Redapto, founded in 2025 by Anirudh Pupneja, has raised $5,00,000 in pre-seed funding led by Y Combinator to strengthen its autonomous AI systems for customer interaction. The platform identifies churn risks, growth opportunities and high-value moments, helping businesses deliver personalised, scalable, lifecycle-wide engagement.

Quanta has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from Operator Collective, Naval Ravikant and others. The company also launched Prism, its new AI reporting layer that delivers real-time cash, revenue and expense insights by syncing data continuously across banking, payroll and spend systems.

A software engineer was duped of ₹50 lakh in a cyber fraud in Hyderabad after he was lured with high returns on investment. The victim is a 42-year-old man, and a resident of Adibatla, approached the Rachakonda cybercrime police and filed a complaint. The complainant stated that he was contacted on WhatsApp and redirected to a Telegram group.

The residents of Telangana need to gear up for an intense winter cold wave as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) Hyderabad has forecast foggy conditions in the state. Although an intense winter cold wave is expected for more than a week, the weather department has not issued any alert so far.

A research team from Switzerland and Japan has, for the first time, recorded real-time, high-resolution video of influenza virus entering living human cells. Using advanced microscopy technique, researchers watched flu particles "surf" along the cell membrane before being engulfed. "The infection of our body cells is like a dance between virus and cell," Yohei Yamauchi, who led the research, said.

EU fined Elon Musk's X with €120 million for breaching rules under Digital Services Act. "The breaches concern deceptive design of blue checkmark, lack of transparency in ads repository, and failure to provide access to public data for researchers," said EU VP Henna Virkkunen. "If you comply with rules, you don't get fined. It's as simple as that," she added.

Top ad-intelligence tools unify creative analysis, spend diagnostics and competitor tracking to guide marketing decisions. These platforms help identify scalable ads, reveal performance bottlenecks and surface opportunities across channels. With faster interpretation and clearer insights, brands reduce wasted spend and respond quicker to shifting user behaviour.

Data insights reveal customer behaviour, usage patterns and market gaps that guide digital transformation. Organisations using analytics to shape UX, operations and product decisions navigate change with clarity. In fast-evolving markets, data-led transformation improves responsiveness, reduces uncertainty and aligns offerings with actual demand, avoiding costly guesswork.

Robust IT architecture builds scalable infrastructure, integrates backend systems and supports seamless user interactions across platforms. When architecture aligns with customer journeys, users enjoy faster load times, consistent data sync and smoother transactions. Strong technical foundation underpins reliability and scalability as companies grow.

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) models let brands control pricing, customer data and brand communication. By cutting intermediaries, D2C enables better margins, flexible offers and deeper customer relationships. In supply-conscious markets, this model helps brands respond quickly to demand shifts and build loyalty without traditional retail constraints.

AI-driven data collection automates the capture, cleaning and structuring of large datasets. It enhances segmentation quality, reduces manual errors and strengthens anomaly detection. With faster ingestion and richer signals, teams can refine decision-making, personalise user journeys and adapt strategies to changing demand more effectively.

Blinkit leverages ultra-fast delivery, hyperlocal inventory and app-first ordering to challenge established e-commerce players. Its focus on time-sensitive convenience and frequent small orders is forcing incumbents to rethink supply chain and last-mile strategies. Understanding such disruption helps retailers and investors anticipate market shifts and emerging consumer habits.

A US techie claimed in 2015 that Google Photos had tagged his Black friend's pictures as 'gorillas'. A social media user replied saying, "I'd say the program isn't racist so much as it's stupid." Google ex-executive Yonatan Zunger said he's "appalled" by the mistake and that it was "high on my list of bugs you 'never' want to see happen".

Advertising intelligence platforms span five categories: spend trackers that monitor budget flows, creative databases that store and study winning assets, audience-insight engines decoding behavioural signals, predictive models forecasting performance, and benchmarking systems comparing brands with competitors. Together, they help teams plan, optimise and measure with sharper accuracy.

Electronics retailers using data on demand patterns, purchase frequency and price sensitivity optimise inventory, model promotions and forecast trends more accurately. Data-led segmentation and adaptive pricing help reduce stock-outs and overstock risks. Such approaches sharpen margins and improve customer satisfaction across volatile electronics cycles.

Shares of Moore Threads Technology Co, dubbed by analysts as "China's Nvidia", soared over 400% on debut in Shanghai on Friday amid bets the US-blacklisted startup will benefit from Beijing's push for domestic chip manufacturing. The stock opened at 650 yuan (₹8,268), over five times its IPO price of 114.28 yuan (₹1,454). It later hovered around 600 yuan (₹7,632).

The News/Media Alliance, a group representing over 2,000 US-based news outlets, had slammed Google's "AI Mode" as theft. They blamed Google for stripping publishers of web traffic and revenue by providing users with direct answers, rather than sending them to the sources. "Now Google just takes content by force and uses it with no return," said CEO Danielle Coffey.

Several companies displayed their robots at the ongoing International Robot Exhibition in Japan's Tokyo. A video showed a remote-controlled android robot by Japanese machinery maker Kawasaki Heavy Industries rescuing a toy cat from a mock fire. Another robot programmed by Japanese company GMO was seen dancing, closely resembling humans in the fluidity of its movements.

In February 2024, Google Gemini was paused and slammed for generating historically inaccurate images, such as Black vikings, an Asian woman in a German World War II-era military uniform and a female Pope. The tool was also criticised for over-sexualising images of Black and Asian women. Following major backlash, the company apologised for its shortcomings, calling it "completely unacceptable."

US-based AI startup Anthropic signed a $200 million multi-year deal with AI cloud data company Snowflake. Under the deal, Claude Sonnet 4.5 will power Snowflake Intelligence, the cloud company's enterprise AI service. Models, including Claude Opus 4.5, will be available for multimodal data analysis and building custom agents for Snowflake customers.

In a 2024 X post, Peter Yang, a Google user, had said Google AI overview suggested adding glue to pizza to his query "cheese not sticking to pizza". "You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness," Google's response read. Yang stated Google's response was based on an old Reddit comment.

In 2018, approximately 4,000 Google employees singed a petition against participation in US military's 'Project Maven', which used AI to optimise drone strikes. "Google's unique history, its motto 'Don't Be Evil', and direct reach into lives of billions of users set it apart," read petition written to CEO Sundar Pichai. Following major backlash, Google opted not to renew its contract.

Several food bloggers have raised concerns regarding Google AI summaries, saying they are giving wrong recipes. They alleged that AI summaries mix many recipes together, leading to confused and erratic cooking instructions that are unsafe or impossible to follow. Some bloggers claimed that they found AI-generated copies of their original recipes on random websites and social media pages.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed the latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) update allows users to text while driving "depending on the context of surrounding traffic". The remark on X has sparked concern, as texting while driving is illegal in most US states. Nearly half of them also ban any handheld phone use, according to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

After an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, a Reddit user claimed that Google's AI overview showed that the incident involved an Airbus plane. "Google is showing it was an Airbus aircraft that crashed today in India. How is this being allowed?" wrote the user. "The crash involved an Airbus A330-243," read the AI overview.