Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

Reliance Jio has opened its JioPC cloud computing service to all internet users in India, removing the earlier restriction that limited access to JioHome broadband subscribers. The move, announced on Wednesday, positions the telecom giant as a provider of AI-ready virtual desktops for millions of Indians using aging hardware, with entry-level plans starting at around $11 for two months. Pricing and Plans JioPC streams a full virtual Windows desktop from Jio’s cloud infrastructure to a user’s existing computer, laptop, or thin client. The service is now available as a standalone subscription, independent of the user’s internet service provider. The company…

The Delhi High Court has ruled that pregnancy and maternity leave cannot be used by employers to sideline women professionals, holding that returning mothers are entitled to the same role, responsibilities and career prospects they enjoyed before going on leave. In a judgment delivered on August 31, 2026, Justice Sachin Datta said that Section 12(1) of the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, prohibits employers from varying any condition of service to a woman’s disadvantage — not just her salary or designation. The court emphasised that “under no circumstance can maternity be allowed to become a source of ignominy at the workplace”.…

Anthropic, the San Francisco AI lab behind Claude, just locked in a huge deal—$35 billion over six years—with Lambda, a cloud provider backed by Nvidia. The plan is simple: crank up cloud capacity fast enough to keep Claude growing, and do it with some serious Nvidia muscle. Here’s how the deal is set up: Lambda is getting its hands on a data center in Nueces County, Texas, which Hut 8 is building. If you haven’t heard of Hut 8, it used to mine bitcoin but switched gears into AI data centers. Nvidia isn’t sitting on the sidelines either. They’re leasing…

NASA pulled off a big one on Sunday, August 30, 2026: the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It’s another giant step toward figuring out some of the deepest puzzles in cosmology. The $4 billion telescope took off right on schedule at 7:26 a.m. EDT (11:26 UTC) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a SpaceX Falcon Heavy roaring off Launch Complex 39A. From there, Roman set out on a three-month cruise to its home about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, out at the L2 point—one of those cosmic sweet spots where the gravity is just right for…

Nvidia is closing in on a deal to buy Hugging Face, the New York-based open-source AI platform, according to several reports on Wednesday. The numbers getting tossed around are big—The Information says $12.9 billion, Business Insider says negotiations are still underway but the price is north of $13 billion. Nothing’s been officially signed yet. The timing is no accident. Nvidia just announced killer results for its fiscal Q2, beating Wall Street’s forecasts and projecting 70% revenue growth for the year. The company clearly wants to cement its lead in everything AI, and snapping up Hugging Face is another bold move…

China just rolled out some big plans for its next-generation fusion energy project, HL-4, at the 2026 Nuclear Fusion Energy Conference in Shanghai. Alongside that, they laid out a roadmap to build a 25-tesla high-temperature superconducting magnet by 2030—which, if you’re counting, is pushing the boundaries of what’s been done with fusion tech. So, what’s HL-4 all about? It’s supposed to be the world’s first steady-state burning-fusion experimental platform using these super-strong 25-tesla magnets. Basically, they want to see if these magnets can hold up under the wild combo of heat, radiation, and mechanical stress that goes on inside a…

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) just landed an ultra-mega contract worth over ₹15,000 crore for building gas compression facilities in the Middle East. This win pushes L&T even deeper into the region’s hydrocarbon infrastructure market. The deal goes to L&T Energy Hydrocarbon Onshore. They haven’t named the client or published the exact contract value yet, but an “ultra-mega” order—a term L&T uses—means anything above ₹15,000 crore. So, what’s L&T actually building? They’ll handle everything: engineering, procurement, and construction of new onshore plants designed to process sour gas. That’s gas tainted with hydrogen sulphide, so the work demands extra-tough equipment, strict safety…

Chennai saw a big shift on Monday when Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay scrapped the proposed Parandur Greenfield Airport. He kept his campaign promise to local villagers, who had pushed back hard against the project out of fear they’d lose their farmland and homes. Vijay addressed the state Assembly and got straight to the point: the government is walking away from Parandur entirely. “To fulfill the promise I made to the people,” he said, “this government will drop all plans for a new airport in Parandur.” His main reasons? Protecting farmland and preventing families from being uprooted. While…

India’s energy import bill is taking a hit again, as the Iran conflict throws global LNG supplies into chaos and pushes Indian companies to pay the steepest prices in years. State-owned GAIL India and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) just spent over $23 per MMBtu for LNG set to arrive in September. That’s a hefty price tag, and it says a lot about the scramble everyone’s going through. This rush isn’t happening in a vacuum. The Strait of Hormuz—pretty much the artery for much of the world’s oil and gas traffic—has turned into a chokepoint, choking off LNG cargoes, especially…

OpenAI’s AI coding assistant Codex has crossed 20 million active users, the company confirmed this week, marking one of the fastest growth spurts for an AI product in 2026. To mark the milestone, OpenAI engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux announced that every paid Codex and ChatGPT Work subscriber would receive a “banked reset” credit they can use at their own pace. The announcement comes amid persistent complaints from users who say their weekly usage limits are draining far faster than expected, even as the company experiments with paid top-ups and adjusts pricing for API-based access. From 3 Million to 20 Million…