Pune-based industrial deep-tech firm Minimac Systems has raised INR 30 crore led by Rainmatter by Zerodha to scale its miniaturised water treatment infrastructure and Recycling on Wheels hubs.
New York City has barred the use of AI tools by students through eighth grade, citing concerns about child development, as school districts globally grapple with how to regulate classroom AI use.
Emerald AI has raised $150 million in Series A funding at a $1.05 billion valuation, with its Emerald Conductor software dynamically adjusting AI data center power consumption to ease grid strain.
The Open Field is working with tribal and forest-dependent communities in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh to formalise forest-produce value chains, deploying portable Ayan Hubs and building a data-led Forest OS.
Uber is set to lay off around 200 to 250 employees in India as part of a global restructuring that will eliminate roughly 3,300 roles worldwide, its largest reduction since the pandemic.
Sydney-founded Gridsight has raised US$26 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners to help utilities dynamically expose unused electricity network capacity rather than treating grid limits as fixed.
Canadian clean-tech company Cyclic Materials has raised $75 million from T. Rowe Price to scale its technology for recovering high-purity rare earth oxides from discarded electronics and industrial scrap.
REGENT has raised $240 million in Series B funding led by Lockheed Martin Ventures and Founders Fund to scale production of its wing-in-ground-effect Seagliders for maritime and defense transport.
EV mobility platform Bijliride has partnered with Swiggy and Zomato to give delivery riders access to electric two-wheelers without an upfront purchase, deepening the gig economy's shift toward battery power.
Biotech company ProFound Therapeutics has raised $35 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance its AI platform for discovering novel protein-based drug targets.