China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has laid out a five-year plan committing 3.8 trillion yuan to more than quadruple national AI computing capacity to 9,800 exaflops by 2030.
Audio-storytelling platform Kuku Technologies plans to hire 1,000 people by the end of the financial year to build out its AI-powered content creation unit, leveraging its AI Storytelling Stack.
Reliance Jio has set a September 2027 target for the first test launch of its planned 1,600-satellite low-Earth-orbit constellation, as India's telecom majors race to build sovereign satellite broadband capacity.
DigitalPaani has raised Rs 22 crore in a round led by Navam Capital, with a wide investor base including a fund dedicated to early-growth women entrepreneurs, to expand its water-technology platform.
Indian space-tech startup GalaxEye has been granted a US patent for OptoSAR, its core architecture that synchronises optical and synthetic aperture radar sensors to deliver aligned Earth-observation data.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index slipped modestly while mainland China's CSI 300 posted gains, as both markets drew support from broad strength in technology shares despite moving in different directions overall.
European venture debt provider Claret Capital has raised €575 million to finance growth-stage technology and life-sciences companies, offering founders capital without the equity dilution of traditional venture rounds.
Bengaluru's Navana.ai, a sovereign voice-AI platform built for regulated enterprises, has raised Rs 40 crore in a Series A round led by entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala to scale its Indian-language speech models across BFSI.
Cyrix, a medical-technology services company founded in 2004, has built a network of more than 1,200 biomedical engineers serving over 25,000 healthcare facilities across India, the Middle East and Africa.
Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma has predicted that autonomous AI agents with OS-level access will replace smartphone apps by 2027, forecasting a decisive shift toward machine-executed, multi-step tasks.