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FILE PHOTO: Preeti Lobana, country manager for India at Google, said Indian startups are building advanced AI solutions but often face difficulties in scaling beyond domestic pilots (REUTERS)
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Google launches Market Access Program| Business News

NEW DELHI: Google on Thursday announced a new programme—Google Market Access Program—to help Indian startups expand into global markets. The programme is designed to help Indian AI…

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The Apple-Google deal unlocks unlocks two billion active Apple devices for Google Gemini to tap into. (AI Image)
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Apple opts for Google Gemini to power Siri in multi-billion dollar AI deal| Business News

Apple Inc. has chosen Google Gemini over ChatGPT to power its AI technology as well as Siri in a multi-year deal, in what is seen…

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ETtech Interview: From online search to data stacks, AI is forcing a reset: Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy
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ETtech Interview: From online search to data stacks, AI is forcing a reset: Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy

Online search, as it exists now, is set for a dramatic overhaul as AI adoption accelerates, cloud-software firm Snowflake’s chief executive Sridhar Ramaswamy tells Samidha…

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Google already supplies up to 1 million Tensor chips to Anthropic PBC, in what has been called a “really powerful validaton” for TPUs. (Reuters)
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Meta said in talks to use Google Tensor AI chips in fresh headache for Nvidia| Business News

Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly in talks to spend billions on Google’s Tensor AI chips, which are powering its industry-benchmark Gemini 3 model. Nvidia Corp….

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India-born Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google is investing $15 billion to build a 1 GW AI data centre in India, and is offering Google Gemini for free to some Reliance Jio users. (AFP)
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Google doubles down on India AI opportunity with plan to fund local AI startups| Business News

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and venture capital firm Accel will partner to fund at least 10 early-stage Indian AI startups, in the first such funding partnership…

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Accel partners with Google to back Indian AI startups with $2 million co-investment
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Accel partners with Google to back Indian AI startups with $2 million co-investment

Venture capital fund Accel and Google have joined hands to launch the 2026 AI Cohort under Accel’s Atoms programme, with plans to co-invest up to…

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms will also land its ambitious subsea cable project ‘Waterworth’ at Sify's landing station near Vizag. (Bloomberg)
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Meta Platforms is said to partner Sify for 500 MW AI data centre in Visakhapatnam| Business News

Meta Platforms Inc. is said to partner Nasdaq-listed and India-focused Sify Technologies Ltd. to set up a 500 MW data centre in Visakhapatnam, as global…

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As part of the Gemini 3 rollout and in this push for growth, Google will be offering US college students Gemini Pro for free for a year. (Unsplash)
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Google debuts Gemini 3 AI model that can ‘read the room’ with interactive answers| Business News

Alphabet Inc.’s Google debuted an updated version of its AI model Gemini that executives said represents a “massive jump” in reasoning and coding ability. As…

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N Chandrababu Naidu sees Google unleashing $1 trillion boom

Some three decades ago, when N. Chandrababu Naidu was seeking to turn southern India into a global tech hub, he regularly encountered skepticism from investors….

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Apple and Google are finalising a deal that would give Apple access to Google’s technology. (Unsplash)
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Apple, Google close in on $1-billion/year AI deal to use Gemini for Siri| Business News

Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter AI model developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Google that…

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