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indianexpress.com - Lalmani Verma - Backroom Brief | AI, startups, health: Inside Akhilesh Yadav's 'Vision India' roadshow
Backroom Brief | AI, startups, health: Inside Akhilesh Yadav's 'Vision India' roadshow
The Indian Express

Last week, at a Vision India summit in Bhubaneshwar, where the SP has virtually no presence, Yadav spoke on holistic health and interacted with intellectuals, the media, and the youth. Since late last year, the SP chief has addressed several such…

ciol.com - CIOL Bureau - Peeyush Ranjan, Mukesh Bansal Launch Edtech Startup That Teaches Students How to Think
Peeyush Ranjan, Mukesh Bansal Launch Edtech Startup That Teaches Students How to Think
CIOL

Former Google executive Peeyush Ranjan, along with entrepreneur Mukesh Bansal, has launched an AI-driven edtech startup that wants to teach students how to think, not just find answers faster. Fermi.ai, based in Singapore with operations in India…

dev.to - Akash - Kubernetes for Startups: Five Commands, Two Nodes, Zero Hype
Kubernetes for Startups: Five Commands, Two Nodes, Zero Hype
DEV Community

Lately, we have been seeing a surge of LinkedIn posts portraying Kubernetes as an unnecessarily complex, expensive and risky choice for early-stage startups. The narrative is predictable. Kubernetes is too heavy. Too operationally demanding. Too…

techcrunch.com - Jagmeet Singh - Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat
Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat
TechCrunch

Apple's iPhone is gaining ground fast in India, shipping about 14 million units in 2025, based on market data shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Yet the country's overall smartphone market stayed largely flat at around 152–153 million…

techcrunch.com - Ivan Mehta - Former Googlers seek to captivate kids with an AI-powered learning app
Former Googlers seek to captivate kids with an AI-powered learning app
TechCrunch

Big Tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to get…

techcrunch.com - Connie Loizos - Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech
Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech
TechCrunch

Harvey, the high-flying legal AI startup, has acquired Hexus — a two-year-old startup that builds tools for creating product demos, videos, and guides — as the company continues its aggressive expansion amid fierce competition in the…

forbes.com - Abdo Riani - The AI Stack Trap: The Hidden Cost Of Overbuilding With AI
The AI Stack Trap: The Hidden Cost Of Overbuilding With AI
Forbes

AI tooling is easier to adopt than ever, but many startups are layering models, frameworks, and APIs long before they understand their real value. This article examines how premature AI stacks create fragility instead of leverage, and why…

techcrunch.com - Tim De Chant - How PopWheels helped a food cart ditch generators for e-bike batteries
How PopWheels helped a food cart ditch generators for e-bike batteries
TechCrunch

Food carts are a staple of New York City dining, dispensing everything from dosa and doner kebabs to dogs and dim sum in short order. But no matter how enticing the aroma of a cart's food, the smelly gas generators that keep the lights on threaten…

techcrunch.com - Russell Brandom - A new test for AI labs: Are you even trying to make money?
A new test for AI labs: Are you even trying to make money?
TechCrunch

We're in a unique moment for AI companies building their own foundation model. First, there is a whole generation of industry veterans who made their name at major tech companies and are now going solo. You also have legendary researchers with…

techcrunch.com - Anthony Ha - Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos
Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos
TechCrunch

There were times at this week's meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a high-powered tech conference, with on-stage appearances by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Microsoft…

investopedia.com - Colin Laidley - Bill Gates Issues Warning on AI Investment Hype, Urges Caution
Bill Gates Issues Warning on AI Investment Hype, Urges Caution
Investopedia

Bill Gates on Wednesday warned the AI industry will be 'hypercompetitive,' and that 'a reasonable percentage' of today's pricey tech stocks will lose a lot of their value. Big Tech's huge data center investments fueled concerns about an AI bubble…

glassalmanac.com - Emily Thompson - 'The Market Is Getting Big Enough' Sparks Xreal Viture Suit In 2026: What Changes Now
'The Market Is Getting Big Enough' Sparks Xreal Viture Suit In 2026: What Changes Now
Glass Almanac

“The Market Is Getting Big Enough” The line landed this week as Xreal filed a U.S. patent suit against rival Viture on Jan 15, 2026, and a German court has already enforced a preliminary injunction across nine EU countries. The timing…

sfchronicle.com - Connor Letourneau - S.F.'s hottest singles are AI engineers
S.F.'s hottest singles are AI engineers
San Francisco Chronicle

Kinjal Nandy is a self-described nerd. He slogs through 84-hour workweeks combing through data, peppers tech lingo like “latent space” and “scalability” into casual conversation, and takes unconventional measures to…

grist.org - Maria Gallucci - This Brooklyn bagel shop is saving money with plug-in batteries
This Brooklyn bagel shop is saving money with plug-in batteries
Grist - Climate and environmental news

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the back of Black Seed Bagels in northern Brooklyn is a giant catering kitchen filled with industrial-size condiments and…

techcrunch.com - Sarah Perez - TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection -- here's what it means
TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection -- here's what it means
TechCrunch

With the change in TikTok ownership, TikTok users in the U.S. are collectively freaking out over the company's updated privacy policy after being alerted to the changes through an in-app message. The revised document details the U.S. joint…

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