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The fab's schedule does not depend on who chairs Tata Sons. It depends on whether Tata Sons can keep funding it, which is what the dispute is partly about.

Taru Kapoor spent eight years at Tinder before building the app that argues swiping was the mistake. Peak XV and Blume are funding it from India.

Employee costs rose 33 per cent to produce 23.7 per cent more revenue. For a firm selling AI efficiency, that is an uncomfortable ratio.

A fab cannot run on imported chemicals indefinitely. The plant is phased, with the first stage due in 2028, and Fujifilm will train Indian chemical suppliers alongside.

Assessing applications one by one will not answer whether the country has generation for all of them, which is what the moratorium campaign is actually asking.

Hinglish is the feature. Handling a sentence that switches language halfway is harder than handling either language, and it is how Indians actually speak.

Age verification would apply to everyone, since a platform cannot confirm a user is over 15 without checking. Platforms would also fund the regulator supervising them.

The claims are Meta's own and apply to workloads its chips were purpose-built for. Training, where Nvidia's moat actually sits, is a 2027 question.

A private round carries no prospectus, no risk factors and no quarterly reporting. If safety is the reason not to list, the result is less public disclosure.

Verification absorbs most of the engineering effort on a modern chip. VerifAIX pairs AI with formal proof, because a verification tool that is only probably right is worthless.

Describe what you want and it selects the model, sizes the infrastructure and configures the guardrails. Then it watches the result and corrects it without being asked.

Logins were disabled before the emails arrived. The restructuring budget now stands at $2.8 billion while cash flow ran $5.4 billion negative.

Three of the four sell verified environmental outcomes rather than software. The AI is there to make the claim auditable.

Three purchases in seven months, each larger than the last, in a company whose revenue has fallen for two consecutive years.

The global equipment market is heading toward $229 billion. Ion implantation is a $2 billion niche within it, and only India's front-end fabs would ever buy one.

₹10.5 crore to build a console, an operating system and a supply chain at once. The clearest demand signal is not the waitlist but the 2.5 lakh handhelds India already imports.

The round is close to three times everything Navana had raised in eight years. Its on-premise model is what cloud voice AI providers cannot offer Indian banks.

India's largest spacetech round takes total funding to $195 million. The India entity's FY25 revenue was ₹39.3 crore, which is not what is being priced.

HyperVault has 264 acres and a ₹70,000 crore figure. It also has about ₹18,000 crore actually committed, and a build phased against customers who do not yet exist.

Three times its October valuation, ten months later. The trading firm's $13 billion commitment depends on two contract extensions and an option that have not been exercised.

The deal blocks the apps overnight, hides likes on teen accounts and bans cosmetic filters. About $5.3 billion of it is contingent on TikTok and YouTube matching.

The MoU brings AMD's developer programme, learning resources and GPU cloud credits to the university. It is the first large university tranche of a 100,000-graduate pledge.

A licensing and team deal for six engineers, twelve months after founding. Rilo's 10,000 users lose the platform; its investors get an exit on $1 million raised.

Khosrowshahi framed the cuts around management layers and coordination roles, not AI efficiency. Fully remote roles drop to about 1 per cent of the workforce.

An angel-led round at a ₹42 crore valuation for the rebuilt version of Casttree. Two of the investors were customers first.

Shareholders get $1.14 a share and keep 10%. The buyer is a one-day-old subsidiary of a phone-case group with a New Jersey factory still under renovation.

The five-year mandate covers the 600-person Bengaluru centre plus data, analytics and AI work. Neither TCS nor Best Buy has confirmed it.

The SoftBank-controlled company is seeking $5 billion to $7 billion on Nasdaq. It has no operational data centres and lost $3.2 billion in the first half of the year.

MediaTek will build custom AI accelerators on NVLink Fusion. Every chip designed as an Nvidia alternative now ships with Nvidia's fabric, interconnect and memory inside it.

The Chinese robotics firm listed in Hong Kong on Tuesday, raising up to $347 million on about $55 million of revenue. The margin curve explains why investors queued.

Blue Ashva Capital led an $8 million seed into a Bengaluru company that bootstrapped for eight years on roughly $850,000 of revenue. Six defence satellites are due in 2027.

SignalFire and Las Olas VC led a $6 million seed into a Boston startup used by 225 agencies across 25 states. It answers a question every minute.

John Ternus takes over on 1 September. India expects its share of global iPhone output to reach 30-35 per cent within five years, on a strategy Cook negotiated personally.

The AI Compute Partnership let smaller cloud operators borrow against Nvidia's promise to rent unsold GPUs. Some deals are on hold after internal antitrust warnings.

Around 240 roles go with the closure of Customer Delight operations in Hyderabad. What stays in-house moves to Gurugram, to sit beside product and engineering.

Ford Business Solutions will recruit around 500 people next year for AI, data and connected-vehicle roles. Its India centre already employs more than 12,000.

Cook hands over on 1 September with India assembling one in four iPhones. The government thinks a hardware engineer in charge could push that toward a third.

Deloitte India surveyed 257 employers and 505 campuses for its Campus Workforce Trends 2026. Skills now price entry-level talent almost as much as institute tier does.

Serbia's Šabac facility is the manufacturing end of a Minth–AgiBot partnership. Stated capacity on full build-out is 20,000 humanoid robots and robot dogs a year.

The year-old startup's valuation has climbed from $50 million to $2.5 billion in about four months, before its public launch. Its AI agent has also drawn privacy and security concerns.