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Telegram challenges India’s order temporarily blocking the app

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The company has gone to the Delhi High Court over a block tied to alleged cheating on a national medical-entrance exam, a measure affecting more than 150 million users. Telegram has asked the Delhi High Court to overturn an Indian government order that has temporarily blocked the messaging app, the company’s most direct legal confrontation […]

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TCS takes a $70m hit after US Supreme Court rejects its appeal

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Tata Consultancy Services will book a one-time charge of $70m after the US Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal in a trade-secrets dispute, the Indian IT giant said. The court’s refusal, issued on 15 June, closes the last legal avenue in a case that has run since 2019 and leaves the lower-court judgment standing. […]

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India blocks Telegram until 22 June over medical exam-cheating rackets

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India has temporarily blocked access to Telegram until 22 June, the government said, after concluding that cheating rackets were using the app to defraud candidates sitting a high-stakes medical-entrance re-exam. The order, invoking Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, ties a national app block to a single, fraught testing event. The exam is NEET-UG, […]

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Adani and Jabil plan to build AI data-centre hardware in India

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Adani and Jabil are teaming up to make AI hardware in India. The Adani Group, India’s infrastructure-and-energy conglomerate, and Jabil, the US contract manufacturer, said on Monday they intend to form a strategic alliance to build a vertically integrated AI and data-centre hardware platform in the country. They put no number on it, and the […]

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Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with a $234m round led by HCLTech

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Sarvam, the Bengaluru company building India’s sovereign AI stack, has become the country’s newest AI unicorn. It has raised $234m in the first close of a $300m Series B, at a $1.5bn valuation, led by IT services giant HCLTech, which is putting in $150m. The round is a sovereign-AI bet with a strategic spine. HCLTech […]

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India’s Razorpay files for IPO through the confidential route

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Razorpay, the Bengaluru payments company, has filed draft papers for an initial public offering through India’s confidential route, according to people familiar with the matter. The filing moves one of the country’s larger fintech firms a step closer to the public markets, without yet putting its financials on public display. The confidential mechanism, which Indian […]

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Anthropic’s model shutdown just handed India’s sovereign AI movement its strongest argument yet

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When the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 12 June, the export control directive was aimed at restricting foreign nationals from accessing America’s most capable AI. In India, Anthropic’s second-largest market, it landed as a warning shot about what happens when your AI infrastructure runs on someone else’s […]

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India’s Avataar AI launches a video model that costs $0.005 per second, 27x cheaper than rivals

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Bangalore-based Avataar AI has launched Varya, one of India’s first homegrown video AI models. It generates video at roughly $0.005 per second, or 0.48 rupees. Founder Sravanth Aluru, a former Deutsche Bank investment banker and Microsoft and IIT Mumbai alum, says that is 27 times cheaper than comparable open-source video models. The cost advantage comes […]

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Equal AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a week

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Equal AI, an Indian startup that built an AI assistant to answer phone calls on your behalf, has raised $30 million in a Series B led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital. Think Investments and Valiant Fund also participated, alongside individual investors including PhonePe founder Sameer Nigam and Meta’s India and Southeast Asia VP […]

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