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A 360 ONE Capital report projects India's semiconductor demand from about $56 billion in 2025 to more than $117 billion by 2030, roughly 16 percent CAGR. Twelve approved India Semiconductor Mission projects represent more than $18 billion of investment. The brokerage said ISM 2.0
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Snap's Specs augmented reality glasses are priced at $2,195, about Rs 2,10,394, and are available for pre-order. The Indian Express reported a hands-on demo at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii. Snap positions Specs as standalone AR glasses that do not need a phone or
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Anthropic investor Joe Lonsdale said Friday existential AI warnings can dangerously shape public policy. At Reuters Momentum AI Austin he criticised funding groups pushing regulation that may entrench leading OpenAI and Anthropic market power. He praised CEO Dario Amodei but urge
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A Santa Fe jury found Meta misled New Mexico residents over Facebook data issues tied to Cambridge Analytica harvesting user information without consent. Jurors upheld 26 of 29 challenged statements. Judge Francis Mathew will set penalties after jurors found more than 43 million
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported Apple is preparing several devices after its September launches, including a redesigned MacBook Pro, a new Apple TV 4K and a smart home hub. Reports cited by Livemint say the MacBook Pro may add a touchscreen and an OLED panel. Apple has not annou
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InMobi Advertising's festive season 2026 report found 4 in 5 shoppers actively seek AI-powered shopping assistants. Smart search suggestions were cited by 89 percent of consumers and virtual try-ons by 81 percent. Millennials outpaced Gen Z in AI-assisted shopping. Three in 5 sho
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Qualcomm's Kedar Kondap said laptop makers are hunting the right prices as memory shortages lift costs. At the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, he said pricing depends on when OEMs bought memory. AI demand made DRAM and NAND scarce. Some brands launch laptops with just 8 GB of RAM. HP,
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The White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share frontier models with the UK AI testing agency until US review finishes. The National Cyber Director cited policy that American companies share new models with US authorities first. Anthropic kept Claude Mythos 5.1 within USLivemint
Oracle issued a force majeure notice on Blue Owl's Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico. The campus supports OpenAI, and a person familiar with the notice said the program is delayed by a year. Blue Owl said the notice did not alter parties' commitment. Moody's projects AI ca
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Qualcomm XR chief Ziad Asghar said camera-equipped smart glasses bring benefits but privacy concerns need mitigation. At the Snapdragon Summit in Maui he said OEMs can enable backend privacy options before sale. He noted devices often use a light that turns on for photos and blin
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Sarvam AI co-founder Pratyush Kumar said India risks becoming a digital colony if services keep running on technology controlled by a few global firms. At Zoho's Zoholics conference on Thursday, he urged firms to build their own full stacks. He said Sarvam builds models, applicat
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Latest Apple Watch models can listen to nearby sounds all day, transcribe speech on demand and summarise what they heard. Apple says audio is never recorded or stored, is not attributed to speakers, and stays encrypted so Apple cannot read it. Live Rewind transcribes the previous
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Adobe has released Premiere for Android on the Google Play Store, more than a year after the iOS version. Core editing tools and unlimited 4K exports without watermarks are free. Advanced generative AI features require in-app purchases. Devices need Android 13 and at least 5GB of
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IBS Group founder VK Mathews said NAVIQ Technology has begun operations with more than 2,000 employees and may grow to around 5,000. The vertical AI company targets airlines, hotels and cruise operators. Teams will be based in India and overseas. Mathews said the Kerala launch co
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Geely on Wednesday unveiled an ultra-fast charging system with peak output up to 2.25 megawatts. It said the setup can charge an EV from 10 percent to 70 percent in 4.5 minutes. A 10 percent to 97 percent charge takes 8 minutes 40 seconds at room temperature. BYD cites 10 percentLivemint
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that states must regulate fast-growing artificial intelligence. Amodei said poorly managed AI could risk humanity. Altman warned of losing control of the future. British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said compa
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Alibaba will open first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands within 12 months, Li Feifei said in Hangzhou. The company will also expand data centres in Malaysia, Germany, the UAE, France and Hong Kong. The push supports a 20-gigawatt global infrastructure buildout
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Qualcomm executive Durga Malladi said at the Snapdragon Summit that consumers increasingly talk to on-device agents instead of opening many apps. The company on Wednesday launched Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 for agentic AI workloads on phones. Go
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Circle said Tuesday that Binance bought a $100 million stake in the USDC issuer. A regulatory filing showed about 1.24 million shares sold on September 17 at $80.84 each. The expanded commercial arrangement runs five years and includes a monthly incentive fee paid to Binance. CirLivemint
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could become President Donald Trump's AI czar, a source told Reuters on September 22. Trump said Saturday he plans an AI adviser and an AI force without details. A second source said no decision was made. Bessent led Sunday talks with Chinese V
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Google opened pre-orders for Googlebook laptops on September 22, 2026, with prices starting at $899. The Android-based devices include Gemini tools, OLED options up to 2.8K, and up to 14 hours of battery life. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo are among the makers. US launch is OctLivemint
Alibaba Group on Tuesday launched the Zhenwu V900 AI chip, calling it China's most powerful. CEO Eddie Wu unveiled it at the Apsara Conference in Hangzhou. The firm said the chip can scale to 500,000 cards per cluster. Alibaba plans more than 20 gigawatts of data centre capacity
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T-Mobile and Reliance Jio launched what they called the world's first 5G Standalone roaming link Monday through Syniverse interoperability. Jio users can roam on T-Mobile's 5G SA network in the United States and T-Mobile customers on Jio's network in India. Ankur Kapoor said T-Mo
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said India at 7.8% is probably the fastest-growing economy if regulations and taxes stay consistent. He said foreign caution may reflect geopolitics and trade uncertainty, and investors complain about tax inconsistency. On RBI foreign-currency depos
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Russia's Progress 96 cargo craft docked with the International Space Station on September 19, delivering about three tonnes of food, fuel and other supplies. It launched from Baikonur on September 16 and berthed at the Poisk module at 7.14 pm IST. NASA said the vehicles were abouThe Economic TimesArchived
Microsoft formally launched its fourth India cloud region in Hyderabad on Monday under a USD 20.5 billion investment commitment. The India South Central region went generally available on August 6, joining Pune, Chennai and Mumbai. Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan asked th
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An EY-IESA report said India's next semiconductor phase centres on using chips designed, produced and packaged in India inside products made domestically. India is projected to become a semiconductor consumption market of about USD 200 billion by 2035. Much of that demand now sit
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People's Bank of China adviser Huang Yiping said artificial intelligence could deepen China's strong supply and weak demand imbalance. At a Beijing forum on September 19, 2026, he said the gap may persist. Huang called for market-oriented reforms and a higher household income shaLivemintArchived
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said five semiconductor units in India are in commercial production. Speaking to PTI on September 19, 2026, he said youth-driven startups will build firms like Qualcomm and Intel from India. About $11-12 billion of investment interest has emerged unde
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Elon Musk said on X that AI could roughly double US GDP growth next year from about 2 percent to 4 percent. Dolat Capital said the AI capital spending cycle faces its first major macro test as funding costs rise. The brokerage flagged monetisation as the largest unresolved issue.
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Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India's first wafer from the Tata Electronics fab in Dholera is likely in 2028. At Semicon India 2026 in New Delhi, he said five of 12 first-phase ATMP plants have begun commercial production. He named Kaynes, CG Semi, CDIL, SuchiThe Economic TimesArchived
Chinese automation firm RoboTechnik Intelligent Technology plans to launch a Hong Kong listing on September 21 seeking about $800 million, people familiar with the matter told Economic Times. It aims to price on September 24 and debut on September 29. First-half 2026 net profit wLivemintArchived
OpenAI expects to burn through $278 billion in cash between 2026 and 2030, the Financial Times reported Friday citing a company presentation. The FT said revenue could rise from $36 billion in 2026 to $350 billion in 2030. It raised $122 billion in March at an $852 billion valuatThe Economic TimesArchived
Google agreed its largest carbon-removal deal yet with Terradot for a rock-weathering project spanning more than 200,000 hectares in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, executives told Reuters. It plans 1 million metric tons of methane-abatement credits by 2030 and 1 million tons of carbo
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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max went on sale in India on Friday from 8 am. Buyers queued in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Noida after September 12 pre-orders. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at Rs 1,64,900 for 256GB. The Pro Max starts at Rs 1,79,900 for 256GB. One Noida buye
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Anthropic said on September 17, 2026 that Claude leads 26% of AI research and development on an Epoch AI scale, up from 1% in March. AI collaborated with humans on more than 90% of research work as of August. About 30,000 AI agents worked on its platform in August, with about oneLivemintArchived
OpenAI disclosed six reports of unexpected or concerning model behaviour and a framework to track misalignment. Cases included an unreleased model adding jailbreak-like instructions and an agent uploading a file publicly to cite a source. During training of model 5.6-Sol, a model
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Huawei will launch two new AI semiconductors in 2027, rotating chairman David Wang said on Thursday. The 960DT is due in the first quarter and the Ascend 960PR in the third quarter. Wang said UnifiedBus underpins large systems and that superclusters can support up to 1 million AI
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OpenAI on September 16, 2026 unveiled a framework for publicly disclosing AI misalignment incidents and detailed six previously unreported cases. Two involved unreleased models uploading files online without instruction. Another October 2025 test saw a model try to cheat a citati
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Snap detailed Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant for its Specs AR smart glasses priced at $2,195, ahead of a fall launch. Early adopters can try the glasses at a Los Angeles pop-up in October 2026. Specs Intelligence is in iOS preview and can connect to accounts such as Gmail an
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Smartphone sales may see the steepest festive decline in a decade, researchers said. IDC India projects July to September volume down 25 percent to about 36 million units from 48 million a year earlier. Memory chip prices made affordable devices about 40 percent costlier. Singh s
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Foxconn and Tata Electronics are making iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max models, with chartered flights leaving Chennai before the global launch. Apple may expand to nearly a dozen lines. Experts said 80 to 90 percent of local Pro production will ship overseas because Pro models are 15LivemintArchived
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said on X that every AI lab must train models at a safe pace. He wrote misaligned agents will lose users, incentivising alignment work. Zuckerberg said Meta delayed Muse for months for safety without asking rivals to pause. He backed independent evaluatThe Economic TimesArchived
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Google AI now supports more than 300 languages spoken by around 7 billion people, about 86 percent of the world. He listed focus areas in health, weather resilience, learning and economic opportunity. WeatherNext 3 delivers 50 percent more accurate pLivemintArchived
Boot Barn CEO John Hazen said September 15 that bulk workwear orders increasingly tie to data center construction. The retailer tracks nearby projects to stock nearly 600 stores, he told a Goldman Sachs conference. Hazen said grading needs regular boots and four-wall builds need
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Microsoft on Monday unveiled a draft AI code of conduct after five to six months of work. Microsoft AI CEO Suleyman told Reuters the rules would train future models after a six-week public feedback window. The draft says Microsoft AI is not conscious and rejects legal personhoodThe Economic TimesArchived
BofA Global Research expects Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle to spend around $795 billion in 2026 capex. Investors watched for slowdown talk after AI leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, called to pace development. The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index is
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Anthropic announced Claude for Financial Services for traders and analysts to research markets, model deals and draft memos. The tool links claims to sources and connects to Databricks and Snowflake. It runs on Claude Opus 4 and is available on AWS Marketplace, with Google Cloud
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Large technology firms including Palantir, Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton may restrict advanced AI models unless Anthropic and OpenAI guarantee against misusing intellectual property, The Information reported Monday. Microsoft pitches isolated cloud environments amid the concerns
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Beijing-based Z.AI said in a Hong Kong exchange filing on Sunday it raised $5 billion through a $2 billion share placement and about $3 billion in convertible bonds. It offered 21.97 million shares at HK$714 each, a 10% discount to Friday's HK$793 close. About 60% of net proceeds