CERT-In mandates human oversight for high-value AI-driven payments in India
India moves to make a human step mandatory in AI-driven payment flows. The biggest UPI market gets first-mover on regulating agentic commerce.
yesterday 11 8
Reliance and Kudankulam files surface on the dark web: India's critical-infra breach story enters its supply-chain phase
The 2019 Kudankulam intrusion went through a contractor. Seven years later, the entry point may still be the same.
yesterday 7 8
Anthropic prices Claude in rupees for India: pricing localisation as the first act of sovereignty
Anthropic added rupee pricing for Claude in India. Small operational change, real strategic meaning - the fight for the Indian market is now about payment rails and taxation, not model quality.
yesterday 6 9
India cybersecurity: ten systemic flaws identified by experts
An expert digest published by Medianama lists ten structural flaws in Indian cybersecurity. After Reliance/Kudankulam, the question shifts from incidents to roots.
11 h ago 7 7
Emergent raises $130M in Series C: yet another Indo-American AI-native unicorn
The startup raises a $130M round led across the US-India bridge. Funds earmarked for hiring and go-to-market.
Jul 15, 2026 at 19:28 7 8
LTM (India): $150M in AI revenue for the quarter, the IT services shift accelerates
Indian IT services firm LTM reveals an AI run rate of $150M/quarter, 12% of revenue - and AI growth outpacing the core. A separate disclosure is the real signal: AI is emerging from the line diluted in large deals.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:44 10 8
Elevation Capital raises $500M to bet on Indian AI startups
Indian VC Elevation Capital launches a $500M fund focused on seed and Series A AI startups - the "AI-native > SaaS + wrapper" thesis becomes actionable capital-side in the domestic market.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:44 7 8
India: the government puts ministries on pause on OpenAI and Anthropic
A directive from MeitY asks central agencies to suspend any deployment of American LLMs, pending a review of safety and sovereignty.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 10 10
Indian MSMEs: AI remains stuck at the PoC door, as in Singapore
YourStory documents the paradox: Indian MSMEs hold the country's economy, but most have not touched AI. Same pattern as in Singapore - the barrier is not cultural, it is structural.
Jul 12, 2026 at 11:17 11 7
"AI-native founders": the new generation of unicorns in India is rebuilding before scaling
On Inc42, a dossier documents a shift: Indian unicorn founders are rebuilding their stack as AI-native rather than adding an AI layer on top. An architectural decision, not a cosmetic one.
Jul 12, 2026 at 11:15 12 7
India: Bhashini tests offline and open-source AI - the anti-Silicon Valley
Rest of World documents a Bhashini hackathon focused on offline models in Indian languages. A bet: making AI useful without American cloud.
Jul 11, 2026 at 10:44 12 8