Across India, this winter carries an unsettling undertone. With the festive season underway, along with the changing weather patterns, pollution levels have surged again across most of northern India. The National Capital Region, like every year, seems to…

By 2026, the biggest change in technology will not be a new model release or a new cloud service, but how software engineering will turn into AI native. As vibe coding takes the centre stage with multiple AI coding tools in the market, software engineering…

When the Ministry of Defence wanted to build India’s first indigenous, air-gapped language models, both large and small, for the Indian Army, it entrusted Neuralix AI with the responsibility. The company had secured the iDEX grant in 2024 after its no-cost…

The consulting industry is undergoing a structural shift as artificial intelligence automates the junior-level research and analysis work that once supported its pyramid-shaped staffing model.  According to a global survey by McKinsey & Company, The State…

Mphasis has appointed Punit Sood as an independent director on its board for a five-year term, effective December 11, 2025, the company said in a statement.  It informed that the appointment is based on the recommendations of the internal Nomination and Remuneration…

NVIDIA-backed startup Starcloud has successfully trained and run LLMs from space for the first time, a step toward orbital data centres as demand for computing power and energy grows on Earth.  The Washington-based company’s Starcloud-1 satellite, launched…

India’s bioeconomy has expanded at breakneck speed over the past decade, rising from $10 billion in 2014 to $165.7 billion in 2024. The scale of manufacturing, the depth of clinical research talent, and the global reputation of Indian pharma have placed the…

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire US-based Salesforce consulting firm Coastal Cloud for $700 million, making it the company’s largest buyout since the $512-million Citigroup Global Services acquisition in 2008. …

Okta, a cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) service platform, announced today a significant expansion of its operations in India, pledging a considerable investment to boost its research and development capabilities and its physical presence…

Mercado Libre, Latin America’s largest e-commerce company and fintech acquirer, has signed an agreement with Agility Robotics to deploy Digit, the latter’s humanoid robot, in its fulfilment centre in San Antonio, Texas.  The company also plans to deploy Agility…

A recent Stack Overflow thread asked a simple question: Is it possible to learn coding without AI?  The user, who was building a React Native front end and a Go backend, admitted that they often asked ChatGPT to choose the stack and draft a starter project.…

Gurugram-based edtech Uolo has raised $7 million in a Pre-Series B funding round led by global edtech investor Five Sigma, with continued participation from existing backers Blume Ventures, Morphosis, and Alicorn.  The startup plans to use the fresh capital…

NeoSapien, the AI-native wearable startup, has closed a $2 million seed round led by Merak Ventures. Individual investors, including Awais Ahmed (founder, Pixxel), Anupam Mittal (founder, Shaadi.com), Sameer Mehta (co-founder, boAt), Namita Thapar (Emcure…

Indian IT services firms have embedded AI capabilities—AI infused into delivery, engineering, operations, testing, and managed services. Infosys’ Topaz platform, TCS’ MFDM (Machine First Delivery Model), Ignio AI operations, Wipro Lab45 are a few examples…