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Apple Pay set to launch in India with Axis Bank today, sources say

Apple is set to launch Apple Pay in India later Tuesday with Axis Bank as its initial banking partner, TechCrunch has learned, bringing its payments service to the world’s most populous country after years on the sidelines of a market dominated by UPI.

The initial rollout will be limited, according to people familiar with the matter. Apple Pay will initially support eligible Axis Bank cards on Visa and Mastercard, but not India’s homegrown RuPay network. Acceptance will also be restricted to merchants and payment terminals that have been enabled for the service.

Unlike India’s ubiquitous Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system, which lets consumers make instant bank-to-bank payments without relying on cards, Apple Pay is card-based and requires individual issuers and payment infrastructure providers to integrate with the service. This makes a broad rollout more complex. Apple’s commercial terms have also emerged as a sticking point with some of India’s largest...

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Bring near-Astra intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

Artificial Intelligence GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing stronger reasoning to coding, computer use, and professional workloads that run frequently. For an AI agent to complete a task, it may need to gather information, use tools, test different approaches, recover from errors, and verify its

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Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern

OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. “A few weeks ago

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GM will spend $1B making the first manganese-rich cells in mass production

GM and LG Energy Solution will spend $1B turning their Spring Hill plant into the first factory to mass-produce prismatic lithium manganese-rich cells. Europe’s carmakers are spending comparable sums on lithium iron phosphate, the chemistry GM’s battery chief says may never earn its way into its cars. General

ASML says AI's effect on chipmaking will unfold over the next 10 to 15 years, not overnight

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Crystal ball: ASML is the only company that makes the EUV lithography machines needed to produce the world's most advanced chips. Its CEO, Christophe Fouquet, says the AI boom will play out

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Bring near-Astra intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern

GM will spend $1B making the first manganese-rich cells in mass production

ASML says AI's effect on chipmaking will unfold over the next 10 to 15 years, not overnight