AI DevOps firm Harness.io to ramp up India R&D hiring; eyes 1,000 staff in three years

The startup, led by Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics, which was acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, is using AI to streamline the entire DevOps lifecycle, cutting software delivery turnaround time across testing, security, deployment, operations, and cost optimisation.

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India’s bare PCB manufacturing set for 45% CAGR surge

The bare PCB market in India currently is worth $5 billion, with an 88% import dependence. Domestic production is expected to expand from $0.6 billion in fiscal 2024 to $3.8 billion by FY29, reducing the dependence on supplies from abroad to 69%, the financial services firm said in the report.

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Lawmakers want US to disclose any approvals of Nvidia H200 China licenses

President Trump this month said ‌he would allow sales of Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H200 chips to China, with the U.S. government collecting a 25% fee, and that the ​sales would help ​keep U.S. firms ahead of Chinese chipmakers ‌by ‍cutting demand for Chinese chips.

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Alphabet to buy clean energy developer Intersect in $4.75 billion deal amid AI push

Big Tech has ramped up investments in energy firms as ‌U.S. power grids ‌struggle to keep pace with the soaring electricity demand of generative AI amid an intensifying ‌race to capitalize on the booming technology.

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UPI surge stalls NPCI’s other retail payment modes

Regulatory data reveals that Immediate Payment System (IMPS), an inter-bank fund transfer mechanism, recorded 368 million transactions in November, compared to 407 million a year ago and 472 million in November 2023. It has seen a decline to 400-450 million transactions per month on average this year, down from nearly 500 million monthly transactions in 2023.

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Indigenous startup Digantara ventures into tracking missiles from space

Space debris and traffic monitoring has emerged as a key segment of the global space economy as companies launch more satellites in low Earth orbit for high-speed internet and Earth observation applications.

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Data breach case: US court approves Infosys McCamish's proposed $17.5 million settlement

A US court has officially sanctioned a settlement in class-action lawsuits against Infosys McCamish. The tech firm will disburse $17.5 million in light of a cybersecurity breach in 2023 that compromised the data of more than 57,000 clients, as highlighted by Bank of America.

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Elon Musk becomes first person worth $700 billion after court ruling on pay package

Elon Musk becomes first person worth $700 billion after court ruling on pay package

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AI chip firm Cerebras set to file for US IPO after delay, sources say

The company, which develops high-performance processors for artificial intelligence workloads, withdrew its prior IPO filing in ‌October, days ‌after announcing it had raised over $1 billion in a fundraising round that valued the ‌AI chipmaker at $8 billion.

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IIFL Fintech Fund acquires Rs 21 crore worth secondary shares in regtech startup Leegality

To date, Leegality has raised a total of $6.63 million across three rounds. Following the rollout of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, the document infrastructure startup has positioned itself as an early mover in DPDP adoption.

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Year in review: Startup funding flat in 2025 on early-stage AI reset

Indian startup funding barely moved the needle in 2025, even as dealmaking stayed busy beneath the surface. Total funding stood at $9.8 billion year-to-date, marginally lower than $10.1 billion in 2024, as gains in growth-stage rounds were offset by a sharp pullback in late-stage private capital.

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