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India’s direct-to-consumer (D2C) market has spent the last five years building scale through private capital. The next question is what those businesses can achieve as fundraising becomes less of a measure of maturity and exits become more important. Between January 2021 and August 2026, India’s D2C companies raised
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As AI moves deeper into software engineering, the Bengaluru-based e-commerce company Meesho said more than 70% of its code is now being generated by AI, signalling a shift in how engineering teams build, test and ship software. The company is also using AI across personalised discovery, customer support, delivery routing
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Deepinder Goyal’s health-tech venture Temple has acquired London-based Longevous, an evidence-based longevity medicine practice, as the company moves to strengthen its clinical and scientific capabilities ahead of the launch of its first wearable. Goyal, who founded Temple after stepping away from the CEO role at Eternal, announced the acquisition
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OpenAI is bringing advertising to ChatGPT in India, introducing a new digital advertising model in a market already dominated by search, social media and short-form video. Ads can appear for eligible adult users on ChatGPT's Free and Go plans, while Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu remain ad-free.
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IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company has selected Salesforce Agentforce to deploy AI agents across underwriting, customer service and claims processing, as the life insurer expands its use of artificial intelligence across core operations. The deployment will use AI agents to review documents, classify customer cases, assess sentiment, generate responses and identify
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Space technology company InspeCity has raised ₹100 crore (approximately US$10.5 million) in a pre-Series A funding round led by Speciale Invest and investor Ashish Kacholia. The company will use the capital to move its in-space servicing technologies from development and testing toward flight qualification and commercial deployment. The
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Seclore and Glean integrate data classification and persistent security controls to help enterprises govern sensitive information across AI and enterprise systems. Data security company Seclore and enterprise AI platform Glean have announced an integration aimed at helping organisations identify sensitive data and apply security controls across enterprise systems. The integration
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Bengaluru-based enterprise AI startup Ringg AI has extended its Series A funding to $15 million, with Peak XV Partners leading the latest investment and existing investors Arkam Ventures and Capital 2B participating. The company plans to use the fresh capital to expand beyond voice-based AI into WhatsApp and browser-based agents,
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As consumers increasingly turn to generative AI for shopping recommendations, brands are facing a new challenge ahead of Raksha Bandhan: getting included in AI-generated product shortlists rather than simply appearing in conventional search results. An analysis by SearchScore.AI, the AI visibility platform from DareAISearch, covering 3,190 submissions and
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A Chinese-speaking threat actor has expanded its activity to India, using Hindi-language phishing emails impersonating the Income Tax Department to target organisations, according to threat research from Proofpoint. The campaigns, observed in July 2026, used fake tax notices, penalty demands and threats of legal action to trick recipients into opening
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India’s vast faith economy is increasingly acquiring a digital layer, as startups take services such as astrology consultations, poojas and spiritual commerce online. The country’s broader religious and spiritual market has been estimated at around $58.6 billion, while the astrology-app segment is expanding rapidly. According to an
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Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Some banter from the tiny show I’m at in rural upstate New York tonight (lightly
