New Patents Secured in the First Half of 2025 Help Drive Responsible AI Innovation and Create More Effective Insights for Customers Equifax® (NYSE: EFX) has secured 35 new patents in the first half of 2025. These new patents, which bring the number of Equifax issued or pending patents to nearly 650 patents spanning 15 countries, encompass…
When people think about building AI, their first thought is usually big tech or the billion-dollar AI startups like OpenAI or Anthropic. But in India, the approach is a little different. Here, the government is leading in providing funding and setting up the required infrastructure and platform for the entire population. Over the last three…
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), under the telecommunications department (DoT), has awarded grants to 18 startups selected under cohort 1 of the ‘Samarth’ programme. The initiative aims to support early-stage companies in the telecom and information and communications technology (ICT) sectors through financial assistance, infrastructure, and expert mentorship. The selected startups were chosen…
Meta Platforms announced on Monday that Arun Srinivas has been appointed as the managing director and head of Meta in India. Since 2022, Srinivas has served as the director and head of the advertising business for Meta India. In this position, he has been responsible for overseeing business strategy and revenue growth across all Meta…
Perplexity has mainly positioned itself as an alternative to Google Search, offering various AI-powered tools to search the web. However, the platform has lately shifted its focus towards integrating AI-powered features related to finance. CEO Aravind Srinivas has frequently described Perplexity as a “commoditised version of Bloomberg Terminal” and stated that he’s building a “Bloomberg…
In the world of finance, the use of AI is tricky owing to privacy issues, the dreaded risk of hallucinations and the guardrails. Given that modern systems are increasingly getting foolproof, there is a huge opportunity for changing the industry with agents—all with a little fine-tuning. Debarag Banerjee, chief AI and data officer at L&T…
A growing number of companies have recently been openly reassessing their technological strategies. For example, Discord is handling trillions of messages with renewed infrastructure, while Netflix continues to rely on an upgraded version of Java, even in 2025. Meta also joins the list, and it turns out that Instagram’s recommendation system doesn’t rely on one…
The intersection of AI, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has quietly unfolded in the Indian landscape. AI is starting to outperform conventional investment bankers in identifying, evaluating and attracting M&A opportunities. Traditional M&A practices rely heavily on public data, banker networks, and executive-level social introductions. Yet, most startups remain private and invisible in…
UPI is the poster child of India’s tech innovation and a benchmark for things to come. Its simple design and the sheer capability to scale it to a billion users make it a masterpiece—one that the world has been trying to replicate in vain. Behind UPI’s seamless simplicity lies a story of hard-won technological independence,…
This year, AMD’s Advancing AI event was on another level. The company made it clear it’s no longer afraid of NVIDIA. It introduced the new Instinct MI350 Series GPUs, built on the CDNA 4 architecture, promising a fourfold generational improvement in AI compute and a 35x leap in inferencing performance. It also launched ROCm 7.0,…