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Amazon rolls out text-based shopping through Alexa
Amazon said the new text feature lets users research and compare products, track deals and price drops, and have Alexa for Shopping complete purchases on their behalf.
AI shopping agents could threaten Amazon and Walmart's ad business
Retail powerhouses Walmart and Amazon are also the world's two largest retail media businesses, dominating the estimated $74.4 billion in US retail media spending with a combined 88% share of that market, according to projections from data firm Emarketer. But digital assistants could soon disrupt that business.
Reddit posts search traffic declines, will push visitor sign-ins to curb data scraping
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman outlined a plan on Thursday to make signing-in mandatory for most content as the company grapples with data scraping and declining search referral traffic in recent months.
Research: How AI Agents Broaden the Scope of Knowledge Work
AI agents don’t just speed up knowledge work; they change its nature. In a field study of Perplexity’s conversational assistant and autonomous agent, researchers found that not only did the agent perform more autonomous work, cut task time, lowered cost, and left users more satisfied, but it also expanded the scope of work people attempted—crossing occupational boundaries, tackling more complex, multi-step projects, and generating tasks that rarely appeared with a standard assistant. As workers shift from operators to supervisors, leaders must redesign roles, workflows, and oversight to harness agents’ potential while governing their expanded autonomy.
Perplexity’s AI got some answers wrong, but it helped Aravind Srinivas find his first users
Perplexity’s early growth came from an unexpected way, people searching for their own social media profiles and sharing the AI’s sometimes amusing answers online. Aravind Srinivas explains how the experiment attracted attention and helped shape the startup’s shift from Twitter search to a broader AI-powered answer engine.
Aravind Srinivas looked up to Google CEO Sundar Pichai before building Perplexity AI; how an unexpected detail stayed with him
Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity AI in 2022 with Andy Konwinski, Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho. They initially experimented with tools that allowed users to search Twitter data through natural-language questions. They later shifted towards general web search. Perplexity was launched in 2022 and its search engine used AI to generate direct answers with citations and links to sources.
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Hyundai Motor India Q2 Results: Standalone profit falls 24% YoY to Rs 1,189 crore, but revenue rises 18%
Hyundai Motors India has reported a standalone net profit of Rs 1,189 crore for Q2 FY27, reflecting a notable decrease of 24% compared to Rs 1,570 crore during the same period last year. However, their operational revenue has grown to Rs 20,191 crore, representing an 18% increase from Rs 17,061 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal year. This performance illustrates the company's resilience amidst shifting market conditions.
Before Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas built a Twitter search tool that changed his startup's direction
Aravind Srinivas and his co-founders experimented with a Twitter search tool before focusing on Perplexity's web search product. An unexpected response to a feature that summarised social media profiles helped shape their next move, eventually leading to a broader mission centred on knowledge and curiosity.
Pepper crosses $11 million ARR as SEO and GEO pivot pays off, eyes $30 million in 12 months
The eight-year-old content platform says it is already profitable and expects roughly ₹20 crore EBITDA this financial year, with the US driving most of its growth
Global Market: Bank Indonesia defends policy mix after market confusion
Bank Indonesia has defended its latest policy package combining an unchanged benchmark rate, a higher deposit facility rate and reserve requirement cuts. The central bank says the measures aim to improve monetary policy transmission, boost banking liquidity and support credit growth.
Samsung One UI 9 driving report: Galaxy AI gets smarter, notification overload gets easier to manage, and camera gains new tricks; check all changes
Samsung One UI 9 driving report (Google Trends): Samsung One UI 9 brings new Galaxy AI features, camera upgrades and expanded customisation options to some Galaxy smartphones. The update introduces tools such as Call Brief, My FanCam and Now Nudge, alongside smarter notifications, improved Samsung DeX features and enhanced low-light photography and video recording controls.
Nvidia wins fast-growing AI startup Modal for new central processors
Modal, a cloud-computing startup that rents out computing power to AI developers, said it plans to start using Nvidia's new Vera central processor for the first time for hosting agents, the AI systems that can carry out long-running tasks for human users. Modal until now has run such work only on Intel and AMD chips.
Reddit-Perplexity AI clash: What to know about high-profile data scrapping case
Reddit-Perplexity AI clash: The case is part of a wave of copyright cases targeting AI companies over their alleged use of protected content for AI training.
Growth hinges on local reforms, not protectionism: Indermit Gill
India holds a unique opportunity to enhance its economic growth but must address internal challenges effectively. Rapid reform and the efficient use of resources are key to achieving this growth. The country needs to adopt artificial intelligence to improve productivity across various sectors. Expanding trade and eliminating barriers will be essential for attracting foreign investment. Policymakers must focus on enhancing domestic conditions to fully realize India's economic potential.
From 'lower middle class' Tamil family, he missed IIT Madras CSE by just 0.01, was rejected by MIT. Today, he is the CEO of a $20 billion AI startup
Perplexity cofounder and CEO Aravind Srinivas turned academic setbacks into a remarkable AI career. After missing IIT Madras Computer Science by 0.01 CGPA, he taught himself coding and machine learning, eventually topping a Computer Science class. MIT rejected his PhD application, but UC Berkeley admitted him. After working with OpenAI and Google DeepMind, Srinivas cofounded Perplexity in 2022. The startup reached a $20 billion valuation in 2025, while Forbes estimates his net worth at $2.1 billion.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei: AI's most visible CEO and enigma
The surge in artificial intelligence and the heated debate around its risks have made Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei the most visible tech leader -- though the 43-year-old remains an enigma. "I think he is one of the great legends in tech and business," says Alex Karp, CEO of data-analytics specialist Palantir.
Former Elevation Capital partner Mayank Khanduja joins Silicon Valley VC Bessemer in India
Khanduja, who left Elevation Capital in January, will focus on early-stage investments at Bessemer, working with founders from their first institutional funding round, the firm said.
Claude, New Yorker, Bandcamp: RBI rules leave international card payments in grey area
New regulations from the Reserve Bank of India will mandate reporting of international credit card transactions starting October 1. Consumers may need to provide details on all payments for services purchased abroad, leading to potential compliance challenges. The existing framework lacks clarity on how individuals will report these transactions to banks. While international credit card purchases are part of the Liberalised Remittance Scheme, the reporting process remains unclear.
Beyond the SIM: Inside Jio and Airtel’s high-stakes AI pivot
Jio and Airtel are taking their rivalry beyond connectivity as both invest heavily in AI-ready data centres, cloud platforms, enterprise tools and consumer services. Their expanding ambitions reveal how India’s telecom giants are positioning themselves for the next phase of AI adoption, where infrastructure, subscriptions and digital services increasingly converge.
How telecom giants are turning India’s mobile networks into AI distribution channels
Telecom companies like Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are integrating AI tools into mobile plans for user accessibility. Users can access advanced digital tools without high subscription costs, increasing the likelihood of long-term customer retention. Specifically, Reliance Jio offers a collaboration with Google while Airtel partners with Adobe for premium services. This innovative approach has led to significant growth in AI tool usage among Indian consumers.
Anthropic, OpenAI sound AI doomsday warning, Nvidia may have an answer. Here's explainer
AI safety debate has divided the industry, with the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI championing a coordinated slowdown of Artificial Intelligence development to let safety efforts catch up. However, Nvidia may have a plan.
Perplexity AI sued by startup for allegedly stealing 'wake word' technology
The heavily redacted complaint, filed on Thursday, said that Perplexity stole DaVoice's secrets after the companies collaborated on unspecified technology "built with DaVoice's proprietary source code, inference logic, network architecture, training approaches, training data, and know-how."
AI Is Changing How Customers Choose Your Business
As AI increasingly mediates how customers research, evaluate, and choose suppliers, competitive advantage is shifting from direct customer understanding to managing AI-shaped interactions. Drawing on the experiences of three small-to-medium sized businesses they worked with, the authors show how firms can adapt. A manufacturer improved sales efficiency by screening AI-generated inquiries before investing engineering time in quotations. A boutique hotel learned to monitor how AI tools described its business and revised public content to improve accuracy and differentiation. A B2B software company replaced periodic customer reviews with continuous monitoring of customer feedback and AI-generated market perceptions. Across all three cases, the lesson is that firms must treat AI as a new intermediary in the customer relationship. Winning companies will not necessarily spend the most on technology; they will build systems for continuously listening, interpreting signals, and adapting strategy in markets where both customers and the information they rely on are increasingly AI-mediated.
SoftBank's growing bets on AI and semiconductor assets
Founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is aiming to establish SoftBank as the world's leading AI platform with investments across the semiconductor supply chain, data centres, large language model development and robotics.
‘My Devi comes to me’: The 4-word answer by world's greatest mathematician, Ramanujan that filmmaker Shekhar Kapur connects to Kailasa Temple, a UNESCO site's mystery
Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur recently reflected on the astonishing precision of Kailasa Temple at Ellora, carved downward from a single piece of basalt using hammers and chisels. He questioned how ancient craftsmen avoided even minor errors and connected the temple’s geometry with ancient Indian mathematics, music and philosophy. Kapur also recalled mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, who reportedly answered questions about his remarkable solutions by saying, “My Devi comes to me,” linking knowledge with a deeper idea of wisdom.
Bessemer raises $5.75 billion in new funds, expands growth efforts
The San Francisco-based venture firm is allocating $4 billion of the funds to growth-stage financings, which include funding young companies raising large rounds at high valuations, according to firm partner Byron Deeter. The remaining $1.75 billion will go towards younger startups raising capital at the inception phase or soon after, Deeter said.
Google faces UK push to put AI assistants on Android, Chrome choice screens
The tougher rules would require Google to show users a choice of search providers when they first set up an Android phone or open Chrome, prompt them once a year to pick a default, and allow AI assistants that meet its technical and security criteria to appear on those screens.
Meta's Muse overtakes Claude, Grok in post-launch download race: Report
In the 13-day post-launch window, Muse has roughly 2.5 million downloads, way ahead of 400,000 for Anthropic's Claude and 200,000 for xAI's Grok. However, Meta's agent trails ChatGPT, which logged 3.1 million downloads in that time, according to the report. But Muse briefly held the number spot on Apple’s US free app chart, ahead of ChatGPT.
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI agent from its retail site
Meta’s Muse, which was introduced earlier this month, is designed to help people carry out such common online tasks as shopping and booking appointments. Amazon prohibits other companies from deploying automated tools to shop its site and started blocking Muse on Sunday night, a spokesperson said. Shoppers using Muse see a series of pop-ups saying its use violates Amazon’s terms of use.
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