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Bribes.fyi is India's first crowdsourced bribe registry that allows anonymous and permanent reporting of bribes across the country.
The Indian government has launched MY Bharat, a technology-enabled platform to empower youth aged 15–29 by integrating volunteering, skilling, and civic participation for national development.
This working paper examines whether India's Consumer Protection Act, 2019, adequately addresses harms caused by defective AI products and services, highlighting gaps in causation and liability allocation across the AI value chain.
A viral tweet highlights a collection of Indian nostalgia websites that recreate memories of barbershops, chai stalls, bus rides, and 90s music, listing dozens of such indie sites.
Accel has closed an oversubscribed $550 million India fund within weeks, just 19 months after its previous $650 million fund, betting on India's next startup wave in AI, consumer internet, fintech, and advanced manufacturing.
Presents FormBharo, a voice agent that uses LLMs with rule-based controls to fill structured forms over phone calls for low-literacy Hindi-speaking users in India, piloted with ARMMAN. The paper also introduces FormVoiceAgentBench, a benchmark of 3,760 multi-turn conversation tests, and shows that end-to-end evaluation is necessary since component-level performance does not predict full form completion.
India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2 consumer spending, up 35% year-over-year, driven by generative AI, streaming, and productivity apps as digital payments reduce friction. Revenue per download has more than doubled in three-and-a-half years, positioning India as a fast-growing monetization market despite still trailing mature markets.
Cognizant hosted its first-ever OpenAI Codex Hackathon with 10,000 associates across six Indian cities, aiming to build AI fluency and translate skills into enterprise solutions.
Grok 4.5, a powerful coding model, is now available in Cursor's new India-specific plan at ₹649 per month, allowing developers to build complete apps from a single sentence with cloud-based agents.
AI coding startup Cursor launched a India-specific subscription plan (Cursor Start) at ₹649/month ($7) ahead of its acquisition by SpaceX, aiming to expand access in its third-largest market.
Delhi Police is using AI-powered facial recognition technology to track student protestors, raising concerns about privacy and civil liberties.
A paper leak disrupted India's medical entrance exam affecting 2.27 million students, leading to the minister's resignation. India will implement full AI-proctored, computer-based testing by 2027.
India ordered GitHub to remove the Bluetooth messaging app BitChat within three hours, but the codebase was quickly mirrored on the decentralized platform Radicle, making removal impossible and demonstrating the power of decentralized infrastructure.
Indian government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based messaging app Bitchat over security concerns, according to app developer Jack Dorsey.
This edition of the Rocket Report covers a lightning strike on a Chinese Long March 3B rocket, SpaceX's upcoming Starship test flight, India's first private rocket reaching orbit, and other space launch news.
Jack Dorsey tweets that the Indian government dislikes technologies like Bitchat and wants them taken down.
Introduces JUGAAD, a deep learning framework that uses autoencoders and census/geospatial data to downscale socioeconomic indicators in India from coarse survey resolution to fine-grained village-cluster scale, validated against district-level NSSO data.
Google IO Connect India featured sessions, workshops, demos, and the latest Android development updates, bringing the community together.
India's first privately-developed rocket, Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1, successfully reached orbit on its debut launch, marking a major milestone for the country's private space sector.
Nonprofit Current AI is building open, public AI infrastructure to serve underserved languages and communities, backed by $400M in funding from governments and foundations. It has launched Suno Sutra, an offline AI device supporting 22 Indian languages, and is funding open-source AI projects.