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Google Selects 20 AI Startups For 2026 Play Accelerator India Cohort

Google has announced the 2026 cohort of Google Play Accelerator India, selecting 20 AI-powered startups for its three-month, equity-free accelerator program. The initiative will provide founders with hands-on support in AI integration, app quality, security, growth, and monetization. The selected companies represent sectors including education, healthcare, gaming, agriculture, finance, e-commerce, productivity, lifestyle, and entertainment.

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According to Google, the accelerator combines expertise from Google Play with the broader Google ecosystem to help Indian startups build secure, scalable, and globally relevant applications. The company said the latest cohort reflects the increasing adoption of AI by startups developing products for both Indian and international markets.

Aditya Swamy, Managing Director, Google Play Partnerships, said the next wave of innovation in India is being built around AI. He said the accelerator is designed to help founders throughout their product journey, from improving app quality and integrating AI to strengthening security, monetization, and global...

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Tokenomics - gigawatt demand needs giga-dollars of capital, says Bloom Energy CEO KR Sridhar, but rapid ROI is possible

As a technology optimist, to me, it's a given that token cost and token efficiency and token's ability to do things are all going to improve. That’s the upbeat assessment of KR Sridhar, CEO of utility provider Bloom Energy on the current tokenomics debate that

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The democratization of AI stopped at the wrong layer

Democratization may be the AI industry's favorite word, and one that, in fairness, it has earned the right to use. At the beginning of the decade, building anything with machine learning meant a large research team and a significant budget, and that put it out of reach for

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The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn’t the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis. A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere found that, while AI assistance generally improved the accuracy of non-experts and clinicians in diagnosing skin diseases, AI explainability methods had

SAP Startup Social 2026 spotlights India’s growing enterprise AI startup ecosystem

SAP Labs India hosted the latest edition of SAP Startup Social, bringing together startups, enterprises, investors, policymakers and ecosystem partners to accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI and deep technologies across India. The flagship innovation platform was supported by the Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM), Nasscom and the Indo-German Chamber

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Tokenomics - gigawatt demand needs giga-dollars of capital, says Bloom Energy CEO KR Sridhar, but rapid ROI is possible

The democratization of AI stopped at the wrong layer

The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

SAP Startup Social 2026 spotlights India’s growing enterprise AI startup ecosystem