iteration in its foundation model lineup, aiming to compete with systems developed by OpenAI and other global leaders. The release reflects growing ambition among Chinese AI firms to narrow the performance gap with Western frontier labs while advancing domestic technological sovereignty.
- Robotics1 week ago
Tesla Q1 Revenue Rises 16% as It Pushes Ahead With Humanoid Robot Plans
Tesla posted a 16% year-on-year increase in first-quarter revenue, reflecting steady EV deliveries and continued growth in software-linked income streams such as driver assistance subscriptions. Alongside its financial results, Tesla emphasized progress on its humanoid robot initiative — a project that could redefine the company’s identity beyond automotive manufacturing.
- EV & Mobility1 week ago
Hyundai to Launch Ioniq EV, Reset China Strategy
Hyundai Motor is preparing to launch a new Ioniq electric vehicle in China while overhauling its broader strategy in a market that has become increasingly difficult for foreign automakers. China remains the world’s largest EV market, but it is also one of the most competitive — and unforgiving — for international brands.
- EV & Mobility1 week ago
BYD and Rivals Deepen EV Price Cuts in China
BYD and several domestic rivals have rolled out fresh price reductions across select EV models, deepening a price war that has defined much of the sector’s recent trajectory. The renewed cuts reflect a mix of slowing demand growth, inventory pressures and fierce rivalry among both domestic and foreign brands.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
SK Group Expands in Vietnam With AI Data Center Plans
SK Group is stepping up its presence in Vietnam with plans to invest in AI-driven data center infrastructure, signaling confidence in Southeast Asia’s accelerating digital transformation. The expansion aligns with broader regional demand for cloud computing, AI workloads and enterprise digitalization, particularly as governments and private companies push for stronger domestic infrastructure capacity.
- Fintech1 week ago
SAP Q1 Profit Rises 17% on Strong Cloud Demand
SAP reported a 17% rise in first-quarter profit, reflecting sustained momentum in its cloud business as enterprises continue shifting from on-premise systems to subscription-based software platforms. The results reinforce SAP’s transformation from a traditional enterprise software vendor into a cloud-centric provider, a multi-year transition that has reshaped its revenue mix and profitability profile.
- Fintech1 week ago
SoftBank Is Building a Battery Factory in Japan to Power Its Own AI Data Centers
Masayoshi Son has never been a man who thinks small. But even by his standards, what SoftBank is assembling right now is something different — a vertically integrated AI infrastructure empire that stretches from battery chemistry in Osaka to a former Cold War nuclear enrichment site in Ohio, all in service of one overriding conviction: that the real bottleneck in the AI race isn't chips, it's power, and whoever controls the energy controls the future.
- Tech1 week ago
Microsoft Is Paying Nearly 9,000 Employees to Leave — And It's Never Done This Before in 51 Years
In 51 years, Microsoft has never done this. Through the Bill Gates era, the Steve Ballmer era, the Satya Nadella turnaround, multiple recessions, a dot-com crash, a global pandemic — not once did the company formally offer its employees a financial package to voluntarily walk away. Until Thursday.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
Jeff Bezos’ AI Lab Raises $10B at $38B Valuation
An AI lab backed by Jeff Bezos has raised $10 billion in fresh funding, valuing the company at $38 billion. The round ranks among the largest private AI financings to date, reinforcing the sector’s position as the dominant magnet for venture capital in 2026. The size of the raise signals confidence that demand for advanced AI models — and the infrastructure to support them — remains robust despite broader macroeconomic caution.
- Business1 week ago
Parminder Singh Named CEO of Reliance’s AI Subsidiary
Reliance Industries has named Parminder Singh as chief executive officer of its artificial intelligence subsidiary, a step that underscores the group’s growing emphasis on AI-led digital expansion. The leadership appointment comes as Indian conglomerates intensify investment in AI infrastructure, cloud capabilities and enterprise automation.
- Business1 week ago
Karnataka Considers Legalising Bike Taxis Through New Policy
The Karnataka government is evaluating a regulatory framework to legalise bike taxi services, a move that could significantly alter the mobility landscape in cities like Bengaluru. Bike taxis have operated in a grey zone in several Indian states, often facing enforcement action due to the absence of explicit regulatory backing. A formal policy could bring clarity for platforms, drivers and passengers alike.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
Why Anthropic’s Mythos Is Raising Red Flags for Regulators
As artificial intelligence systems grow more capable, regulators are shifting from theoretical ethics debates to concrete risk management. At the center of that shift is Anthropic and its high-capability AI system, Mythos. While positioned as an advanced reasoning and automation tool, Mythos has become a focal point for policymakers wary of unintended consequences. The scrutiny reflects a broader global tension: how to encourage frontier AI development while preventing systemic risk.
- Fintech1 week ago
Zerodha Pivots Zero1 From Creator-Led Model to In-House Content
The bootstrapped brokerage has pivoted its Zero1 initiative away from a creator-led format toward an in-house content model, signaling a shift in how it approaches financial education and brand storytelling. The change comes as fintech firms increasingly treat content not just as marketing, but as strategic infrastructure.
- eCommerce1 week ago
Flipkart Considers Standalone App for Quick Commerce Arm Minutes
Flipkart is evaluating whether to spin out its quick commerce vertical, Minutes, into a standalone mobile application — a strategic shift that could sharpen its competitive positioning in India’s rapidly expanding instant delivery segment. The deliberation comes as quick commerce transitions from experimental add-on to core battlefield for ecommerce platforms.
- eCommerce1 week ago
Zomato Withdraws Price Parity Clause From Restaurant Contracts
Zomato has removed the price parity clause from its restaurant contracts, marking a significant shift in its marketplace policy. The clause previously required restaurant partners to maintain the same pricing on Zomato as on competing platforms or their own channels. Its withdrawal could alter pricing dynamics across India’s food delivery ecosystem.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
India’s infrastructure giant is sharpening its AI ambitions.
Larsen & Toubro has incorporated Vyoma.AI as a dedicated subsidiary to focus on AI data center infrastructure and digital capabilities. The move reflects growing demand for high-performance computing capacity across enterprises, cloud providers and public sector projects. As AI workloads intensify, infrastructure players are repositioning to capture long-term compute demand.
- Cyber Security1 week ago
Inside the Legal Dispute Between IPO-Bound RentoMojo and Co-founder Ajay Nain
As companies move toward public markets, unresolved founder dynamics tend to resurface. That appears to be the case with RentoMojo, which is reportedly advancing IPO preparations while simultaneously navigating a legal dispute involving co-founder Ajay Nain. Legal friction at the pre-IPO stage is more than reputational noise. It can shape investor confidence, disclosure requirements and valuation trajectories.
- Web3 & Blockchain1 week ago
BitDelta Launches Crypto Exchange Operations in India
Global cryptocurrency exchange BitDelta has begun operations in India, expanding its footprint into a market that remains both high-growth and heavily scrutinized. The launch comes as India’s crypto ecosystem stabilizes after a period of regulatory tightening and tax reforms. Despite policy headwinds in recent years, retail participation and developer activity have remained resilient. For BitDelta, the decision reflects a long-term bet on India’s digital asset adoption curve.
- Fintech1 week ago
UPI Crosses 1,000 Crore Transactions in March as PhonePe Widens Lead
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions surpassed 1,000 crore in March, reinforcing its position as the world’s most active instant payment network. The milestone underscores how deeply embedded UPI has become in India’s daily commerce — from small-ticket retail purchases to utility payments and peer-to-peer transfers. At the center of that growth, PhonePe has tightened its grip on the top spot.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
Startup Stairs Announces ‘Startup League 2026’ to Boost India’s DeepTech Ecosystem
For most of the past decade, when people talked about India's startup boom, they meant e-commerce, fintech, and direct-to-consumer brands. Those sectors attracted billions in capital, produced dozens of unicorns, and put India firmly on the global startup map. But they also cast a long shadow over a different class of founders — the ones building satellites, drones, robotics systems, and semiconductor architectures — who found themselves structurally underserved by an ecosystem optimised for faster, consumer-facing returns.
- Tech1 week ago
Nvidia-Backed Nscale and BT Expand 14MW AI Data Center
Nscale, backed by Nvidia, has partnered with BT Group to expand a 14-megawatt AI-focused data center, reinforcing the UK’s push to become a competitive hub for high-performance computing. The expansion reflects sustained demand for GPU-intensive workloads across enterprise and research sectors.
- Tech1 week ago
Samsung Electro-Mechanics Targets AI Data Center Demand Surge
The AI boom is not only reshaping chipmakers — it is reverberating across the entire electronics supply chain. Samsung Electro-Mechanics is positioning itself to capture accelerating demand from AI data centers, ramping up production of advanced components essential for high-performance servers. As hyperscalers and cloud providers expand AI clusters, component suppliers are becoming critical enablers of the infrastructure buildout.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
Australia Flags Cyber Risks From Anthropic’s Mythos AI
Australia is stepping into the widening global debate over advanced AI security. Authorities have reportedly flagged cybersecurity risks linked to Anthropic’s Mythos AI system, raising questions about how powerful AI tools should be governed in sensitive environments. The move underscores a broader trend: governments are increasingly assessing not just what AI can do, but how it could be misused.
- Social Media1 week ago
The End of ‘Spray and Pray’ Email Marketing
For years, email marketing followed a simple formula: build a large list, craft a broad message and send it to everyone. That era is ending. The “spray and pray” approach — mass, undifferentiated email campaigns aimed at maximizing reach — is increasingly incompatible with how inboxes, algorithms and customers behave in 2026.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
ReflexAI Targets Sales Execution Gap With AI Coaching Platform
In enterprise sales, strategy often outpaces execution. Playbooks are written. Targets are set. Training sessions are delivered. Yet many revenue leaders argue that the majority of performance variance occurs not in planning rooms but in daily frontline conversations. ReflexAI is building around that friction point. The company describes a “70% execution gap” — the distance between well-designed sales strategies and consistent on-the-ground execution. Its platform applies artificial intelligence to coaching, conversation analysis and performance diagnostics, aiming to reduce variability across sales teams.
- AI & Deeptech1 week ago
Peter Molyneux on AI, His Final Game and the Future of UK Gaming
Few figures in British gaming have generated as much ambition — and debate — as Peter Molyneux. From genre-defining titles in the 1990s to experimental social projects in the 2010s, Molyneux has built a career on bold promises and systems-driven design. Now, as artificial intelligence reshapes creative industries, he finds himself reflecting on both the technology’s potential and the legacy he hopes to leave behind. His latest project, which he has described as possibly his final major creation, arrives at a moment when generative AI tools are beginning to permeate every stage of game production.
- Gaming1 week ago
Xbox Lowers Game Pass Prices but Removes Day-One Call of Duty Access
Xbox Game Pass will see price reductions across select tiers, but with a notable trade-off: day-one access to Call of Duty titles will no longer be included. The change marks a meaningful pivot in Xbox’s long-running effort to position Game Pass as the definitive value proposition in console gaming.
- Gaming1 week ago
Miyamoto Says Peach’s Galaxy Movie Backstory Will Shape Future Mario Games
Nintendo rarely treats its cinematic projects as isolated side stories. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, Princess Peach’s expanded backstory in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will have implications beyond the big screen. The character development introduced in the film is expected to influence how she appears in future Mario games. That acknowledgment signals a tighter feedback loop between Nintendo’s film adaptations and its core game franchises. From Archetype to Character
- Gaming1 week ago
Pragmata Embraces Player Mistakes — And That’s a Good Thing
Not in the “reload instantly and try again” way that most modern titles tolerate, but in a design-forward way that builds failure into the experience. That decision may sound minor. It isn’t.
- Tech1 week ago
Xbox’s Big Bet on Call of Duty Has Yet to Deliver
Then Microsoft pursued control of Activision Blizzard, the logic was clear: anchor the future of Xbox around one of the most commercially powerful franchises in gaming — Call of Duty. The expectation was that securing Call of Duty would tilt competitive dynamics in Microsoft’s favor, drive subscription growth for Game Pass and reinforce Xbox’s relevance in a console market increasingly shaped by ecosystem strength rather than hardware alone. So far, that transformation has been muted.
- Gaming1 week ago
How to Watch the 2026 Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest Keynote
The 2026 edition of Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched MMORPG events of the year. The keynote address traditionally sets the tone for the next expansion cycle, offering gameplay reveals, roadmap updates and community milestones. For players and industry watchers alike, the keynote often signals where the long-running online title is heading next.
- Social Media1 week ago
X Introduces Topic-Based Custom Timelines
X is refining how users experience its feed. The platform has introduced topic-based Custom Timelines, allowing individuals to create curated streams focused on defined interests — from AI startups and climate policy to niche sports communities. Instead of relying solely on a universal “For You” feed, users can now switch between multiple timelines tailored to specific themes. The move reflects a broader effort to decentralize content discovery.
- Social Media1 week ago
Threads Launches Live Chats for NBA Playoffs
Meta is leaning into live sports conversation. Threads has launched Live Chats tied to the NBA playoffs, introducing real-time discussion spaces where fans can comment and react as games unfold. The timing is deliberate. Live sports remain one of the few categories that consistently drive synchronous social engagement.
- Social Media1 week ago
Snapchat Launches Loyalty Badges for Snap Map Locations
Snap is adding a new layer of gamification to its location features. Snap Map now includes loyalty badges that reward users for repeated visits to certain venues, turning physical-world check-ins into visible social signals inside the app. The move reflects Snapchat’s broader push to blend real-world behavior with digital identity.
- Fintech1 week ago
Fiuu Brings Apple Tap to Pay on iPhone to Malaysia
Malaysia’s contactless payment ecosystem is expanding — without requiring new point-of-sale terminals. Fiuu has introduced Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone in the country, enabling merchants to accept payments directly through compatible iPhones using near-field communication (NFC) technology. The move eliminates the need for separate card readers, lowering barriers for small and medium-sized businesses to digitize transactions.
- Tech1 week ago
Chip Exports Power South Korea’s Fastest Growth in Years
A sharp rise in semiconductor exports has driven the country’s strongest growth performance in years, reflecting renewed global appetite for advanced chips used in artificial intelligence, data centers and high-performance computing. For an economy deeply intertwined with the semiconductor supply chain, the upswing signals both cyclical recovery and structural transformation.
- Funding1 week ago
LightFury Raises $11M Pre-Series A to Scale Gaming Studio
Capital is returning to interactive entertainment — this time with a sharper focus on original IP. LightFury, an India-based gaming studio, has secured $11 million in a pre-Series A round aimed at scaling development operations and accelerating its creative roadmap. The funding places the studio among a growing cohort of Indian gaming startups attracting international and domestic venture backing. The raise signals sustained confidence in India’s expanding role in the global games market.
- Funding1 week ago
Deep Algorithm Raises $1.7M Pre-Series A to Scale AI Platform
Deep Algorithm has secured $1.7 million in a pre-Series A funding round, reinforcing investor appetite for domain-focused AI platforms built for enterprise use cases. While modest compared to mega AI rounds globally, the raise positions the startup with meaningful runway to refine its product and accelerate go-to-market efforts.
- Funding1 week ago
Chinese Robotics Firm Pudu Raises $150M to Expand Automation
Automation capital is flowing back into robotics. Pudu Robotics has raised $150 million in new funding, strengthening its position in the fast-growing service robotics market. The company, known for its autonomous delivery and hospitality robots, plans to use the capital to expand production capacity and deepen global market penetration. The round reflects continued confidence in applied robotics, particularly in labor-intensive service sectors.
- EV & Mobility1 week ago
Tech Mahindra Profit Rises 16% in Q1 but Misses Estimates
Tech Mahindra posted a 16% year-on-year rise in quarterly profit, signaling operational improvement even as revenue growth remained under pressure. However, the results fell short of market estimates, underscoring the continued strain on India’s IT services sector from cautious enterprise spending in North America and Europe.
- eCommerce1 week ago
Alibaba’s Qwen AI Partners With China Eastern for Flight Booking
Artificial intelligence is moving from chat experiments to transaction engines. Alibaba’s large language model, Qwen, is now partnering with China Eastern Airlines to enable AI-powered flight booking and customer service functions. The collaboration signals how generative AI is being embedded directly into commerce workflows — not just used for information retrieval.
- EV & Mobility1 week ago
Tesla Taps Intel 14A Process for Terafab Chip Production
Tesla is deepening its vertical integration strategy — this time in silicon. The electric vehicle maker is reportedly planning to use Intel’s upcoming 14A process node to manufacture its Terafab AI chips, custom silicon designed to power advanced autonomy and robotics applications. For Tesla, the decision signals a strategic pivot in chip sourcing. For Intel, it represents a high-profile validation of its advanced foundry roadmap.
- EV & Mobility1 week ago
Xpeng Targets Flying Car Deliveries by 2027
Xpeng has set a 2027 target to begin deliveries of its flying car, positioning itself among a small group of automakers attempting to commercialize electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles. The initiative is being developed under its aviation-focused subsidiary, XPeng AeroHT, which has been testing modular and road-capable aerial vehicle concepts.
- EV & Mobility1 week ago
Gotion Says Energy Storage Demand to Outpace EV Batteries
Gotion High-Tech has indicated that energy storage demand is poised to grow faster than electric vehicle battery demand, underscoring a structural change in global electrification markets. For years, EVs have dominated battery production expansion. Now, grid-scale storage is emerging as the next growth engine.
- Funding1 week ago
Kabeer Biswas’ M Raises ₹102 Cr From Peak XV, Blume
His new venture, M, has raised ₹102 crore in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Blume Ventures. The early backing underscores investor confidence in founder-led startups with prior operating experience. While details around M’s business model remain limited, the scale of the round suggests ambitious positioning from the outset.
- Fintech1 week ago
RBI Proposes New Draft Rules for Prepaid Payment Instruments
India’s digital payments infrastructure is entering a tighter regulatory phase. The Reserve Bank of India has issued draft rules to overhaul the governance framework for prepaid payment instruments (PPIs) — a category that includes digital wallets, prepaid cards and gift vouchers. The move comes as India’s fintech ecosystem matures and transaction volumes across digital platforms continue to expand.
- Tech1 week ago
Google Updates Workspace to Turn AI Into a Virtual Office Intern
Google has rolled out expanded AI features across Google Workspace, effectively turning its generative models into always-on assistants inside email, documents, spreadsheets and meetings. The pitch is clear: treat AI less like a standalone chatbot and more like a built-in office intern.
- EV & Mobility1 week ago
Elon Musk Says Millions of Teslas Need Hardware Upgrades for True FSD
Elon Musk has acknowledged that millions of existing Tesla vehicles will need hardware upgrades to achieve what he describes as “true” Full Self-Driving (FSD). The statement marks a significant clarification in Tesla’s long-running autonomy narrative — and carries financial, technical and reputational implications.
- Social Media1 week ago
Hands On With X’s New AI-Powered Custom Feeds
For years, social media feeds have felt like black boxes. Now, X is attempting to hand some of that control back to users with AI-powered custom feeds. The feature allows individuals to design their own algorithmic streams — blending keywords, creator preferences and engagement signals into tailored timelines. After testing the tool, the experience feels less like scrolling a single centralized feed and more like navigating multiple algorithmic channels.
