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Claude Code Can Now Write Directly in Figma Canvas
New capability lets AI agents create and modify designs directly within Figma files using design systems as a foundation.
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OpenAI’s Sora Collapse Exposes a Bigger Problem
With Sora’s collapse, OpenAI’s deal with Disney also fell through as the AI giant is determined to move over ‘side quests’.
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Global Capability Centers (GCCs) Salary Trends in India 2026
This report offers a detailed analysis of salary trends across India’s Global Capability Centers (GCCs), examining compensation benchmarks, regional variations, and high-paying roles. It provides key insights into how GCCs attract and retain top talent in a competitive market.
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Eight Sleep Bets Big on AI-Powered Predictive Sleep, Backed by $50 Million Funding
Eight Sleep, the New York-based sleep technology company, is planning to expand into the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered predictive sleep health space. The move comes after the startup raised $50 million (roughly Rs. 469.7 crore) in a funding round earlier this month. The company has announced that it is now looking into the sleep health space with its new offerings and technologies that are currently under development. It is also seeking approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a product that can detect and mitigate sleep apnea.
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Google Is Reportedly Working on Adding 3D Avatars to Gemini
Google is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users create a 3D avatar of themselves for faster content generation. As per the report, the feature is currently under development and is not available to users, including those who have signed up for beta testing. Dubbed Avatar, the new feature is said to use the same underlying technology as Android XR's Likeness capability, which was first unveiled at The Android Show in December 2025.
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Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones
Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now. While many companies aretrying to build humanoidsor tout demos of theirrobots dancing and doing flips, Lucid Bots’ drones are out in the field making traditionally unsexy and dangerous work, like cleaning windows, safer and more efficient. “The sad truth is most are still selling a lot of hype and headlines, and we sell performance on the job site that shows up in our customers, profits, and losses,” Ashur told TechCrunch. “We’re not just in the lab and simulators. We’ve got dirt under our fingernails, and we’re out on job sites getting work done.” Charlotte, North Carolina-based Lucid Bots is a full-stack robotics company that sells its Sherpa drones and Lavo robot to cleaning companies to help them on their job sites. The company designed and manufactures its own robots in the U.S. and just raised a $20 million Series B round co-led by Cubit Capital and Idea Fund Partners. This brings itstotal funding to $34 million. The company plans to use the money for hiring to keep up with demand, although Ashur joked that they’ve run out of parking spots at their manufacturing facility. “We have more requests for demos, then we have hours in the day, so we need to scale up capacity and head count,” Ashur said. “As a founder, when we don’t have enough hours in the day to do all the demos, it gives me a little bit of heartburn.” Demand from customers and investors wasn’t there in the beginning, Ashur said. It took the company half a decade to ship its first 100 robots, and it took a fair amount of convincing to get VCs to back a robotics founder with a liberal arts background and no robotics experience. Ashur got the original idea for the company while he was a junior at Davidson College studying economics and Spanish. He happened to walk by a building that was being cleaned by window washers. It was a windy day, and the workers’ swing stage started to knock around and slam into the building. Watching the harrowing scene made Ashur think about how technology could make this safer. “Built infrastructure is literally the largest asset class in the world, but right now, we’ve got these three compounding issues,” Ashur said. “We’ve got aging infrastructure, the new infrastructure we’re building is getting bigger and harder to maintain, and, last but not least, we have less and less people willing and able to do the work. We needed to start building drones and robots to bridge that gap.” Lucid Bots was launched in 2018 and started out as a cleaning company that took contract jobs to learn more about the industry. After two years, and a few cleaning chemical burns, Ashur said they knew what their drone needed to be successful. Lucid Bots’ sales has gained momentum recently. It took the startup five years to sell 100 units and now it is approaching 1,000. The company continues to improve its bots and drones in an effort to keep sales ticking along. Data collected by the robots is fed back to the underlying software, which is used to improve both of Lucid Bots’ products. The company is also building a tool that will allow its bots to be used for adjacent categories like painting waterproofing and sealing, among others. “We recently waterproofed a massive university stadium that was starting to age, still using the same brain and frame as a Sherpa,” Ashur said. “Part of why we went there is because our existing customers were pulling us there and we were getting, gosh, probably about 50 or so inbound leads a month related to painting and coating and that was before we even began marketing that option.”
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OpenAI Hires JioStar CEO Kiran Mani to Lead Asia-Pacific Operations
Mani will join OpenAI as Managing Director for Asia-Pacific in June.
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EDA Supplier Keysight to Manufacture Testing Equipment in India
Company plans phased rollout to supply domestic and global markets while supporting India’s industrial and research sectors.
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India’s Unlikely SaaS Success Story Begins Its Second Act With AI
Bootstrapped, profitable, $200 million exit. Now, Wingify is betting on AI's mess.
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Agora Taps IIT-Kharagpur Alum's Startup Murf AI to Enable Real-Time Voice Agents
The addition of Murf AI will expand Agora’s voice capabilities with real-time interactions.
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Prosus, Accel Announce 6 Startups for Inaugural Atoms X LeapTech Cohort
The initiative backs founders tackling frontier challenges in climate, space, healthcare, and advanced technologies with capital, mentorship, and global networks.
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Bengaluru-based HGS Puts 90-Day ROI Guarantee as AI Strategy
The company backs Intelligent Experience positioning with a 90-day ROI commitment.
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