Funding
Replit Raises $400 Mn to Expand AI Coding Platform
The new round represents a sharp increase from the company’s $3 billion valuation just months earlier, reflecting strong demand for AI-powered developer tools.
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Expansion
Y Combinator Brings Startup School to India, Deepening Engagement with Local Founders
The programme aims to bring together builders, hackers and early-stage founders from across the country to discuss emerging trends in technology and entrepreneurship
Cloud
Bosch SDS and NxtGen Partner to Launch India’s Sovereign Industrial AI Cloud
The companies will also pursue joint go-to-market initiatives and develop sector-specific solutions to help enterprises adopt industrial AI technologies.
Research
Tenable Uncover ‘LeakyLooker’ Flaws in Google Looker Studio That Could Expose Cloud Data
The flaws could affect organisations using several Looker Studio data connectors, including Google Sheets, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Google Cloud Storage.
Lawsuits
Court Blocks Perplexity’s AI Shopping Agent from Amazon in Early Test of ‘Agentic Commerce’
Last year, Amazon sent a legal notice to Perplexity AI, demanding it stop enabling AI-driven shopping on its platform
Cybersecurity
Truecaller Introduces Feature Letting Users Hang Up on Scam Calls for Family Members
Users can create a group with up to five members, enabling the administrator to monitor scam alerts and take action when a risky call appears.
Big Tech
Microsoft Introduces Copilot Health to Bring AI-Powered Insights to Personal Medical Data
Copilot Health is currently rolling out in phases in the United States, with plans for broader expansion in the future.
Chips
Meta Unveils New RISC-V MTIA Chips to Power AI Inference
The company revealed plans to release four MTIA generations within two years, a pace that reflects the rapid evolution of AI systems and the computing infrastructure needed to support them.
Partnerships
Proximal Cloud and Instant Systems Partner to Accelerate Enterprise AI Deployment and Supercharge Startups
The joint forward deployed engineering teams will address challenges related to data integration, model performance, governance, and cost efficiency.
AI Startups
Anthropic Launches Institute to Study Societal Impact of Advanced AI
The institute will be led by Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, who will serve as the company’s Head of Public Benefit
Acquisition
Zendesk Moves to Self-Improving AI Agents with Proposed Forethought Acquisition
Zendesk expects AI agents to manage more service interactions than human agents as early as 2026.
AI News
Databricks Launches Genie Code AI Agent to Automate Data Engineering and Analytics Work
The new tool is an extension of Genie, Databricks’ conversational interface that allows business users to query enterprise data using natural language.