In the past few months, Deepinder Goyal has made it abundantly clear that his entrepreneurial ambitions lie in building future-facing, tech-first companies.  His recent $25 million personal commitment to Continue — a research initiative supporting global…

Cursor has launched version 2.0, with a new multi-agent interface and its first proprietary AI model, Composer, designed for low-latency coding tasks.  Cursor 2.0 reorganises the IDE around agents rather than files, allowing users to run up to eight coding…

India’s payments giant Paytm has announced a partnership with Groq, a US-based company that develops specialised hardware for AI inference.  Paytm will use GroqCloud to support its ‘ongoing work in building high-performance AI models’ for enhanced transaction…

Indian automotive giant Mahindra & Mahindra revealed how it handled one of its largest booking events using a cloud-based architecture built on Google Cloud and AMD’s EPYC processors.  When the company opened reservations for the Thar ROXX, its new five-door…

Google, in its latest security update blog, revealed how the increasing adoption of Rust over C++ in the mobile operating system Android brings not only dramatic security improvements but also significant gains in developer productivity and code stability.…

One may forgive, but will never forget what happened in 2008 — the housing collapse that blindsided Wall Street and made Michael Burry, the contrarian hedge-fund manager who predicted it, impossible to ignore. Recently, Burry flagged that hyperscalers may…

In 2017, Google introduced Transformers, the architecture that powers today’s large language models.  But, the mindset required to navigate the AI age was perhaps articulated 500 years earlier by an Italian polymath. Leonardo da Vinci, while painting The…

Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI co-founder and now CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), revealed new details about the company’s strategy and eventual business model during a rare podcast appearance with Dwarakesh Patel. Despite SSI raising nearly $3 billion…

When a backup becomes unreadable, a storage array corrupts, or a hybrid-cloud restore freezes mid-sequence, it isn’t the feature teams who decide whether a business stays operational. It’s the IT administrators. Yet, the past decade of enterprise software…

Japanese multinational tech giant NTT Global Data Centres is expanding its data centre footprint in Karnataka. It announced a new data centre campus in Devanahalli, with the first facility scheduled to be operational from December 3.  The data centre is designed…

After directing mobile phone makers on December 1 to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on new devices, the Department of Telecommunications has now reversed course. The government has withdrawn the mandatory pre-installation requirement.Industry groups and…

Hyderabad-based Cyient Semiconductors has been qualified for a pivotal mandate in the ₹4,500 crore modernisation of the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, marking a significant advancement in India’s efforts to expand domestic semiconductor manufacturing…

Forrester, the global research and advisory firm, closed its 2026 Predictions India event in Bengaluru on December 5.  The firm outlined a set of forecasts that signal stricter oversight of AI investments, stronger governance expectations, and a shift back…

Oven, the company behind the JavaScript runtime Bun, had raised roughly $26 million in venture funding and still generated zero revenue.  Despite that, usage continued to climb—Bun’s monthly downloads grew 25% in October, crossing 7.2 million.  “When people…

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…

United States President Donald Trump, on December 11, signed an executive order aimed at curbing state-level AI regulations and accelerating the creation of a unified federal framework. The order, titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial…

Understanding the reality of open weights AI models, and how China feels about LLMs.Chinese models look formidable on paper, but once benchmarks refresh and real users settle into habits, the gap between performance and adoption reappears. On OpenRouter—a…

Indian quick-commerce firm Zepto has released an internal tool that allows users to place Zepto Cafe orders using natural-language instructions through an LLM such as Anthropic’s Claude. The tool, built by a Zepto engineer and shared publicly on GitHub, was…

In 2025, declaring the death of software engineering became a recurring sport in Silicon Valley. Founders, CEOs, and AI researchers lined up to announce that code was about to write itself, and engineers were about to become optional. None of it quite played…

When several experts in the industry argue that large language models (LLMs) may be a dead end for anyone expecting truly super-intelligent systems, attention is shifting to physical AI.  If that’s where the next wave of impact lies, the real bet is not just…