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India’s payments body preps UPI rules for AI agents: sources
UPI, run by the National Payments Corporation of India, handled 24.51 billion transactions worth 29.8 trillion rupees, or about US$314.21 billion, in August.
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India’s Gupshup rolls out self-service Voice AI platform
The product extends Gupshup’s existing WhatsApp, Rich Communication Services, and SMS infrastructure into voice.
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Mirae Asset leads $20m round for Indian wealth manager Nexedge
Founded in February 2025, Nexedge has grown to $3 billion in assets under management.
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Indian space startup Kepler raises $8m for ISR satellites
It will also be used to scale Kepler’s Mission Operations as a Service and Avionics as a Service businesses.
Grace Priscilla Teo · · 1 min readOpenAI says ChatGPT ad revenue hits $1b run rate
ChatGPT ads are now available in more than 40 countries and do not influence answers.
Aiko Gao Ishida · · 1 min readThe top lenders to SEA’s and India’s tech companies
Debt may be in vogue among tech companies in Southeast Asia and India. Investors are set to tap the demand.
Aya Lin · · 1 min readJio Platforms wins SEBI nod for $3.8b IPO
Meta and Google together hold about 17.7% of Jio Platforms.
Diya Lal · · 1 min readOpenAI rolls out ChatGPT ads to users in India
Anthropic says its rival Claude chatbot will remain ad-free.
Naomi Li Gan · · 1 min readMeta’s India and SEA head Sandhya Devanathan steps down
She said she joined Meta when the company had about 300 employees in Singapore.
Aiko Gao Ishida · · 1 min readIndian data center operator Yotta eyes $900m IPO
Hiranandani said Yotta runs India’s largest cluster of Nvidia chips and expects to reach 400 megawatts of capacity over the next 12 to 18 months.
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