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Nvidia has appointed chief financial officer Colette Kress as interim chief executive officer. The board will consider internal and external candidates for a permanent successor.

Founded by former HighRadius executives Kiran Rana and Payal Tripathy, Kutlerri.ai charges restaurants a percentage of the revenue its AI agents generate or the costs they save.

Norwests $4 billion fund signals a long-term bet on AI, healthcare and technology, as the investment firm looks to back businesses across markets, stages and sectors.

The firm will focus on deploying capital into selected opportunities across the National Capital Region (NCR), while continuing to build towards its Rs 500 crore target.

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The Keralam government is keen to enhance the value of its startup ecosystem especially with the deeptech segment providing financial and other infrastructure support

Discover five life-changing lessons from The Secret by Rhonda Byrne on positive thinking, gratitude, visualisation, belief, and the law of attraction.

The state could offer support beyond the Centres IndiaAI Mission. It is also considering shared manufacturing space for small companies near Bengaluru.

Spread across a combined 465 acres for Kia and its suppliers, the new facility is expected to generate around 12,000 direct and indirect job opportunities.

At TechSparks 2026, Sagar Kumar of PayU discussed how payment systems can improve accessibility, build user trust, and bring more consumers and small businesses into the digital economy.

At TechSparks 2026, Manish Maheshwari from Stripe India stated that AI, local payments, and smarter cost control are accelerating global expansion for Indian startups.

At a Stripe roundtable at TechSparks 2026, leaders from edtech, commerce, fintech, and consumer hardware shared how to pick markets, localize smartly, and build the payments and compliance spine that makes expansion repeatable

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Thursday, November 12, 2026.

At TechSparks 2026, Google Clouds Head of Sales & GTM AI showcased Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Avatar, and showed an AI sales agent negotiating a helmet order in Hindi on a weak mobile hotspot.

The Mumbai-based investment manager is backing three businesses operating in the areas of defence tech, precision engineering, and power infrastructure: Sagar Defence Engineering, TASE Global, and Rational Engineers.

One year after Lenskarts public listing, CEO Peyush Bansal scrapped blue-light lens upsells and pledged free glasses to 100,000 children to target Indias widespread vision accessibility crisis.

At TechSparks 2026, Google Clouds Rajesh Shewani walked through how businesses are using Gemini for voice, agents, and coding, and why the systems built around a model now matter as much as the model itself.

A decade after Quikr bought the real estate portal, Malpani reflects on leaving the startup he had spent years building and why he chose to start again.

DRDO has picked Mangalurus Zupple Labs under its TDF to build Indias first security-audit framework for defence blockchain apps.

Reports say Jensen Huang had another extramarital affair with a senior executive of Nvidia, in addition to the relationship with a Chinese national Alice Huang, who was allegedly recruited as an intelligence asset by the Chinese government.

WhatsApp is gearing up for a future beyond messaging. In other news, Gaurav Munjal is stepping down as CEO to become the executive chairman of Unacademy. Akhilendra Kumar will take over as CEO.

The leadership change comes two months after upGrad completed its acquisition of Unacademy. Munjal, however, will stay involved in the company's operations as executive chairman.

Hardik Pandya's trade brings the curtain down on his second stint with MI, a franchise with which he won four IPL titles.

To promote electric mobility, reduce dependence on fossil fuels, and account for prevailing market prices and vehicle lifecycle costs, the Finance Ministry is revising the net dealer price ceiling for procuring EVs and internal combustion engine vehicles.

From spacetech to aviation and healthcare, meet eight Tamil Nadu startups taking homegrown innovation to new heights and catching the Prime Ministers attention.

AirEarths online pitch event on Nov 12 sees clean air and climate innovators in six categories pitch to investors and experts.

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Under the revised guidelines, the government has eliminated the minimum sales threshold for claiming financial incentives while scaling down the baseline capital expenditure required from manufacturers, the Department of Pharmaceuticals, under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.

At a TechSparks 2026 roundtable hosted by OPPEX, technology leaders discussed the challenges of maintaining AI-generated code, managing risk, and responding when production systems fail.

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The export policy for the category has been changed from 'Free' to 'Prohibited' with immediate effect.

At TechSparks 2026, leaders from MongoDB, Pine Labs, and Spinny discussed why data, memory, workflows, and trust matter more than model access.

One of the reported vulnerabilities is already being actively exploited in real attacks, the cyber security agency has warned.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Heres the roundup for Wednesday, November 11, 2026.

Under the MoU, Tata Motors customers will get access to quick loan disbursements, flexible repayment plans and a 25% assured buyback guarantee.

At TechSparks 2026, investors from Snowflake for Startups, 247VC, and Endiya discussed how AI is changing seed-stage investing and why founders need to demonstrate more than a working product to secure funding.

WhatsApps next chapter could transform it from a messaging platform into an everyday digital services hub, combining richer conversations, seamless payments and AI-powered assistance.

Executive exits can result from violations of company policies, even when no criminal wrongdoing has been established. Brian Krzanich resigned from Intel over a consensual subordinate relationship, while Phaneesh Murthy was dismissed by iGate for failing to disclose a relationship.

Anthropic will be valued at $1.41 trillion at the upper end of its IPO price band and the shares will be traded on Nasdaq.

The controversy over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huangs improper relationship with a Chinese citizen has raised national security concerns for the US.

Discover five powerful lessons from Hospitality with a Heart by Amrita Tripathi, a book exploring identity, acceptance, empathy and workplace inclusion.

The award exercise seeks to identify and recognise entrepreneurial ventures that make significant contributions across 20 sectoral categories, from agriculture to space technology.

OpenAI said Control Room will connect every research inference workload, including agentic sampling for model training and evaluation, data processing, and more. It will work together with its misalignment monitoring systems.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Tuesday, November 10, 2026.

Selected for NetApp Excellerator, Cogover is connecting customer conversations, business workflows, and AI agents to help enterprises turn commitments into accountable action.

At TechSparks 2026, Brilyant CEO Akash Saxenaa explained how running AI models locally can help businesses control costs, protect sensitive data, and reduce their dependence on the cloud. AI tools have made it easier for businesses to analyze documents, generate content, and automate tasks. But

By refusing the cookiecutter tour, Himanshu Maru and his cofounders turned personalization into a moat, earning 970+ glowing reviews and a loyal global clientele. Himanshu Maru started Bout India in 2013 with a simple bet: that international travellers to India wanted something built around t

At TechSparks 2026, Shweta Rajpal Kohli, President and CEO of Startup Policy Forum, explained why founders need to tell authentic, distinctive stories and how storytelling can help build trust and differentiate a business.

'Simple Money Serious Wealth', which sold over 3,000 copies on launch day, is another feather in the cap of this popular finance educator and content creator.

As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang faces scrutiny over an extramarital affair, we look at five tech and startup leaders whose personal relationships or workplace controversies made headlines and, in some cases, led to resignations and dismissals.