Ericsson’s June 2026 Mobility Report projects India will exceed 1.1 billion 5G subscriptions and 81% penetration by 2031 as data use soars, FWA scales, network slicing launches, and the industry advances toward 6G standardization and early commercial services.
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.
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.
India’s Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises will host the first BRICS MSME Forum and third SME Working Group Meeting in Agra on 19 June 2026, gathering member and partner countries to strengthen MSME ecosystems, share best practices and promote sustainable, inclusive growth across the global small business landscape.
Reliance Jio Infocomm denies Pavel Durov’s allegations of BGP hijacking affecting Telegram users outside India, as the platform faces a separate temporary ban in India during the NEET-UG 2026 re-exam window.
SpaceX, fresh off its June 12 IPO, has completed a $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor after earlier partnering via a “buy-or-partner” deal with Anysphere, underscoring its view of AI as a $26 trillion opportunity and positioning Cursor as central to its long-term technology strategy.
Paris-based Mistral is pushing open-source AI as the U.S. orders Anthropic to block foreign access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, highlighting a growing split between sovereign European AI efforts and American export controls.
Wipro has launched an Applied AI Center of Excellence for Anthropic’s Claude models at its Bengaluru innovation hub, aiming to certify 10,000 delivery experts and embed enterprise AI across the Wipro Intelligence stack amid a revenue slowdown and ongoing industry shift from pilots to full-scale AI production.
At the G7 Summit in Evian, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for safe-by-design AI, global cooperation against deepfakes and cyber fraud, and inclusive benefits for the Global South amid soaring AI-driven cybercrime costs.
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.
