On her visit to San Francisco, ALTRD founder Gayatri Agrawal saw a thriving AI hub backed by massive funding and billion-dollar ambitions. She realised India lacked infrastructure, not talent. With Google’s AI Futures Fund offering $350,000 to $500,000 cloud credits and up to $2 million in funding, Indian founders can now build global-scale AI from home.

Airbus issued a global alert after discovering a software flaw in the A320 family, affecting 6000 aircraft worldwide. In India, airlines avoided cancellations by running nonstop safety checks, quickly updating systems and coordinating closely with DGCA. IndiGo and Air India cleared most jets within hours, keeping flights operating smoothly while passengers remained unaware of the global caution.

Twinkle Khanna has reacted to Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal's claim that gravity is the reason ageing happens. "If gravity were the kryptonite stopping us from turning into Superman, we might consider astronauts like Sunita Williams, who returned to Earth...after spending nine months floating in microgravity," Twinkle wrote. "She returned...with weaker bones, muscles, and heart," she added.

A towering 75-ft Vikram rocket replica has become Hyderabad’s newest attraction after being unveiled at a private aerospace campus. The monument was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, symbolising India’s rising space ambitions. Built to inspire young innovators, the installation marks a major milestone for the country’s fast-growing private space sector.

Sleepy Owl’s $6.5 million Series A in 2021 accelerated its shift from a niche D2C brand to a national coffee player. With Rukam Capital's backing, it built stronger supply chains, expanded into 7,500 stores from 500, grew ARR from ₹20 crore to ₹100 crore+, added new brews and formats, and strengthened its digital-led consumer community.

Meesho will allocate nearly 9% of its total IPO proceeds, worth ₹5,421.20 crore, to pay salaries for existing and replacement hires in its Machine Learning and AI teams at its subsidiary, Meesho Technologies. It'll invest ₹1,390 crore in cloud infrastructure and ₹1,020 crore in marketing and brand initiatives within the same subsidiary. The IPO will open on December 3.

World's richest man Elon Musk revealed on billionaire Nikhil Kamath's podcast that his partner Shivon Zilis is of Indian origin. "One of my sons with her, his middle name is 'Sekhar', after [Indian-origin Nobel-winner Subrahmanyan] Chandrasekhar," Musk said. They both laughed after Kamath asked if Zilis spent any time in India, and Musk replied, "No, she grew up in Canada."

Performance teams use AdGPT to automate troubleshooting, discover growth pockets and prevent wasted spending. The system evaluates creative, targeting, pricing and funnel stages, then produces step-by-step recommendations. With unified insights across channels, marketers get faster optimisation cycles and more reliable spend outcomes without analysts.

Zerodha Co-founder Nikhil Kamath shared a trailer of his podcast with billionaire Elon Musk. In the clip, Kamath can be heard asking Musk why he likes the letter 'X'. "It's a good question...Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with me," Musk replied while laughing. Meanwhile, some users asked Kamath to question Musk about rising racism against Indians on X.

On being questioned by Nikhil Kamath about which company (not owned by him) he'd invest with a capitalistic view, Elon Musk said, "I don't look for things to invest in." However, Musk noted that AI and robotics will be "very important" and added, "I think Google is gonna be pretty valuable in the future...[and] Nvidia is obvious at this point."

Traditional analytics only show charts, but intelligence tools explain performance and recommend corrections. AdGPT blends reasoning models with marketing logic to highlight wasted spend, broken audiences and weak creatives. Teams get a prioritised action list that improves efficiency and reduces trial cycles, especially across large multi-channel budgets.

Zerodha Co-founder Nikhil Kamath has shared a teaser video suggesting his next podcast guest is world's richest man Elon Musk. The video, which shows the duo laughing, sparked social media discussion over whether it's AI-generated or not. "The video shows signs of AI generation, like face morphing...I'm uncertain on full authenticity," Grok said in reply to an X user's query.

Two 22-year-old Gen Z students William Chen and Guan Wang, behind the open-source AI chatbot OpenChat, had rejected billionaire Elon Musk's multi-million-dollar pay offer to work at xAI, they told Fortune. Chen said they didn't want to work on LLMs as they "have their limitations". They then built a "brain-inspired" reasoning system that has now outperformed OpenAI, DeepSeek and Anthropic.

Billionaire Nikhil Kamath revealed on his podcast that he was once a shareholder of Twitter before world's richest man Elon Musk bought it and renamed it to X. Calling himself a "very small shareholder", Kamath said, "I got paid when you bought Twitter." Musk responded, saying it was important to buy Twitter as it was having negative influence on world.

Billionaire philanthropist and Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has invested in Funding U, a startup founded by her college roommate Jeannie Tarkenton, AP reported. Tarkenton's father had given $1,000 to Scott decades ago, when the latter was unable to fund her college tuition fees. Funding U provides merit-based last-gap loans to low-income students without co-signers.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said it is physically impossible for Starlink to perform better in cities or densely populated areas due to competition from local network providers. "Rural areas...have worst internet because it's costly and difficult...to have high bandwidth cellular towers...So, Starlink tends to serve the least served," Musk said. "Starlink is complementary to existing telcos," he added.

Paytm parent One 97 Communications has completed the transfer of its offline merchants' payment business to its wholly-owned subsidiary, Paytm Payments Services Limited (PPSL). This comes after PPSL received RBI license to operate as a Payment Aggregator (PA). After approval, PPSL will resume the onboarding of new merchants, a process that had been under an RBI freeze since November 2022.

Shares of Paytm's parent One97 Communications hit a fresh 52-week high of ₹1,370.95 during intraday trading on Monday. The stock surged 2.46% to ₹1,353.10 after the company's successful acquisition of the remaining stakes in three key subsidiaries. Paytm acquired 9.99% equity shares of Foster Payment Networks, 67.55% of Paytm Insuretech, and 51.22% of Paytm Financial Services.

E-commerce platform Meesho is set to launch a roughly $606 million IPO on December 3, reports stated. Its IPO features only small sell-downs from early investors, with major holders like SoftBank and Prosus opting not to sell. This reportedly signals strong confidence in India's fast-growing online retail market, even as tech investors globally have been cashing out at listings.

Lenskart projected that Indian eyewear market will grow from $9.2 billion in FY25 to $17.2 billion by FY30. This estimate is significantly higher than projections shared by its competitor, Titan, which said the market is expected to grow to roughly $5 billion by 2030. Lenskart claims rising first-time diagnoses, demand for prescription eyewear and higher purchases will push the growth.

Lenskart published its first quarterly results after listing on the stock exchanges earlier this month. It reported a net profit of ₹102 crore for the second quarter, up roughly 20% from ₹85 crore in the same period a year ago. The eyewear brand's revenue from operations also jumped around 21% to ₹2,096 crore from ₹1,736 crore during the same period.

Home and furnishings company Wakefit will launch its initial public offering on December 8. The IPO includes a fresh issue worth ₹377 crore and an offer-for-sale of 4.67 crore shares. Wakefit founders Ankit Garg and Chaitanya Ramalingegowda, along with Peak XV Partners, Investcorp and SAI Global India, will be among those offloading shares in the OFS.

Lenskart Co-Founder and CEO Peyush Bansal said more than 750 million people need vision correction in India. He made the remark during the company's conference call on financial earnings for the second quarter of FY26. "It will take a decade more for Lenskart to make a change in the eye market of India," Bansal added.

Three mainboard issues, Meesho's ₹5,421-crore IPO, Aequs' ₹921-crore IPO and Vidya Wires' ₹300-crore IPO, will open for subscription on December 3 and close on December 5. As many as eight SMEs, including Astron Multigrain, Invicta Diagnostic, and Ravelcare, are set to open their public issues next week. Along with new IPOs, the coming week will see six stock market debuts.

The Rajasthan High Court has directed the state government to ensure that at least 15% drivers on ride-booking apps are women in the next six months. This would be increased to 25% in the next 2-3 years, and the court also said that female passengers must have the preference in the apps' software to opt for female drivers first.