Apple’s WWDC 2025: iOS 26 Shines with Liquid Glass Design

At WWDC 2025, Apple introduced iOS 26, showcasing a captivating Liquid Glass design with transparent, shimmering effects. A new naming scheme uses the year for iOS, macOS, and more. A dedicated Games app, AI-powered features, and updates to CarPlay, AirPods, and Apple Wallet enhance user experiences, while visionOS and watchOS get sleek redesigns.

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India’s Andhra Pradesh Govt, Nvidia Join Hands to Launch AI University in Amaravati

Andhra Pradesh has teamed up with Nvidia to launch an AI university in Amaravati, aiming to train 10,000 engineering students and support 500 AI startups over two years. The MoU, signed by IT Minister Nara Lokesh, includes AI curriculum development, faculty training, computing infrastructure, and startup aid via Nvidia Inception. This move aligns with India’s broader AI education push—like IIT Madras offering free AI courses on SWAYAM and Symbiosis launching AI-focused degrees from July 2025.

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Kruti: A Multilingual AI Assistant from Krutrim Set for Launch

Bhavish Aggarwal’s AI venture, Krutrim, is gearing up to introduce “Kruti,” an intelligent assistant built to respond and operate in native Indian languages. Dubbed India’s first agentic AI, Kruti promises proactive and adaptive voice-based interaction. This move aligns with Krutrim’s full-stack AI ambitions, which include custom AI chips by 2026, a growing cloud platform with 25,000+ developers, and 50+ AI services. Despite no revenue in FY24, the firm heavily invested ₹134.86 crore in R&D to build long-term value.

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Apple WWDC 2025 Kicks Off Monday with Big AI, OS, and Developer Updates

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2025 (WWDC 2025) starts Monday at 10 a.m. PT. Expect fresh updates across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS—plus a possible design overhaul for better cross-device consistency. A new gaming app, AirPods features, and an AI-powered coding tool in Xcode (possibly with Anthropic) are also rumored.

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Meta in Talks to Invest Over $10B in Scale AI: Biggest Private AI Bet Yet

Meta is reportedly eyeing a massive $10B+ investment in Scale AI—making it one of the largest private tech deals ever. Scale, which powers Microsoft and OpenAI with clean training data, could soon hit a $25B valuation. The deal reflects Meta’s growing AI ambition, especially in defense, as it partners with Scale on military AI tools like “Defense Llama.”

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Superblocks CEO: How AI System Prompts Can Reveal Billion-Dollar Startup Ideas

Brad Menezes, CEO of Superblocks, believes studying system prompts—those long, specific instructions used by AI startups—can inspire the next unicorn. As part of a new product launch, he shared 19 such prompts, showing how role, context, and tool instructions shape AI behavior. His insight? The real magic is in the infrastructure built around the prompt.

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Anthropic Names National Security Expert to Its Governing Trust

Just after unveiling new AI models for U.S. defense use, Anthropic named Richard Fontaine—ex-adviser to Sen. McCain—to its long-term benefit trust. The trust helps steer the company’s ethical path, prioritizing safety over profits. CEO Dario Amodei says Fontaine’s security expertise comes at a key moment as AI and defense increasingly overlap. Anthropic, like OpenAI and Google, is eyeing deeper national security ties.

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QNu Labs Is Building India’s Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity Future

When digital payments soared post-demonetisation, Sunil Gupta saw the missing link—digital trust. In 2016, he co-founded QNu Labs, betting on quantum cryptography instead of AI to build India’s own secure cyber platform. The IIT-Madras-incubated startup now builds quantum-safe chips, encryption hardware, and cloud security tools for India’s defence and critical sectors, recently raising ₹60 crore to scale globally.

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AI Coding Startup Anysphere Raises $900M, Hits $9.9B Valuation

Anysphere, maker of the AI coding tool Cursor, has raised $900M at a $9.9B valuation. Led by Thrive Capital, the round marks its third funding in under a year. Cursor’s ARR now tops $500M, doubling every two months. With new enterprise plans, the company’s revenue model is shifting beyond individual users. Anysphere recently declined acquisition offers, including from OpenAI.

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Amazon Builds New Agentic AI Team Inside Lab126 for Next-Gen Robotics

Amazon’s Lab126, the brains behind devices like Kindle and Echo, now has a new internal team focused on agentic AI—tech that goes beyond chatbots to perform complex, multi-step tasks. The group is working on an AI framework to power physical AI in robotics, enabling warehouse bots to understand and act on voice commands. Amazon’s broader push includes a browser-based agent, an agentic AI team in AWS, and Alexa+ updates with advanced capabilities.

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