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Skincare and dermatology startup CureSkin improved its financial performance in FY26, with higher revenue from product sales and services and lower advertising and promotional costs helping reduce its losses. The firm’s revenue from operations grew 27.9% to Rs 133 crore in FY26,

Industries 5.0 startup Venttup has raised $3 million in a pre Series A funding round led by Rainmatter, the investment arm of Zerodha, and Unicorn India Ventures. The startup was incubated at Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM). Venttup had previously raised a seed round from Unicorn I

Microsoft’s recent workforce moves come amid strong financial growth and rising investments in AI infrastructure

Fintech major Pine Labs announced its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027 (Q2 FY27) today. The company reported a 24% year-on-year increase in operating revenue to over Rs 800 crore, while its net profit surged 6.5 times to Rs 39 crore du

Oracle has partnered with OpenAI to integrate its AI models, ChatGPT and Codex, into Oracle’s enterprise applications, databases, and cloud infrastructure, introducing products for business operations, application development, and cybersecurity. Announced at Oracle AI World in La

London has been part of Lovable from day one. Today, we're officially opening our first office here: our second engineering, product, and design hub after Stockholm, with teams across every function. London is one of the world's greatest talent hubs, with one of the most ambitiou

Pine Labs’ Q2 FY27 net profit jumped over 6X YoY to ₹38.6 Cr, while operating revenue rose 24% to ₹806.2 Cr Profit growth outpaced revenue growth as the fintech major continued to expand its top line Total income rose 24% YoY to ₹831.7 Cr, while total expenses increased 16% to ₹7

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

In the current round the minimum annual turnover requirement has been reduced from ₹200 crore to ₹100 crore under Part 2 category of the scheme, to encourage participation by MSMEs and mid-sized manufacturing units

At its Oracle AI World conference in Las Vegas, Oracle announced plans to expand its AI computing infrastructure, adding NVIDIA’s latest GPUs, Google’s TPUs, and Cerebras’ inference technology to its cloud platform. Oracle plans to scale its NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure to mu

AI & Machine LearningWireless5GNews AI traffic growth could strain India's networks as telcos face monetization challenge As AI traffic grows, India's telecom service providers may need targeted network upgrades to handle rising uplink demand even as they struggle with monetiza

Ace Blend, a nutrition startup, has raised $9.91 million in a Series A2 funding round led by 3one4 Capital, with existing investor Fireside Ventures doubling down on its investment. Fireside Ventures had previously led the company’s $3.3 million pre-Series A round. The fresh capi

Freshworks has acquired Israel-based AI startup Robusta Dev for an undisclosed amount to add AI-powered incident investigation capabilities to Freshservice. Robusta adds automated outage diagnosis and corrective recommendations to Freshworks’ IT operations offerings, complementin

Post-sales service firm Servify reported a marginal 4% decline in revenue in FY26 (year ended March 2026), dragged by consecutive degrowth in its India business. However, the company made meaningful progress on the bottom line and narrowed losses by 40% to Rs 51 crore during the

Chancellor says government has 'moral duty' to help young people out of work Chancellor John Healey has pledged a reduction in the welfare bill ahead of the next general election, in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme. His comments come after the Conservatives accuse

D2C nutrition brand Ace Blend has raised $9.9 Mn in a Series A2 round led by 3one4 Capital, with participation from existing investor Fireside Ventures The startup plans to commission clinical trials to support its supplement claims and introduce automated batch testing for nutri

An independent 4B fine-tune of Qwen3.5 turns plain text prompts into self-contained Three.js scenes, with weights, dataset, and GGUFs public.

The 29th edition of the Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS) will be held from November 17-19 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) under the theme ‘AI & Beyond’ The Summit expects 60K+ business visitors, 25K+ delegates, 1,800+ exhibitors, 700+ speakers and participation

Chennai based deeptech startup Viridian Ingni Propulsion has raised Rs 1.47 crore in a pre seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV). The company has also received Rs 53.75 lakh in grants from SIPCOT, MeitY Startup Hub, NIDHI PRAYAS, IIT Madras Research Park’s RTB

Google DeepMind has announced Genie 4, a world model that generates interactive, three-dimensional environments with realistic visuals, sound and dialogue in real time. The model is currently available as a research preview to trusted testers across creative industries, journalis

A new framework turns physics-based expert models into interpretable fit scores, beating random forests on seismic monitoring when training data is scarce.

Indian companies developing artificial intelligence (AI) for the country's languages have raised $687 million in disclosed equity funding across 80 rounds, according to a Tracxn report released on October 28. The report, Indic AI: Building AI for Bharat, tracks 34 companies build

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It’s a good thing we published our Opus 5.5 podcast calling it the world’s best model before today’s launch. In a very pleasant surprise, Gemini announced Carbon, a newer frontier model than the 3 week old Argon, with fantastic benchmarks: Taking it to the new #1 on the Artificia

It’s a good thing we published our Opus 5.5 podcast calling it the world’s best model before today’s launch. In a very pleasant surprise, Gemini announced Carbon, a newer frontier model than the 3 week old Argon, with fantastic benchmarks: Taking it to the new #1 on the Artificia

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported a 25% year-on-year increase in third-quarter revenue to $127.6 billion, driven by strong growth in its cloud business and continued expansion in Search. For the quarter ended September 30, 2026, Alphabet reported operating income of $40

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi took a jab at rival Snowflake over its AI strategy, telling the company to consider buying AI tokens through Databricks after Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy questioned the data software company’s revenue growth. “I don’t think we should fight. The two c

Top News The U.S. Justice Department is scrutinizing Nvidia’s proposed $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, asking whether the deal could give the chip giant control over a key distribution point for AI or leverage to disadvantage rivals as part of a broader investigation

The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 245.43 points, or 0.34%, to 73,491.46 in the morning trade and the 50-share NSE Nifty rose 62.55 points, or 0.28%, to 22,761.40

ISLAND Beauty, a skincare brand that combines Korean ingredients with formulations tailored to Indian skin needs, has raised Rs 2.58 crore from AJ VC. The proceeds will be used for product development, brand awareness and customer acquisition, the company said in a press release.

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Tops AI Rankings and Hunts Security Bugs for Days Google's new frontier model targets autonomous cybersecurity defense and multi-day agentic coding, with early access limited to vetted defenders through the Fairwind program. - Google announced Gemini 4 Ca

General Motors’ decision to up and move its stock listing from the NYSE to the Nasdaq — a bid for inclusion in the latter’s tech-heavy index, which would bring new investors to its stock — doesn’t mean it’s a tech company. The carmaker famously failed in its foray into self-drivi

Digital lending platform Kissht reported a 44.7% year-on-year increase in operating revenue in Q2 FY27 while its profit more than doubled during the quarter. Kissht’s revenue from operations rose to Rs 732 crore in Q2 FY27 from Rs 506 crore in the corresponding quarter last fisca

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

The U.S. Fed kept interest rates unchanged at 3.75%–4.00% as widely expected, but the market reaction turned mildly dollar-negative, forex traders said

Software-as-a-service company Freshworks has acquired Israel-based AI startup Robusta to strengthen its IT operations platform, Freshservice. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Robusta helps businesses identify the causes of technology outages and recomm

HCLTech has launched a nano Global Capability Centre (GCC) offering built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), targeting enterprises looking to establish AI-focused operations through smaller, product-centric teams. The offering is part of HCLTech's GCC 360 suite and combines its GCC ad

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

The surfaces you work in every day are faster and cleaner, the agents working alongside you are finally visible and measurable, and admins can set good defaults once Over the last few releases, we’ve been making Jira ready for a world where people and agents work side by side – r

The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old former Amazon software engineer who died in February, sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on October 27, alleging that ChatGPT advised their daughter to reduce her seizure medication without medical supervision and hide the changes from her doct

Tariff threats from the US may have driven up the price but the industry has shifted spending on the basis of long-term demand

The ways whole peoples argue, bargain, joke and tell stories will ultimately prove more powerful than the technology — if we interpret the African spider fables correctly

From audio trails to AI tech, projects around the world are elevating interactivity beyond simple Braille labels

Musical instruments will always benefit from technical innovations. The challenge is to do it well

Devices such as digital avatars are the modern iteration of age-old stage tricks, but some warn they threaten to overwhelm the storytelling

Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released a plugin that cuts coding agent costs 18-30% by learning from past sessions in your repo.

Nvidia on Wednesday released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight model that transcribes audio in up to 40 languages. It also released version 2 of Granary, its open source speech dataset. Nvidia boasts that Nemotron 3.5 can translate 31 languages to and from English, han

HPC Cadence, Nvidia Unveil New AI Models To Put EDA On Autopilot Like a virus, generative AI has invaded nearly every facet of technology, including chip and system design. If you ask Cadence Systems senior VP Paul Cunningham, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of chips under de

NVIDIA RTX Spark powers thin and light laptops built for everything that developers, creators and gamers do. RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI. These powerful systems combine an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU and an NVIDIA Grace CPU in a