OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health links medical records and fitness apps to deliver personalized health guidance while avoiding diagnosis, with encrypted data and physician input.
MiniPix, a Bengaluru-based mobile-first platform for regional micro-dramas, has raised ₹2.4 crore in pre-seed funding led by PedalStart and Venture Catalysts, aiming to scale content, deepen product-market fit, and expand across Bharat’s Tier-2 and Tier-3 markets with data-led, AI-enabled operations.
Ant Group is rapidly expanding a QR-based cross-border payment network through Ant International and Alipay+, challenging Visa and Mastercard as global volumes surge.
YouTube Music subscribers say AI-generated tracks are overwhelming their recommendations as rivals like Deezer and Spotify move faster with AI detection and controls.
India becomes the first nation to commercially produce bio-bitumen from agricultural waste, with CSIR-led innovation promising lower emissions, foreign exchange savings, and rural income while supporting Viksit Bharat 2047 and greener road infrastructure.
Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd will invest Rs 6,675 crore in a 10 GW ingot and wafer plant in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, backed by a 200 MW captive green power facility, as the state courts upstream solar manufacturing with strong port links and policy stability.
Lenovo’s CES 2026 showcase spans AI cloud with Nvidia, Qira cross-device intelligence, AI Glasses Concept, Auto Twist laptops, and rollable Legion and ThinkPad designs.
China’s sweeping export controls on dual-use goods to Japan hit Asian markets, pressure tech stocks, and threaten Japan’s GDP, as geopolitical tensions rise.
Elon Musk’s xAI closes a $20 billion Series E round, beating its $15 billion target to expand GPU-heavy data centers, scale Grok models, and court enterprise and government clients, even as regulators in the EU, UK, India, Malaysia, and France probe deepfake and CSAM risks.
Arrowhead, a Bengaluru-based voice AI startup, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Stellaris Venture Partners to scale multilingual, compliance-ready voice agents for BFSI clients across India, Southeast Asia, and soon the Middle East, after reporting 4-5X revenue growth and strong deployment traction.
