Google and Epic Games have ended their six-year antitrust battle over the Android app ecosystem by abandoning a proposed revision to a court-ordered injunction, clearing the way for third-party app stores to appear inside Google Play in the United States from July 22, 2026.
The move stems from a 2024 ruling
The Union Cabinet has approved a ₹62,500 crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme to boost production, deepen local value addition and support design-led growth from 2026-27 to 2030-31.
India has launched a ₹15,000 crore AS-HAPS programme to field indigenous stratospheric airships for surveillance, intelligence and long-range communications, leveraging DRDO’s Stratospheric Airship Platform trials and Make-I funding to draw in private-sector aerospace partners.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified architectural vulnerabilities in India’s UMANG e-governance platform that could expose Aadhaar-linked data, EPFO UANs and other service records, raising questions over security in the country’s mobile-first digital public infrastructure.
India and New Zealand have elevated ties to a strategic partnership, launching a Roadmap to 2030 that targets NZ$7 billion in trade, deeper maritime security cooperation, and broader collaboration in education, technology, climate action and counter-terrorism across the Indo-Pacific.
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Nvidia Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp. are expanding their AI partnership beyond autonomous driving into factories, smart cities and urban infrastructure, using platforms such as Omniverse, Isaac, Nemotron and Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs to power digital twins, industrial robotics and the Woven City AI Vision Engine in Japan.
Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, new attention architecture and pricing set to challenge leading US AI systems.
OnePlus will stop launching new products in the US and Europe as Oppo restructures its global smartphone business, but confirms operations in India will continue unchanged, with existing customers in Western markets still receiving software updates and support amid a challenging global smartphone demand environment.
Google and Epic Games have ended their six-year antitrust battle over the Android app ecosystem by abandoning a proposed revision to a court-ordered injunction, clearing the way for third-party app stores to appear inside Google Play in the United States from July 22, 2026.
The move stems from a 2024 ruling
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Moonshot AI launches Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, new attention architecture and pricing set to challenge leading US AI systems.
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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng’s fortune has surged to $36 billion after a $7.4 billion funding round. Bloomberg now ranks him as the richest AI startup founder, ahead of OpenAI’s Greg Brockman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, as DeepSeek’s open-source R1 model challenges ChatGPT at a fraction of the cost.
