Mirror Security raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding from Sure Valley Ventures and Atlantic Bridge to expand its AI security platform. The 2024 UCD spin-out is scaling across Ireland, the US, and India with tools like AgentIQ, DiscoveR, and VectaX, supported by partnerships with Inception AI, Intel, and others.

AI learning startup Yoodli, co-founded by Varun Puri, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by WestBridge Capital. The platform helps people practise real workplace conversations using AI roleplay and personalised feedback. With clients like Google and Snowflake, Yoodli plans to expand its technology, strengthen coaching tools, and scale its enterprise reach.

The recent drop in cryptocurrency values hit Donald Trump's family wealth, with many of their ventures more than halving in value, Bloomberg reported. Trump's son Eric's American Bitcoin and Alt5 Sigma, also promoted by his sons, have each dipped 75% in past few months. Trump and his wife Melania's memecoins have tumbled up to 99% from highs recorded in January.

Elon Musk predicts a 'protopian' future where AI and Optimus robots will automate most jobs within 10–20 years, making work optional. He envisions universal high income with free healthcare, food, and housing enabled by near-zero-cost production. Critics warn of elite control, job shocks, rising inequality, and a society struggling for purpose in a post-work world.

A phygital approach merges digital ease with offline trust through unified data, real-time inventory visibility, and consistent service across touchpoints. It removes channel friction, enabling reliable fulfilment and personalised engagement. For brands scaling across India, phygital execution improves efficiency by turning fragmented interactions into a single, seamless experience.

Digital commerce depends on discovery systems, fulfilment efficiency, user experience design, frictionless payments, and reliable last-mile execution. Each element supports trust, conversion, and repeat behaviour. As competition deepens, brands that treat these services as strategic levers rather than support functions achieve stronger scale and customer retention across categories.

Beginners strengthen fundamentals through small but complete HTML–CSS projects such as landing pages, responsive cards, grid layouts and simple dashboards. These builds teach spacing, structure, typography and adaptability. By iterating on real interfaces, learners build muscle memory that accelerates progression towards professional-grade front-end development.

Business ventures span proprietorships, scalable startups, franchises, cooperatives and corporate entities, each with distinct risk, capital needs and growth potential. Understanding these structures helps founders choose a model aligned with ambition, control preferences and operational capacity rather than defaulting to familiar or traditional formats.

Strong websites follow a structured life cycle: requirement analysis, wireframing, visual design, development, QA, and optimisation. This sequence reduces rework and keeps usability central. Treating design as iterative rather than a one-time task ensures clearer communication, faster load times, and adaptability as business needs evolve.

Cybersecurity expert Jiten Jain warns that GPS spoofing in India's busiest airports is a growing threat. Fake signals can mislead pilots, causing wrong location, altitude, or timing. Even brief confusion can cascade into disaster, especially with low fuel, bad weather, or crowded airspace. He stresses that India cannot afford to ignore this life-critical risk.

Account-based marketing concentrates resources on high-value accounts through coordinated messaging, focused content and intent-driven timing. Its strength lies in reducing wastage, increasing deal relevance and improving sales–marketing alignment. When powered by accurate data, ABM raises win rates and shortens sales cycles in complex enterprise environments.

Luana Lopes Lara, the 29-year-old Co-Founder of Kalshi, has become the world's youngest self-made woman billionaire. She has unseated Scale AI Co-Founder Lucy Guo, who herself surpassed singer Taylor Swift in April. This comes as the prediction market startup raised $1 billion at a valuation of $11 billion. Her 29-year-old Co-Founder Tarek Mansour has also entered the billionaire club.

Different models demand different metric stacks. SaaS relies on retention, expansion, and payback periods; e-commerce depends on contribution margins and repeat cycles; B2B focuses on pipeline quality and conversion velocity. Aligning metrics with real revenue behaviour helps teams remove vanity indicators and make decisions grounded in recurring performance.

A phygital approach merges digital ease with offline trust through unified data, real-time inventory visibility, and consistent service across touchpoints. It removes channel friction, enabling reliable fulfilment and personalised engagement. For brands scaling across India, phygital execution improves efficiency by turning fragmented interactions into a single seamless experience.

Google on Wednesday rolled out its AI-powered 'Virtual Apparel Try On' tool in India. This tool enables users to virtually try apparel listings on themselves by uploading their photo, making online shopping more personal. Users will begin seeing a "try it on" icon across eligible apparel listings on Google, tapping which they will be able to virtually style themselves.

India’s VC ecosystem includes early-stage specialists, sector-focused investors and late-stage growth funds. Their decisions influence capital availability, category expansion and founder support. Knowing which funds dominate which sectors helps entrepreneurs target the right partnerships during fundraising and signal stronger market alignment.

A 36-year-old woman, Brittney Ball, who was fired by Meta, has been jobless for nine months after the incident. "I have the skills and passion, so I'm unsure what the problem is. The low-performer label could be the reason," she said. She added that she didn't understand why she was put in the low-performer category.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company will start testing plans to build solar-powered data centres in space in 2027. "We'll send tiny racks of machines, and have them in satellites, test them out, and then start scaling from there," he stated. He added that it'll be normal to build extraterrestrial data centres in a decade.

Bengaluru offers the highest average salary to software engineers in India, at around ₹35 lakh, with Ahmedabad ranking at the other end with an average salary of ₹9 lakh. The gap between the two cities is nearly four times. Hyderabad and Delhi-NCR offer average salaries of ₹30 lakh and ₹21 lakh, respectively. Pune and Mumbai pay just below ₹20 lakh.

Google can track the location of a user even when GPS is turned off by using Wi-Fi routers, cell towers and Bluetooth beacons. Also, a device connected to the internet is assigned an IP address that often reveals the city or area of a user. Connections to smart devices at home or work allow Google to estimate a user's location.

Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit will use Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology in future generations of its AI computing chips to attract major customers. The technology creates speedy connections between different kinds of chips. Amazon will also launch new servers based on a chip called Trainium3, offering four times the computing power of its previous chips while using 40% less energy.

Taiwan's Foxconn and China's Luxshare are planning to add millions of gaming devices to Vietnam's annual output, Reuters reported, citing official documents. Foxconn's arm, Fushan Technology, plans to produce 4.8 million Xbox consoles, parts and other devices annually, while Luxshare will produce 4.5 million game consoles annually. Fushan may boost mobile phone output by 30 million units/year.

The safety practices of major AI companies, like OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic, are "far short of emerging global standards," a new study reported. This comes as several of the recent cases of suicide and self-harm have been linked to AI chatbots. Notably, public concern over the societal impact of smarter-than-human systems capable of reasoning and logical thinking is also rising.

Europe's major data centre operator Nebius will leverage its recent multi-billion-dollar contracts with Microsoft and Meta to build its business with traditional and emerging AI firms, Co-founder Roman Chernin said. Nebius had signed $17-billion deal with Microsoft in September and $3-billion tie-up with Meta. The firm is planning to reach 2.5 GW power capacity by 2026 in US and Europe.

India Electronics and Semiconductor Association President Ashok Chandak said the semiconductor sector could face a shortage of around seven lakh workers by 2030. "Worldwide, there is a problem, and India has the opportunity to fill the void," he stated. He highlighted the need to update the technical curriculum and develop manufacturing-related training programmes to tackle the issue.