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Indian AI Startup Funding Jumps Over 4X to ~$1 Billion in H1 2026

Indian AI startups raised roughly $1,067 million in the first half of 2026 — up about 33% year-on-year by one count, and more than 4X the $1…

Sarvam and Neysa Become AI Unicorns in Under Three Years; Sarvam Raises $234M

AI startups Sarvam and Neysa have reached unicorn status in under three years — an unusually fast climb for Indian deep-tech. Sarvam led the…

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IndiaAI Mission Onboards 38,000+ GPUs for Subsidised Shared Access

The IndiaAI Mission — a ₹10,372 crore programme run by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology — has now onboarded more than …

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Nvidia Ships Nemotron 3 Nano, Its Third-Gen Open LLM Family — Larger Sizes Coming

Nvidia has unveiled the third generation of its Nemotron large language models, starting with the smallest variant — Nemotron 3 Nano — with …

OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Messages Integration on macOS

OpenAI is rolling out a Messages integration for ChatGPT on macOS, letting the assistant read, search, summarize, draft and send messages on…

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Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta Warn Against 'Premature Restrictions' on Open-Weight AI

Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta have jointly cautioned regulators against imposing 'premature restrictions' on open-weight AI models, arguing tha…

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368+ Model Releases Tracked in 2026: Reasoning, Multimodal and Cheap Frontier Performance

Trackers now count 368+ model releases across major AI organizations in 2026. Three trends dominate: reasoning models that trade latency for…

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🗞 Industry

Regulators Open Las Vegas Streets to Thousands of Robotaxis

Regulators have opened Las Vegas streets to thousands of robotaxis, one of the largest single expansions of autonomous ride-hailing to date.…

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Chipmakers Line Up Tens of Billions in Fresh AI Debt Financing

Chipmakers have lined up tens of billions of dollars in new debt to fund AI capacity expansion — fabs, packaging, and data-center buildouts …

India Tech Funding Rises 12% to $7.2B in H1 2026 — But Deal Count Shrinks

India's technology startup ecosystem attracted $7.2 billion in H1 2026, a 12% year-on-year increase — but the number of deals shrank, meanin…

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TCS Cuts 23,460 Roles in AI-First Pivot — the Start of Indian IT's 'AI Reckoning'

Tata Consultancy Services has let go of 23,460 employees as it pivots to an AI-first services model — the largest workforce reduction among …

📈 Hiring

India's IT Paradox: 80,000 Fresher Hires Planned at TCS, Infosys & Cognizant Despite Global Layoffs

Even as 2026's global tech layoffs pass 134,000, India's IT majors are planning big fresher intakes: TCS around 40,000 in FY27, with Infosys…

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Kubernetes v1.37 'Garhwal' Released: DRA Matures for AI Workloads, Gang Scheduling Lands in Beta

Kubernetes v1.37, codenamed 'Garhwal' after the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, India, shipped on August 26 with 67 enhancements: 16 gradua…

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Monday.com to Cut 20% of Workforce (~630 Roles) in Pivot to AI Platform

Work-management company Monday.com is reportedly laying off about 20% of its workforce — roughly 630 employees — as it repositions its AI pl…

Cisco Cuts ~4,000 Jobs to Refocus on AI — While Raising Its Sales Forecast

Cisco plans to cut about 4,000 jobs — under 5% of its workforce — in a restructuring aimed at concentrating investment on AI infrastructure.…

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Oracle's Year of Cuts: ~21,000 Roles (13% of Workforce) as Cloud/AI Reshapes Its Org

Layoff trackers report Oracle has cut roughly 21,000 jobs over the past year — around 13% of its workforce — making it the single largest co…

Andreessen Horowitz Closes $1.1B 'Machine Age Fund' for Chips, Robotics & Data Centers

Andreessen Horowitz has closed its Machine Age Fund at $1.1 billion, dedicated to companies building physical-world technology: chips, memor…

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DeepSeek Reportedly Targets ~$74B Valuation in New Funding Round

AI lab DeepSeek is reportedly planning a new funding round at a valuation around $74 billion, following an approximately $7.4 billion outsid…

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Alibaba Cloud Launches Wan3.0: 30-Second Generative Video from Docs, PDFs & Spreadsheets

Alibaba Cloud released Wan3.0, its newest generative video model, capable of producing videos up to 30 seconds long — and notably, from busi…

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Apple's Foldable iPhone Reportedly Nears Launch, Timing Eyed for September

After years of development and supply-chain rumors, reports suggest Apple may finally enter the foldable market with refined hardware, with …

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AI Now Cited in ~50% of 2026 Layoff Events, Affecting 170K+ Workers

Half of 2026's layoff events explicitly cite AI, automation, or machine learning as a driving force — affecting roughly 172,000 workers acco…

via Tech Startups (funding digest)

August Funding Recap: Capital Rotates from SaaS to Physical Infrastructure

August 2026's funding data shows a decisive rotation: the largest checks went to data centers, home batteries, chip supply chains, hypersoni…