Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

Flipkart, under Walmart’s ownership, is growing its in-house food delivery trial, Eat-in by Minutes, now reaching more than 8,000 employees in Bengaluru. People close to the project told TechCrunch the company aims for a public launch by the end of October. If that happens, it would pit Flipkart directly against Zomato and Swiggy—the top dogs in India’s food delivery scene. Flipkart hasn’t shared any official launch date yet, and when Inc42 reached out, the company stayed silent. So, what’s going on with Eat-in by Minutes? Right now, only Flipkart employees can use it. The feature even has its own tab…

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said France will enforce more targeted curfews, letting local leaders decide where they’re needed. This comes after one night of restrictions managed to keep cities quiet, following some of the worst rioting in years. The government’s trying to regain control after a weekend that started with protests about the cost of living and poor schools—and ended in riots, looting, and attacks on public buildings across big cities. After a chaotic weekend, Monday night felt like a break, but it’s fragile. Lecornu credited the curfews for calming things down. He said local prefects would work with mayors…

A 49-year-old bricklayer from Brazil, Edimar Rocha Martins, thought he’d found love online. He sold nearly everything he owned, then traveled over 2,000 kilometers, all for the chance to meet the woman he hoped to marry. But when he finally arrived, he found out the hard way—she never existed. The woman he’d been talking to was nothing more than an AI-generated character. Here’s what happened. Martins, who’s from Imperatriz in Maranhão, started following a TikTok account in 2020. The account showed off a woman called Jéssica Oliveira—or, as her followers knew her, “Jéssica Fazendeira.” If you scrolled through her videos,…

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, laid out three possible futures for the race to superintelligence at a recent all-hands meeting. According to The Information, he said it’ll either end with an international regulator, a big merger between leading AI labs, or one company overpowering the rest. Let’s break down his ideas. Altman’s favorite? An international oversight body, sort of like the International Atomic Energy Agency. This watchdog would set safety standards, audit labs before releasing new models, and check that the work’s legit. Then there’s the so-called “Demis plan,” inspired by DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. Think of it as a CERN for…

Google Public Sector and Accenture Federal Services just announced something big: they’re rolling out “Gemini launchpads” to help U.S. federal agencies actually use AI agents in their day-to-day work—not just pilot them, but plug them straight into mission-critical government systems. This was announced on October 19, 2026, and brings together Google’s Gemini AI models and secure cloud tech with Accenture’s engineers embedded directly inside agencies. So what’s the deal? These launchpads are basically a one-stop shop for agencies. They can scope out where AI can help, connect Gemini to the right data, build their agents, roll them out fast, and…

Microsoft’s huge $175 billion plan for AI spending in 2026 is really putting the pressure on the company’s profit margins and cash flow. Sure, demand for their cloud services has never been higher, but building all that AI infrastructure? It’s not cheap, and you can see the hit in Microsoft’s bottom line. This eye-popping figure came out during their fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 earnings call. CFO Amy Hood explained that while the capital expenditure estimate hasn’t changed, Microsoft reclassified some data-center leases, bumping the reported total to about $175 billion. And why does this number matter so much? To put it…

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic PBC, according to Bloomberg. That would put him in position for a hefty payout if the AI company goes public—though neither Schmidt nor Anthropic has confirmed how much he actually holds. Schmidt jumped in early, putting tens of millions into Anthropic’s Series A in 2021. Back then, the company behind the Claude chatbot was valued at just $461 million, at least according to PitchBook. It’s anyone’s guess if he’s trimmed his stake since. Bloomberg’s story points out that Schmidt’s early bet left him with this 1% slice,…

SS Rajamouli just dropped some good news for fans waiting for Varanasi. The film, starring Mahesh Babu, is nearly done—about ten days of shooting left and that’s it. Rajamouli made the announcement in Brazil, where he was attending the 50th São Paulo International Film Festival and picking up the Leon Cakoff Award for his impact on global cinema. Rumors about delays have been all over the internet, but Rajamouli’s update settles that. The movie’s still lined up for a worldwide release on April 7, 2027. When asked by Oxente Pipoca, a Brazilian film outlet, about how much work was left,…

Anthropic says its Claude Mythos 5 AI can design quantum circuits that beat existing benchmarks on seven out of eight standard quantum tasks. According to the company, these designs use fewer qubits and gates than anything published before—sometimes by more than a factor of ten. If that holds up, it could really cut down the quantum resources needed for all sorts of problems in chemistry, optimization, materials science, and cryptography. Here’s how they did it: Anthropic gave Claude plain-language briefs for tasks in areas like chemistry, optimization, physics, and number theory. For each one, an automated checker tested if the…

Germany just took a big step toward bringing artificial intelligence into its industrial heartland. The federal government signed a joint declaration with Nvidia, the U.S. chip giant, to drive AI adoption in industry—possibly its most significant attempt yet to connect German manufacturing to advanced AI. They made it official at Berlin’s first “Invest in Germany Summit.” Top government ministries—the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy plus the Research, Technology and Space ministry—signed on, along with Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang. So, what’s on the table? Germany and Nvidia are teaming up to develop “physical AI”—which means…