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Mumbai: Jio Platforms Ltd.'s blockbuster stock market debut has propelled the digital company as well as its parent Reliance Industries Ltd. into rarified air. It also helped Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate topple Tata Group as India’s largest conglomerate by market capitalisation.

$4,700 audiophile-grade network hub promises a noise-free experience and music with 'emotional impact' — seven isolation stages per port were chosen with 'listening comparisons,' uses a $5 Realtek controller The perfect cure for that latest bout of audiophilia nervosa? There are

Former Conservative chancellor unsure Budget will 'fix big problems' To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Former Conservative chancellor unsure Budget will 'fix big problems'Close Follow the BBC's coverage of the UK Budget

Cloud company Akamai has launched two services for deploying AI models and running AI agents, as the cloud infrastructure provider expands its AI offerings for enterprises. Akamai Inference provides managed access to open-weight and custom AI models through OpenAI-compatible APIs

Cognizant is reportedly in talks to invest in Sarvam AI as part of a proposed $300 Mn fundraise at a $3.5-4 Bn valuation The investment could make Cognizant the second IT services major on Sarvam’s cap table after HCLTech, as IT companies seek to strengthen their AI capabilities

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Japan experiments with autonomous AI chainsaw-wielding robots — video shows rail truck-mounted metal humanoid cutting down tree branches The frightening-looking mech in the demo still has a human operator, for now. A scary-looking humanoid robot with a chainsaw arm was shown in a

The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha also said “Indian business is not Modi and Shah’s plaything”

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Liquid AI's LFM3 Shrinks Six Specialized Models to Run on Your Phone Liquid AI's LFM3 family packs text, vision, audio, omni, and decision models into one 2B backbone built for on-device fine-tuning. - Liquid AI released LFM3: six open-weight 2B-class models for text, vision, aud

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Google DeepMind released its newest world model, Genie 4, in research preview on Tuesday. The latest model generates the most photorealistic and interactive worlds yet, allowing users to type prompts mid-simulation to change the scene. The model also generates real-time audio tha

Some Democrats are making a play for segments of the "Make America Healthy Again" base, hoping pitches about food safety and environmental health will attract voters disillusioned with the Trump administration's lack of progress on those fronts. Why it matters: Policies around cl

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond. The high-profile

Info Edge founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani will take over as Managing Director and Group CEO of the company from December 3, 2026, as Hitesh Oberoi steps down from his full-time operating role after nearly 27 years with the company. In a regulatory filing on Tuesday, the parent compa

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

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

Some of the biggest vulnerabilities in election security are lying in plain sight. Why it matters: There's no credible evidence that voting-system vulnerabilities have been exploited to change election results. But researchers have found isolated flaws that threaten ballot secrec

The cybersecurity world braced for catastrophe after AI uncovered critical flaws in the web's foundational code, but the anticipated wave of automated attacks has surprisingly struggled to get off the ground. Why it matters: Millions of hacking attempts have so far yielded few su

CopperPilot, a startup building an AI design agent for hardware engineers, has raised $390,000 from Neon Fund, alongside investments from US-based angel investors. Founded in October 2025 by Aditya NG, Mohit Bagur, and Anish Harsha, the startup is building an AI agent that conver

Rival satellite companies are jockeying to loosen Elon Musk's grip on battlefield communications after his company's restrictions on Ukraine's Starlink service shook officials in Europe and the U.S. Why it matters: The episode, which temporarily disrupted Ukraine's drone usage, s

Info Edge founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani will take over as MD and group CEO from December 3, succeeding Hitesh Oberoi Oberoi will step down from his full-time executive role after nearly 27 years with the Naukri.com parent Oberoi will remain on the board as a non-executive, non-ind

The Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive, whose past bets include Palantir, Airbnb, and Spotify, announced a $10 billion fund to back at least 10 late-stage companies, with checks of up to $1 billion, it said Tuesday. It’s one of the biggest fundraises of the year so far, aimi

Today, Apple rolled out the 27.2 updates for its operating systems, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and so on. Let’s start with iOS 27.2. This update is heavily focused on Siri AI. It adds a memory feature to Siri, so it can “recall your past conversations” and ref

Info Edge approved the sale of its entire 14.18% stake in MedCords and 31.64% stake in Unnati Online for about ₹5,000 each. Both investments were already fully impaired — MedCords in FY24 and Unnati Online in FY20. The stakes will be sold to the startups’ respective promoters, wi

Online astrology platform AstroTalk reported a 895% increase in its consolidated net profit to ₹222 Cr in FY26 from around ₹22 Cr in the previous fiscal year. Its operating revenue rose 55% to ₹1,823 Cr from ₹1,176 Cr in FY25, driven by growth in consultations, international mark

If you tell parents in Ghana that their child is using AI at school, they’re likely to be delighted, says Shabnam Aggarwal, chief technology officer of Sierra Leone-based Rising Academies. Unlike American parents who often bristle about AI in elementary grades, across Africa, man

China’s largest online delivery service, Taobao Instant Commerce, handles 40 million orders a day. But to coordinate a final handoff, couriers often call customers on the phone to meet up — a hurdle for workers who are deaf or hard of hearing. The issue has a real economic impact

India’s courts are drowning in documents — and even recording witness testimony can create a bottleneck. “It’s writing, writing, writing, all day,” says Kerala judge Suresh Babu in the annual report of nonprofit Adalat AI. That type of inefficiency matters: In 2024, nearly three-

Drug-resistant infections kill more than a million people each year. But big pharmaceutical companies have largely abandoned the quest for new antibiotics, because the research and development needed to discover them is time-consuming and expensive. Autumn Arnold, a PhD student i

After a hurricane, drones can capture detailed images of damaged homes and roads. But getting those images to emergency responders is harder: The files are huge, and connectivity in the wake of a storm is often spotty. CLARKE, developed at Texas A&M University with funding from t

AI - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse - Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the comp

EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin — In this rural-heavy stretch of the upper Midwest, Democrats are trying to claw back districts where their party brand is still deeply toxic. It won’t be easy, even in a midterm environment that heavily favors their party. Local Democratic organizers in wes

Where Solid-State Micro-Cooling Fits in Data Centers Solid-state micro-cooling could help data centers reduce hotspots in SSDs and other subsystems that liquid cooling and system fans don't fully reach. Managing heat in AI infrastructure is getting more complicated as rising powe

Fewer Americans than ever think that their representative in Congress deserves to be reelected ahead of a midterm election, according to new Gallup polling, a warning sign for incumbents from both parties battling for their seats next week. Forty-three percent of US adults say th

The cryptocurrency industry’s leading network of super PACs is yet again spending huge sums against Sherrod Brown in Ohio, despite doubts that the investment will pay off. The network known as Fairshake spent $40 million in 2024 to unseat Brown, then the Senate Banking Committee

QwikBuild, an enterprise AI startup that builds bespoke software and AI agents for business operations, has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding. The startup is backed by Globalway Inc., Blume Ventures, Marsshot, and DeVC, alongside prominent angel investors including Lalit Ke

Info Edge’s consolidated net profit jumped 87% to ₹649.8 Cr in Q2 FY27 from ₹347.5 Cr a year earlier. Other income surged 164.8% to ₹428.4 Cr, helping profit growth outpace the 12.2% increase in operating revenue. The board declared a ₹3 interim dividend per share, with November

Several midsize headlines today; on top of some impressive Math verification, Google Genie and Artificial Analysis and FrontierCode all shipped major version bumps of their top offerings, all of which have been AINews title stories in the past, but are mostly annual incremental i

Several midsize headlines today; on top of some impressive Math verification, Google Genie and Artificial Analysis and FrontierCode all shipped major version bumps of their top offerings, all of which have been AINews title stories in the past, but are mostly annual incremental i

Cartesia's Managed Agents Beats Gemini and Grok With 91.7% Task Success Cartesia's new Managed Agents platform jumps 98 Elo points over its predecessor on blind voice preference tests, with task success climbing to 91.7%. - Cartesia Managed Agents hits Speech Agent Arena Elo of 1

Arena's Agent Mode Now Connects GitHub, Linear, Vercel and 6 More Developer Tools Arena's Agent Mode now plugs directly into Gmail, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Vercel, Supabase and more, replacing the copy-paste shuffle between tabs. - Arena added connectors to Agent Mode for Gmail,

LTM has launched GCC Origin, a dedicated business unit to help enterprises establish, operate and transform global capability centres (GCCs) in India. The unit will operate as a standalone business within LTM, with dedicated leadership, sales and delivery teams. Shailendra Singh

Featured Story HPE claims to have beaten Cisco to a proper self-driving network Marvis, described as an AI brain, now unifies all the various parts of the Aruba and Mist portfolios to create a truly autonomous system, says HPE. Virgin Media O2 has installed an Nvidia processor at

Vyoma.AI, Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T) AI cloud and data centre business, has broken ground on a 52 MW AI-ready data centre in Chennai as it expands its infrastructure to support AI workloads and cloud computing. The company held a groundbreaking ceremony for the facility on October 2

Info Edge, the parent company of Naukri, reported a 87.1% year-on-year increase in consolidated net profit to Rs 650 crore in Q2 FY27. Its consolidated revenue from operations also rose 12.2% to Rs 904 crore during the quarter, up from Rs 806 crore a year ago. Info Edge’s bottom

Assembling iPhones makes great headlines for India. Owning the supply chain is where the real power lies. Apple assembled around 55 million iPhones in India in 2025, a 53% increase from 36 million units in 2024. The country now accounts for about a quarter of Apple's global iPhon

From Jio Platforms making a strong debut on the National Stock Exchange on Wednesday with its shares gaining 21.3% over the issue price of Rs 1,119 apiece, to AI that can generate almost anything we ask for, here are the latest developments across sectors. Featured StoriesWhen co

India is working on a dedicated data centre policy as it looks to expand its AI infrastructure while addressing concerns over power availability, water use and the cost of running large computing facilities. Junior IT Minister Jitin Prasada announced the proposed policy on Octobe