Ayurvedic personal-care brand Nat Habit, co-founded by Swagatika Das and Gaurav Agarwal, has raised ₹142 crore in a Series C round led by Trident Growth Partners as it targets 60–70% growth from an annualised gross revenue of ₹330 crore.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier AI models, claiming benchmark performance comparable to top rivals and leadership on memory, with API pricing of $4 per million input tokens.
Qualcomm’s venture arm has sold a 0.98% stake in listed logistics firm Shadowfax Technologies for about ₹157 crore, completing its exit after an August sale, as early investors book gains on a stock lifted by a sharp rise in profits.
Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith has called AI both “a weapon and a tool”, said milk and washing machines face more oversight than AI companies, and argued that the UK, not the US or EU, is best placed to lead on global safety rules.
Honeyjar, the San Francisco startup led by CEO Michelle Masek and CCO Nadia Jamshidi, has launched AI tools that help PR and communications teams plan and run campaigns, drawing 10,000 waitlist sign-ups in 24 hours ahead of TechCrunch Disrupt.
Mistlabs, led by former Plaud executive Peter Mo, has raised $26 million in rounds led by Luminous Ventures with electronics maker Huaqin to launch Ambi, an ambient AI assistant for iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch that can listen all day.
Weather-data startup WindBorne Systems has secured a US Air Force contract worth up to $49 million to supply data from its fleet of about 700 autonomous balloons, the largest deal in its history and a boost for AI-driven forecasting.
TotalEnergies is expanding its 50/50 US renewables joint venture with KKR by adding three utility-scale solar assets in Texas and Ohio worth $1.2 billion, lifting the venture’s capacity from 1.4 GW to about 2.1 GW.
As the IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings open in Bangkok for the first time since 1991, the IMF has lifted India’s 2026 growth forecast to 7% while warning that global resilience is under strain from the Middle East war, high energy prices and record debt.
Russian strikes on Ukrainian gas facilities wounded 33 people hours after President Trump declared an “energy ceasefire”, as his plan to import Russian diesel draws legal questions and US gasoline averages $4.35 a gallon.