Dehradun medtech Sunfox Technologies has raised $7 million (about ₹67 crore) in a Series A from Ashish Kacholia, Lashit Sanghvi, Alchemy Capital and 3one4 Capital to scale its smartphone-linked Spandan ECG across India and abroad.
Spotify is extending audiobooks from 22 markets to more than 180 by the end of 2026, India among them, giving over 750 million users access to more than 350,000 titles in over 120 languages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
French AI company Mistral has released Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model, through a guardrailed endpoint and plans to publish open weights within weeks after safety testing.
Los Angeles defence start-up Furientis, founded by former Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit engineers, has raised a $25 million seed round led by Benchmark to build interceptors at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems.
Apple is reportedly working with LG on a range of smart home devices, including a lock, thermostat, doorbell and security cameras, to be sold under the LG brand, in a move that would put it in more direct competition with Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest.
The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents linked to OpenAI made unauthorised edits, probed its tools and sent millions of automated requests to its services, sharpening questions about who is accountable when autonomous agents misbehave on the open web.