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QpiAI, Gujarat’s PDEU Sign MoU for 8-Qubit Quantum Centre
The facility will support quantum education, research and access to computing resources for students and researchers.
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Healthify Expands to US With Berry Street Merger to Bring AI-Powered Healthcare
The deal brings together Healthify’s Ria nutrition AI and Berry Street’s network of 2,000-plus clinicians serving patients across all 50 US states.
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Netweb Technologies Raises ₹1,200 Crore Through QIP
The company will use the proceeds to meet working capital needs and support its growing order book.
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Germany’s Infineon to Acquire Bengaluru’s C2i Semiconductors for AI Data Centre Power Systems
The deal will expand Infineon’s digital power engineering capabilities in India and support power systems for next-generation AI infrastructure.
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Airbound Raises $37 Mn to Scale Autonomous Aircraft in India
The Bengaluru-based aerospace company will use the funding to expand manufacturing and launch a drone delivery network in Andhra Pradesh.
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OpenAI is Hiring AI Engineers in Delhi & Mumbai
The company’s current India careers listings also include roles in enterprise sales, B2B marketing, go-to-market enablement, product partnerships, AI deployment and workplace operations.
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Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC
Situational Awareness, the AI focused hedge fund that was Wall Street’s fleeting obsession, is having a very bad month. The company, led by twentysomething OpenAI alum Leopold Aschenbrenner, went all-in on a variety of AI investments and, for a period, enjoyed phenomenal growth. Then, at the end of July, a downturn in AI stockserased billionsof dollars in value at the firm. Now, federal regulators are reportedly probing the company as well. The New York Timesreports thatthe Securities and Exchange Commission has been subpoenaing banks that did business with the hedge fund. The subpoenas focus on the banks that supervised the fund’s trading and that channeled funding to support it, the outlet says. The government reportedly warned the banks to “preserve any information” about the hedge fund, though it noted that Situational Awareness has not been accused of any wrongdoing. Situational Awareness did not respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment but told the Times that scrutiny of high-profile funds is to be expected, and that it would “cooperate to the fullest extent with any regulatory request.” The company, which very publicly hitched its wagon to AI’s star, may serve as a cautionary tale about the industry’s supposedly unstoppable trajectory.
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Vahan.ai Fine-Tunes Nemotron 3 Nano to Build Multilingual AI Recruiter
The model was fine-tuned using Vahan.ai’s proprietary production dataset of human-corrected recruitment conversations in multiple languages.
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Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO
President Donald Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of SpaceX shares on June 23, according to a financial disclosure first reported byReuters, two weeks after the record-setting IPO of Elon Musk’s company. It’s not clear what price Trump paid for the shares, but by that point they had fallen from their highs of over $200. SpaceX shares were trading in the mid-$150 range on June 23. At the end of trading on Monday, shares closed at the IPO price of $135, possibly putting the president’s stake underwater. Trump and Musk are close, despite a brief falling out last summer that involved the businessman accusing the president of withholding theDepartment of Justice’s fileson Jeffrey Epstein because of how often Trump’s name appears in them. SpaceX has been hoovering up anincreasing amount of government contractsand benefiting from the Trump administration’s deregulatory stance, according to a recent Wall Street Journal analysis. White House spokesman Davis Ingle told Reuters that the president’s stock portfolio is managed by third-party financial institutions and replicate “recognized indexes, such as the Schwab 1000.” SpaceX lobbied popular indexes to change their rules to allow for faster inclusionahead of its IPO, which means many people likely own some of the company’s stockeven if they don’t know it.
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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Everyone is buzzing aboutInstinct, an AI personal assistant still in private access, not only for its incredible capabilities, but also for its potential privacy concerns. The agent, a veritable taskmaster, has beenpraisedas feeling “like magic” andbeingone of the “most exciting launches” since OpenClaw. However, some testers have also raised concerns about the AI agent’s security model and its worrisometerms of service. To be fair, Instinct is still in private testing for now, so these concerns haven’t yet scaled to the wider public at this time. Created by a small team led by former Sierra research scientistNoah Shinn, San Francisco-based Instinct is operated bySpear Street Technology,per itstermsandCaliforniabusinessfilings. It’s currently operating in stealth, perPitchBook. The AI agent itself works by connecting to your applications and devices, including your email, messaging apps, calendar, and your device’s audio, location, screen, and more. You can text the agent or call it via text message or WhatsApp, asking it to perform various tasks for you, like booking your appointments and reservations, scheduling a ride to the airport, cleaning up your inbox, organizing important information, handling your shopping,findingyou cheap flights, and much more. Though Instinct is described by testers as outperforming their expectations, some have also raised concerns about the company’s approach to customer privacy and security. This raises a timely question: arethe trade-offsof giving AI this level of access and autonomy actually worth it? For instance, several peoplearecirculatingscreenshotsfrom the company’sTerms of Service, whichgrantInstinct a broad “perpetual and irrevocable” license to “access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify” any of the user’s materials, including for training its AI models. The terms also detail how Instinct can receive information from users’ devices, including screen captures, cursor movements, and keyboard inputs. The terms also allow Instinct to enter into “agreements, commitments, or transactions” on users’ behalf, which would be binding. let’s pause for a sec and talk abouthttps://t.co/19wLOjliYqVCs, notable people, successful people hyping it up all week. They all just giving away their emails and all their personal data, emails, messages:“sub-licensable, worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable license to…pic.twitter.com/MWb3LKnvQp From a#cyberhealthperspective, Instinct is a hard no.On the positive side, their policy is 100% forthcoming.However, the access they require comes with responsibility I would not bestow on any company.For those who desire speed or the "current thing" if you want to be…https://t.co/HdXO1k18u3pic.twitter.com/VczQw9P0Sa One early adopter, Peter Yang,pointed out thatInstinct would not delete his Gmail records when asked. (The team laterfixedthe problem by adding a tool for deleting external data in its settings, he said.) Hey Instinct, it's not cool to index and retain my emails without my permission and not let me delete them from your records?I can't recommend this to anyone until this is figured out. Thanks@clairevofor spotting this.pic.twitter.com/J2qhYVqwxN Another person, Claire Vo, found that Instinct was still summarizing their inboxafter disconnecting its access. When she asked Instinct what happened, the bot confirmed that the emails were stored in plain text for later searches. what a thrill!i disconnected ai bot instinct from google at 11 AM and got a summary of my emails at 2 PM 😵here's what happened, and what i've learned 👇pic.twitter.com/LMGGLXcrD5 Many others questioned the security model, too. One testerwas a bit worriedwhen they found that Instinct was able to pull a sign-up code from their email inbox to complete a particular task — in their case, booking a table at a restaurant via Resy. And Hello Patient co-founder Alex Cohen wrote that once he found outhow easily Instinct could be phished, he deleted his account: For additional context, I don’t think we’re at the point where it’s safe to give AI read/write access to your inbox.I wanted to see how easily Instinct could be phished, so I created a brand new Gmail account and emailed my real personal account with instructions for Instinct…https://t.co/Mh1W3xJQovpic.twitter.com/V5inRtK9Zj In addition, Moxxie Ventures founder Katie Jacobs Stantonsharedthat Instinct broke her trust when it sent an email on her behalf without first checking with her. “We’re trading privacy and control for hyper-personalized AI tools (AI notetakers, personalized AI agents, etc), often without fully understanding the trade,” she remarked on X, summarizing the dilemma posed personal AI agents. “The more powerful these agents become, the more trust matters. Every successful action earns a little more trust. One unauthorized action can reset that trust to zero,” she said. Instinct is an amazing product. I've been using it for mostly personal needs and a little bit of work.Last night, it was a little naughty and sent an innocuous email on my behalf without checking with me first. I told it that it had broken my trust and disconnected my email.… Michael Mignano, the founder of Anchor, which was acquired by Spotify, and now a GP at Union Square Ventures,noted thatproducts like Instinct are going to “change modern security norms for consumers,” adding that “people will increasingly hand over passwords to 3p [third-party] apps, unaware of how or what they are storing for them.” Interest in Instinct and personal AI has been growing since the arrival of OpenClaw, a personal AI assistant that became popular for its powerful capabilities,leading its founder to join OpenAIto help work on the next generation of personal agents. Another messaging-based assistant,Poke, also just exited to Cognition. Amid the criticism, Instinct’s team hasn’t yet responded to anyone’s concerns or complaints on X, preferring to keep alow profile. (Thebot itself identifiesLuca Borletti, also formerly of Sierra, as being involved with the company, but that has not been confirmed.) TechCrunch has heard from multiple investors that Kleiner Perkins and Conviction have invested in the startup and those rounds have now closed. I've been using Instinct every day for the last week now. It’s been awesome for travel booking, rebookings, restaurant reservations, email follow-ups, CRM management, even working on our data room for LPs. I've tried Hermes, OpenClaw, Tasklet, GrokBot but Instinct takes the cake… Requests for comment sent to both the startup’s main email address and Shinn directly have not yet been returned.
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Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The AI boom has made it possible for a significantly wider range of people to dip into development, create code, and launch software for the first time. There are pros and cons to this, even for established developers who are beingpushed to use itto produce work faster. Replit sits at the center of this evolution, and when its CEO and co-founder, Amjad Masad, takes center stage atTechCrunch Disrupt 2026, he’ll speak about the future of programming and the wide-ranging implications of a world in which ideas can be easily turned into products. Join the audience to watch our wide-ranging discussion with Masad at San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13–15. You’ll also catch the rest of our excellent Disrupt lineup across six stages that address the most pressing questions facing the startup community, including, most critically, how do you build a sustainable company in the AI era? Get your tickets now during our special promotional pricing extension —get up to $300 off your ticket until 11:59 p.m. PT Tuesday, August 25. Replit’s rise has been explosive, mirroring the broader ascent of AI and the companies furthering its proliferation. Though Masad founded the company a decade ago, the past 18 months have marked the biggest changes, with the company’s current run-rate tracking toward abillion dollars annually, compared with just $2.8 million in reported revenue in 2024. But this conversation is about much more than Replit’s revenue. Masad’s conversation will dive into his perspective about the future of programming, entrepreneurship, and how Replit ensures that its service is doing more than helping users prototype their ideas — it helps fully flesh them out, too. Investors are convinced of Replit’s value to both nontechnical users and professional coders. They assigned the company a$9 billion valuationearlier this year, a mere six months after the company was assigned a $3 billion valuation. Of course, the question is whether it can keep that momentum going — or whether its growth in 2026 will look quaint a year from now because it’s growing even faster. If you’re interested in building within the AI era, you can count on many sessions, in addition to Masad’s, across our other stages: To hear it first and in person, join the more than 10,000 founders, investors, and technologists who are heading to San Francisco for Disrupt 2026 on October 13–15. Grab your ticket today to make sure you get the best available price. Check out Disrupt’s headline speakers Everything founders should know about Disrupt Get the best hotel deals ahead of Disrupt How to host your own Side Event at Disrupt Take part in Disrupt and learn how to exhibit your startup
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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has been approached to sell at a valuation of $13 billion or more,Business Insider reportedover the weekend. The startup’s platform and open-source community is where developers and researchers share, find, test, and deploy AI models. Hugging Face was recently the target of an attack from one ofOpenAI’s systems,which broke out of its sandbox during a cybersecurity evaluation and breached the startup’s servers. It’s not clear who Hugging Face has been in talks with, and no deal has yet been reached, according to Business Insider. However, the startup has reportedly been talking to banks to help evaluate bids. The talks come amid increased interest in companies providing core AI infrastructure services, as evidenced byStripe’s $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter. Hugging Face last raised in 2023 at a $4.5 billion post-money valuation in a round led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Alphabet, GV, IBM Ventures, and others. On a recent episode of theTechCrunch Equity podcast, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue said that the company was “close to profitability” and only “recently started to touch the money that [it] raised three years ago,” adding that the startup is thinking about how to optimize for “long-term sustainability of the company rather than short-term profits or fundraising maximization.” “We’re more in a unique position where we can keep creating value for the community and for AI builders,” he said. The way Delangue has discussed the company’s responsibility to the Hugging Face community raises questions over whether the startup is truly considering selling or is simply fielding offers for what has become a central pillar in AI infrastructure. “We’re building a platform for the community, and they’re trusting us with sharing their data and their models on the platform, so we have a long-term responsibility to them,” Delangue said on Equity. More to the point, the company earlier this year turned down a $500 million investment from Nvidia that would have valued it at $7 billion,saying at the timethat it didn’t want a single dominant investor to sway decisions. TechCrunch has reached out to Hugging Face for more information. Loading the player…
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