Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/ind…

I’m excited to announce our leading $100M investment in Raphe mPhibr, our largest commitment in India’s defense ecosystem and a key part of driving global resilience at General Catalyst. Vikash Mishra and Vivek Mishra combine technical expertise, focused leadership, and

Oh how I miss the queue (and the tennis!) The Q Started in 2008 all the way to 2024. It’s an experience not to be missed.

Speed is everything. And in the #AIera waiting to complete an acquisition the old fashioned way, may not be suitable anymore. Every large corporate is looking for AI talent - acqui-hire, blitzhire acquisition or traditional #MandA - anything to not be left behind!

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Today's Financial Times Big Read: The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley. Bangalore has become one of the starkest illustrations of India’s struggles to build the infrastructure needed to keep its economy growing at a brisk rate - on.ft.com/3HTISej w/Krishn Kaushik

What is the government doing with the tax rupees it collects, certainly not putting it to good use for public infrastructure. Global MNCs are misled with a rosy picture of talent density, but in the end its the Indian citizens struggling on broken infra who have to pay the price!

Over the next decade, as our semiconductor units achieve maturity and scale, India is poised to emerge as a competitive hub for the entire semiconductor value chain.

13 major announcements at SEMICON India 2025. India’s semiconductor journey is moving ahead with speed & scale! 🧵👇

batch processed all my meetings into Mon/Wend. rest are now deep work days. Protect your time like you protect your capital.

#Saptami The seventh day of #DurgaPuja marks the beginning of battle of #Durga over the demon Mahishasura. Devotees worship Maa Kalaratri, a fierce and protective form of Durga, known for shielding her followers from evil forces. #Kalighat #Patachitra #Madhusudansaha

#Astami On the eighth day #Durga is celebrated as Mahishasuramardini and MahaGauri. It's a celebration of female strength and divine power. In the north dandiya is performed all days of #Navratri, and the #Dhunuchi Naach is performed during Aarati Mrinal Dutt$DROPEE🌶️ #madhubanipainting

#Navami Or the ninth day of Navratri, south India celebrates with Ayudha pooja (worship of instruments). Maha Navami puja is also done to celebrate the divine feminine energy of Maa #Durga and her nine avatars. #Siddhidatri #Madhubani #jaymenon

#Vijayadashami or #Dussehra, is celebrated as the triumph of good over evil. It marks the victory of Rama over demon Ravana and the goddess Durga's victory over demon Mahishasura. youtube.com/watch?v=6sRCDC… #vijitpillai #kailashraj Srihari Karanth #mysurudasara BotLab Dynamics

Welcome to Bangalore! 🇮🇳

New AI Security Institute research with Anthropic + The Alan Turing Institute: The number of samples needed to backdoor poison LLMs stays nearly CONSTANT as models scale. With 500 samples, we insert backdoors in LLMs from 600m to 13b params, even as data scaled 20x.🧵/11

Mumbai spike in AQI. I think it is still majorly due to farm fires but in MP, UP, Bihar - all NDA states. Can't blame Punjab anymore. Arrow marks wind direction. And red dots are farm fires.

IIT Madras has just crossed a landmark 500+ deep-tech startups — and as reported in ET Now’s South Central, the IIT Madras Incubation Cell (IITMIC) is now aiming even higher. IITMIC, CEO Dr Tamaswati Ghosh, reveals how a 12-year journey has created one of India’s largest

I wonder what the state of GPU access is at Indian universities today. IndiaAI mission subsidises access to GPUs through private-public partnerships but are the research labs getting access? Department of AI, IIT Hyderabad AI4Bharat CMInDS IIT Bombay BharatGen Vision and AI Lab, IISc

Sorry to hear this. It sounded like a rant but now confirmed by many. India struggles due to sheer numbers. Sheer number of developers, sheer number of builders, sheer number of bureaucrats. Keep calm and carry on building. Infrastructure will be solved or not.