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Cautio Acquires Two-Wheeler Safety Startup BYTES to Expand AI Road Safety Platform

The acquisition will see BYTES’ team and core technology absorbed into Cautio’s operations

Sarla Aviation Begins Ground Tests of Air Taxis in Bengaluru

Bengaluru-Based Prosperr.io Raises $4 Mn to Build AI-Powered Tax Infrastructure for India

Yann LeCun’s Next Act: €500 Million AI Venture Focused on World Models

Bengaluru-Based Gnani.ai Launches Indic Speech-to-Text Model Under IndiaAI Mission

TCS Partners with Workday to Unlock Power of Human Capital and Supercharge Workplaces with AI

Cursor Acquires Graphite to Build Next-Gen AI Coding Platform

Google Brings Vibe-Coding Tool Opal to Gemini, Letting Users Build AI Apps Without Code

Opal appears inside the Gems manager and includes a visual editor that breaks app creation into clear, connected steps.

Grok Under Fire for Spreading Misinformation After Bondi Beach Shooting

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Makes Tinker AI Generally Available

McDonald’s Pulls AI-Generated Christmas Ad After Public Backlash

The New York Times Sues Perplexity AI, Claims Copyright Theft and False Attribution in AI Outputs

Yann LeCun to Launch New AI Startup Focused on Advanced Machine Intelligence

Google Cloud Rolls Out Gemini 3 for Enterprise Use

Yann LeCun’s Next Act: €500 Million AI Venture Focused on World Models

The venture, expected to be called Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, is likely to be announced in January.

AI Drug Discovery Startup Chai Discovery Becomes Unicorn After $130 Mn Funding Round

[Exclusive] Meta to Back Yann LeCun’s New AI Venture with Strategic Compute Support

NeoSapien Raises $2 Mn to Develop AI Wearables in India

Bengaluru Voice AI Startup SuperBryn Raises $1.2 Mn to Fix Why Most Voice Agents Fail in the Real World

OpenAI Acquires neptune.ai to Power Next-Gen Model Training

xAI Eyes Massive $15 Bn Raise in December to Buy More GPUs