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Top tech and startup stories this weekWelcome to a new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories this week. Let’s take a look.
PCI’s MDR plea; India’s AI startups, acceleratedHappy Tuesday! The Payments Council of India has urged the PMO to reinstate the merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI and RuPay debit card pa...
DeepSeek doesn't scare OpenAI, thanks to the 'Jevons paradox'A Chinese artificial intelligence startup, DeepSeek, became an overnight sensation when its app shot to the top of Apple's App Store follow...
DeepSeek doesn't scare OpenAI, thanks to the 'Jevons paradox'Economist and logician William Stanley Jevons, noted that as engines improved and made coal more efficient -- requiring less of the resourc...
Banks boost fraud checks; AI & relationship appsHappy Monday! Banks intensify checks to tackle rising employee-linked fraud and financial scams. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Di...
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu's big message to investors: Stop chasing stocks, start building real skillsSridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho Corporation, recently urged investors to shift their focus from stock market valuations to building skills and c...
Google spends Rs 23,000 crore to bring back former AI employee, sparks overspending debate in AI raceNoam Shazeer, an AI pioneer who left Google in 2021, has returned to the company after Google paid $2.7 billion to acquire his startup, Cha...
Can driving an auto-rickshaw combat loneliness? Bengaluru's Microsoft techie thinks soA Microsoft engineer in Bengaluru has taken to driving an auto-rickshaw on weekends to combat loneliness, sparking a lively debate on socia...
Bengaluru: Microsoft engineer drives Namma Yatri auto on weekends to overcome lonelinessA Bengaluru resident's social media post reveals that a Microsoft engineer drives an auto-rickshaw on weekends to combat loneliness. The po...
Connecting Dots: Understanding AI through tech historyTechnological breakthroughs can take people by surprise because they haven’t seen anything like that before. We stand at the brink of a new...
Are AI partners a threat to women's rights?Chatbot apps like Replika, Character.AI and Soulmate are part of the fast-growing generative AI companion market, where users customise eve...
The era of (AI) therapist is here! Chatbots may help boost mental health, but can't replace real human empathyDespite concerns about data privacy and counselling ethics, mental health chatbots using artificial intelligence are gaining traction aroun...
Sci-fi meets reality at MWC: AI clones to live forever, noseprint IDs for pets & robots to reduce lonelinessBy 2025, flying taxis could be a reality.
30 years after 1991, reforms spasmodic, state meddling a constant in IndiaThirty years after Singh’s speech we are at another “crossroads.” Though the pandemic battered every economy, India like many emerging nati...
Can WFH concerns over comfort revive commercial real estate?Shares of DLF and Brigade Enterprises have rallied 12 per cent and 20 per cent, respectively, since April 1, while BSE Real Estate index ha...
India witnesses a surge in voice calls during lockdownThere was a 15-20% increase in voice calls through mobile phones, especially in the initial few days of the lockdown that began on March 25...
CEO's death stirs debate as China's techies face 9-to-9 workdayZhang Rui, founder and chief executive officer of the startup Chunyu Doctor, died from a heart attack on Oct. 5.