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Prime Minister Narendra Modi held key meetings with Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, and Spain’s President Pedro Sanchez during the India AI Impact Summit 2026. Discussions focused on AI, trade, and future technologies. The Prime Minister…

Telegram, ⁠one of the most popular messenger ​services in Russia, is widely used by Russian forces fighting ​in Ukraine, but is under pressure from the authorities who have imposed restrictions on ​it over what they ⁠say is ‌its failure to…

The President and Managing Director for India and South Asia at Airbus also said that AI should be seen as a bridge that helps to be more efficient and optimise resources on the way to the net-zero goals.

According to Chaudhry, while AI offers endless possibilities, it also comes with substantial risks, making it essential to counter AI-driven threats using AI itself.

Large AI models have been commercially rolled out by global players like ChatGPT of OpenAI, Google’s Gemini, etc.The minister said investors are also bullish on India and have finalised investment of over Rs 20,000 crore, which will materialise over the…

Speaking at the launch of the AI Casebook on Gender and Agriculture at India AI Summit here, UN Women Regional Director for Asia Pacific Christine Arab said the underrepresentation of women in AI development was creating systemic bias in the…

Vembu said that the current trend in India is to focus on models that use fewer resources. He stated, “I think we are investing in lot of the smaller models. Those should be unglamorous right now, but they get the…

With this collaboration, Razorpay’s payment infrastructure will be integrated with Replit’s AI software creation platform, enabling Indian developers to pay for subscriptions easily and turn their AI-built applications into scalable, monetised products.

The five-day summit, which is ongoing at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, kicked off on February 16 amid high expectations, with addresses by global tech leaders and Indian startups slated for the coming days.

The release comes as Alibaba looks to attract more users to its Qwen chatbot app in China, a landscape currently dominated by rival tech ‌giant ByteDance’s ⁠Doubao and ⁠DeepSeek, which became the first Chinese AI firm to break through globally…

India drives nearly half of Claude’s usage for computer and mathematical tasks, like building applications and modernising systems, with run-rate revenue doubling since the October 2025 expansion announcement.

He added that GPU access is being provided at subsidised rates, and that the government is working to make other resources available as widely as possible.

Artificial intelligence will fundamentally reshape jobs by unbundling them into smaller, task-based components rather than eliminating employment altogether, says Puneet Chandok, President of Microsoft India and South Asia.

Speaking at the IndiaAI Impact Summit, Krishnan said US-based Micron is working on high bandwidth memory, a key component necessary for widening AI usage.

Companies are testing AI for faster, cheaper translations. This move worries human translators, with some losing work. However, experts believe AI will change jobs, not eliminate them.

The company crossed 15 million active users last year across various categories including ecommerce, ticketing and food delivery, is focusing on the value conscious segment for further expansion of its food delivery vertical, CEO Anshoo Sharma told PTI in an…

The increase ⁠bodes well for money-losing xAI, the Musk-owned startup behind Grok, which was launched about three years ago and has been spending ​aggressively to scale the infrastructure needed to stay competitive in Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence race.

Google parent Alphabet raised $31.51 billion across U.S. dollar, sterling and Swiss franc bond markets in a global bond raise on Monday and Tuesday, as artificial intelligence-driven spending sparks a surge in ‌borrowing at U.S. ⁠tech ⁠giants.

The company has differentiated itself by focusing its model training on coding, with Claude Code gaining strong traction among developers and helping the company gain an ‌edge over rivals in ⁠the ⁠enterprise AI market.

Le Travenues Technology, the parent company of online travel aggregator Ixigo, will have the right to acquire the remaining stake in the future, subject to the fulfilment of agreed conditions, it said in a filing. This is Ixigo’s first major…

The Pentagon ​is pushing top AI companies, including ⁠OpenAI and ‌Anthropic, to make their artificial-intelligence tools available ​on ​classified networks without many of the standard ⁠restrictions that the firms apply to users, Reuters ​reported. Anthropic is the only one that…

Ahead of the anticipated Global AI Impact Summit in New Delhi next week, industry leaders have praised India’s AI policy ecosystem and described the country as integral to AI. Vishal Sikka expressed optimism about breakthroughs, infrastructure, talent and safety discussions.…

A Niti Aayog report noted that industry must lead the shift into the AI era by reimagining its delivery model, deepening innovation, and investing in the next wave of growth. Firms need to pivot from cost-based services to outcome-driven, AI-enabled…

The report highlighted emerging demand in modernising legacy code, rewriting customized SaaS applications where needed, building AI agents for operations, ensuring AI trust and reliability, and integrating physical AI systems. Enterprise technology teams, long viewed as underfunded relative to business…

Eyewear retailer Lenskart on Wednesday reported a sharp jump in its net profit, which the management described as the start of a compounding phase where each additional rupee of revenue translates into a higher profit margin. On Thursday, Lenskart’s stock…

Artha Venture Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm, has led the removal of Souvik Haldar, founder and chief executive of Kolkata-based Vaadit Technologies, which operates crypto and dark web forensics platform Hornet, citing allegations of misconduct, misuse of company funds…

The largest ​US electric utilities are ramping up spending on ​new power infrastructure to meet surging demand from data centers, with companies like American Electric Power and Exelon ​unveiling expanded investment plans on Thursday and fielding questions about rising power…

Russia announced Thursday it had blocked WhatsApp over its alleged failure to comply with Russian legislation, days after restricting access to rival messaging service Telegram for similar reasons. It has since progressively slowed down WhatsApp and in November announced it…

Shares of Nasdaq-listed Palo Alto Networks will ​also trade on the Tel ​Aviv Stock Exchange, the cybersecurity firm said on ​Thursday, after it closed its $25 billion purchase of Israeli peer CyberArk Software. Following the dual listing, Palo Alto will…

In Taipei, real estate agent Jason Sung is betting that home prices around a high-tech industrial park in the northern part of Taiwan’s capital will soon take flight – because of computer chip maker Nvidia.

AI startup Anthropic has confirmed the departure of researcher Mrinank Sharma from its safeguards team. The exit comes in the wake of researcher Zoe Hitzig resigning from rival OpenAI.

The US Department of Commerce on Wednesday announced a $252 ​million settlement with Applied Materials for illegally exporting chipmaking equipment to China’s top chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.

Brazil on Wednesday told Elon Musk’s social network X to stop its chatbot from creating sexually explicit images, the latest country to pressure the billionaire to fix the artificial intelligence tool. Indonesia became the first country to block Grok entirely…

The months-long rout deepened last week, with the S&P 500 software and services index posting its worst three-month performance since May 2002, Evercore ISI equity strategists said.

In a LinkedIn post, cofounder Sujith Narayanan said the company’s senior leadership went through a period of “honest reflection” to mobilise the firm’s resources in a different direction. This will mark a departure from Fi’s original mission of providing a…

ByteDance aims to receive sample chips by end-March, they said. The company plans to ‌produce at least ⁠100,000 units ⁠of the chip, designed for AI inference tasks, this year, according to one of the sources and another person. One of…

South Korea said in October ​that the U.S. ​startup planned to set up joint ventures ‌with the Korean firms to ​build ​two ⁠data centres in the country with an ​initial capacity of 20 megawatts.

The forecast marks a setback for the ride-hailing provider’s comeback, fueled by a year of improving bookings ​growth, higher margins and expansion into new regions, and also overshadows a $1 billion share repurchase program.

Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, a distinguished philanthropist and Grammy-award winning artist, described efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government to prioritise AI as “stunningly impressive.”

Under the deal, STI will build a power semiconductor factory in Baiyun District, Guangzhou. The first phase will invest about 1.6 billion yuan to make AMB ceramic substrates, a material widely used in industries such as electric vehicles.

Salesforce cut fewer than 1,000 roles this month, Business Insider reported. Affected jobs spanned marketing, product management, data analytics and Agentforce AI, from employee conversations. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had ‍said in a podcast in August last year that the…

Young founders crowd San Francisco as an AI boom reshapes ambition, money and work in this city today. Startups promise to streamline administration, chase valuation and risk jobs, echoing a modern gold rush. With capital everywhere, twenty-somethings scrape by, bet…

Amazon has signalled plans for a content marketplace where publishers can sell material to firms offering artificial intelligence products, according to The Information. Ahead of an AWS conference, slides mentioned the marketplace alongside core AI tools like Bedrock. This comes…

Happy Tuesday! Exposure of domestic mutual funds to new-age stocks significantly increased in 2025. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

Australian AI firm Firmus has secured a $10 billion debt funding package led by Blackstone and Coatue. The money will support the next phase of Project Southgate to build AI training and inference data centres across Australia. Developed with CDC…

In an interview with Taiwanese television channel CTS that was broadcast late on Sunday, Taiwan Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said she had made it clear to Washington that Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem, built up over decades, could not be ‌relocated.

Arguments are set to begin Monday in a landmark US trial that could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to lead to addiction in children.

China’s Montage Technology ⁠jumped more than 50% in its Hong Kong trading debut on Monday after the world’s biggest memory interconnect chip supplier raised HK$7.04 billion ($900 million) in a share sale to mainly fund research.

Abu Dhabi-based ‍technology group G42, ​and a consortium ⁠comprising the FPT Corporation and the Viet Thai Group, have signed a ‌deal ‌to develop sovereign AI capabilities and ‌cloud infrastructure across Vietnam, G42 said on Monday.

Citing examples, Vaishnaw noted that AI-based solutions could be offered to global shipping lines and retail companies through global capability centers (GCCs) in India, creating opportunities for Indian engineers. The Union Minister for Electronics and IT added that, due to…

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said domestic and foreign companies will now receive equal tax benefits for data centres, providing relief to local players. The clarification follows concerns over previous advantages for global cloud providers. He added that data centres are…

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India and the US are finalising an interim trade framework that will boost access to GPUs and data centre equipment. This agreement is expected to create opportunities for startups, service providers, and the wider AI…

Ride-hailing apps such as Ola, Uber and Rapido faced sporadic disruption on Saturday as drivers staged a partial strike in several cities. The Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union called the “breakdown” to protest rules and practices of app-based transport…

Tech stocks have swung sharply this year, with fears growing that huge AI investments may not turn profitable. Nasdaq has fallen despite brief rebounds, unsettling investors. Strong earnings from firms like Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft failed to reassure markets amid…

A delegation of transport and delivery gig workers met the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, to discuss the need for legislation from the Centre and implementations of regulations in Congress-ruled states, the Telangana Gig And Platform Workers…

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb ‍said on Saturday ​it had accidentally given away more ⁠than $40 billion worth of bitcoins to customers as promotional rewards, triggering a sharp selloff on the exchange.

Apple is preparing ​to allow voice-controlled artificial intelligence apps ⁠from other companies in CarPlay. The change ‌represents a ‌strategic shift for Apple, which, until now, has only ‌allowed its own Siri assistant as a voice-control option.

AI startup ‍Anthropic ​is ironing out the ⁠final details on a funding round likely to ‌raise ‌more than $20 billion and ‌slated to close as soon as next week.

The company will ‌target March 2027 for a lunar landing without astronauts on board, the report added. The news comes after SpaceX agreed to acquire xAI ​in a deal that values ​the rocket and satellite company at $1 ‌trillion and…

AI tools can easily fabricate convincing images of Jeffrey Epstein with world leaders, a study showed Thursday, following a surge of manipulated photos falsely linking prominent politicians to the convicted sex offender. Social media users have amplified AI-generated images purporting…

Instead of combining the two companies into ⁠one and fully integrating operations, Musk decided to retain xAI, which runs social media platform X and created the Grok chatbot, as a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX, said the people, who asked…

The spending planned by Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all in pursuit of dominance in the still-nascent market for AI tools, is a boom without a parallel this century. Each of the companies’ estimated outlay…

The fiercest competition between the two AI developers, along with bigger companies like Google, is a race to win over corporate leaders looking to adopt AI tools to boost workplace productivity. The rivalry is also spilling into other realms, including…

The company announced its first share repurchase ‌program of up ‌to $1 billion, citing strong profitability and cash generation that give it the flexibility ‌to return capital to shareholders while continuing product investments.

Durov said in a message on Telegram to users that Spain’s proposed legislative ‌package would force ‌social media platforms to gather data on all users, and its measures to curb hate speech would prompt platforms to strip content to avoid…

Alphabet and its Big Tech rivals are expected to collectively shell out more than $500 billion on AI this year. Meta last week hiked capital investment for AI development this year by 73%, while Microsoft ‌also reported record ‌quarterly capital…

There ​were ​10,108 incidents of ‌people ‍reporting ‍issues with the social media ‌platform as of 8.30 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector, ‍which tracks outages by ‍collating ⁠status ⁠reports from a number of sources.

The New Jersey-headquartered company posted a net profit of $648 million on revenue of $5.3 billion for the quarter ended December 31. In constant currency, or excluding the impact of fluctuations in exchange rates, revenue rose 3.8% from a year…

Happy Thursday! Indian AI founders are turning to the US O-1 visa as a faster, more flexible way to move and scale their businesses. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

The company has leased one ‌office tower ‌and purchased options on two others in Alembic City, a development in the city’s ‌Whitefield tech corridor, totaling 2.4 million square feet, the report said, citing people familiar with the deal.

Happy Wednesday! Shailendra Singh says three high-profile MDs left Peak XV Partners over “disagreements”. This and more in today’s ET Morning Dispatch.

Moltbook, a Reddit-style AI social platform with a lobster logo, exposed private messages and emails of over 6,000 users, raising privacy concerns. The site, popular for its quirky AI interactions, has over 1.5 million agents. Experts warn that its rapid…

The India-US trade deal may help drive bilateral electronics and semiconductor trade towards $100 billion and provide clarity to businesses even as concerns still linger over potential tariff risks linked to US Section 232 investigations, industry bodies and companies told…

Unicorn India Ventures has closed its third fund at Rs 1,200 crore, surpassing its initial target of Rs 1,000 crore. The fund focuses on investments in semiconductors, spacetech and AI infrastructure. It has already seen strong early traction, with seven…

As one of the most sought-after applications of artificial intelligence, leading ‌autonomous vehicle ‌companies are investing heavily in commercializing their technology, with a focus on safety ‌and regulatory collaboration to gain market share.

A merger would represent ‌one of the most high-profit corporate pairings in Silicon Valley, blending a space-and-defense contractor with a rapidly evolving AI developer whose costs are dominated ​by chips, data centers ​and energy.

Happy Tuesday! A Budget proposal giving tax relief to foreign data centre firms has raised concerns among Indian infrastructure companies. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch

The Budget’s tax holiday for data centres is set to boost demand for industrial land, accelerate campus development, and attract long-term foreign investment. Hyperscale facilities, requiring large land parcels, power, and advanced infrastructure, will benefit from improved project economics. This…

A security professional shares how AI helps manage personal finances daily, spotting spending leaks and offering unbiased budgeting advice. By using a “sanitised context” approach, sensitive data stays safe while patterns and percentages guide decisions. Comparing answers across multiple AI…

Vidit Aatrey, founder and CEO of Meesho, said that the Budget reflects a quiet but important shift in India’s growth story, one that backs MSMEs, women entrepreneurs and manufacturers with patient capital and modern infrastructure.

There were ​more than ​19,281 reports of ‌issues ‍with ‍the social media platform formerly ‌known as Twitter, as of 11:19 a.m. ET, according ‍to Downdetector, which tracks ‍outages by ⁠collating ⁠status reports from a number of sources.

The consolidation of software development services, IT-enabled services, KPO and contract R&D relating to software development into a single category of IT services with a uniform safe harbour margin of 15.5 per cent, alongside enhancement of the Safe Harbour eligibility…

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the setting up of a National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (Nimhans) in north India, thus focussing attention on the growing conversation around mental health in the country.

New-age brokers like Groww, Zerodha, Dhan, and even players like Angel One could see a dip in their futures and options (F&O) volumes as the tax that the government collects from such trades has been increased manifold.

Companies are increasingly pointing to artificial intelligence when announcing job cuts, alongside more traditional reasons such as weak finances or overhiring. AI was mentioned in over 50,000 layoffs in 2025, with firms like Amazon, Pinterest and HP linking cuts to…

SpaceX has asked US regulators for permission to deploy up to one million satellites to power space-based AI data centres using solar energy. The plan follows talks between SpaceX and Elon Musk’s xAI about a possible merger ahead of a…

Shares of videogame companies fell sharply on Friday after Google launched its AI model, Project Genie, which can create interactive digital worlds from text or images. Take-Two, Roblox, and Unity dropped 9–19% as the technology could disrupt traditional game development.…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company plans to make a “huge” investment in OpenAI, likely its largest ever, denying reports of unhappiness with the ChatGPT maker. The chipmaker had previously announced a potential $100 billion investment to help OpenAI…

Towards this end, the AI major has been bolstering its finance team by hiring a chief accounting officer and a corporate business finance officer to handle investor relations. Meanwhile, OpenAI executives are privately worried that competitor Anthropic could list first.…

Indian tech and ecommerce companies earned close to Rs 80,000 crore in ad revenue in 2024-25. Digital advertising fueled this growth as brands sought measurable results. Google and Meta lead with strong performance. Retail media platforms like Amazon and Flipkart…

Reliance Industries has led a $50 million funding round in spacetech startup Digantara, valuing the firm at about $200 million. The Bengaluru-based company tracks satellites and space debris using its own space-based technology and plans global expansion. The funding will…

The minister also pointed to the growing appeal of smaller models over large, frontier AI models. He cited rapid shifts in computing in the past, from mainframes to personal computers, and noted just how quickly dominant technologies can be disrupted.

Startups across multiple stages raised the funds through 112 deals, compared to 210 in the year-ago period.

A new trade deal between India and the European Union promises more technology sharing and collaboration. This agreement is expected to boost productivity for both sides. Indian industries, especially manufacturing and labour-intensive sectors, will see a stronger outlook. The pact…

Samir Bodas, cofounder, and former CEO of enterprise software firm Icertis, has passed away after battling with cancer, the company said on Thursday.

AI pioneer Yann LeCun argues large language models are a dead end for achieving human-level intelligence. After leaving Meta, he criticizes Silicon Valley’s herd mentality, defends open source and pursues alternative AI systems that can plan, learn from the real…

ASML shares are up 34% so ‌far this month and ‌trade at 42 times 2026 earnings estimates, well above Nvidia’s 25 times, as analysts have ratcheted up forecasts. ASML management sees sales growth this year ranging from as low ‌as…

TikTok evolved from a teen dance app into a dominant US platform shaping culture, commerce and politics.

Overwhelmed parents and students increasingly use AI chatbots for college planning, research and reassurance. Tools offer constant, affordable guidance amid scarce counselors, but experts warn inaccuracies, flattery and outdated data can mislead applicants and cannot replace human judgment entirely reliably.