The usefulness of artificial intelligence and its usage in everyday life has grown exponentially over the past couple of years. It has become a part of not just online searches but also the operations of several companies.

Knowing the nitty-gritties of AI is extremely important for today's pr...

For entrepreneurs, coming up with a great idea is, unfortunately, the easy part. Even after you've had your [lightbulb moment]( conducted market research and created a business plan, you still have to figure out how to attract your first customers.

The harsh reality is that an amazing idea is...

The government of India has shared 10 free online courses for entrepreneurs who are planning a startup or have one already.

The number of startups in the country has been in ascending order for the past few years. Every person wants to introduce their new venture in the world of business. But bec...

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Google co-founder Larry Page is building a new company called Dynatomics that’s focused on applying AI to product manufacturing, according to The Information.

Page is reportedly working with a small group of engineers on AI that can create “highly optimized” designs for objects and then have a fa...

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In the inaugural episode of his podcast ‘How to Become a Millionaire’, Oyo Rooms founder Ritesh Agarwal said he is often asked how to earn more money and become a millionaire.

Oyo Rooms founder and CEO Ritesh Agarwal shared the broad contours of the path to success in his fascinating entreprene...

Just over four years ago, climate-friendly fintech startup Aspiration was on the verge of a $2 billion public listing. Now, one of the startup’s board members has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and one of the co-founders has been arrested for allegedly conspiring to defraud investors, according to a f...

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Fintech startup Ramp has crossed $700 million in annualized revenue as of January of this year, according to a source familiar with the company’s internal operations.

The company had crossed $100 million in annualized revenue before its third birthday in March 2022, passed $300 million by August ...

Riskify ensures risk management isn't a guessing game.

In today's high-stakes business world, waiting for a problem to surface isn't an option. Whether you're a risk manager, compliance officer, or business owner, non-financial risks—from cybersecurity threats to reputation dama...

Longevity is a hot trend in Silicon Valley these days, driven by rising interest — especially among the wealthy — in preventing disease through regular testing.

A new player, Biograph, has just [emerged from stealth]( and it’s co-founded by one of the biggest names in longevity science: Dr. Peter...

Google is giving Sheets a Gemini-powered upgrade that is designed to help users analyze data faster and turn spreadsheets into charts using AI.

With this update, users can access Gemini’s capabilities to generate insights from their data, such as correlations, trends, outliers, and more. Users no...

OpenAI announced on Thursday it is launching GPT-4.5, the much-anticipated AI model code-named Orion. GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest model to date, trained using more computing power and data than any of the company’s previous releases. Despite its size, OpenAI notes in a white paper that it does not ...

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is as bullish as ever about his company’s future, repeating [his sentiments]( that [DeepSeek]( won’t impact sales, he said during the latest earnings call on Wednesday.

Speculation that [DeepSeek’s R1 model]( required far fewer chips to train fueled [a record drop in Nvidi...

Perplexity, the developer of an AI-powered search engine, [is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund]( CNBC reported. Although the majority of the capital is coming from limited partners, Perplexity is using some of the capital it raised for the company’s growth to anchor the fund. ...

A demo from Optifye.ai, a member of Y Combinator’s current cohort, sparked a social media backlash that ended up with YC deleting it off its socials.

Optifye says it’s building software to help factory owners know who’s working — and who isn’t — in “real-time” thanks to AI-powered security camera...

Anthropic’s next funding round is reportedly growing larger.

Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, [is finalizing a $3.5 billion fundraising round]( that values the company at $61.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Anthropic initially set out to raise $2 billion, but investo...

When reading about the return to office (RTO) debate, you might expect older generations to vote in favour of it, and younger workers to be less traditionalist.

However, a new study has revealed that a large majority of university students are looking for full-time office work when they graduate,...

Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December.

According to the company’s pricing page, using Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second of video, which adds up to $30 per minute or $1,800 per hour. Google DeepMind researcher Jon Barron cont...

Around 39% startups are going to fork out a 10-20% hike this year, but a whopping 63% said they will keep the hike unchanged in FY26 as well

Staffing firms project a 20-30% surge in hiring by startups in 2025

ESOPs are likely to ease the disappointment of flat pay hikes with promises of long-t...

Startup life is a story of births and deaths. This week confirmed this, and it confirmed that unicorn rounds are not dead.

Most interesting startup stories from the week

As happens often in the startup world, it’s been a week of beginnings and endings.

Thinking machines: Thinking Machin...

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Humane announced on Tuesday that most of its assets have been acquired by HP for $116 million. The hardware startup is immediately discontinuing sales of its $499 AI Pins. Humane alerted customers who have already purchased the Pin that their devices will stop functioning before the end of the month...

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This week confirmed that even when current events cloud the outlook, some startups still manage to raise significant amounts of funding, with those tied to security and sovereignty finding tailwinds.

Most interesting startup stories from the week

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OpenAI is changing how it trains AI models to explicitly embrace “intellectual freedom … no matter how challenging or controversial a topic may be,” the company says in a new policy.

As a result, ChatGPT will eventually be able to answer more questions, offer more perspectives, and reduce the num...

Rapido's latest initiative will feature a women-only bike fleet, designed to promote safe mobility while generating 25,000 job opportunities for women. The service is set to launch by the end of the year.

Ride-hailing service provider Rapido will launch its new fleet of 'Pink Rapido'...

Perplexity has become the latest AI company to release an in-depth research tool, with a new feature announced Friday.

Google unveiled a similar feature for its Gemini AI platform in December. Then OpenAI launched its own research agent earlier this month. All three companies even have given the ...

A new startup is addressing the need for an all-in-one toolset built for people who want to grow, manage, and track their Bluesky presence and following. The subscription service [BlueSkyHunter]( which launched Friday, introduces an online dashboard that combines access to analytics and other tools ...

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UX and UI designers work closely with engineers throughout product development to build and implement design concepts and wireframes for functional user interfaces. Regular communication, feedback, and testing are required for the collaboration to work smoothly and deliver a user experience that ali...

Google’s Gemini AI chatbot can now tailor answers based on the contents of previous conversations, the company announced in a [blog post]( on Thursday. Gemini can summarize a previous conversation you’ve had with it, or recall info you shared in another conversation thread.

This means you won’t h...

OpenAI has effectively canceled the release of o3, which was slated to be the company’s next major AI model, in favor of what CEO Sam Altman is calling a “simplified” product offering.

In a post on X on Wednesday, Altman said that in the coming months, OpenAI will release a model called GPT-5 tha...

Coinbase is working on its re-entry to India more than a year after it officially [ceased operations]( in the world’s most populous nation.

The American crypto exchange is engaging with various Indian authorities, including the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), an Indian government agency that s...

*Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani has announced a major skill and employment initiative in partnership with Singapore's ITEES. The initiative includes launching the world's largest finishing school in Mundra, aiming to train over 25,000 learners annually and support the Make in India moveme...

Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on Wednesday, said that it ha removed restrictions on Kotak Mahindra Bank, allowing the lender to resume onboarding new customers via online channels and issuing new credit cards.

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Perplexity’s Super Bowl contest managed to move the needle on its app’s downloads. Unlike [OpenAI and Google]( the AI search engine chose to forgo an expensive Super Bowl ad in favor of a [tweet]( — sorry, an X post — encouraging users to download its app and enter a contest that could result in a $...

Founders Fund is on track to conclude fundraising of its third growth fund at the end of March, according to people close to the firm. The Peter Thiel-founded outfit is raising $3 billion, a source told TechCrunch and [Axios also reported](

The fund, which is intended primarily for additional inv...

It’s no news that India is a huge market for entertainment businesses, but what often doesn’t get mentioned is that its people love to see content in their own languages. According to [a recent survey]( by non-profit Internet and Mobile Association of India, more than 870 million Indians sought out ...

Venture capitalists are gobbling up term sheets for startups peddling artificial intelligence, but they’re remaining picky when it comes to funding the wider spectrum of technology.

According to new figures from analytics firm Dealroom, AI startups raised $110 billion last year, 62% more than th...

The billionaire is leading a group of investors in the unsolicited offer, which complicates the start-up’s plan to raise more money.

A group of investors led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, according to two people familiar with ...

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The State of Emotional Wellbeing Report 2024 reveals the many emotional wellbeing issues affecting Indians and the efforts that are needed to tackle them.

Brain Rot, Doomscrolling, Digital Dementia, Internet-Induced ADHD, Phantom Vibration Syndrome—these are some of the buzzwords people frequen...

When you get used to multiple monitors it feels impossible to work without them. But these devices are not as portable as your trusty MacBook, so you should probably learn how to use your iPad as a second screen.

Thanks to a feature called Sidecar, iPads can mirror your laptop’s screen or act as ...

Originally part of Zepto’s quick commerce app, Zepto Café was launched as a standalone app to capitalise on the surging demand for 10-minute food delivery.

Quick commerce major Zepto's 10-minute food delivery service, Zepto Café, has surpassed 75,000 daily orders, just over two ...

Logistics company Delhivery announced its Q3 FY25 results on Friday, reporting an 8.4% year-on-year increase in revenue. The Gurugram-based firm also doubled its profits during the same period.

Delhivery’s revenue from operations grew to Rs 2,378 crore in Q3 FY25, according to its financial state...

The company announced its quarterly results, reporting a quarter-on-quarter loss of ₹55 crore in Q3 FY25, compared with a profit of ₹5 crore in Q3 FY24.

Fintech platform MobiKwik is focusing on scaling up the UPI side of the business as well as launching its RuPay credit card to the public soon...

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Elon Musk recently said he is “not chomping at the bit to acquire TikTok.”

Musk made those remarks during an interview at the WELT Economic Summit on January 28. A [video of the interview]( was published today.

The interview came after President Donald Trump [delayed a law]( requiring parent c...

Bhavish Aggarwal-led Ola Electric reported widening losses in the three months ended December 31, bogged down by lower sales of its two-wheelers during the period. It reported a quarterly net loss of Rs 562 crore in FY25 compared to Rs 374 crore in the previous year.

Additionally, the company rep...

Bhavish Aggarwal-led Ola Electric reported widening losses in the three months ended December 31, bogged down by lower sales of its two-wheelers during the period. It reported a quarterly net loss of Rs 562 crore in FY25 compared to Rs 374 crore in the previous year.

Additionally, the company rep...

Humanoid robotics company Figure raised eyebrows this week when it announced it would be stepping away from a partnership with OpenAI in favor of building its own in-house AI models. Figure CEO Brett Adcock alluded to a “major breakthrough” in their own process and plans to unveil “something no one ...

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India’s central bank is introducing an exclusive “.bank.in” domain for banks from April 2025 as part of efforts to combat rising digital payment frauds and bolster trust in online banking services.

The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) will serve as the exclus...

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Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer, has initiated legal action against Indian authorities to contest a tax demand of USD 1.4 billion (over Rs 12,000 crore), as per a report by Reuters.The Indian arm of the automaker, Skoda Auto Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd has reportedly told the Mumbai High...

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• Info Edge’s consolidated net profit zoomed over 141% to INR 288.41 Cr in Q3 FY25 from INR 119.44 Cr in the year-ago quarter

• Operating revenue surged 15% YoY to INR 722.39 Cr during the quarter under review

• Ahead of Q3 earnings, Info Edge's board approved the company's first-ever ...

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Powerhouse venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny as an investor, its web page confirms.

Penny is the former Marine who was tried last year and found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a homeless man on a New York City subway. After the man acted erratic...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to make artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can — openly available one day. But in a new policy document, Meta suggests that there are certain scenarios in which it may not release a highly c...

In this week’s episode, hosts Connie and Alex sit down with Steven Wang, the 23-year-old founder of Dub, a rapidly growing copy trading platform. Wang shares how Dub is revolutionizing retail investing by allowing users to automatically mirror the portfolios of top traders, hedge fund managers, and ...

At the Utkarsh Odisha Conclave, Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the model will be powered by the India AI Compute Facility, which has secured 18,693 GPUs to develop a large language model (LLM) designed specifically for the country.

Zoho, on Tuesday, unveiled its agentic AI capabilities across its platform, allowing enterprises to access, create, and deploy intelligent, autonomous digital agents. In the coming weeks, Zoho and ManageEngine will preview pre-built, task-specific agents throughout Zoho’s product suite. "We...

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