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India’s quick-commerce market is moving beyond the question of how fast an order can reach the customer. For companies in the space, the harder challenge is building enough local fulfillment capacity while keeping customers coming back and making the economics work. That makes Flipkart’s latest move around Minutes
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Okta has appointed Sunil Kedaraji as Vice President, Channel and Strategic Alliances for Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), putting its partner ecosystem at the center of its regional growth strategy as enterprises take on new identity and access challenges linked to AI. Based in Singapore, Kedaraji will lead Okta’s
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Swish, a vertically integrated food delivery platform, has raised $24 million in funding led by Bertelsmann India Investments, with participation from existing investors Accel, Bain Capital Ventures and Hara Global. The company said the new capital will be used to expand its kitchen network, strengthen supply chain infrastructure and increase
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Instawork Robotics Lab (IRL) has launched its Instacore wearable system in India to collect real-world training data for robots, as the company expands its physical artificial intelligence (AI) operations and plans to increase the number of workers participating in data collection from more than 6,000 to about 60,000
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Open-source software can grow far beyond the business that first built it. Tailwind CSS is now at that stage, with its creator saying the framework has reached more than 110 million installations a week and is used across products from companies including ChatGPT, X, Cloudflare, Reddit, and Shopify. The question
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Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services has expanded collaboration with Sarvam and now uses voice AI across sales, collections, and employee engagement, with voice agents operating in 12 Indian languages. The companies said the deployment has completed more than one crore calls to date. The technology is no longer being positioned
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As faster fashion delivery becomes easier to replicate, Slikk is putting greater weight on discovery, curation and the shopping experience. For quick-commerce fashion, speed has been one of the strongest selling points these days. But as more ecommerce platforms bring faster delivery into fashion, the competitive conversation is beginning to
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Namma Yatri has launched Namma Santhe, a retail platform for drivers on its network, extending its zero-commission model beyond ride-hailing to purchases of everyday goods. The platform, launched in partnership with Keystones, allows Namma Yatri drivers to purchase products through a physical store at the company's Bengaluru office
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The Ministry of Education is showcasing 37 Indian deep-tech startups and ventures to BRICS leaders, investors and businesses at the BRICS Bharat Innovates (BBI) Exposition, which opened at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on September 11. The two-day exposition, being held on September 11-12 alongside the BRICS Business Forum, is
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OpenAI has temporarily halted new sign-ups for its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan as demand for Astra puts increased pressure on its systems. Existing Pro subscribers and users on other ChatGPT plans will continue to have access OpenAI has temporarily paused new subscriptions to its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan, citing what
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Artificial intelligence, climate intelligence and technology are increasingly moving from specialist functions into the core of business decision-making, as companies face growing pressure to manage climate risks, supply-chain disruptions, energy security and geopolitical uncertainty. The shift was a key theme at the fourth edition of the CII Karnataka ESG Summit
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Artificial intelligence is moving beyond helping cybercriminals with individual tasks and is increasingly being used to coordinate large parts of an attack, according to a new threat intelligence report from Anthropic. The AI company said its Threat Intelligence team identified and disrupted malicious operations involving its Claude models between December
