India’s AI boom pushes firms to trade near-term revenue for users

Tech giants’ efforts to ramp up AI adoption in India may be about to hit a turning point, as companies end free promotions with hopes to convert the world’s fourth-largest economy into a windfall of paid subscribers. India became the world’s largest market for generative AI app downloads in 2025, according to market intelligence firm … Read more

How a 16-year-old company is easing small businesses into AI

Amid all the “is this a bubble?” talk about artificial intelligence, the supply chain and logistics industries have become breeding grounds for seemingly genuine uses of the technology. Flexport, Uber Freight, and dozens of startups are developing different applications and winning blue-chip customers. But while AI helps Fortune 500s pad their bottom line (and justify … Read more

Zoox taps ex-UberPool exec’s startup for routing software help

When James Cox, the previous chief of Uber’s ride-share product, UberPool, left that firm in 2019, the Silicon Valley big had deserted its autonomous car improvement and offered off the division fully. Whereas UberPool had struggled to take maintain, Cox felt an enormous alternative had been missed: taking the core of UberPool’s tech and making … Read more

TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global

Two months in the past, Indian electrical motorbike startup Ultraviolette expanded into 10 European nations. Now, fueled with $21 million in an all-equity spherical led by the company enterprise arm of Japanese electronics big TDK Company, Ultraviolette is placing its growth plans into overdrive. The nine-year-old startup plans to develop its European footprint fourfold, enter … Read more