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“The potential to create or manipulate life with AI could reinvent nearly all of biology, but it also carries inherent risk. We’ve seen just a taste of this on the natural-language and chatbot side. Giving AI the power to generate and create life carries a certain level of respon

Investing in Volta a16z co-leads Volta's Series A America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Two years ago, Marc and Ben framed the Little Tech Agenda. The political, regulatory, and economic playing field had tilted toward Big Tech; a16z, they said, would fight to preserve star

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Lenovo LOQ Essentials 15 Gen 11 gets the basics right for an entry-level gaming laptop, but its gaming performance is compromised by a low-power GPU and aging processor. Rival systems deliver stronger gaming and productivity performance. Unless upgradea

‘Apple is getting this wrong,’ says OpenAI — startup blasts iPhone maker over lawsuit alleging it stole confidential information through ex-Apple employees The two companies are getting ready to slug it out in court. Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in July, alleging that the

Chinese ship spotted lurking over Taiwan-US undersea cables — 'research vessel' seen loitering above the 8,000-mile Pacific Light Cable Network fiber-optic system Pressure on Taiwan continues, with Beijing seeking to normalize China’s presence in surrounding waters and airspace,

The News Saudi Aramco’s second-quarter profit increased 33% from a year earlier, as higher oil prices and strong refining margins helped offset lower export volumes. Thanks to decades of investment in energy infrastructure, the world’s biggest crude exporter has been able to keep

Small and medium enterprise focused supply chain and financing platform OfBusiness' exports more than doubled to over Rs 2,500 crore in the fiscal year ending March 2026, accounting for 12% of its consolidated revenue, according to a company press release. The Gurugram-based firm

The Centre on Tuesday introduced the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, proposing changes to the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 that would give the government the flexibility to decide which electronic payment modes remain exempt from merch

Apple’s legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple’s version of events. In a blog post published overnight titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” OpenAI said that Apple’s lawsuit accusing it of stealing trad

AI - EDGE AND IOT Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontrollerNearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like? - Security This one time,

Beauty and personal care (BPC) major Nykaa’s board of directors has approved a 51% stake acquisition of D2C skincare brand Aminu for a cash consideration of up to ₹32 Cr. As per exchange filings, the transaction is expected to be completed by September 15. The company later said

Online beauty and fashion platform Nykaa announced its Q1 FY27 results today. The company reported a 29% year-on-year increase in operating revenue, while profit surged 3.3X to Rs 80 crore during the quarter. According to its financial statements filed with the National Stock Exc

Geospatial technology company MapmyIndia reported a 6.3% increase in its consolidated net profit to ₹50.4 Cr in the first quarter of FY27 from ₹47.4 Cr a year earlier. Sequentially, profit declined 3.4% from ₹52.2 Cr. Operating revenue rose 14.9% to ₹139.7 Cr during the quarter u

Defence and dual use technology company Zoppler Systems has raised Rs 6.5 crore in a funding round led by Finvolve. The proceeds will be used to accelerate product development, strengthen field validation of indigenous technologies, expand engineering capabilities, and scale depl

C.E. Info Systems, the parent company of MapMyIndia, reported its Q1 FY27 results today. The company posted a 15% year-on-year increase in operating revenue, while profit remained nearly flat at Rs 50.4 crore. According to its consolidated financial statements filed with the Nati

Bengaluru-based home décor and furnishings marketplace Vaaree has raised Rs 65 crore ($6.6 million) in a Series A funding round led by Hero Enterprise and Cap Alpha Ventures, formerly known as Client Associates Alternate Fund. The fresh capital will be used to expand its fulfilme

Fintech unicorn Razorpay has appointed four senior engineering leaders from Divyam.ai, Microsoft, Salesforce and CRED as it expands its artificial intelligence capabilities. The company has hired former Divyam.ai CTO and co founder Sudhir Reddy to lead AI and data architecture. I

Beauty and personal care (BPC) major Nykaa reported a more than threefold jump in its consolidated net profit to ₹79.8 Cr in Q1 FY27 from ₹24.8 Cr in the year-ago quarter. Sequentially, profit remained almost flat compared to ₹78.8 Cr. Operating revenue jumped 29% YoY and 5% QoQ

Grab a new Secretlab sit-to-stand desk for $699 — Save $50 as the Magnus Evo receives its first-ever discount Style meets function Secretlab is a familiar brand name when it comes to PC gaming furniture, with many gamers and popular streamers around the world touting Secretlab's

16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources The new era is officially here, ordained by the Lord Gaben himself. Wirth's law dictates that software becomes slower mor

Home decor marketplace Vaaree has raised ₹65 Cr (around $6.8 Mn) in a Series A funding round co-led by Hero Enterprise and Cap Alpha Ventures (formerly Client Associates Alternate Fund). The Bengaluru-based startup plans to use the fresh capital to expand its fulfilment network,

James McArthur on what AI changes in quote-to-cash, live at SaaStr AI Day James McArthur, VP of Product Advocacy at Nue.io, ran a live demo at SaaStr AI Day this week and let the agent hit its limits on screen, on conference Wi-Fi, in front of everyone. That made it more useful t

Supply chain solutions provider LEAP India reported a 65.7% jump in its consolidated net profit to ₹62.3 Cr in FY26 from ₹37.6 Cr in the previous fiscal, driven by business expansion and improving operating efficiencies. According to the company’s RHP, operating revenue climbed 5

AI native legal infrastructure platform NYAI has raised $1.5 million (approximately Rs 13 crore) in a seed funding round from a consortium of prominent Indian family offices, with participation from strategic angel investors. The fresh capital will be used for technology developm

Three major PC makers now using Chinese memory to fight 'unprecedented memory shortage,' report claims — HP, Asus, and Acer using 'small amounts' of CXMT chips in limited number of notebooks for non-US market CXMT's rise continues As the global AI-induced memory shortage continue

On a recent weekend afternoon in San Francisco, about 20 people sat in a loose circle in an empty office. There was a high school student, a few undergraduates and postdoctoral fellows, some startup founders, and a neuroscientist. In the city that is at the center of the artifici

Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product often used for acne. There were dozens of responses; one from a user named Primary-Taro4254 seemed innocuous enough, at least at fi

China cracks down on copycat chip designs with new regulations and penalties — new guidelines enforce originality and independent development Leaves manufacturing at TSMC, Samsung Foundry available for Chinese makers. China has revised its regulations concerning protection of int

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SaaS company Capillary Tech slipped into the red in the first quarter of FY27, reporting a net loss of ₹9.6 Cr against a net profit of ₹74.5 Lakh in the previous year’s quarter. The company had posted a profit of ₹43.4 Cr in the preceding March quarter. Operating revenue surged 4

GetVantage, a B2B fintech platform for MSMEs, has secured Rs 63 crore ($6.6 million) in hybrid capital (equity and debt). The Series A1 round takes the Mumbai-based company's total committed funding capacity to over Rs 700 crore. The round was co-led by Rajeev Ahuja and SanRaj Gr

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg should apologise over the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook video, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said after the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology questioned the social media giant over the in

Andy’s view The US lawyer Paul Reichler has made a career defending the underdog. When I first met him a decade ago, he was poring over antique navigation charts and hydrological surveys of the South China Sea, preparing to take on China in a case brought by the Philippines under

The White House is not commenting on whether it plans to publicly release the framework for voluntary reviews of advanced AI models that it plans to brief companies on later today. AI firms including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta have yet to see details of the framework ahea