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MongoDB has appointed Richard Scott as Senior Vice President for APJ. Based in Sydney, Scott will lead the company’s regional strategy as MongoDB looks to expand its presence across key markets and support businesses moving AI applications from experimentation to deployment. Scott brings more than 25 years of experience
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is not that it is another more capable AI model but it is what OpenAI expects the model to do. Astra can fill online forms, update CRM records, organise calendars, conduct research, analyse scientific data, create websites, run frontend checks and troubleshoot software. It can also
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San Francisco-based AI-native revenue platform Monaco has acquired Bengaluru-based B2B sales intelligence startup Overlayy. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Overlayy Brings Sales Intelligence Into Monaco Overlayy was founded in early 2024 by IIT Kanpur alumni Anmol Chaman and Snehil Saluja. The startup built an AI copilot
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Voice AI startup Navana.ai has raised INR 40 crore in a Series A round led by entrepreneur and investor Ronnie Screwvala. Antler India, Sharad Sanghi, Sandeep Singhal, and Paula Mariwala also participated in the round. The company said the funding will go toward expanding deployments among BFSI enterprises, developing
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According to a UBS report, Walmart-owned Flipkart’s quick commerce arm Minutes could add another 1,000 dark stores by mid-2027, or around the Big Billion Days sale in 2027. If that expansion materializes, it could take the network to around 2,000 stores, nearly doubling its current footprint. But
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The International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad) has launched the Centre for Educational Technology and Learning Sciences (CETLS) to study how people learn as artificial intelligence becomes part of classrooms, workplaces and everyday life. Launched on September 5, CETLS will combine learning sciences, cognitive science, psychology and technology
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The partnership includes a Robotics Learning Centre at NCERT, inaugurated by Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi on NCERT’s 66th Foundation Day. ZS has partnered with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and Robotex India to expand hands-on learning in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and other emerging
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The Bengaluru-based spacetech startup has raised $100 million in a Series C round co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, taking its total funding to $195 million. Pixxel said the round is the largest single funding round raised by a spacetech company in India. But the more important part of the announcement
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As enterprise AI moves beyond large models into thousands of operational workflows, the infrastructure question is also beginning to change. Not every AI workload has the same compute requirement, particularly when organizations are running smaller models across document processing, software testing, customer interactions, cybersecurity and other high-volume applications. Ziroh Labs
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Blue Machines AI has launched Aurora, a speech-to-text model designed for banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) conversations in India. The model targets financial conversations where customers switch between English and regional languages, use industry-specific terminology and communicate over noisy or low-bandwidth telephone connections. Blue Machines AI said internal evaluations
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GalaxEye, the Bengaluru-based space technology startup, said on September 8 that it has received a US patent covering the core technology behind its OptoSAR imaging system. According to the company, it is the first Indian startup to receive a US patent for satellite imaging technology. The patent covers an architecture
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UPES Runway, the startup incubator at UPES, has invested ₹25 lakh through equity participation in Reagvis Labs, a startup working on AI-based tools for deepfake detection, document forgery detection, digital identity verification and digital content authentication. The investment comes through The Pitch, UPES Runway's initiative to identify and
