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Skyroot Sets Date for Vikram-1 Orbital Test Flight from Sriharikota
Skyroot Aerospace’s Mission Aagaman will test India’s first privately developed orbital rocket and gather flight data for future launches.
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How Vibe Coding Became a Hiring Opportunity for This Observability GCC
New Relic CEO Ashan Willy says AI-generated code is increasing demand for observability and creating new opportunities for India’s GCCs.
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India's AI Funding Boom in H1 2026 Left Most Startups Starving
India’s AI-native startups drew nearly $1 billion in H1 2026, but on the back of two mega deals from Neysa and Sarvam AI.
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Microsoft Invests $2.5 Bn to Launch Frontier Company to Help Businesses Deploy AI
Microsoft also named Rodrigo Kede Lima as President of the Frontier Company.
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How AceCloud Plans to Win India's Enterprise AI Market
As Indian enterprises move AI out of sandboxes and into core operations, the case for locally governed infrastructure, built on cost, compliance, and real-time performance, is no longer theoretical.
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Cognizant Launches Governance Platform to Manage Agentic AI Risks in Enterprises
Cognizant has launched Neuro AI Trust, a governance platform that provides real-time monitoring and policy enforcement across AI models and agents.
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MeitY Directs WhatsApp to Halt Username Rollout in India
WhatsApp said the feature is not yet live and includes safeguards against impersonation, but the government wants further consultations before any launch.
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Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
Indian serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is making a $30 million personal bet that there is still room for another enterprise AI company. His new venture,Neo, is built on a simple premise: workplace software designed before the AI era cannot simply be upgraded with chatbots — it has to be redesigned from the ground up. Turakhia, 46, is no stranger to ambitious enterprise technology bets. Over the past two decades, he has co-founded companies including Directi, Radix, Titan, and banking software firm Zeta, largely backing them with his own cash before bringing in outside investors. He’s doing the same with Neo. Turakhia told TechCrunch he is bootstrapping this much money because he believes AI marks a technology shift significant enough to justify rebuilding workplace software from scratch. “If you want to build an iPhone, you can’t take the parts of a Nokia and somehow convert it into an iPhone,” he said. Launched internally in April this year, Neo is an enterprise work platform that combines project management, documents, file storage, and AI into a single product. The goal, Turakhia said, is to make AI an active participant in day-to-day work rather than just another assistant employees turn to separately. Turakhia argued most incumbents face a structural disadvantage when adding AI to products designed before generative AI. Neo, he said, was designed from the ground up for AI and is model-agnostic, allowing enterprises to switch between AI models rather than being tied to a single provider. He’s not alone in thinking this way. Investor Chamath Palihapitiya initially launched enterprise AI coding venture 8090 with his own capital beforeraising a $135 million funding roundthis week. Still, Turakhia’s bet comes as enterprise AI has emerged as one of the most competitive areas in technology. Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce are embedding AI across their workplace software. Meanwhile every startup from the giant labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, to the productivity companies like Notion and Superhuman are racing to reshape how businesses use AI in their daily workflow. Turakhia argued enterprise software has never been a winner-takes-all market, saying even a small share of global enterprise AI spending would represent a sizeable company. “Even if we end up with 2% to 5% market share, that’s larger than anything I’ve built so far,” he said. For the past few months, Neo has been in internal use across Turakhia’s companies, including Zeta. The company plans to begin rolling out the software to mid-sized businesses in the coming months, initially targeting knowledge workers across technology, consulting, and professional services firms. Turakhia said Neo’s initial platform was built in three months, with AI extensively used in the development process, work he estimates would have taken more than a year with a much larger engineering team before generative AI. The Bengaluru-based startup currently employs about 45 people, including 18 engineers. Turakhia told TechCrunch that it expects to grow to around 100 employees by the end of the year, with most new hires focused on AI and software engineering.
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Exclusive: Ex-GitHub CEO’s $300 Mn Startup Appoints India-Based Field CTO
Karthik Rameshkumar’s appointment places India at the core of Entire's product strategy.
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Meta Plans AI Cloud Business to Challenge AWS, Azure, Google Cloud: Report
Meta is weighing both hosted AI model APIs and raw compute services for developers and enterprises.
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SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has shown investors a prototype of a “handset-like” AI device,reports The Wall Street Journal. The prototype is reportedly sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone, making us wonder if it’s something between a small touchscreen phone and aRabbit R1. SpaceX reportedly showed the device to investors and stakeholders before it went public, and told them it’s at an early enough stage that the design could still change. Musk has denied the reporting, calling it “utterly false.” SpaceX, alongside sister company Tesla, does have the manufacturing expertise to pull off mass-producing a bunch of AI devices — not to mention access to the chips needed to power any on-device compute. SpaceX has also signaled that it’s keen to expand into wireless, with Starlink Mobile as a potential competitor to Verizon and AT&T. One analyst even went as far as to speculate thatT-Mobile or AT&Twould make fine acquisition targets for the rocket builder, though such a purchase would, undoubtedly, be pricey. It’s also not clear if SpaceX is just throwing spaghetti at the wall or if it will attempt to really mass-produce and market such a device. But one thing that seems clearer is that if OpenAI is doing it, Musk would, perhaps, want to try to do it better. As we know, OpenAI is working with Apple’s former chief design officer Jony Ive on an AI device that CEO Sam Altman has claimed will bemore peaceful than an iPhone. Reports from last autumn suggest the company has been struggling to get the details right, and OpenAI recently brought on another Apple executive to potentially help move things along. News dropped last week that Paul Meade, Apple’s VP in charge of the Vision Pro headset,has joined OpenAI’s hardware team. Like OpenAI, SpaceX’s prototype is reportedly designed to run on a proprietary operating system and integrate technology from xAI, Musk’s AI company that SpaceX acquired earlier this year. This would prevent these new devices from being trapped inside another company’s platforms (like Google’s Android). But the intent also appears to be to create something new, with native AI interfaces. That said, the graveyard is crowded with the unsuccessful launches of AI devices from companies like Humane and Rabbit. A company wanting to sell an AI device does not equate to consumers wanting to buy such a thing. Yet.
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Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Cloudflare has just issued the AI industry a new deadline to separate the web crawlers used for traditional search purposes, like Google Search, from those used for AI agents and training. Starting on September 15, 2026, Cloudflare’s default settings will block “mixed-use” crawlers from any pages that host ads, the company announced on Wednesday. That means that the crawlers that blend search, agent use, and training will be blocked from crawling these sites by default, unless the site owner adjusts the settings otherwise. These changes to the defaults will apply to new Cloudflare customers, new sites set up by existing customers, and all existing free customers, the company says. The move could impact how AI model providers are able to access web content for training purposes and to help power their agentic services. Cloudflare points out that most website owners want their content to be discoverable via search and often through AI services as well, but they want protections against having their intellectual property given away for free. Cloudflare specifically calls out the “world’s largest search engine” (clearly a Google reference!) as having access to about “2x more information” than other AI companies because the search giant makes it difficult for customers to remain discoverable without being used for AI. Google has pushed back against this generalization in the past, noting that it provides a bot calledGoogle Extendedthat lets site owners opt out of having their content used for training and AI products and services like Gemini Apps and Vertex API. Its use doesn’t impact a site’s inclusion in Google Search. However, the tech giant’s flagship Googlebot crawls for Search, including AI features like AI Overviews and AI Mode. “Now that the majority of traffic on the Internet is non-human, we must go further and act faster so that a sustainable ecosystem can emerge,” said Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince in his announcement of the news, referring to the recent milestonewhere bots surpassed human traffic onlinefor the first time. That shift was not expected to occur until next year. “Cloudflare’s new tools and partnerships give website owners increased visibility and commercial opportunities and benefit AI companies that have bots with clear and transparent intent. We hope that our proposed default changes encourage mixed-use crawlers to separate out search from agent use and training,” Prince said. While Cloudflare offers a number of products to help userslaunch their own AI systems, the company has also released a range of tools to give publishers more control over their content in the AI era. In recent years, Cloudflarelaunched tools to combat AI bots, including amarketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping, dubbed Pay Per Crawl. The latter is now also evolving into “Pay Per Use,” the company said, which will allow publishers to charge AI companies when their content creates value, not just when it’s fetched. The change could also help conserve publishers’ bandwidth and compute resources for AI model providers, as Cloudflare’s data suggested that over 50% of crawl traffic from AI crawlers is spent re-fetching unchanged pages. To put this into action, Cloudflare is initially working with two partners, Ceramic.ai and You.com. When a publisher opts in, they’re paid when their content appears in Ceramic’s AI search results or when You.com accesses a piece of their premium content. Other AI companies can customize this model for how they work, Cloudflare says.
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