The 0.40% merchant discount rate on larger UPI payments, due on October 15, could be pushed to January 1 next year, with an exemption for merchants with turnover up to ₹40 lakh under consideration.
NABARD's venture arm has secured ₹450 crore towards a ₹1,500 crore fund for agritech, rural fintech and climate-smart start-ups, at a time when agritech funding has fallen to multi-year lows.
The communications ministry called Musk's claim that Starlink is being blocked by "oligarchs" baseless, saying Starlink, Jio Satellite and Eutelsat OneWeb are all at the same stage of security assessment.
Pony.ai's seventh-generation robotaxis will begin testing on London roads in the coming weeks, as Uber pursues autonomous rides in up to 15 cities by the end of 2026 through more than 30 partners.
Google's new Gemini agent can plan work, use tools, connect to company systems and even get its own Workspace account, with enterprises getting access before consumers.
The UK fashion retailer told the London Stock Exchange that hackers accessed a third-party platform holding customer data, after app users received a message demanding the company "engage with us, or we will leak it".
Indian startups raised $2.2 billion in July–September, but money moved towards Series A and B rounds while large late-stage cheques thinned out, Inc42 data shows, with AI and cleantech leading the sectors.
Hyderabad edtech byteXL has raised $9 million (about ₹86.7 crore) in a round led by Elevar Equity, with Kalaari Capital and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, to embed technology and AI training inside engineering degrees in smaller cities.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has pledged state support for at least 50 AI startups in Lucknow over five years, as HCLTech began a ₹500 crore second phase at its IT City campus expected to create about 6,000 jobs.
Microsoft has priced its first Nvidia-powered Surface machines, from $2,600 for the Surface Laptop Ultra to $6,000 for a developer workstation, and added a Windows 11 feature called Execution Containers to sandbox AI agents.