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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.
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.
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.
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.
Execution is the new frontier: How Anthropic, Perplexity and Moltbook are reshaping AI
AI’s frontier has moved from beyond intelligence to orchestration. Autonomous agents, not just chatbots, are becoming the industry’s new power centre. Anthropic, Perplexity, and Moltbook are defining how autonomous systems will operate at scale.
Cloudfare outage impact: X, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Canva, Google Cloud inaccessible for millions
"Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to remediate. More updates to follow shortly," Cloudflare's system status site showed, identifying the problem as a "global network issue" causing widespread API and dashboard failures.
Roblox, Snapchat & Amazon down: Full list of online platforms facing issues amid AWS outage
Snapchat and Roblox Down: A widespread outage originating from Amazon Web Services disrupted numerous popular online platforms on Monday, including Roblox, Robinhood, Snapchat, and Perplexity AI. Users globally reported access issues, with some services beginning to recover. The cause and duration of the AWS-related disruption remain unconfirmed by Amazon.
Satya Nadella more than a tech titan, a mentor too: Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas
In an interview with ET, Srinivas said that even amid competition in the artificial intelligence space with Perplexity going up against the likes of Copilot, Nadella still focuses on the big picture. He added that Perplexity’s success could create opportunities to partner with Microsoft.
Perplexity acquires Visual Electric to rival OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Nano Banana
Perplexity AI has acquired Visual Electric, an AI-based image and video generation platform. The Visual Electric team will join Perplexity to develop new consumer product experiences, while Visual Electric winds down its current operations over 90 days, offering refunds and data export.
Infra.Market IPO; RBI Guv on UPI charges
Infra.Market has filed the draft papers for a public market listing. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
Browser battles: Chrome’s AI upgrade takes aim at Perplexity’s Comet
Currently available in the US, Gemini can clarify user queries on any webpage and even across multiple tabs on Mac, Windows desktop, and Android devices. The company said the feature will also be available to businesses in the coming weeks through Google Workspace, and added that Gemini will soon be built into iOS.
Perplexity to provide users live earnings call transcriptions for Indian stocks
US-based AI firm Perplexity has enhanced its Finance dashboard with live transcriptions and earnings call schedules for Indian companies. Following its launch of free access to Indian stock data, the move aims to simplify market research. Perplexity also partnered with Airtel to offer its AI search tool to millions of users.
FirstCry trims Q1 loss; Fractal's Rs 4,900-crore IPO
Mother-and-kids retailer FirstCry cut its Q1 FY26 losses as revenue climbed. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
Major Japan newspaper sues 'free-riding' AI firm Perplexity
The lawsuit filed Thursday is one of a slew by media companies worldwide against AI firms using their material and is the first by a major Japanese news organisation, Yomiuri said. It accuses Perplexity of "free-riding on the results of the activities of news organisations, which have invested a great deal of effort and expense".
Airtel offers Perplexity Pro subscription worth ₹17,000/ year for free to all users
Airtel Perplexity Pro Free offer: Bharti Airtel has announced a partnership with Perplexity. Airtel will offer a free Perplexity Pro subscription to its users. This offer is for all Airtel mobile, Wi-Fi, and DTH subscribers. The Perplexity Pro subscription includes advanced AI tools. It provides enhanced search, research, and productivity features. Airtel users can avail this offer through the Airtel Thanks App.
As race for AI startups heats up, Apple, Meta mull Perplexity acquisition
While Apple’s internal discussions on potentially bidding for the AI startup are at an early stage, a Bloomberg News report said that Meta Platforms tried to buy Perplexity earlier this year. These actions are driven by the fact that while Google continues to dominate the search engine space globally, AI-powered alternatives like Perplexity and ChatGPT are gaining traction, particularly among younger users.
Apple executives held internal talks about buying Perplexity: Report
Big tech companies are doubling down on investments to enhance AI capabilities and support growing demand for AI-powered services to maintain competitive leadership in the rapidly evolving tech landscape. Meta announced a $14.8 billion investment in Scale AI last week and hired Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to lead its new superintelligence unit.
Perplexity AI voice assistant comes to iPhones — Here’s what you can do with it
Perplexity AI has launched its voice-activated Perplexity Assistant for iOS, enabling users to perform tasks like playing media, drafting emails, and scheduling meetings on iPhones. The assistant utilises native Apple apps such as Apple Music and Apple Mail for various tasks. While it can't control certain iOS functions due to Apple SDK limitations, it offers a convenient way to manage various tasks hands-free.
AI startup Perplexity confirms interest to buy TikTok
President Donald Trump earlier this month said the United States was in talks with four groups interested in acquiring TikTok, with the Chinese-owned app facing an uncertain future in the country. A US law has ordered TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance or be banned in the United States.
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