Vikram-1 Becomes India’s First Private Rocket to Reach Orbit
For nearly eight years, a small team of former ISRO scientists in Hyderabad worked toward a single moment. On the morning of July 18, that moment arrived: Vikram-1, a rocket designed and built entirely by Skyroot Aerospace, lifted off from the Satish…
Databricks Hits $188 Billion: What it says about the AI Boom
Databricks just did something few private companies manage even once: raise its valuation by tens of billions of dollars twice in the same year. On July 16, the data and AI company announced it had signed a term sheet for a new strategic funding round…
The AI Scraping War has been begin.
For two years, AI companies scraped the open web largely unchallenged, building the training data behind chatbots and search tools out of journalism, reference works, and forums without asking permission or paying for it. That era appears to be ending —…
Why AI’s Future Depends on Nuclear Energy?
For most of the current AI boom, the conversation about bottlenecks centered on chips — who has enough GPUs, and who’s waiting for more. That conversation has shifted. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told podcast host Joe Rogan late last year that energy,…
Why Apple and Google Are Cracking Down on AI Apps?
Both of the world’s dominant app stores are under growing pressure this year over what they’re allowing AI-powered apps to do — and, in a notable escalation this week, a city government is now formally demanding they act. San…
The Humanoid Robot Race is Heating Up
Humanoid robots have spent years living mostly in demo videos — impressive clips of machines dancing, backflipping, or folding a single towel under carefully controlled conditions. In 2026, that’s starting to change, at least for a handful of…
Luxury Smartphone Enter the AI Era
For most of the smartphone era, “luxury” meant precious materials: solid gold casings, sapphire crystal displays, hand-stitched leather, diamond embellishments. Craftsmanship and exclusivity did the work that specs did on mainstream…
The UAE’s AI BOOM: How one country is becoming an AI Superpower
Three years ago, the United Arab Emirates was best known internationally as an oil-wealthy business and tourism hub. Today, it’s being described by analysts as one of the most significant — and least understood — strategic pivots in global…
Meet Kimi: The AI Assistant Challenging ChatGPT in China
Introduction While OpenAI’s ChatGPT remains unavailable in mainland China, a Beijing-based startup has spent the past three years building what’s become one of the country’s most-used AI chatbots in its place. Kimi, developed by…
Google Vids Unveils AI Tool That Lets You Star in Your Own Videos
Google Vids is shedding its original identity as a simple, AI-assisted workplace presentation tool. On Thursday, Google announced two major updates to the platform: personal AI avatars that let anyone create a digital version of themselves from a single…