River Mobility founded in March 2021 by Aravind Mani and Vipin George has raised $120M in Series C funding, one of the largest private investments in India’s electric two‑wheeler sector. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/05/news... #deccanfounders #rivermobility #ev #automotive
China has revised its integrated circuit layout design regulations, introducing stricter originality requirements and allowing courts to award punitive damages of up to five times losses for serious infringement Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/05/news... #deccanfounders #china
Sarvam plans to raise an additional $74 million (₹697.8 crore) through an extension of its ongoing $300 million Series B round, according to MCA filings. NVIDIA, Glade Brook, Gaja Capital, Indigo Ventures, and other investors will participate.
India’s Finance Ministry has proposed amending the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 to repeal the zero‑MDR regime for UPI and RuPay debit cards, removing Section 10A. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/05/news... #india #deccanfounders #upi #npci #mdr #payments #bhim #fintech
TRAI has launched a revamped MyCall app, its first major overhaul since 2018, letting users rate call quality in real time and report issues like drops, echo, audio delay, one‑way audio, and cross‑connections. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/05/news... #deccanfounders #trai #telecom
Samsung unveiled 400-plus-layer V10 Bonding V-NAND prototype and introduced zHBM and zNAND-O AI memory concepts at the FMS conference. The new NAND boosts memory density by 58%, while Samsung also showcased HBM4E, HBM5 and LPDDR5X-PIM.
WhatsApp has begun testing an optional age‑verification prompt for select users in India, ahead of compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, effective May 13, 2027 Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/05/news... #deccanfounders #whatsapp #dpdpact #ageverification #meta
The Department of Space has launched two subsidy schemes offering 30% to 100% financial support to private space companies through IN-SPACe. The initiatives cover launch services, access to ISRO facilities, technology transfer, and satellite data.
The Centre has proposed changes to UPI rules through the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, allowing future government decisions on MDR exemptions while keeping UPI payments free for consumers.
Anthropic will bring in country inference for its Claude AI models to India through Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Amazon Bedrock in the coming weeks. The capability will allow eligible customers to process AI inference requests within India.
IRDAI has tightened oversight of insurer ownership with new July 30, 2026 regulations, requiring approval whenever stakes cross 5%, 10%, 25%, 50%, or 75%, or when an investor becomes the single largest shareholder. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/03/news... #deccanfounders #insurance
Meta, Google, X and Snapchat will appear before India's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology in New Delhi at 4 PM on 3 August 2026. Chaired by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, the hearing will examine data privacy, the safety of women and children.
Walmart-owned Flipkart will pilot its online food delivery service in Bengaluru from around August 15, onboarding restaurants with a lower 10% commission to challenge Swiggy and Zomato. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/03/news... #deccanfounders #walmart #fooddelivery #flipkart #ondc
India’s Cabinet has signed an MoU with Madhya Pradesh to set up the country’s first Telecom Manufacturing Zone in Gwalior. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/03/news... #deccanfounders #madhyapradesh #telecom #manufacturing
Urban Company’s InstaHelp has crossed 100,000 daily delivered orders, marking a major milestone in India’s growing instant home services market. The platform’s rapid expansion highlights rising demand for quick household solutions and Urban Company’s ability to scale operations.
Alibaba has introduced Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) AI model with a context window of up to one million tokens. According to the company, the model activates 95 billion parameters for each query and supports coding, research, and text, image, and video tasks.
India's Cabinet has approved Samudra Manthan, a ₹84,084 crore National Offshore Exploration Scheme running through FY 2030–31. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/01/news... #deccanfounders #energy #samudramanthan #petrol #oil #modi #offshoreexploration
ISRO has begun detailed subsystem design for BAS‑01, the first module of the Bharatiya Antariksh Station, slated for launch in 2028 as a technology demonstrator. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/01/news... #india #isro #deccanfounders#indiaspacestation #BharatiyaAntarikshStation
Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat has added an offline installation feature for Android devices, letting users share the app directly via Bluetooth or local Wi‑Fi without internet or app stores Read Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/31/news... #deccanfounders #jackdorsey #bitchat #android #offlineinstallations
Gartner predicts that by 2029, most privacy incidents will stem from AI‑generated inferences rather than direct exposure of personal data. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/31/news... #deccanfounders #ai #gartner #aiinference #privacyrisks #aigovernance #dataleaks
Google is embedding AI across Chrome’s security pipeline to automate vulnerability discovery, bug triage, patch creation and testing while retaining human approval before release. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/31/news... #deccanfounders #chrome #ai #chromuimfeature
PhonePe has launched PulsePro, a paid enterprise intelligence platform that provides near real time market insights using aggregated and anonymised transaction data. Built on its network of over 700 million users and 50 million merchants, the platform helps businesses analyse consumer spending.
Google has launched Ask Google Pay, a Gemini-powered AI assistant that helps eligible Google Pay users in India track spending, discover savings and understand financial concepts through text or voice in 10 Indian languages.
Elon Musk’s X has launched X Money, a payments and banking service integrated into the platform. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/30/news... #deccanfounders #elonmusk #x #xmoney #banking #fintech #visa
IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report finds one in four breaches are AI‑enabled, pushing average costs to $6M, about $1M higher than the global average. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/30/news... #deccanfounders #ibm #databreach #ai #cybersecurity #malware
PwC Middle East has been caught publishing AI‑generated “thought leadership” reports with fabricated claims, hallucinated citations, and unverifiable sources, according to GPTZero and Financial Times. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/30/news... #deccanfounders #bigfour #pwc #aicitations
India says Gaganyaan is nearing its first uncrewed mission, with HLVM3, Crew Module and Service Module propulsion systems qualified, escape motors statically tested and G1 hardware in final assembly. ISRO has completed two Integrated Air Drop Tests and Sagar Manusha telemetry validation.
India has created the India Digital Payment Intelligence Corporation (IDPIC) as a central hub for real‑time fraud intelligence sharing in digital payments. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/29/news... #india #deccanfounders #digitalpayments #idpic #psu #ai #digitalfrauds
NPCI is moving to tighten privacy on UPI, directing banks and app providers to mask mobile numbers, UPI IDs and account details on customer screens by September 4, 2026. Username based Virtual Payment Addresses will become the default, responding to harassment and safety concerns as UPI usage.
WhatsApp has added native voice and video calling to WhatsApp Web, enabling users to make and receive one-on-one and group calls directly from browsers without the desktop app. Read Full Article: deccanfounders.com/2026/29/news... #deccanfounders #whatsapp #meta #webcalling #kunalshah
