Fractal Analytics has received SEBI's approval to launch India's first IPO by an AI-focused company. The globally recognised enterprise aims to raise ₹4,900 crore through its maiden issue, which includes a fresh issue of up to ₹1,279.3 crore and an offer for sale of ₹3,620.7 crore by existing investors. Funds will be used to repay debt at its US subsidiary.

A Chinese robot walked 106.286 km in three days to set the Guinness World Record for the longest journey walked by a humanoid robot. The robot, AgiBot A2, started walking on the evening of November 10 and arrived at Shanghai's waterfront Bund area on November 13. It navigated varied surfaces and adhered to traffic regulations during the trek.

Scammers are weaponising AI-generated voice clones of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and cheapfaked videos to lure working-class Indians with false election freebies on Instagram. Fraudulent reels lead users to phishing sites that harvest personal data and extract money through fake charges, preying on trust and digital vulnerability during festival and election periods.

Apple has moved Delhi HC, challenging certain provisions of India's competition law as CCI is allowed to impose penalties based on a company's "global turnover." Fines are imposed for abusing dominant position or entering into anti-competitive agreements. CCI can impose penalties up to 10% of an enterprise or group of enterprises' average turnover or income over the last three years.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said other automakers are not interested in licensing his company's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. "I have tried to warn them and even offered to license Tesla FSD, but they don't want it! Crazy," he wrote on X. Ford CEO Jim Farley had earlier publicly rejected the idea of using FSD, stating that "Waymo is better."

Google's parent company Alphabet closed in on a $4 trillion valuation on Monday, a Reuters report said. The surge is reportedly fuelled by strong investor confidence and renewed belief in Google's leadership within the rapidly expanding artificial intelligence (AI) sector. Earlier this year, Google's Gemini "Nano Banana" model went viral, leading to a massive surge in reach and user adoption.

Google Co-founder Larry Page has overtaken Oracle Co-founder Larry Ellison to become the world's second-richest person, with his current net worth estimated at $255 billion, Forbes reported. This comes from a single-day gain of $8.7 billion after Google's parent Alphabet's stock price surged over the success of the new Gemini 3 AI model. Page holds a 3.2% stake in Alphabet.

The market value of Google-parent Alphabet rose from $2 trillion to close to $4 trillion in just six months as the tech giant rushed to catch up in the AI race, NDTV Profit reported. This comes after Google's Bard failed to compete with ChatGPT, following which Google jumped back into the AI race with Gemini 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro.

Facebook and Instagram operator Meta allegedly let accounts engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex receive 16 strikes before suspending them. The claim was made by Meta's former head of safety, Vaishnavi Jayakumar, in a lawsuit related to social media child safety. She added that this "is a very high strike threshold" by "any measure across the industry".

Sarvam AI LLM researcher Harveen Singh Chadha raised concerns about Google's Nano Banana creating fake PAN and Aadhaar cards. "It can create fake identity cards with extremely high precision...Legacy image verification systems are doomed to fail," Chadha wrote. "This is faster than...RTO," Chadha said as an X user joked they'll use AI to correct spelling error on their driving licence.

Bengaluru reported 44,177 cybercrime cases between 2023 and October 31, 2025, with citizens losing ₹4,143 crore during the period, reported Moneycontrol. According to Bengaluru Police records, such losses tripled from ₹681 crore in 2023 to ₹1,996 crore in 2024, driven by investment scams, phishing attempts, online fraud and digital arrest scams. As of October 2025, losses reached ₹1,446 crore.

Drawing inspiration from Spiderman comics, researchers from Tufts University have created the first web-slinging technology wherein a silk fibroin solution shoots out of a needle and solidifies mid-air to form sticky fibres. The research was published in journal Advanced Functional Materials. The breakthrough to use dopamine to quicken the solidification "came about purely by accident," they said.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has backed American commentator Candace Owens' claim that France was involved in the murder of Charlie Kirk. "After reviewing everything...Kirk has ever said about Macron's France, I find Candace's info about French involvement in his death entirely plausible," Durov said. Kirk was shot dead during an event at Utah Valley University.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to launch the Genesis Mission. The project aims to build an AI platform that harnesses federal scientific datasets to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents. President's Science Advisor Michael Kratsios said the mission will use AI to "generate predictive models for everything from protein folding to fusion plasma dynamics".

The current increase in AI-related investments are justified and sustainable and show no signs of bubble forming at this stage, said JP Morgan report. It stated that although ingredients for market bubble exist, investment cycle is supported by massive capital expenditure and increased adoption. It added, AI-spending cycle today is funded by real cash flows rather than excessive borrowing.

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.5, positioning it as a direct competitor to recent releases from Google and OpenAI.​ The model features enhanced capabilities in coding, autonomous agents, and office productivity. It achieved 80.9% on SWE-bench Verified, a benchmark for real-world software engineering tasks, surpassing Google's Gemini 3 Pro at 76.2% and OpenAI's ChatGPT-5.1 Codex Max at 77.9%.

Investor Michael Burry, often called 'Big Short' for correctly predicting the 2008 financial crisis, has called AI boom "a glorious folly". Referring to Cisco's crash during dot-com bubble, Burry said, "And once again...there is a Cisco at the centre of it all, with the picks and shovels for all and the expansive vision to go with it...Its name is NVIDIA."

A new AI benchmark test was conducted to determine whether chatbots protect human well-being when put under pressure to remain engaging. All models scored better when asked to prioritise wellbeing, but 71% of them turned harmful when given simple instructions to disregard human wellbeing. xAI's Grok 4 and Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash scored lowest on respecting user attention and transparency.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has asked employees to use AI tools for every task, Business Insider reported. "My understanding is NVIDIA has some managers who are telling their people to use less AI. Are you insane?" Huang said during a meeting. He further told employees that if AI doesn't work for any task, "use it until it does".

Reddit experienced major service disruption, leaving thousands of users unable to use the platform. According to data from outage tracking website Downdetector, issues began spiking around 6:35 pm IST today. The website registered over 7,000 complaints within just a few minutes of the initial crash. The service disruption was primarily concentrated within the United States.

Oakley and Meta on Tuesday announced the launch of HSTN AI glasses, priced at ₹41,800 onwards, in India as the eyewear goes on pre-sale today via Sunglass Hut. It'll be available nationwide from December 1 at Sunglass Hut stores and other retailers. The glasses, which come with hands-free functionality, will support Hindi language and UPI Lite payments, among other features.

NVIDIA shares fell more than 6% in the early trading session on Tuesday after a report claimed Meta plans to spend billions on Google's AI chips. According to The Information, Google has pitched its tensor processing units as a cheaper alternative to NVIDIA chips. Google reportedly plans to capture up to 10% of NVIDIA's annual revenue through the strategy.

Google Gemini-powered Nano Banana Pro’s decade grid trend is going viral on social media, with users generating a 4×4 timeline featuring their AI portraits styled across 16 different decades starting from the 1880s. "In each section, I should appear styled according to that decade (clothing, hairstyle, facial hair, accessories). Use colours, background & film style accordingly," reads the prompt.

Meta is in discussions with Google to spend billions on using the latter's AI chips in its data centres from 2027 and to rent chips from Google Cloud by 2026, The Information report. Google has pitched tensor processing units as a cheaper alternative to Nvidia chips. Additionally, Google is aiming for 10% of Nvidia’s revenue with its TPU chip business.

Fara-7B, a new small language model by Microsoft, is intended to carry out agentic tasks directly on a user's device. For best results, the model, which is a Computer Use Agent (CUA) model, makes use of computer interfaces such as a mouse and keyboard. The data processed by Fara-7B is stored locally on the user's device.