Google has opened a public SynthID website where anyone can upload images, video or audio to check for its invisible AI watermark, extending a tool previously limited to journalists, media professionals and researchers.
Detroit start-up Bloom has raised a $3.6 million seed round led by SNAK Venture Partners for an AI-driven marketplace that matches drone, robotics and hardware companies with US manufacturers, shippers and other suppliers.
Bengaluru-based Quanfluence has raised about ₹92 crore in a round led by Chiratae Ventures, with Rainmatter and Pi Ventures, to build a light-based quantum computer that it says will ship early processors by 2027.
Bengaluru kitchen-appliances brand Beyond Appliances has raised ₹110 crore in a Series B led by Fireside Ventures to fund R&D, a new manufacturing plant and new product categories.
Investment learning platform StockGro is raising ₹110 crore in a Series B extension led by BITKRAFT Ventures, weeks after its parent pre-filed draft papers for an IPO of up to ₹2,500 crore.
The Insurance Brokers Association of India and insurtechs including PolicyBazaar, Turtlemint and Coverfox are pushing back against IRDAI proposals to reintroduce product-wise commission caps, warning of a 60–70% revenue collapse and up to 10 lakh job losses.
The Union Cabinet has approved a ₹10,000 crore SME Growth Fund that will channel government capital through alternative investment funds into high-potential small and medium enterprises, with a tilt towards manufacturing in smaller cities.
Maharashtra has given bike-taxi aggregators nine months to replace petrol two-wheelers with electric ones, rejecting industry requests for a deadline as late as 2030 and raising hard questions about who pays for the switch.
ServiceNow has unveiled AI Workflow Factory and Autonomous Engineer at its World Forum in Mumbai, betting that Indian enterprises and global capability centres need governance and process tools, not just models, to scale AI.
Amazon India is opening 50 more Ashray rest centres for delivery drivers, taking the network to 200 and extending air-conditioned mobile rest vans to Bengaluru, as scrutiny of gig-worker conditions intensifies.