Amazon in talks to buy AI startup Decart for around $7 billion: ReportAmazon is reportedly in talks to acquire artificial-intelligence startup Decart for about $7 billion. The acquisition would give Amazon sig...
12 Oct, 2026, 08.10 AM IST
ETSA 2026: A secret circle, cosmic sparks and the night tech elite got goosebumpsThe Closed-door Manifesto The unscripted room where minister Goyal’s call to arms met Bengaluru’s spirit, inspiring a tech elite primed for...
12 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ETSA 2026: Over a decade on, India's startup story is only getting startedThe 12th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) captured this transition, reflecting an ecosystem that has moved beyond the ra...
12 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
ET Startup Awards 2026 | List when the business is predictable, and stay transparent after: Groww, Meesho foundersThe advice from the two founders, during a panel discussion at The ET Startup Awards moderated by Samidha Sharma, came as a number of start...
12 Oct, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Nvidia in talks to invest further in Reflection AI or buy it: FTTalks are at an early stage and a deal could take several forms, including a so-called acqui-hire arrangement where Nvidia would hire staff...
11 Oct, 2026, 03.15 PM IST
Meet Akshat Kannan and William Zhang, college dropouts who launched AI startup Zeroset, here's how it emerged with $5.2 million in fundingThe company's first product, Nebula, collects information form workplace software and tracks how tasks, decision and activities change over...
10 Oct, 2026, 07.11 PM IST
AI will fuel another wave of startup creation in two years: AWS’s Jason BennettAI-native startups are also showing faster revenue growth and gaining market traction earlier than traditional startups, per Bennett. An AW...
10 Oct, 2026, 06.53 PM IST
Meet Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, young entrepreneur whose first AI product failed, his startup Nozomio later raised $6.2 millionRakhmetzhanov is the founder of Nozomio, an AI startup that has changed its focus since its early days. He launched an education technology...
10 Oct, 2026, 06.12 PM IST
- EU tech chief says bloc 'well equipped' to fend off rogue AI risk
European Union rules setting guardrails on AI use adopted by the bloc two years ago are more than capable of tackling rogue agents, EU tech...
09 Oct, 2026, 11.24 PM IST
Winners of The ET Startup Awards 2026 to be feted todayHappy Friday! The who's who of the startup ecosystem will come together in Bengaluru today to honour the winners of The Economic Times Star...
09 Oct, 2026, 07.44 AM IST
Former OpenAI, Cognition staffers want AI agents running businessesHone is set to announce Thursday that it has raised a $60 million seed round to develop AI agents that essentially serve as professional st...
08 Oct, 2026, 09.00 PM IST
Karnataka invites startups to solve citizen service, water challengesThe first call focuses on two areas -- improving citizen-centric services through Praja Seva and addressing urban water challenges through ...
08 Oct, 2026, 06.02 PM IST
Manus raises more than $500 million after Meta exitManus, the AI startup formerly under the umbrella of Meta, has achieved a remarkable funding milestone, securing over $500 million in its l...
08 Oct, 2026, 04.24 PM IST
Anthropic expands startup programme for AI-native firmsThe US-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm will also provide third-party software benefits worth up to USD 45,000 to startups under the...
08 Oct, 2026, 08.15 AM IST
AI hopes, industrial malaise drive boom in German startupsMore than 3,000 startups were founded in Germany in the first half of 2026, according to economy ministry data. That's an all-time record a...
06 Oct, 2026, 09.14 PM IST
DeepSeek to raise at least $12 billion in Tencent-backed fundingChinese AI startup DeepSeek is close to securing at least 80 billion yuan ($11.93 billion) in its latest round of funding, Bloomberg News r...
06 Oct, 2026, 11.41 AM IST
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils first AI model to take on Chinese open modelsNvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday, as the startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chines...
06 Oct, 2026, 08.47 AM IST