Mukesh Bansal’s Nurix AI Acquires Enterprise Conversational AI Firm Verloop.io
The deal brings voice and chat automation under one roof as Nurix expands its enterprise AI footprint across India and the Middle East.
Artificial Intelligence
When the US Pulled the Plug on Fable 5, India Got the Wake-Up Call It Had Been Ignoring
Anthropic killed access to its most advanced AI models for every non-American on the planet. Two weeks later, the ban is still live, the real reason has changed the story entirely, and India's policymakers are now being asked to respond by name.
Ex-Google, Maersk Exec Louisa Loran: “AI Doesn’t Break Culture — It Exposes It”
The former Google and Maersk executive on why well-resourced transformations still fail, what Indian and Gulf leaders must unlearn, and the four behaviours that separate companies that compound from ones that just stay busy.
[Exclusive] Mukund Jha, Emergent: ‘The Most Successful AI Agent for SMBs Will Be the One that Founders Actually Use’
The co-founder of Emergent — the vibe-coding platform that hit $100M ARR in eight months — on why the next frontier isn't building software, it's getting AI to help run your business by automating workflows through chat.
HrdWyr Raises $13 Mn to Build AI-Native Chips for India and the World
The Bengaluru fabless startup's Series A comes as India's semiconductor market races toward $155 Bn by 2031 — and as one of the sector's first AI-native chip companies, HrdWyr is already shipping alongside boAt.
Vobiz.ai Raises $1 Mn to Build India-Native Infra for AI Voice Agents
As AI voice agents proliferate across customer service, sales, and enterprise workflows, the telephony layer they run on is becoming its own infrastructure category — and Bengaluru's Vobiz.ai is betting on being the plumbing.
boAt Co-Founder Aman Gupta Moves Delhi High Court to Protect His Personality Rights
The Shark Tank India judge filed suit against unnamed defendants — joining a wave of Indian public figures seeking court protection from AI-generated impersonation.
Bengaluru’s Ctruh Raises $2.5M Seed to Build Browser-Native 3D and XR Infrastructure
The round was led by Inflection Point Ventures and joins a growing wave of Indian deep-tech bets on spatial computing — a category the global XR market projects to exceed $346 billion in 2026.
Freepik Rebrands as Magnific: What Every Indian Creator Must Know
Freepik — the stock asset library that every design student in India has had open in at least one browser tab — has rebranded as Magnific. What looks like a name change is actually a declaration: the era of downloading free vectors is over.
As Meta Keeps Poaching Her Founders, Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Signs a Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Google Cloud
Even as Mark Zuckerberg's Meta systematically hollows out her founding team, Mira Murati is securing the infrastructure backbone to build anyway.
Pune’s NudgeBee Raises $3 Million from Kalaari Capital to Put AI Agents in Charge of Cloud Operations
Founded in 2024, the startup already serves global enterprise Rackspace and claims its agents cut incident resolution time by up to 80% — a striking early signal for a two-year-old company.
Emergent’s Wingman Gives Anyone a Persistent AI Agent That Works While They Don’t
The vibe coding startup, founded by Indian-origin twin brothers and backed by SoftBank and Khosla Ventures, wants Wingman to be the always-on assistant that most professionals can't afford to hire.