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IIT Delhi-originated deeptech textile startup IndigoTex has raised Rs 5 crore in a funding round led by IAN Angel Fund. SIDBI, FITT and IIT Delhi Angels also participated in the round. The proceeds will be used to set up manufacturing, expand its sales and operations team and com

CureMeAbroad, a global healthcare platform that helps patients discover, verify and book treatments at vetted hospitals abroad, has raised $1.1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by healthcare-focused venture capital fund SteerX Ventures. Existing investor AIRA also particip

AI - Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigg

LIV Golf secures potential $300m investment - Published LIV Golf has secured a possible $300m in financing from BC Partners Credit in order to try to move forward with the 2027 season. The league filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States in September after S

Where mission meets moonshot: Join us at the Google Public Sector Summit 2026 Katharyn White Director of Marketing, Public Sector, Google Cloud Across the public sector, the question has shifted from “what’s possible?” to “how can we drive mission impact?” We’ll be answering this

AlloyDB: A unified database engine for hybrid search Kumar Ramamurthy Senior Product Manager, Databases Ricky Zhou Software Engineer, Databases For modern AI and RAG applications, achieving high search relevance requires that you combine at least two techniques: vector search for

Live Best Amazon Prime Day 2026 tech deals live on day one — PC hardware deals on GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more The best deals at Amazon and beyond Welcome to day one of the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sale, now live in both the UK and the US! Here in our live coverage, you'll find a

AI - Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigg

AI - Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigg

Refurbished electronics platform ReFit Global has raised $1 million in a seed funding round from a UAE-based family office. The company was also featured on Shark Tank India Season 3. The fresh capital will be used to expand its retail footprint, strengthen refurbishment capabili

Samsung 9100 Pro SSDs slashed up to 41% while supplies last — huge price cuts hit all capacities from 1TB to 8TB Amazon Big Deals is in full swing with big discounts on a wide range of products. Given the current SSD market, any storage deal is worth considering. If constant pric

Pune-based AI startup CurvetAI has raised Rs 6 crore in a pre-seed round led by Merak Ventures, with participation from angel investors. The fresh capital will be used to expand CurvetAI’s engineering and technology infrastructure and develop agent based capabilities that can han

Bengaluru-based healthtech startup Kinetic Age has raised around $250,000 in a funding round led by AJVC and Agrasar Ventures. The fresh capital will be used to expand Kinetic Age’s healthcare offering and reach more customers. It plans to build its model around personalised and

AI - Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity - Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies Part of a bigg

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex It’s launching textGrain watermarking in the EU, but OpenAI says it won’t be the

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OpenAI will start adding an invisible watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union to comply with the EU AI Act, the company said Monday in a blog post. The EU AI Act’s transparency rules, which took effect on August 2, require AI companies to mark AI-ge

Beyond Appliances, a smart kitchen technology company building intelligent appliances for modern Indian homes, has raised Rs 110 crore ($11.4 million) in a Series B funding round led by Fireside Ventures, with participation from Dharana Capital and other investors. The Bengaluru-

Honasa Consumer, the parent company of Mamaearth, expects its net sales value (NSV) to grow in the early-thirties year-on-year during the second quarter of FY27, as the beauty and personal care company continues the momentum seen in the previous quarter. The company attributed th

Reflection AI releases first open model to rival China The open-source startup Reflection AI released its first open-weight model Monday, stating it rivals leading open technologies made in the U.S. and China. Reflection AI, which has the backing of tech giant Nvidia, said in a b

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Nvidia-Backed Reflection Unveils Open AI Model, Taking on China Reflection AI, an artificial intelligence startup from two former Google DeepMind researchers, has unveiled a new open-weight model that it says rivals leading options in the US and China. The model, called Beam, is

Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam matches the performance of leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks at dramatically lower costs, a claim that could heat

A Decade of Industrial Grade Linux: How the Civil Infrastructure Platform Is Securing Mission-Critical Systems Hilary Carter | 06 October 2026 The global systems that power our communities, from energy grids and transportation networks to water distribution and healthcare systems

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Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that “the world should accept some bad things happening” along the way. Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it Because ‘people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff…’

India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said trade talks with the U.S. had reached a plateau, adding to growing skepticism around a deal between New Delhi and Washington. "Negotiations are still ongoing, although we'd like to believe that both sides have reached a plateau bey

Oct 6th, 2026 US Senator McCormick on US-Japan Investment Opportunities US Republican Senator for Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, discusses his visit to Japan, as he leads a delegation to discuss bilateral investment opportunities, after the US and Japan reached a $500B investmen

The Pentagon on Monday evening said that President Donald Trump has approved a recommendation by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to have convicted Fort Hood mass killer Nidal Hasan executed by a U.S. Army firing squad. Hasan, 56, would be the first person executed after a U.S. arm

Oct 6th, 2026 Higgsfield CEO on Growth, $1B Run-rate Alex Mashrabov, CEO of Video AI Start up Higgsfield, discusses the company's path to achieving generate annualised revenue of more than $1 billion, based on current performance. He also discusses the company's growth and busi

Fundamentals Spot gold held its ground at $4,141.81 per ounce by 0033 GMT. US gold futures for December delivery edged 0.3% higher to $4,169.10. The dollar held firm, making greenback-denominated commodities more expensive for holders of other currencies. The 10- and 30-year US T

The euro ticked slightly lower to $1.1220 in the early Asian session, having slid to its lowest since May 2025 in the previous session and extending its 1.2% fall from last week. It was last at 84.83 pence, having also lost more than 1% against the British pound last week. The co

Price targets from five brokerages suggest an upside of 25-74% from Monday’s closing price of Rs 705. Analysts, however, said the new CEO’s strategy, current management continuity and execution would be key. Read more: PTC shares soar nearly 34% after Schneider Electric agrees to

Brent crude futures lost 4 cents to $100.28 a barrel by 0003 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell 11 cents, or 0.1%, to $89.33 a barrel. "Oil is little changed after yesterday's decline as traders continue to digest a modest easing in supply-side anxiety," sai

Top stocks to watch: The Indian stock market is expected to open higher on Tuesday, 6 October, with GIFT Nifty signalling a positive start for domestic equities. GIFT Nifty was trading around 22,663, up nearly 81 points from the previous close of Nifty futures, indicating a firm

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Trump says he will pay for ‘Patriotic Ads’ himself after facing backlash from Democrats President Trump on Monday said he will pay for the controversial “Patriotic Ads” after backlash mounted in response to the ads being funded by taxpayers. “The Radical Left is upset with the fa

Trump says he will stop using taxpayer funds for ads after bipartisan pushback - Published President Donald Trump has said he will stop using US taxpayer funds to pay for television ads he has fronted, following bipartisan pushback. "The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I

President Donald Trump said Monday evening that he and his political action committee will pay for controversial television ads that praised him, and which reportedly were funded from up to $20 million set aside by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The White House later c

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