Meta is changing how businesses are charged for messages sent through the WhatsApp Business Platform in India from October 1, 2026. The biggest change is that some utility messages, including order confirmations and delivery updates, will no longer be free even when they are sent
Apple Pay has officially launched in India, bringing Apple’s contactless payment service to the country for the first time after 12 years. The service is initially available to eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders, who can add their cards to Apple Wallet and
US President Donald Trump and executives from some of the world’s biggest technology companies have signed a voluntary agreement outlining how developers of advanced AI systems should monitor and oversee increasingly capable models. The White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities calls
India’s prepaid mobile users will have more choice in how they recharge after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) notified new consumer protection rules covering plan validity and voice-and-SMS services. The TRAI’s new mobile recharge rules expand the availability of voice-and-SMS-only Special Tariff Vouchers (STVs),
What if some of the computing power needed for future AI systems is not inside a data centre on Earth but travels around the planet in orbit? That is the question behind Google Project Suncatcher, a long-term research project exploring whether space could eventually support
Andhra Pradesh is planning to require data centres in the state to source at least 70% of their energy from renewable sources as it prepares to build a major data-centre cluster in Visakhapatnam. IT Minister Nara Lokesh said the state is taking an integrated approach to
Navitas Semiconductor has agreed to acquire Claros Inc. for up to approximately $232.8 million, in a move aimed at addressing power delivery bottlenecks in next-generation AI data centres. The deal will bring Claros’ vertical power delivery (VPD) and integrated voltage regulator (IVR) technologies into Navitas’ portfolio.
Uttar Pradesh is looking to move beyond electronics assembly and build a larger role in India’s semiconductor sector, with plans for wafer fabrication and chip design alongside a proposed 1,000-acre semiconductor park near Noida International Airport. “The state’s strategy is to move from assembling products to
The Supreme Court has refused to stay the new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework for specified Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions above Rs 2,000. At the same time, the court has sought responses from the Centre, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the National
OpenAI has decided not to release its upcoming AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after internal testing found it did not meet the company’s safety and alignment standards. The decision comes just a day before OpenAI’s annual developer conference, DevDay, in San Francisco. The company is expected to