Science & Tech · Startups
Cult.fit gets SEBI nod for IPO with ₹950 crore fresh issue
The fitness chain, which runs 708 centres in 77 cities, can now go ahead with a public issue that also lets Temasek, Accel and co-founder Mukesh Bansal sell shares.
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Science & Tech · AI
Anthropic lets outside safety testers from METR work inside the company
Six researchers from the non-profit METR will get company laptops, office space and internal tools, and Anthropic has given up the right to block what they publish.
Science & Tech · Telecom
Reliance answers Musk on Starlink: 'We have never feared competition'
Reliance Industries broke its silence on Friday after Elon Musk accused Mukesh Ambani of blocking Starlink, saying Jio's own satellite service is waiting on the same government clearances.
Science & Tech · Cybersecurity
CERT-In says AI agents got into Indian companies' systems without permission
India's cyber security agency says autonomous AI agents under testing read business records holding personal data, and that none of the organisations hit noticed on their own.
Science & Tech · Climate
Rain washes Delhi's air clean, AQI falls to 86 in 'satisfactory' band
A western disturbance brought thunderstorms on Thursday, pushing the capital's air quality into the satisfactory range on Friday morning and leaving October with nearly three times its normal rain.
Science & Tech · Robotics
Construction robot start-up Origin raises $20 million from Accel and Zacua
Founded last year by Yogesh Ghaturle, Ashish Daga and Tushar Makkar, Origin has come out of stealth with a robot that sands, primes and finishes walls on building sites.
Science & Tech · Startups
Flipkart Group revenue rises 18% to ₹1.45 lakh crore, loss narrows slightly
Flipkart's operations improved in the year it moved its holding company back to India, but higher finance costs kept the net loss at ₹8,468 crore.
Science & Tech · Health
Hair transplants are surgery and need trained doctors, says medical regulator
The National Medical Commission's ethics board has set out guidelines on hair transplantation after a serious infection was reported following a procedure in Kochi.
Science & Tech · Space
SpaceX cargo Dragon docks at space station with final solar arrays
The CRS-35 capsule latched on to the International Space Station on Thursday evening India time, two days after launch, carrying about 2,860 kg of supplies and research.
Science & Tech · Chips
TSMC's quarterly profit jumps 69% as 2nm chips reach customers
The Taiwanese chipmaker earned NT$763 billion in July to September and expects sales to climb again this quarter, to as much as $54.3 billion.
Science & Tech · Environment
Punjab logs its worst day of farm fires this season as harvest picks up
Fifty-one stubble fires in a single day took the state's season count to 174, ahead of last year's pace, with Amritsar and Tarn Taran again the hotspots.
Science & Tech · AI
Anthropic opens Singapore office and signs AI safety pact with government
The Claude maker's agreement with Singapore's digital ministry covers model testing, safety research and incident response, signed during the city-state's cyber week.
Science & Tech · Medicine
Lab-grown mini intestines pitched as a way to test drugs without animals
Denver start-up Intero Biosystems ships millimetre-sized human gut organoids to drugmakers, as US regulators open the door to non-animal testing.
Science & Tech · Biology
Colossal unveils AI tool to map the gene edits it would need to bring back the dodo
The GenoMorph platform has picked out about 2,300 candidate edits for the shape of the dodo's skull and face, working from a single surviving genome.
Science & Tech · Music
YouTube Music starts labelling AI songs as Deezer readies a switch to hide them
Tracks will be marked fully, partly or not made with generative AI. Deezer says more than half its daily uploads are now AI-generated.
Science & Tech · AI
Sunil Mittal warns against waiting for an 'accident' before regulating AI
At the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi, the Airtel chairman said AI should not be stifled, while OpenAI said Indian firms now want results, not trials.
Science & Tech · Telecom
Jio Platforms sets ₹1,065 to ₹1,119 price band for what could be India's biggest IPO
Reliance's digital arm will sell up to 270 million new shares, raising about ₹30,200 crore at the top of the band and valuing the company near ₹10.3 lakh crore.
Science & Tech · Policy
Child rights body summons Google over AI 'kiss and hug' apps on Play Store
The NCPCR says child-safety guidelines for social media, gaming and AI platforms will come by December, with age checks and new reporting tools.
Science & Tech · Chips
ASML lifts 2026 forecast and warns it cannot meet AI-driven demand for chip tools
The Dutch maker of lithography machines expects sales of €44 billion to €45 billion this year, and says even a 30% capacity increase will fall short in 2027 and 2028.
Science & Tech · Social Media
Facebook lets users tell its algorithm in their own words what they want to see
Meta has brought its AI-powered 'Your Algorithm' tool from Instagram to Facebook, so people can ask for more or less of a topic in Feed and Reels.
Science & Tech · Big Tech
Judge orders OpenAI to hand over interview records of former Apple staff
Apple can also question OpenAI's chief hardware officer under oath, but a California court turned down its wider requests for OpenAI's hardware research.
Science & Tech · AI
OpenAI employee charged with hiding a recording device in an executive meeting room
Federal prosecutors say a product team member planted the device behind a television at OpenAI's San Francisco office. The FBI calls protecting the company's technology a counter-intelligence priority.
Science & Tech · AI
Character.AI files for bankruptcy and agrees to sell assets to Disney for $20 million
The chatbot company, once valued at more than $1 billion, has chosen a court-supervised sale. Its chief executive says the platform will be wound down if no other bid comes in.
Science & Tech · Climate
Startup pitches a way to cut coal in blast furnaces by recycling their own exhaust
Helix Carbon says its electrolyser turns a furnace's carbon dioxide back into carbon monoxide, replacing a third of the coke and saving about $14 per tonne of iron.
Science & Tech · Health
Weight-loss drug users report more nail and hair problems, European study finds
People taking GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro were four times as likely to report nails lifting from the nail bed, dermatologists told a congress in Europe.
Science & Tech · Telecom
Swadeshi Jagran Manch asks Centre to block Starlink unless security concerns are met
The RSS-affiliated group's Ashwani Mahajan says Starlink's satellite laser links could route Indian internet traffic beyond the reach of lawful monitoring.
Science & Tech · Space
SpaceX Dragon lifts off with lab-grown brain models and the station's last solar arrays
The CRS-35 cargo capsule launched from Florida on Tuesday afternoon India time and is due to reach the International Space Station on Thursday evening with 2,860 kg of supplies and science.
Science & Tech · Cybersecurity
Cyber incident knocks Ahold Delhaize systems offline in Europe and the US
The grocery group behind Albert Heijn, Delhaize, Food Lion and Stop & Shop shut down systems to contain a security breach. Stores stay open, but online orders and loyalty schemes have stopped.
Science & Tech · AI
Microsoft unveils Maia 300 chip to run its AI services and lean less on Nvidia
The third-generation in-house accelerator will become the main engine behind Copilot and other Microsoft AI products from 2027, the company says.
Science & Tech · Climate
Evidence of human-caused warming is now 'incontrovertible', leading climate scientists say
A review of three decades of climate fingerprint research rebuts a US government report used to scrap America's legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases.
Science & Tech · Startups
Government picks 19 fund managers to channel ₹7,131 crore into deep tech
The first cohort under the ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund will back companies turning lab research into products, as deep-tech funding nearly triples.
Science & Tech · AI
Nvidia joins AMD, Google and Meta on a shared blueprint for AI data centres
The chipmaker is backing an open specification for how AI data centres are laid out, cooled and powered, as rack power heads towards a megawatt.
Science & Tech · Startups
Defence imaging firm Tonbo sets ₹665-700 price band for ₹852 crore IPO
The defence electro-optics maker opens its public issue on 15 October, a test of investor appetite for Indian defence technology.
Science & Tech · Economics
Economics Nobel for Robert Hall and Michael Woodford, who rebuilt how central banks steer economies
The two American economists showed how the everyday choices of households and firms add up to booms and slumps, and how well-timed policy can soften both.
Science & Tech · AI
Satya Nadella says companies should treat AI models as insider risks, with an emergency brake
In a blog post, the Microsoft chief set out seven principles for deploying advanced AI, from tamper-proof records of every action to a human who can stop a model mid-task.
Science & Tech · AI
OpenAI brings GPT-6 to every ChatGPT user, with answers that draw charts and maps
Paying users get GPT-6 Sol and free users a lighter model, Luna. A new 'Intelligent UI' lets ChatGPT reply with diagrams, maps and small working tools instead of only text.
Science & Tech · Physics
Physics Nobel for Francis Halzen, who turned South Pole ice into a neutrino telescope
The IceCube observatory, buried in a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice, caught the first high-energy neutrinos from beyond the solar system and traced some of them to distant galaxies.
Science & Tech · Telecom
Starlink waits on security clearance as Musk accuses 'oligarchs' of blocking it
The government says all three licensed satellite internet companies, Jio's included, are at the same stage. Elon Musk has asked whether Mukesh Ambani is 'the real boss of India'.
