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Backroom Brief | AI, startups, health: Inside Akhilesh Yadav's 'Vision India' roadshow
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…
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Peeyush Ranjan, Mukesh Bansal Launch Edtech Startup That Teaches Students How to Think
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…
Kubernetes for Startups: Five Commands, Two Nodes, Zero Hype
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…
Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat
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…
Former Googlers seek to captivate kids with an AI-powered learning app
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…
Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech
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…
The AI Stack Trap: The Hidden Cost Of Overbuilding With AI
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…
How PopWheels helped a food cart ditch generators for e-bike batteries
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…
A new test for AI labs: Are you even trying to make money?
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…
Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos
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…
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Bill Gates Issues Warning on AI Investment Hype, Urges Caution
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…
'The Market Is Getting Big Enough' Sparks Xreal Viture Suit In 2026: What Changes Now
“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…
S.F.'s hottest singles are AI engineers
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…
This Brooklyn bagel shop is saving money with plug-in batteries
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…
TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection -- here's what it means
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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