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Peak XV says most of its new capital will target India as the firm prioritizes AI, fintech and cross-border bets while navigating recent partner departures.
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The technology promises to replace several parts of the grid with one device that’s both controllable and updatable.
The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age account for nearly 50% of all messages sent by Indians to ChatGPT, and users under 30 accounted for 80% of usage in the country.
Abu Dhabi-based tech company G42 has partnered with U.S.-based chipmaker Cerebras to deploy eight exaflops of compute through a new system in India
The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst’s earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark.
Neo’s new Residency program invests $750,000 in an uncapped SAFE for startups and provides a $40,000 no-strings-attached grant for college students.
Gemini 3.1 Pro promises a Google LLM capable of handling more complex forms of work.
Nvidia is working with investors, nonprofits, and venture firms to build earlier ties with India’s fast-growing AI founder ecosystem.
The FBI says hacks that trick ATMs into spitting out cash on demand are rising, with hundreds of attacks in the past year alone netting hackers millions in stolen bills.
As Snap readies the public release of its long-awaited VR glasses, one of the key executives on the project has left the company.
Cellebrite, which makes phone unlocking and hacking tools, stopped sales to countries that allegedly abused its tools. But after new allegations in Jordan and Kenya, the company has changed its approach.
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Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that’s down from previous years.
Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company.
The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya told TechCrunch at Web Summit Qatar that they see AI tools replacing tasks, rather than workers.
YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they’re watching on the big screen.
The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.
Reporter Zoë Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that’s been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men, at the upper echelons of tech, quietly raising up their own networks the way powerful people have always done.
Elon Musk’s company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too.
Split View, PDF annotations and ‘Save to Chrome’ features come to the Chrome browser.
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.
The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.
The governor of New York pulled a robotaxi expansion proposal that was viewed as a win for Waymo.
Meta’s CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.
If completed, the project would be among the largest and most expensive natural gas power plants.
OpenAI is reportedly getting close to closing a $100 billion deal, with backers including Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft. The deal would value the ChatGPT-maker at $850 billion.
Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.
Ravenna Hub, which lets parents apply and track the status of their kids’ applications across thousands of schools, allowed any logged-in user to access the personally identifiable data associated with any other user, including their children.