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D2C skincare brand Deconstruct grew its operating revenue 25-fold in three years to Rs 165 crore in FY26, with revenue growing 30% year-on-year. The firm continued to expand its business while keeping losses marginal, reporting a net loss of Rs 5.4 crore in the last fiscal year.

The Centre has asked Meta, which operates Instagram and Facebook, to review its recommendation algorithms to prevent disproportionate exposure to a limited set of narratives and strengthen checks on content that could cause public disorder or incite violence. In an advisory dated

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Stock market holiday: The Indian stock market will remained closed on Tuesday, 20 October, on the account of Dussehra. Both the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) have listed the festival as a trading holiday in their 2026 calendar. Dussehra marks t

AI - Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16 - Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption Browser maker using trusted hardware to protect conv

Powerica Ltd shares have gained nearly 48% from their initial public offering (IPO) price of ₹395, closing at ₹584.85 on Friday. Listed on the BSE and NSE on 2 April 2026, the stock has also advanced 34.51% over the past six months. Despite the sharp gains, Nuvama Institutional E

So/Facet, a lab-grown diamond jewellery brand, has raised Rs 10 crore in a seed funding round led by Sauce. The round also saw participation from Mokobara co-founders Sangeet Agrawal and Navin Parwal, the Chona family office, Kedar Lele, and Devaiah Bopanna, co-founder of Moonsho

AI is reshaping how retailers operate and compete, from their deployment of AI-driven real-time inventory management to fraud detection, chatbot support agents, and hyperpersonalized shopping experiences. But for many, the IT infrastructure to support these applications either ca

Consumer credit behavior is fragmenting. Shoppers now assemble debit, credit, and BNPL into a personal portfolio and switch between them by context rather than committing to one card. That threatens static loyalty and co-brand programs, but it’s an opening for retailers. The solu

Optical PCIe Extends the Reach of AI Rack Design Lumentum, Astera Labs, and Corning demoed optical PCIe, which extends reach beyond copper and enables more flexible, disaggregated AI rack designs, though it’s still an early-stage proof of concept. As AI racks become denser and PC

Retail leaders are being asked to do more than ever. Customers expect greater value, more services and seamless experiences while stores continue to face pressure to improve margins and identify new sources of growth. The challenge is finding opportunities that generate meaningfu

A pending regulation under White House review could expand access to peptides, largely unregulated substances that are popular with wellness influencers and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In July, a panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Adminis

The News FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — In a matter of weeks, when the midterm results are tallied and the next campaign begins, Democrats with presidential dreams know the question will be coming. Do Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide? The question flew at Democrats all year. P

Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton has received mostly positive marks so far in Washington as chair of the Trump administration’s AI task force, which is focusing on using current law to get AI companies to behave responsibly. A number of people familiar with Clayton’s

Trump administration officials and allies are starting to debate who will shoulder the blame if Republicans perform poorly in November. The White House has witnessed an uptick in drama driven by the midterms, from maneuvering to replace chief of staff Susie Wiles to finger-pointi

Latest updates to Qodo: October 2026 The latest release of Qodo’s Code Quality and Governance platform brings a few practical improvements to everyday workflows. Here’s what’s new in v3.1: - Automated rule deactivation: Qodo’s rule lifecycle system now automatically turns off rul

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Credit: DIGITIMES Samsung Electronics is developing the Exynos 2700 for broader use across its Galaxy S27 lineup in 2027, while Huawei has moved its next-generation Kirin chips into testing... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do n

Swiggy share price: Brokerage firm Anand Rathi has upgraded the quick food delivery stock Swiggy to ‘buy’, while keeping target price unchanged at ₹310. This valuation is based on 30 times the estimated adjusted EBITDA for FY28, after accounting for financial obligations, and ref

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Fractal Analytics has appointed Shilpa Kedia as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective October 19, 2026. She will lead the company’s global finance operations, focusing on profitable growth, capital allocation and investments in AI research, platforms and products. Kedia jo

Anthropic has improved the latency of Claude Code across multiple platforms. Compared to August, it is now 3x faster on local sessions, 2.8x faster on cloud sessions, and 1.5x faster on API, chat, and Cowork platforms. The company used gzip, a data compression utility released in

AI - Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16 - Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption Browser maker using trusted hardware to protect conv

Credit: DIGITIMES Chenming Hu co-invented the FinFET transistor with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1990s and became TSMC's first chief technology officer in 2001... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they d

Sensex, Nifty 50 crash: The Indian stock market suffered a strong across-the-board sell-off in intraday trading on Monday, 19 October, with the benchmark indices, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, dropping more than 1% each amid weak global cues. The Sensex declined over 1,000 points,

Reliance Jio IPO GMP today: The much-anticipated Jio Platforms IPO is set to open for subscription on Wednesday, 21 October. The Mukesh Ambani-led company is planning to raise ₹30,213 crore through the public issue. The Jio Platforms IPO will remain for bidding till Friday, 23 Oc

Bengaluru-based managed care startup Even Healthcare has raised $50 Mn (about ₹475 Cr) in a Series B funding round led by existing investor Khosla Ventures, with participation from Alpha Wave. The all-equity primary round takes its total funding to over $120 Mn, the startup said

The assessment comes as rapid investment in AI infrastructure threatens to outpace the availability of electricity, raising concerns that smaller companies could struggle to compete with financially stronger technology giants. In its equity research report titled "What Does the P

Even Healthcare, an integrated managed care company, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by existing investor Khosla Ventures, with participation from Alpha Wave. The round triples its valuation from the previous raise 18 months ago and takes its total funding

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Rogue AI agents have reached India’s shores. Last week, the Computer Emergency Response Team - India (CERT-In) disclosed that several Indian organisations were targeted by AI agents being tested by frontier AI companies. The agents read personal data and accessed business records

Anthropic plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, as the AI company seeks to direct a portion of its growth towards addressing the broader societal impact of artificial intelligence. The proposed Anthropic Public Benefit Fund could support large donations t

Credit: DIGITIMES After two years of recovery, the digital camera market is slowing in 2026, with action cameras and handheld smart cameras taking over as the next growth engines... Keep me signed in Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do not have to

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Even Healthcare has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, as the Indian startup seeks to change how hospitals in the world’s most populous country make money and how doctors are rewarded. The all-equity Series B round also saw participation from Alpha Wave

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Hey, Luca here! Welcome to a new edition of the 💡 Monday Ideas 💡 — ideas and readings to start the week on the right foot. I also publish an original essay every Wednesday. Here is the one from last week in case you missed it: 🚀 Build event-driven apps without the overhead Thi