Xiaomi prepares a major push into India’s large home appliance market by 2026, aiming to compete with Samsung and LG. This strategic diversification leverages local manufacturing and its existing ecosystem amid slowing smartphone growth.
EPFO will introduce instant provident fund withdrawals via UPI apps and dedicated ATM cards by June 2026 under its EPFO 3.0 modernization, serving 7.5 crore active subscribers and nearly 30 crore total account holders while maintaining a 25% mandatory retirement reserve.
India’s tech job openings fell to a 28‑month low of 93,000 in June 2026, even as more than 56,000 professionals seek roles after global layoffs, Xpheno reports.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov accuses Indian telecom giant Reliance of BGP hijacking to sabotage global access amid an India ban, a claim challenged by experts.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico elevate India-Slovakia ties to a Comprehensive Partnership, signing 11 agreements spanning defence, digital technologies, labour mobility, higher education, and trade, as bilateral commerce reaches €1,281.9 million and both sides align with the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement.
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Delhivery has commercialised Delhivery Maps, an AI-native geospatial platform powered by Naksha LLM, opening its logistics-tested mapping stack to Indian businesses, startups, and gig platforms for address intelligence, routing, and operational planning.
Reliance Jio debuts Jio TeleFrame, a wall-mounted smart screen and voice-first agentic AI hub for Indian households, alongside faster Jio Home broadband and the Jio Call Agent network assistant, as Chairman Akash Ambani outlines a shift from app-based services to a personalized Jio AI advisor strategy focused on privacy, consent, and automation.
Xiaomi prepares a major push into India’s large home appliance market by 2026, aiming to compete with Samsung and LG. This strategic diversification leverages local manufacturing and its existing ecosystem amid slowing smartphone growth.
Nobel laureate John Jumper, leader of DeepMind’s AlphaFold project, is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic, highlighting the intensifying AI talent race and pressure to turn research breakthroughs into enterprise-ready coding tools and developer platforms.
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Reliance Jio debuts Jio TeleFrame, a wall-mounted smart screen and voice-first agentic AI hub for Indian households, alongside faster Jio Home broadband and the Jio Call Agent network assistant, as Chairman Akash Ambani outlines a shift from app-based services to a personalized Jio AI advisor strategy focused on privacy, consent, and automation.
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Tim Cook confirms “unavoidable” price hikes for iPhones, MacBooks, and iPads as a severe AI-driven global memory chip shortage sends component costs soaring and shifts supply toward high-bandwidth memory for AI servers.
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