When it comes to hardware and services revenues, storage is Apple’s secret spell. Not only has iCloud storage become Apple’s most frequently paid-for service, but people are more often purchasing additional storage when acquiring new Apple hardware. This is good business for the company and all it had to do to build that business was

Nvidia has been talking about sovereign AI for years, but is finding that India’s cultural and economic diversity calls for a different approach. Unlike in the US, truckloads of GPUs won’t drive the chipmaker’s expansion in India. Instead, the company plans to focus on software first, and deal with computing power  later. It’s betting on

The web scraping wars have just intensified.   In December, Google announced that it was taking action against web scraping company SerpApi, whose API lets customers’ scrapers mimic human searching, claiming that the company’s tool was “circumventing security measures” that protect its search results to feed the voracious appetite for training data required by many

For at least the last six or so years, Microsoft has worked hard to portray itself as a kinder, gentler tech company, a stark contrast to other Big Tech behemoths like Meta, Google, Amazon, and — since Donald J. Trump’s election to the presidency in 2024 —  Apple. Even The New York Times has noted

Physical AI – the branch of artificial intelligence that controls robots and industrial machinery in the real world – has a hierarchy problem. At the top, OpenAI and Google are scaling multimodal foundation models. In the middle, Nvidia is building the platforms and tools for physical AI development. And then there is a third camp:

AI dairy farming has found its most ambitious deployment yet – not in a Silicon Valley lab nor a European agri-tech campus, but in the villages of Gujarat, India, where 36 lakh (3.6 million) women milk producers are now being served by an AI assistant named Sarlaben. Amul, the world’s largest dairy cooperative, has launched

A recent demonstration from Mastercard suggests that payment systems may be heading toward a future where software agents, not people, complete purchases. During the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Mastercard showed what it described as its first fully authenticated “agentic commerce” transaction. In the demo, as reported by Times of India, an AI agent searched

7Rivers has secured $5 million in Series A funding, led by Inoca Capital Partners, which has taken a minority stake in the Milwaukee-based company. The investment supports 7Rivers’ continued expansion as a Snowflake Elite Partner, helping enterprises modernize data systems and integrate AI into core operations. The company positions itself as a strategic services firm

Ubicquia Inc. has closed a $106 million Series D funding round to accelerate growth in grid modernization, smart lighting, and public safety technologies. The round was led by 67 Capital and Marunouchi Innovation Partners, with participation from existing investors Hamilton Lane, ClearSky, GMS, and strategic partner Sercomm. The new capital comes as utilities, cities, and

WestFax Comprehend Now Available Across All Service Tiers, Automating Medical Document Classification, Data Extraction and Workflow Routing WestFax, a provider of HIPAA-compliant cloud fax and healthcare document exchange solutions, today announced the official launch of WestFax Comprehend, an AI-powered Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) platform designed to automate medical document intake, classification, extraction and routing for