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October 27, 2026 Elevators, toasters, and the birth of Java Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electro

Anthropic filed its S-1 this morning. It plans to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “ANT,” and the share count and price range haven’t been set yet. Revenue was $41 million in 2023, $386 million in 2024 and $4,585 million in 2025. I

Snack brand Troovy has raised Rs 100 crore in a Series B funding round led by Fireside Ventures, with participation from Sharrp Ventures and other investors. Entrackr had exclusively reported the fundraise in June this year, when the company was looking to raise up to Rs 200 cror

Anup Bagchi, an ICICI Group veteran, becomes the first outsider to head HDFC Bank in its three-decade history, succeeding Sashidhar Jagdishan amid governance concerns

Today is one of those days that is tougher to cover for a normally-engineer audience that isn’t used to reading most S-1’s, let alone 350 pages of one of the most unusual S-1’s of all time: Better visualized: With significant operating leverage causing the first profitable quarte

Today is one of those days that is tougher to cover for a normally-engineer audience that isn’t used to reading most S-1’s, let alone 350 pages of one of the most unusual S-1’s of all time: Better visualized: With significant operating leverage causing the first profitable quarte

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I have a fun announcement today, which is that I have a new side gig. I’ll be joining the Japanese VC firm Coral Capital as a Venture Partner! That’s less prestigious than it sounds — basically I’ll just be doing a few blog posts and helping to introduce them to folks in the U.S.

Meta said Monday it is planning to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and superintelligence. The stock was down 1.6% in morning trading after the announcement. Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Broadcom were interest

Meta Platforms plans to raise up to $95 billion through equity offerings. This includes $35 billion in immediate public offerings of common and convertible preferred stock and a separate programme to sell up to $60 billion in shares. The company said the financing would support i

Rise in sales of radios and tinned foods, say retailers, after call to stock up - Published Some retailers have seen a dramatic increase in sales of essential goods after the government called for people to stock up in case of a crisis, according to figures obtained by Newsnight.

Ather Energy shares rose as much as 8.1% to ₹1,702 on the BSE after HSBC and Nomura raised their price targets following its Q2 FY27 results Better-than-expected margins and stronger bookings have bolstered brokerages’ growth expectations, with capacity additions expected to help

At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 95.17 and pared some losses to touch 95.11 but soon lost ground to trade at 95.22 against the greenback, lower by 7 paise from its previous close

Top News Anthropic released its IPO prospectus today, laying out a stark vision of AI’s future: the technology could help cure cancer and Alzheimer’s, accelerate economic growth, and improve government services while also enabling cyberattacks, biological weapons, authoritarian s

Bengaluru-based Live2.ai, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to connect social-media intelligence with marketing and commerce, has raised Rs 130 crore ($14 million) in a pre-Series B funding round led by venture capital firm IvyCap Ventures. The round combines fresh capital

Physical AI vision company Nova Spectral AI has raised Rs 21.15 crore (about $2.25 million) in a seed funding round led by Shastra VC, with participation from Equirus InnovateX Fund and angel investors. The proceeds will be used to build a team and develop a field ready prototype

An open-source workspace brings AI agents into PCB and mechanical CAD design, with a forked KiCad, deterministic 3D viewers, and bring-your-own-LLM support.

WeWork India’s consolidated net profit rose 219% to ₹20.4 Cr in Q2 FY27, while operating revenue increased 33.6% to ₹767.8 Cr Operating cash generation funded the company’s first-half capital expenditure, supporting its expansion, although newly opened centres weighed on occupanc

MakeMyTrip returned to profitability in Q2 FY27 as growth in hotels, bus ticketing and ancillary services offset pressure on air travel. The Nasdaq-listed company reported a net profit of $1.8 million for the quarter ended September 2026, compared with a loss of $5.7 million a ye

Entire, a startup founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, has launched a Git-based developer platform that uses AI agents to review code, manage repositories and retain context from previous coding sessions. The platform, called Git Forge, is built for agent-human collaborati

Indian cloud infrastructure provider E2E Networks plans to add 5.4 megawatts (MW) of AI computing capacity powered by NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture, increasing its total capacity by nearly 59% to approximately 14.6 MW. The proposed expansion will include NVIDIA HGX B300 systems

Donald Trump's biggest economic problem looks strangely familiar - Published The White House is confronting a familiar dilemma. The economic numbers aren't necessarily bad - but the public mood is. It's a disconnect that haunted Joe Biden in 2024, when solid headline data failed

A new training recipe cuts hallucinations in multimodal reasoning models by trimming redundant thinking tokens and contrasting against deliberately induced errors.

Protectt.ai Labs has acquired a majority stake in AIShield, an AI security platform incubated at Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW), through a primary share issuance and a secondary purchase from existing investors. AIShield will operate as an independent company, AI Shiel

Sarvam AI has signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Defence to develop and deploy AI applications across the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, as India expands its efforts to build indigenous AI capabilities for defence. The agreement with Headq

30-share BSE Sensex declines 281.95 points to 73,316.21; 50-share NSE Nifty falls 63.15 points to 22,694.60

AI - UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic i

During Infosys’ results press conference on October 23, CEO and MD Salil Parekh revealed a new seven-year mega contract worth over $2 billion with a major global financial services institution. The deal ramps up only from the “later part of Q4 and Parekh noted that it will add ov

For nearly two years, one comforting idea has shaped how companies and government contractors adopt open-weight AI models that anyone can download and run. If we run the weights on our own servers, the thinking goes, our data can't leave the building and our systems are secure. I

As major tech giants continue to spend heavily on AI-related investments, concerns persist about the impact of the technology on jobs

From immersive sneaker stores to interactive shopping experiences, India’s new-age brands are falling for physical retail, but can the numbers add up? Remember the charm of walking into a Crossword store, picking up a book and spending hours reading it without anyone expecting yo

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Shoonya, the trading and investment platform of Finvasia Group, has appointed Basant Dhawan as its Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). He will lead the platform’s brand strategy, digital marketing and customer acquisition efforts. Dhawan brings nearly 30 years of experience across fin

Tata Trusts chairman Noel Tata on Monday challenged the resolution to reappoint N Chandrasekaran as the chairman of Tata Sons, which was passed at the September 17 board meeting of the holding company of the country's largest conglomerate. Noel Tata wrote to Tata Sons' company se

Anthropic reported $11.6 billion in revenue and $974 million in operating profit for the second quarter of 2026, according to its registration statement filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 26. Revenue rose 1,368% year-on-year as the Claude develo

Microsoft on Monday announced a voluntary exit programme for eligible employees in India, the US, the UK and Canada, offering financial support and career planning resources to those opting to leave the company, according to a blog post by the tech giant. Microsoft has about 23,0

IT services groups now make 10% of revenue from helping companies integrate the new technology

Nazara Technologies on Monday reported a profit after tax of about Rs 35.3 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, against a loss of about Rs 34 crore in the year-ago period, as the gaming company clinched a "record quarter" in revenue. For the second quarter of FY2026-27

AI - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all - OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price

Microsoft said Monday that it's offering buyouts to a wide swath of employees as it strives to balance a costly artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency. The software maker announced a new voluntary exit offer for certain workers in the U.S., Canad

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees, Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman writes that this gives staff members "the opportunity to leave Microsoft with financial support and career

Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The move marks Microsoft’s latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce for the AI age. Microsoft’s chief people officer, Amy Coleman, sent employees a note about the

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Companies asked to provide more benefits to locals as backlash against AI infrastructure gathers pace

Universities and other knowledge-based institutions will need to be radically redesigned in the age of AI

OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a model that combines visual reasoning, computer use and coding, with API prices 50% lower than those of GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol. Available from October 27 to Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, the model is also

Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to around 60,000 employees across India, the US, the UK, and Canada, giving eligible staff the option to leave the company with financial support and career-planning resources. Announced on October 26, the Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO) i

Trading platform Mochatrade has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round led by CoinFund, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Zero Knowledge Ventures, among others. Its earlier backers include Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund. The fresh funds will be used to develop its