IIT-Bombay-incubated space-tech startup InspeCity has raised ₹100 crore in a pre-Series A round co-led by Speciale Invest and Ashish Kacholia to fund in-orbit satellite servicing missions.
OpenAI has started rolling out advertising on ChatGPT in India, beginning with logged-in adults on the Free and Go tiers, as WPP and Omnicom become its first agency partners in the market.
Micromax Informatics has launched a family office with a ₹250 crore corpus to invest in deeptech startups across AI, semiconductors, defence technology, spacetech and robotics, both in India and select global markets.
Google has invested $60 million in new global water restoration projects, part of the technology giant's ongoing sustainability commitments as its own AI and data centre operations place growing demands on water resources.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is reportedly courting America's largest cloud computing companies for infrastructure partnerships, part of a broader push by Chinese AI developers to secure compute capacity beyond their domestic market.
SpaceX is reportedly planning a $100 billion launch complex, a scale of investment that would represent one of the largest single infrastructure commitments in the history of the commercial space industry.
Samsung has unveiled LPDDR5X-PIM, a new processing-in-memory design detailed at Hot Chips 2026 that the company says delivers up to 2.28 times faster model runtime and eightfold peak bandwidth gains for AI inference workloads.
OpenAI says its first custom inference chip now outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell systems on AI work per watt in benchmark testing, a milestone that signals the growing race among leading AI labs to control their own compute infrastructure.
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, closing the human-work marketplace that helped power the data-labelling and annotation work underpinning much of the early machine-learning era.
South Korean consumer AI company WRTN Technologies has raised approximately $72.2 million in a Series C round from Coreline Ventures, Goodwater Capital and other investors, pushing its valuation above 1 trillion won.