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Chinese video surveillance companies will be barred from selling internet-connected CCTV cameras and other video surveillance products from April 1, when new certifying rules come into effect.

Chinese brands had ~33% share till 2025; domestic firms now hold >80% share. Certification denial covers products using Chinese chipsets, shifting supply chains.

Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, a high-performance, 4-billion parameter open-weights text-to-speech model that competes directly with proprietary tools like ElevenLabs.

It runs on 3 GB of RAM locally and is free. It supports nine languages, offers 3-second voice cloning with high similarity, and delivers sub-second, low-latency performance suitable for on-device applications.

Key Features of Voxtral TTS:

• Performance: Achieved high win rates in human evaluation against top competitors, with superior speaker similarity.
• Efficiency: The 4B model is lightweight enough to run on consumer hardware (laptops, GPUs).
• Voice Cloning: Requires only 3-5 seconds of reference audio for voice cloning and supports cross-lingual voice adoption.
• Capabilities: Generates highly emotive, expressive, and natural-sounding speech across nine languages including English, German, Spanish, and Hindi.
• License: Released under an open-source, permissive license (Apache 2.0), making it available for developers to deploy freely.

This release is part of Mistral's strategy to move into audio and provide open-source alternatives to premium voice AI services.

Source: Mistral

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UP govt states, the MoU has been cancelled in the interest of transparency and highest level of probity in governance.

Previously announced MoU between Puch AI and Govt of Uttar Pradesh of ₹25,000 Crore, caused a huge uproar online by public, asking what due diligence had been done and what a 1-year-old startup with revenue of less than ₹50 Lakh/year, and valued at ~₹400 crores has been given this opportunity.

Invest UP's statement as below

As per standard protocols laid by State Government, the MoU signed with Puch AI on 23 Mar 2026 was reviewed.

Necessary details as per SOP were sought from the investor, but they failed to provide them timely. Due diligence showed lack of net worth and credible financial linkages for the project's scale. On directions of the State Government, the MoU is cancelled effective today. No rights or obligations remain.

The MoU has been cancelled in the interest of transparency and highest level of probity in governance, which are in the core of Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Source: Invest UP

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Y Combinator's first-ever Startup School India — a one-day, in-person gathering of the most ambitious builders across India.

YC is hosting our first-ever Startup School India in Bangalore on April 18th.

Startup School India will bring together two thousand of the top founders, engineers, and builders across India to hear from leading startup founders and investors. This is a 100% free event and every attendee is hand-picked. Speakers include the founders of Meesho, Razorpay, Groww, and Emergent, top investors from Nexus and Peak XV, and YC Partners Jared Friedman, Ankit Gupta, and Jon Xu.

Who should attend: This conference is for engineers and builders who are excited about startups. College students in computer science, industry professionals, and top senior secondary students are all welcome. You don’t need to have or be working on a startup - we’re especially excited to meet great builders who might be interested in starting or joining a startup in the future.

Register here at YC.

Source: Y Combinator

Dream Street is planning to compete with Zerodha and Grow, to offer AI-led investing tools to attract new users and provide deep research insights.

"The problem today is that 90 percent of the market loses money, and nobody is helping them in a deep and personalized way. We see everyone focusing on the 10 percent of the people that make money and stay on the platform," Harsh Jain told Moneycontrol.

Key Points:

• Dream Sports to launch Dream Street stock broking platform soon
• Dream Sports aims to help retail investors with AI-driven tools
• Dream Street is the latest expansion of Dream Sports' broader financial services and wealth management portfolio.

Source: Money Control

Apple Business combines built-in mobile device management, business email and calendar services with custom domain support, and a powerful new option to reach local customers.

The platform is positioned as a new competitor to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, especially by introducing a free business email service for companies, calendar, and directory services for up to 500 users. Companies can use an existing custom domain or buy one through Apple, and each user gets 5GB of iCloud storage with optional paid upgrades.

Business email works with any IMAP compatible client, while calendar supports CalDAV compliant apps across Apple, Android, and Windows devices. Apple Business includes built-in mobile device management for apps, security policies, and device settings, along with features like calendar delegation, directory tools, and role based administration. Blueprints let IT teams preconfigure devices for zero touch deployment when purchased through Apple or authorized resellers, while Managed Apple Accounts keep work and personal data separate and can be provisioned through providers like Google Workspace and Microsoft Entra ID.

Apple Business can help millions of companies grow their reach and connect with local customers across Apple Maps, Mail, Wallet, Siri, and more, including a new option coming this summer that will enable businesses in the U.S. and Canada to place local ads in Maps during key search and discovery moments. Apple Business will be available starting Tuesday, April 14, in more than 200 countries and regions.

Apple Business expands the availability of Apple Business Manager to more than 200 countries and regions, and supports additional device management features, including:

• Managed Apple Accounts: Company data remains secure while employee data remains private, with cryptographic separation of work and personal data on devices. Apple Business enables automated Managed Apple Account creation for new employees through integration with an identity service provider, including Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, and more.

• Employee management: Create user groups by function or team to assign apps and roles. Organizations can also create custom roles to manage access exactly the way they want.

• App distribution: Easily acquire and distribute apps to employees and teams through the App Store.

• Admin API: Simplify large deployments with API access to device, user, audit, and MDM service data.

Source: Apple

The Sora team will share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.

The move signals a major shift in OpenAI’s strategy as it focuses on core AI development amid changing partnerships.

The Sora decision means the end of a blockbuster $1 billion deal between Disney and the ChatGPT maker that was announced a little more than three months ago. As part of the three-year deal, Disney said it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI and lend more than 200 of its iconic characters to be used in short, AI-generated videos. But the transaction between the companies never closed, two other people familiar with the matter said, and no money changed hands. OpenAI executives have been debating Sora's fate for some time.

The studio giant, Disney will no longer move forward with its OpenAI investment, as the AI company exits the video generation business.

Running the AI video app required significant computational resources, a fourth person with knowledge of the matter said, and left other teams with less firepower. Even so, some OpenAI staffers on the Sora team were surprised when they were informed of the changes Tuesday morning, one of the people and another source said. The announcement was made just a day after OpenAI published a blog post about Sora safety standards.

"We're saying goodbye to Sora ... we know this news is disappointing," the Sora team said in a post on X, adding that timelines for the app and API, as well as details on preserving user work, would be shared later.

Source: Sora

Nvidia, Accel and HCLTech in talks to invest in AI startup Sarvam’s $250 million round at $1.5 billion valuation

Negotiations are still underway and more investors have shown willingness to back Sarvam, sources told Moneycontrol. This will be the largest capital infusion into a pure-play Indian AI startup and likely make the company the first unicorn of 2026.

Sarvam is commanding a valuation of around $1.5 billion, growing over 7x in just two years, these sources added.

Source: Money Control

An Initiative by UP Govt. announced to bring AI Parks, large-scale data center infrastructure, AI Commons, and an AI University to the state.

Puch AI is a 1-year-old startup with revenue of less than ₹50 Lakh/year, and valued at ~₹400 crores. Currently they have a WhatsApp chatbot as a product.

Source: Yogi Adityanath