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.

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.

Data overload slows marketers who juggle multiple dashboards without context. Conversational ad AI translates raw metrics into direct explanations and clear next actions. Teams get fast answers to questions such as why costs rose or where budgets leak. This shift makes decision making easier for performance teams who want speed and accuracy.

Varuni Sarwal, Indian-origin CEO of US-based AI-healthcare company TriFetch, said she had forgotten to buy an outfit for a wedding she attended in Ranchi, but received it in 15 minutes from Blinkit. "San Francisco has self-driving cars. India has 10-minute everything. I'm not sure which is more impressive," she said. "India is living in 2030 for B2C logistics," she added.

AdGPT turns scattered ad metrics into prioritised actions that tell marketers exactly what to fix, pause or scale. It diagnoses fatigue, waste and funnel gaps automatically and suggests next steps with impact projections. Instead of hunting dashboards, teams get fast clarity that protects spend and accelerates decisions across channels.

Most business failures come from misdiagnosed problems. The right diagnostic flow reveals if issues stem from acquisition, pricing, churn, processes or team bandwidth. Structured analysis helps leaders find root causes faster and pick actions that fix impact drivers instead of symptoms. Clarity saves budgets and improves performance predictably.

Digital assets like domains, newsletters, niche websites and automated ecommerce stores are emerging as modern real estate. They generate recurring income at low overhead and can be bought, optimised and resold for profit. With AI tools reducing creation time, digital property flipping is becoming accessible for creators and investors seeking scalable returns.

Intellsys AdGPT reads multi-channel signals in real time and eliminates the lag of manual analysis. It detects patterns behind CAC spikes, ROAS drops and creative decay, then recommends what action drives the best return. The system replaces dashboards with conversation and turns complex reporting into rapid growth moves that scale.

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.

New founders win by building around automation, niche SaaS, AI copilots and underserved markets. India's digital expansion creates massive gaps in operations, vertical tech, workflow tools and specialised consumer products. Ideas that reduce manual labor and solve visible inefficiencies have the highest chance of scaling quickly and attracting capital.

Virality today depends on instant hooks, cultural timing, scroll stopping visuals and creator style consistency. Emotion driven formats perform best and algorithms reward retention over reach. With AI tools simplifying ideation, editing and trend mapping, anyone can create high performance content if they master audience psychology and repeatable formats.

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.

Nano Banana Pro is changing prompt craft by pushing photo realism, lighting control, and micro texture fidelity to near human standards. The model shines when prompts are layered with intent like mood, lens style, depth and context. With structured prompt blocks, creators get sharper faces, consistent characters and commercial grade imagery at scale.

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.

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.

Generative AI has moved from novelty to infrastructure powering content, design, automation and product creation. Businesses use it for rapid prototyping, marketing, decision support and customer journeys. As capabilities expand, companies that combine human creativity with AI driven execution will grow faster and outperform manual workflows.

Fundraising by companies through IPOs crossed ₹1.6 lakh crore, setting a new record. It has surpassed the previous year's ₹1.59 lakh crore even with a full month still ahead. Meesho is set to raise around ₹5,421 crore, Aequs Limited plans to mobilise nearly ₹921 crore, while Vidya Wires is expected to raise about ₹300 crore through its IPO in December.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.