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Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/amagi…

Amagi slides in India debut, as cloud TV software firm tests investor appetite | TechCrunch
Amagi shares debuted at a 12% discount, offering an early read on investor demand for a rare type of tech listing in India.

India's Sales of Treasuries Deepen Pivot Away From Dollar Assets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/india-s-sales-of-treasuries-deepen-pivot-away-from-dollar-assets
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p33#a260123p33

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/amagi…

Amagi slides in India debut, as cloud TV software firm tests investor appetite | TechCrunch
Amagi shares debuted at a 12% discount, offering an early read on investor demand for a rare type of tech listing in India.

150 GW in a year: record new wind power capacity installed globally in 2025! Not really evenly spread over the world ;)
China 100 GW (that country where Trump couldn't find a single wind turbine :)
Europe 17 GW
US 7 GW
India 6 GW
Rest of the World 20 GW
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GWEC Reports Record Wind Energy Additions in 2025, with Asia Emerging as the Primary Growth Engine
Global wind energy installations are set to cross 150 GW in 2025, driven by rapid growth across Asia, with record additions in India, China and emerging markets.

One of my early memories is hearing the #Islamic call for prayer in #Hyderabad #India and how beautiful it was, a morning symphony of beautiful singing and chanting, likely much the same as it has been for centurie…

India joins Pax Silica, a US-led initiative that aims to build secure supply chains for semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, and critical technologies (Rajesh Roy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pax-silica-india-us-trump-modi-994d1ce…

India joins US-led Pax Silica initiative
India joined a U.S.-led initiative to strengthen technology cooperation among strategic allies in a move Friday that underscores the nations’ warming ties after a brief strain over New Delhi’s unabated purchase of discounted Russian oil. The decision aligns India closely with Washington’s efforts to build secure supply chains for semiconductors, advanced manufacturing and critical technologies at a time geopolitical competition with China is intensifying. It also signals a reset in relati…

"Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records"
#China #India #Energy

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief
Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy

India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/acti…

TIL that some select economies go like this in terms of nominal GDP:
USA - 30 trillion USD
EU - 21 trillion
China - 19 trillion
India - 4 trillion
UK - 4 trillion
Mercosur - 3 trillion
Russia - 2.5 trillion
EU candidates - 2 trillion (although most of it is Turkey)
EFTA - 1.5 trillion
As a comparison, the whole of Africa gets to about 3 trillion.

Teacher Wins $1M Prize for Turning India’s Slums Into Hundreds of Open-Air Classrooms https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/teacher-wins-1m-prize-for-turning-indias-slums-into-hundreds-of-open-air-classrooms/

Teacher Wins $1M Prize for Turning India's Slums Into Hundreds of Open-Air Classrooms
An Indian teacher who founded over 800 learning centers for kids who’ve never attended school won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize.

#India’s electrotech fast-track: where #China built on #coal, India is building on #sun | Ember https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-fast-track-where-china-built-on-coal-india-is-building-on-sun/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Logistics:
🎵 Over End (feat. India Shan)
#Logistics

♜ The Most Chess-Obsessed Country in the World
#chess

The Most Chess-Obsessed Country in the World
Local clubs in India are providing education and helping communities turn the humble 'game of kings' into a route out of poverty.

¿Se imaginan el poder de 300 millones de trabajadores haciendo una gran huelga?
https://www.bwint.org/BwiNews/NewsDetails?newsId=1132

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the Global AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Australia’s Palantir deal and Chinese datacentres turning to liquid cooling.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/indi…

India’s audacious AI data city - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the Global AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Australia’s Palantir ...

General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/general-catalyst-commits-5b-to-ind…

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years | TechCrunch
The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst's earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark.

"La production d'électricité Š partir du charbon a diminué Š la fois en Chine et en Inde en 2025, la première baisse simultanée en un demi-siècle, après que chaque pays ait ajouté des quantités record d'énergie propre."
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Vietnam cracks down on unskippable YouTube ads
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us-streamers/vietnam-to-force-youtube-and-other-platforms-to-allow-…

Peak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3B across new India- and Asia-focused funds, bringing its total assets under management to over $10B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/peak-xv-rais…

Peak XV raises $1.3B, doubles down on AI as global VC rivalry in India heats up | TechCrunch
Peak XV says most of its new capital will target India as the firm prioritizes AI, fintech and cross-border bets while navigating recent partner departures.

To me, Cliff Richard and Freddie Mercury always seemed an unlikely pair of friends.
The thing I didn't know was that Richard was born in India and because of his accent and complexion he, strangely, faced anti-Indian racism when his family moved back to Britain.
Freddie Mercury's family was from India and he was educated there in a British type boarding school. When he fled to Britain with his family from Zanzibar he also had to deal with racism.
So Cliff and Freddi…

H-1B workers flew to India to renew U.S. visas. Now they're stuck. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/19/india-h1b-visas-skilled-workers-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY2MTIwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY3NTAyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjYxMjA0MDAsImp0aSI6ImE3Njk1YmFmLTNiM2QtNGQ5Ni04OTE3LWJiMmFkNzU3YTM1OSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93b3JsZC8yMDI1LzEyLzE5L2luZGlhLWgxYi12aXNhcy1za2lsbGVkLXdvcmtlcnMtdHJ1bXAvIn0.7XPxQsfVwzgDIBZS-Db4ciXuH7Gzv45PvyNhNx62va0&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p56#a251219p56

As hate spirals in India, Hindu extremists turn to Christian targets | Politics | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/1/14/as-hate-spirals-in-india-hindu-extremists-turn-to-christian-targets?traffic_source=rss

The fun side of going to India for a week for work is that my home rhythm is being up and about at 0630, doing things like hooking up cert manager to Hetzner for DNS01

"When Hindi is promoted, all other languages get strengthened"
"Can be no dispute between Hindi and local language since they're two sisters of the same mother"
I mean, nurturing one sister is enough. Every mother knows that. 🙄
#sarcasm #India #Hindi #respect

OpenAI says users aged 18-24 account for ~50% and under-30s represent 80% of ChatGPT usage in India; Indians use ChatGPT mostly for work (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/openai-says-18-to-24-year-olds-…

OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India | TechCrunch
The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age account for nearly 50% of all messages sent by Indians to ChatGPT, and users under 30 accounted for 80% of usage in the country.

Aerosol pollution found to thicken fog over Northern India—especially at night #India…

Aerosol pollution found to thicken fog over Northern India—especially at night
Frequent, thick winter fog events are a common nuisance in Northern India, exacerbated by heavy air pollution and dense aerosol concentrations. Because these fog events often cause major disruptions to transportation and the economy, a better understanding of how aerosols influence the vertical structure and thickness of the fog is necessary for mitigation.

India orders weekly reporting of Russian and U.S. crude purchases amid sanctions pressure: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/india-orders-weekly-reporting-of.html

India's JioHotstar restructures its subscriptions, adding monthly options and raising prices on some tiers, in response to a shift toward large-screen viewing (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/indian-s…

Indian Streaming Giant JioHotstar Raises Prices, Adds Monthly Plans
Indian streaming giant JioHotstar raises Super and Premium tier prices while introducing monthly plans across all tiers.

I recently learned of this #JS library that works with #LeafletJS, @…, or @…

GitHub - ramSeraph/india_boundary_corrector: Library to correct the Indian Boundary for existing raster basemaps
Library to correct the Indian Boundary for existing raster basemaps - ramSeraph/india_boundary_corrector

The often mentioned "But China and India are still building new coal power plants" - true - doesn't mean that the amount of electricity they generate from coal goes up. Actually, it went down last year, and the amount of coal used probably went down faster thanks to the increased efficiency of the fleet.

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief
Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-taps-t…

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW | TechCrunch
OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.

India and the EU signed a security and defense pact yesterday, covering a lot of cyber territory. But Intelligence Online says the EU wanted India to rein in its hacking-for-hire industry, which India denies even exists. So that was left out of the deal.

Europe/India • Indian 'hackers for hire' to continue to thrive under Brussels-New Dehli trade deal
The major trade and strategic agreement signed on 27 January between the European Union and India includes a cyber component, which has been subject to a discreet tug-of-war between cyber diplomats

How did we end up with the EU being eerily proud of a tight bond with the new #India? A “mother of all deals?”
Trump virtually learnt from Modi.
https://www.

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 18. Dezember 2021 führte #Indien vor der Küste von Odisha in Balasore erfolgreich den zweiten Test seiner Agni-P durch, einer ballistischen #Mittelstreckenrakete mit nuklearer Fähigkeit.

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-deepens-india-push-…

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership | TechCrunch
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.

"India Says Its Grasslands Are ‘Wastelands.’ Medieval Folklore Suggests Otherwise"
#India #Environment
https://

India Says Its Grasslands Are 'Wastelands.' Medieval Folklore Suggests Otherwise

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Jianbo:
🎵 Everything For Family
#Jianbo
https://jianbo.bandcamp.com/track/exhale-point-hill-feat-india-blue

Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit investments ranging from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indi…

Major VCs line up top dollars for coordinated AI capital push in India
Top venture capital firms in India are set to invest $300–500 million each into the country’s AI ecosystem, covering infrastructure, enterprise applications and sector-specific solutions. Global and domestic VCs, including Khosla Ventures, Accel India and Lightspeed, are participating. Combined, these commitments could exceed $1 billion, surpassing last year’s startup funding.

Putin wraps up first India visit in 4 years, touts 'privileged partnership' on oil, defense: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/putin-wraps-up-first-india.html

Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/anthropic-taps-for…

Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion | TechCrunch
Irina Ghose joins Anthropic as India managing director after 24 years at Microsoft.

🥑 Avocadoes may become easier to grow in India—but not if global emissions remain high
#avocado

Avocadoes may become easier to grow in India—but not if global emissions remain high
A new study suggests that with low to moderate levels of global greenhouse emissions in coming decades, more of India could become suitable for growing avocadoes. However, with high enough emissions, growing zones could shrink and destabilize by 2070.

"Adani Green Energy commissions 307.4 MW of renewables in India"
#India #Energy #Renewables

Adani Green Energy commissions 307.4 MW of renewables in India
Adani Green Energy Ltd. (AGEL) has commissionied an aggregate 307.4 MW of renewable energy capacity at Khavda in Gujarat, India.

Acupuncture for Rescued Elephants Provides Relief from Chronic Pain and Nerve Damage in India Care Center https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/acupuncture-for-rescued-elephants-provides-relief-from-chronic-pain-a…

Acupuncture for Rescued Elephants Provides Relief from Chronic Pain and Nerve Damage in India Care Center
An India wildlife rescue group is using acupuncture to help elephants recover from chronic pain and nerve damage from years of hard labor.

At India's AI Summit, Sundar Pichai announces the America-India Connect Initiative to build new fiber optic lines between India, the US, and other countries (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Nvidia says it is working with Peak XV and other VC firms in India to fund AI startups; over 4,000 Indian AI startups have joined its global startup program (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/nvidia-india-ai-vc-data-center-partners.html…

Nvidia is partnering with major Indian VC firms in search for the country's next AI start-ups
Nvidia is expanding its partnerships in India, including with venture capital firms, as it bets on the country's AI ecosystem that has drawn massive Big Tech investments. 

INDIA TOLERATES CRIMINALS: PUTIN arrives with propaganda statements: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/india-tolerates-criminals-putin-arrives.html

WaPo terminated the contract of its Delhi bureau chief Pranshu Verma; a source says "there is no clarity if the paper will continue with its bureau in Delhi" (Aban Usmani/Newslaundry)
https://www.newslaundry.com/2026/02/05/what-the-murder-o…

What the ‘murder’ of Washington Post means for India
The Washington Post’s layoffs aren’t just an American media story. As foreign bureaus close and global coverage shrinks, countries like India lose one more watcher – and we’re reminded how fragile journalism becomes when it rests in the hands of billionaires.

OpenAI partners with six Indian education institutions, including IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, and AIIMS New Delhi, to provide ChatGPT Edu access to 100K students (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-pushes…

OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills | TechCrunch
OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.

"India may need 230 GWh of energy storage by 2030 as peak demand rises"
#India #Energy #Renewables

India may need 230 GWh of energy storage by 2030 as peak demand rises
India could require nearly 230 GWh of energy storage capacity by 2030 as peak power demand approaches 300 GW and electricity consumption grows at 6% to 7% annually, according to a former government official.

Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/bengaluru-office-partnerships-across-india

Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

India and Russia discuss small nuclear reactors #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/india-and-russia-discuss-small.html

"India installs record 36.6 GW of solar in 2025"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

India installs record 36.6 GW of solar in 2025
India added 36.6 GW of solar capacity in 2025, up 43% from the previous year, with large-scale projects accounting for 81% of installations, according to Mercom India.

Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/india-has-100m-weekly-active-chatgpt-u…

India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

India-listed RRP Semiconductor's stock surged 55,000% in the 20 months through Dec. 17, despite negative revenue; source: India's SEBI is examining the surge (Chiranjivi Chakraborty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

India to seek purchase of Russian jets, air defenses during Putin's visit, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/30/india-to-seek-purchase-of.html

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/india-…

India partners with Alibaba.com for export push despite past China tech bans | TechCrunch
India turns to Alibaba.com's B2B network of 50 million buyers in 200 countries to help businesses scale global exports.

The Gates Foundation says Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote at India's AI Summit after "careful consideration" amid controversy over his Epstein ties (Cherylann Mollan/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c309qv9zglno

Bill Gates pulls out of India's AI summit over Epstein files controversy
The Gates Foundation said the decision was made to "ensure the focus remains on the summit's key priorities".

"Five key climate and energy announcements in India’s budget for 2026"
#India #Climate #ClimateChange

Five key climate and energy announcements in India’s budget for 2026 - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief's Aruna Chandrasekhar runs through five key climate- and energy-focused announcements in India's budget for 2026.

Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which is building AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/indias-sarvam-launches-indus-ai-chat…

India's Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats up | TechCrunch
Sarvam's Indus chat app is currently available in beta.

Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300 exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/busines

"India deploys 37.9 GW of solar in 2025"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

India deploys 37.9 GW of solar in 2025
Solar additions in calendar year 2025 comprised 28.6 GW of new utility-scale solar capacity, 7.9 GW of rooftop PV power, and 1.35 GW of off-grid and distributed installations.

Sensor Tower: ChatGPT had 73M DAUs in India as of last week, up 607% YoY and more than double the US, boosted by its free plans, far above Gemini's 17M DAUs (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/with-free…

India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/14/india-doubles-down…

India doubles down on state-backed venture capital, approving $1.1B fund | TechCrunch
India’s $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups.

India's largest retailer Reliance Retail says its daily quick commerce orders peaked at 1.6M in Q4 2025; market leader Blinkit averaged 2.4M daily orders in Q3 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/the-mystery-of-reliance-quick-commerce-growt…

The Mystery of Reliance's Quick Commerce Growth
The rest of the industry is not feeling it.

As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a look at India's AI opportunities and the political economy gridlock that threatens its ambitions (Shruti Rajagopalan/Get Down and Shruti)
https://srajagopalan.substack.com/p/indias-ai-wedding-buffet-generous

India’s AI Wedding Buffet: Generous Portions, Political Economy Heartburn
India's AI Summit promises a revolution. The electricity grid, the tax code, and the literal ground beneath the chip fab have other plans.

Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-launches-sub-5-ai-pl…

Google launches sub-$5 AI Plus plan in India to compete with ChatGPT Go | TechCrunch
For new users in India, Google is offering an AI Plus subscription for ₹199 ($2.21) for the first six months, after which you'll have to pay ₹399 ($4.44).

PE firm Everstone combines India's Wingify, which helps A/B test sites, and France's AB Tasty, which improves e-commerce UX; Everstone bought Wingify for $200M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/ever

Everstone combines Wingify, AB Tasty for $100M+ digital experience optimization platform | TechCrunch
The combined business will serve more than 4,000 customers globally and surpass $100 million in annual revenue.

X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK says it has requested related info from X (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/india-eu-investigate-m…

Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children
Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.

India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/07/india-has-changed-its-startup…

India has changed its startup rules for deep tech | TechCrunch
India is adjusting startup rules to help more of its deep tech startups with funding and long-term success.

Coinbase reopens app registration in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/coin

Coinbase starts onboarding users again in India, plans for fiat on-ramp next year | TechCrunch
Coinbase is exploring expansion into India with a staggered relaunch and hiring for different roles.

Q&A with Replit CEO Amjad Masad, who says India is Replit's second-largest market by active users, on integrating Razorpay's tech, AI's impact on SaaS, and more (Bhavya Dilipkumar/Moneycontrol)
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Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India's CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Domestic firms may chip in for the iPhone
Exploratory conversations have taken place between Murugappa Group-owned CG Semi, which is building an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) facility in Sanand, Gujarat. It’s the first time Apple is evaluating the prospect of having certain chips assembled and packaged in India.

Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho is up 95% from its IPO offer price, valuing it at nearly $11B and making it India's best-performing major IPO of 2025 (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K GPUs in India for AI training (Baiju Kalesh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-1…

As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, the country is set to promote a frugal AI strategy focused on solving local issues (Tripti Lahiri/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a…

Data analytics company Fractal, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, raised $313M in its Mumbai IPO; its shares fell 5% amid a weak Indian IPO market (Rajesh Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

India's AI Summit: Modi orchestrated a photo op with tech and business leaders holding hands in a line, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei awkwardly refused (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

India's Supreme Court rules Tiger Global's $1.6B Flipkart stake sale to Walmart in 2018 is subject to taxes, a ruling that may shape future cross-border deals (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/india-orders-mus…

India orders Musk's X to fix Grok over "obscene" AI content | TechCrunch
India's IT ministry has given X 72 hours to submit an action-taken report.

Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/indias-emversi…

India's Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can't replace | TechCrunch
Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.

Documents and sources: India proposes security rules that would force smartphone makers to share source code, prompting quiet pushback from Apple and Samsung (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-propos…

India says it revoked an order to smartphone makers to preload state-run cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on new smartphones, after protests from lawmakers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-cyber-safe…

India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/india-offers-zero-ta…

India offers zero taxes through 2047 to lure global AI workloads | TechCrunch
New Delhi's latest move comes as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft expand data center investments in India.

India lacks specific policies or zoning regulations for overseeing quick commerce dark stores, which are projected to hit 5,000 to 5,500 by FY2026 end, per HSBC (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technolo…

The dark side of dark stores
The army of on-the-clock delivery boys, imperilling themselves and pedestrians, has become a familiar sight across urban India. They emerge, bearing essentials you ordered, from the hub that enables the ten-minute delivery—the dark store. Some 5,000 dark stores have mushroomed across India’s cities in the last few years, with wide-ranging implications on traffic, safety and much else. Who is responsible for their oversight?

A look at India's push to become a major provider of AI services, as US tech companies pledge tens of billions in Indian data center investments (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-te…

Google's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/india-is-teaching-google-h…

India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale | TechCrunch
With the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, India is emerging as a key market shaping Google's approach to AI in education.

Sources: India asked quick commerce companies to drop their 10-minute delivery promise due to concerns about rider safety; Blinkit already removed the assurance (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-13/in…

Yotta says it is investing $2B to deploy Nvidia's Blackwell B300 GPUs at its Noida data center campus in India to create one of Asia's largest AI superclusters (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.i…

Yotta spends $2 billion to deploy top Nvidia chips
Yotta Data Services is investing $2 billion to install Nvidia’s latest AI chips at its Noida hyperscale data centre, going live by August. This will be India’s first deployment of Blackwell B300 GPUs and one of Asia’s largest AI superclusters. Nvidia will also build Asia’s first DGX Cloud cluster.

Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50B by 2030 to help expand AI across the "Global South"; it unveiled $17.5B worth of AI investments in India in 2025 (Abu Sultan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/micros

Sources: while Meta offered OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger more money than OpenAI, he ultimately aligned more closely with OpenAI's overall vibe and vision (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/how-did-meta-lose-the-clawfather

How did Meta lose the ClawFather?
After Zuckerberg reached out, Altman ultimately won over OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger. Also: India's AI Summit kicks off, a new consumer AI agent platform, and Roblox is the gaming market.

Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI announces two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are tailored to Indian languages and cultures (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/upstart-sarva…

TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
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Techtonic shift: GCCs hiring 4x faster than IT cos now
GCCs are expanding headcount by 18-27% year on year, compared with 4-6% for IT services, according to data from staffing firm TeamLease Digital. Together, they employ nearly 2 million people now, up from 1.2 million in 2022, creating about 300,000 jobs annually. In contrast, IT services have added only 25,000-40,000 employees a year on a net basis during this period.

Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M , just eight months after launch (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/emergent-hits-100m-arr-eight-mont…

Just 8 months in, India's vibe-coding startup Emergent claims ARR of over $100M | TechCrunch
Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent was launched just eight months ago, and it now says it's generating annual recurring revenue of more than $100 million, thanks to surging demand by small businesses and non-technical users.

Counterpoint: India smartphone shipments were flat YoY at ~153M; Apple shipped 14M iPhones, raising its share of shipments to a record 9%, up from 7% in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/appl

Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat | TechCrunch
Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.

Indian conglomerate Adani Group announces plans to invest $100B to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centers across India by 2035 (Urvi Dugar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indias-adani-invest-100-billio…

Uber launches its B2B logistics service Uber Direct in India with ONDC integration, starting in Bengaluru with grocery deliveries for Zepto and KPN Farm Fresh (The Economic Times)
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Uber enters B2B logistics with Uber Direct on ONDC, onboards Zepto, KPN Farm fresh
Uber is broadening its B2B logistics portfolio in India with the introduction of Uber Direct, in partnership with ONDC. Kicking off with grocery deliveries for allies like Zepto, the service plans to branch out to popular food chains, including KFC and Burger King.

India tightens its rules on social media content, especially for AI-generated and manipulated material, giving platforms three hours to comply with takedowns (Swati Gupta/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-1…

Nifty IT Index, which tracks Indian IT stocks, has slumped about 15% so far in February on worries about AI and is on track for its worst month since March 2020 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-16/a…

Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17% YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/india-startu…

India startup funding hits $11B in 2025 as investors grow more selective | TechCrunch
Startup funding rounds in India fell sharply in 2025 as investors concentrated capital into fewer companies.