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Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and Meesho could be among the key beneficiaries of the upcoming MSCI India Standard Index rejig, while Oracle Financial Services Software (OFSS) and Siemens Energy India may face exclusion, according to JM Financial Institutional Securiti

One Planet Partners, an India-focused private equity firm, has partnered with Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank to launch its Rs 3,000-crore maiden fund. According to a statement, the Japanese financial institution has made an equity investment in One Planet Partners, alongside

Fake PS5 emulators are being used to steal gamers' passwords — two well-known GitHub repos, including popular AnyPS5, get hit, infecting gamers' computers with password-scraping malware Emulators downloaded via GitHub may be stealing your passwords, with two well-known projects b

More than 20,000 employees have moved from global capability centres (GCCs), enterprise IT subsidiaries and product operations to IT services providers over the past 12 months, estimates Pareekh Jain, CEO of EIIRTrend, a market research firm. Around 3,000 were part of pure GCC tr

The current U.S. job market has been described as a "low-hire, low-fire" environment — relatively stable, even as unemployment edges up and wage growth stagnates. But there is another kind of low being expressed by workers — their level of engagement. Gallup's quarterly polling o

Blue Star Q2 results: Profit rises 26% to ₹124 crore, beating estimates on 21% revenue growth - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:45 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:45 IST Blue Star’s September-quarter revenue rose 21% to ₹2,931 crore, beating estimates, while profit exceeded

Artificial intelligence poses numerous challenges for employees but can improve governance in governments, YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors. Featured storiesVembu’s AI warning: one worker could do the work of ten Artificial intell

Articul8 has introduced Bivia, a decision-making model designed to help enterprise AI agents evaluate information and make structured decisions across text, images, documents and other data formats. Available through an application programming interface (API), Bivia is designed t

The European Central Bank announced on Wednesday that President Christine Lagarde will step down from the job in February, eight months before her tenure was set to end, formalizing a move that had been rumored since the beginning of this year. The decision sets up a leadership c

Volkswagen reported a bigger-than-expected third-quarter loss, the latest major legacy automaker to be hammered by competition with Chinese rivals both at home and abroad. The disappointing results — its worst in a decade — come after fellow German carmaking giants Mercedes-Benz

The US and Gulf states launched a renewed diplomatic effort to ward off a resumption of conflict with Iran, though officials cautioned that the push remained fraught with challenges. The US vice president reportedly wrote to the head of Iran’s top security body to restart truce t

Growing voter disillusionment with AI is driving a regulatory push in the US ahead of midterm elections, though the White House has so far shown little interest. Polling shared first with Semafor found voters preferred “reasonable” safeguards, even if such rules hurt US competiti

FinanceData CentersSustainabilityNews STTGDC backs Tokyo data center growth with $588M green loan Singapore-based STTGDC is using a $588M green loan to finance the fit-out and operations of its first two facilities in Tokyo. Gigi Onag,Senior Editor, APAC,Light Reading3 Min Rea

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to expand his country’s influence in Africa, where China and the US have been vying for power, appear to be falling short. Though the Kremlin agreed to several deals at a summit with African leaders in Moscow — including selling fighter

While the West debates slowing frontier AI development, enterprises are rushing to adopt the technology across their business processes. But deploying AI at scale remains a challenge, as enterprises struggle to keep pace with rapidly advancing capabilities. Industry leaders acros

The founder, the brand page and a network of creators all run the same playbook.

More money, fewer rounds. That, in short, is the state of U.S. Series B startup funding in 2026, as venture capital investment continues to concentrate heavily around a handful of AI hotshots. Crunchbase data shows that so far this year, investors have poured around $48 billion i

A few months after SaaStr AI Annual 2026, someone asked on LinkedIn how many leads sponsors got from the event. Steve Burton, CMO of Aurasell, answered in one line: “Don’t count leads, but we booked 85 meetings on the calendar.” Aurasell’s CMO That’s the right way to measure an e

Global startups have closed at least 114 Series A rounds of $100 million or more so far this year, Crunchbase reported in late September, and more than 70% of them went to AI companies. For most seed founders, that headline is a warning. U.S. startups closed 272 Series A rounds i

For nearly a quarter of a century, Elon Musk and his essential partner at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, viewed the United States government as El Dorado, the mythical city of gold. Like machete-wielding treasure hunters, Musk and Shotwell hacked through a tangled jungle filled with lu

A young digital-savvy workforce is driving companies to commission posts and videos promoting aspects of corporate life

Man granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work — Humanist argues that offloading his thinking to LLMs violates his beliefs, Title VII accommodation protects employee David Durman says that he's unwilling to outsource his thinking to AI tools. D

AI - Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030 - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-a

Revenue rises 36% to ₹1,598 crore; US data-centre construction indirectly boosts export demand

SaaS major Freshworks has acquired Israel-based AI startup Robusta Dev, an incident intelligence engine that uses AI to investigate technology disruptions, identify root causes, and recommend remediation actions. In a company blogpost, Freshworks said that this acquisition will s

Godrej Consumer beats revenue estimates in Q2, profit jumps 14% to ₹523 crore; margins contract - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:24 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:24 IST Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) reported a mixed set of September-quarter earnings, with revenue growth

Docterz, a healthcare technology startup founded by paediatrician Dr Atish Laddad, has raised Rs 5 crore from around 35 investors, including doctors who use its platform. Around 20 doctor users contributed nearly Rs 3 crore, accounting for about 60% of the total funding. The inve

San Francisco-headquartered Inkle, an AI-driven accounting and bookkeeping firm for US companies that develops its technology in Bengaluru, has purchased the bookkeeping arm of small-business finance platform Finally. The price has not been revealed. Inkle describes the deal as a

Financials, CDMOs or IT? Where Bandhan AMC sees investment opportunities - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:08 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:08 IST Karthik Kumar of Bandhan AMC outlines the fund house's sector preferences amid market volatility, highlighting opportunities i

Gold, silver prices fall on MCX: Why precious metals are under pressure today - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:07 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:07 IST Gold and silver prices declined on Thursday as investors assessed the US Federal Reserve interest rate decision and await

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe on October 28, an open-weight speech model that can transcribe audio in 40 languages, translate speech and identify speakers. Developers can use natural-language instructions to control transcript formatting without retraining the model, ac

P N Gadgil Jewellers Q2 results: Profit rises 15% as retail sales and jewellery demand strengthen - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:06 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:06 IST Robust same-store sales growth and rising retail contributions drove sequential profit gains for the

Sensex, Nifty end at day’s highs — here are Thursday’s big winners and losers - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:05 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 16:05 IST Indian equity benchmarks ended at the day’s highs, with the Sensex rising 905 points and the Nifty gaining 1%. FMCG, PSU

Meta Opens Its Muse Models to Five Universities for Medical Research Meta opens its Muse model family and computer vision stack to five US universities tackling heart failure, cancer, dementia, and frontier math. - Meta is giving five US universities model access, researcher coll

Large companies have learned over the past couple years that they can get more mileage out of AI agents by rethinking their processes from scratch, rather than merely automating the existing ways of doing things. Manufacturers are beginning to learn the same lesson as they adopt

Skincare brand CHOSEN has raised an extension of its Series A round from Avnish Chhabria and Saurabh Kapoor, founders of Wellbeing Nutrition. Prior to this, the Chennai based startup had raised $5 million in a Series A round led by Fireside Ventures in May this year. The round al

Troovy, a food and snacks brand, has raised Rs 100 crore in a Series B round of funding led by Fireside Ventures, with participation from Sharrp Ventures and other investors. The Gurugram-based brand will use the funding for R&D, expanding its manufacturing capacity, and scaling

Live2.ai, an artificial intelligence startup that helps brands analyse social media activity and manage marketing campaigns, has raised ₹130 crore in a pre-Series B funding round led by IvyCap Ventures, according to an announcement on October 27. The round includes primary capita

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares settled with a 4.3% gain in Thursday’s trade on October 29, closing at R 459 apiece, their highest level since April 2025, amid a broader rally in banking stocks. The rally also marked the stock’s biggest single-day gain in over a year, offering some re

GitHub says massive influx of AI-generated code required extra 4 million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage to manage — a sixfold increase to 7.4 billion monthly commits in one year Everyone knew the rise was sharp, but the figures are staggering. Is most programming code now

Indian enterprises are investing in artificial intelligence, but deploying AI agents across business operations presents a challenge that goes beyond the models themselves: whether existing digital infrastructure can support them. AI agents need to retrieve information from enter

Thursday 29 October 2026 Top stories today: - Apple debuts touchscreen MacBook Pro with M5 Pro/Max chips - Alphabet Q3 revenue +25% YoY to $127.6B, net income -24% - Gemini 4 Carbon debuts as Google’s “strongest” model - Microsoft Cloud drives Q1 FY27 revenue +19% YoY to $92.3B -

The U.S. Fed is expected to keep the rates elevated, making U.S. Treasuries and the dollar relatively more attractive than emerging market economies for foreign investors

Paras Defence Q2 Results: Profit jumps 63%, revenue rises 43% as margins improve - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 14:36 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:45 IST Paras Defence reported strong Q2 FY27 earnings, with net profit rising 63% and EBITDA margin expanding to 29.4%, led b

Bengaluru-based AI-powered cybersecurity and threat intelligence company CloudSEK has launched CloudSEK Launchpad, a 12-week incubation programme for early-stage cybersecurity startups. The first cohort will have 10 companies, each eligible for up to $5,000 in AI model credits. A

AI - Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 2030 - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-a

Sarvam AI's Indus Cowork is being rolled out to 2,500 Maharashtra government officials following its launch by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on October 28. The AI productivity platform is designed to help officials draft documents, analyse reports, summarise files and search g

Stock crash explained: Why Equitas SFB shares plunged 25% from the day’s highs - Published OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:35 IST - Last Updated OnOct 29, 2026 | 15:35 IST Equitas Small Finance Bank shares hit the 20% lower circuit after P N Vasudevan resigned as MD and CEO, overshadowing a

Xianyu (咸鱼), the writer behind 葬AI — “Funeral AI” — produces some of my favorite satire about China’s AI industry. ChinaTalk readers may remember his essay “Open Models Are the United Front of AI”. In this conversation, we talk about: - Why AI writing isn’t funny; - How Xianyu ma

Coforge has introduced an Autonomous Software Factory (ASF), which the IT services company said is designed to coordinate AI agents across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), covering coding, testing, validation, code review and quality assurance. According to the company,