तकनीक Tech & AI

AI, chips, compute and the tools that are changing work.

• 13 November 2026 · 22 bids for 10 GWh of grid batteries. India now needs cells made, not just awarded. Reliance, JSW, Amara Raja, Exide and 18 others bid for 10 GWh of battery cell capacity reserved for grid storage under the ₹18,100 crore PLI. The 40 GWh awarded earlier is still mostly on paper.
• 12 November 2026 · OpenAI now runs its models inside India. Local inference is not yet sovereign AI. OpenAI launched API inference residency in India on 12 November. Requests to GPT-6 Luna can now be processed and stored in the country. The scope is narrow at launch.
• 10 November 2026 · Paras and BroadPak plan a 3D chip packaging plant. India moves up the stack. Paras Semiconductors has partnered with San Jose’s BroadPak to build an advanced packaging and test facility in India. Chiplets and AI hardware are where packaging now decides performance.
• 6 November 2026 · Wall Street dumps AI data centre stocks. Indian IT rises. Power bills are the new risk. The S&P 500 fell 4.36% on Thursday, its worst day since April 2025, led by Nvidia, AMD and CoreWeave. On Friday Asia fell hard while India’s IT stocks gained.
• 5 November 2026 · Centre weighs ending safe harbour for platforms whose algorithms choose the feed. Talks on Section 79 of the IT Act are at an early stage and no decision has been taken. Peer-to-peer messaging would stay protected. Any change needs an amendment.
• 4 November 2026 · IndiaAI releases three home-built models. Now they have to earn users. Soket’s EKA-1 covers all 22 scheduled languages. ZenteiQ’s Dhīr models can run on a phone without the cloud. No independent benchmarks came with them, so use is the test.
• 4 November 2026 · CERT-In gets access to Anthropic’s Mythos. It will test slowly. India’s cyber emergency team can now use the model that finds software flaws at scale. IT Ministry sources say every test will be routed with care because the cure should not be worse than the problem.
• 3 November 2026 · India is now ChatGPT’s largest market, says OpenAI. The users are ours. The model is not. OpenAI’s India head Prabhjeet Singh says weekly users have doubled since January, lifting India from second place. He gave no total. Voice, Hindi, UPI and ads come next.
• 3 November 2026 · India drew $300 billion of data centre pledges. IndiaAI’s GPUs reportedly sit 80% idle. A Rhodium Group report argues India is building AI capacity faster than it can use it, mostly for global clouds. Its bright spot is services, where Indian engineers close the gap between a model and a working business.
• 2 November 2026 · Electric cars nearly double in October as fuel stays dear. They are now 7% of new cars. Vahan shows 35,777 registrations against 18,055 a year ago. Electric two-wheelers hit a record too, but their share of the market slipped in the festive rush.
• 1 November 2026 · UPI now moves over ₹1 lakh crore a day. Next comes the bill for running it. NPCI data for October shows 25.47 billion UPI payments worth ₹31.53 lakh crore. The daily average crossed ₹1 lakh crore for the first time, as a small merchant fee waits until after Diwali.
• 31 October 2026 · NVS-03 restores NavIC to four working satellites. India navigates on its own again. GSLV-F18 lifted off from Sriharikota at 11:51 pm on 30 October and placed the 2,250 kg satellite in transfer orbit. It adds an L1 signal and an Indian atomic clock.
• 31 October 2026 · MeitY drafts a consent-led data pipe for AI training, built on the UPI playbook. The DEPA for AI Training framework, prepared with iSPIRT, would let startups and researchers train models on bank, hospital and public data without ever seeing the raw records.
• 27 October 2026 · HCLTech opens two chip engineering centres in India for Japan’s Rapidus. The Bengaluru and Hubli centres will do mask design, process design kits and layout for the Japanese advanced logic chipmaker. HCLTech will also train Indian engineers for Rapidus’ work in Japan.
• 26 October 2026 · Tata Communications commits ₹4,350 crore to a 10,000 km fibre spine for India’s AI. The AI Super Highway will link data centre hubs from Mumbai to Chennai first, then the east and west coasts. It adds about 6 petabits per second between FY2030 and FY2036.
• 26 October 2026 · Infosys cuts its FY27 outlook as clients ask for more output per rupee. Profit rose 6 per cent and AI work grew 29 per cent in a quarter. Revenue guidance still fell to 1–2 per cent. The shares slipped over 3.5 per cent on Monday.
• 22 October 2026 · Browsers distrust eMudhra after eight certificate keys prove guessable. Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft blocked eight intermediate certificates from the Chennai certificate authority. Its board voted to leave the global SSL/TLS business.
• 21 October 2026 · AI-found PHP2Shell flaws force emergency patches across the web. Two critical bugs in the PHP engine, found with OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and separately by Wiz, were patched a day early on 21 October as attackers began probing.