Figure AI, a California-based humanoid robotics company, has launched its latest humanoid robot, Figure 03, which is designed for home, commercial, and large-scale use. The company announced that the new model integrates improved hardware, AI capabilities…

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has partnered with the quantum cryptography startup, QNu Labs, to set up a quantum communication lab at its research and industry incubation facility in Bengaluru.  The lab was announced at the India Mobile Congress…

Anthropic has rolled out plugin support in Claude Code, allowing developers to customise their coding environments through installable collections of slash commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks. The feature, now in public beta, aims to simplify how developers…

L&T Finance (LTF), one of India’s leading non-banking financial companies, has launched ‘Pitch Point’, a competition for AI startups in the run-up to RAISE’ 25—the country’s premier AI event for the BFSI sector. The contest will identify and back early to…

According to Tracxn, Indian deep-tech companies raised $1.06 billion in equity funding across 137 rounds by July 2025, which is twice the amount raised during the same period in 2024. Even at this rate of growth, many startup founders say the lack of capital…

India’s global capability centres (GCCs) are thriving — but their growth is powered less by fresh talent pipelines and more by a deep, continuous draw from the same lateral talent pool.  The model has worked so far, but as demand outpaces supply, cracks will…

UPI certainly has evolved to be India’s tech success story for the world. One may hardly find anyone carrying cash on the streets of Bengaluru.  In August 2025 alone, UPI processed over 20 billion payments, totalling about ₹24.85 lakh crore (nearly $300 billion). …

Zoho co-founder and chief scientist Sridhar Vembu praised MapMyIndia’s navigation app, Mappls, on X, calling it “very nice” and saying it reflects “decades of R&D, much longer than Google Maps.”  He extended his best wishes to Rohan Verma and the MapMyIndia…

It’s not just pennies that companies and startups invest in GPUs — so it’s only fair to thoroughly evaluate which ones fit the bill, and which ones do not. Especially for the critical aspect of inference, the process of retrieving meaningful information from…

When it comes to AI readiness, most organizations still struggle to answer one simple question—how skilled are we, really? The Association of Data Scientists (ADaSci) aims to change that with the launch of SkillIndex, a comprehensive framework designed to…