Union minister for electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said that the sops in the 2026 budget will help India become a global AI hub and enable India’s tech industry to serve AI services to the rest of the world. Vaishnaw was talking to the media about the budget today.  In her budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke about a tax holiday for  data centres and cloud service providers till 2047.

Lime works closely with local authorities and partners to ensure its service integrates seamlessly into broader mobility ecosystems Micromobility specialist Lime prepares to strengthen green shared mobility operations in the Italian city ahead of large-scale international sporting events. Oh no, sadly you have viewed the maximum number of articles before we ask you to complete some basic details. Don't worry, it's free to register and won't take you longer than 60 seconds!

January 29 — Both ByteDance and Alibaba are preparing to release their next-generation flagship artificial intelligence models around mid-February, shortly before or after the Lunar New Year holiday, according to people familiar with the matter. Two sources said ByteDance plans to debut three new AI models next month, including a large language model, an image-generation model, and a video-generation model.

Other Prepaid Cellular Services Mint Mobile is a prepaid service that uses the T-Mobile network (T-Mobile acquired the company in 2024). Plans start at $15 for 5 GB, though they offer an Unlimited tier at $30 (and sometimes that’s on sale for less). Mint’s rates are low, but the company’s plans have quite a few restrictions on service and data, and Mint doesn’t offer smartwatch plans at all.

Welcome back to Startup 360. For the first episode of 2026, Majella and Simon talk about the big news of Summer. The sudden collapse of parcel delivery platform Sendle The end of SXSW Sydney Airwallex calling in lawyers to ask media to take down critical stories Our guest for episode 42 is Maddi Ingham, cofounder of GreenPay, a social enterprise payment processor that donates 50% of its profits to biodiversity and conservation.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES / ACCESS Newswire / February 1, 2026 / Remotify, a Philippine-based employer of record (EOR) platform, announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Maria Sucgang, has been named a Tatler Gen.T Leader of Tomorrow, an annual recognition honoring founders, innovators, and changemakers shaping the future of Asia. The acknowledgment highlights leadership that combines business growth with long-term social and economic impact.

Electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) is a way to collect clinical trial data using digital tools. As clinical trials become more flexible and focused on patients, eCOA has become necessary for improving data quality and making studies run more smoothly. For sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs), eCOA delivers a more dependable method for capturing outcomes while meeting regulatory criteria. In addition, it helps reduce common issues related to manual data collection, making it easier to manage complex studies and decentralized trial models.

Ryan Pearson is head of business development at Metasphere, a Grundfos company. By Ryan Pearson of water technology firm Metasphere. The Independent Water Commission’s (IWC) Final Report, delivered in July 2025, is being called the water sector’s 21st century “Great Stink” moment. For a multi-billion-pound industry defined by challenges including sewage spills, failing infrastructure, and the confirmed abolition of its economic regulator, Ofwat – the model of reactive management is officially obsolete.


 For decades, major cultural events – from the Super Bowl and the World Cup to award shows and global sporting finals – have represented the biggest stages in advertising. These moments concentrate attention at a scale brands can’t replicate elsewhere. But, as Super Bowl LX (Feb. 8, 2026) approaches, it’s becoming clear that the real competition no longer begins and ends on game day.

Recognising that the transition from classroom to workplace is a major challenge for the nation’s youth, the Government of India has introduced a roadmap for the 2026-2027 fiscal year that places young people at its very heart. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting her record ninth consecutive Union Budget, termed this a “unique Yuva Shakti-driven Budget”, citing the influence of the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue 2026 on its core proposals.

Ravie LakshmananJan 28, 2026Vulnerability / Workflow Automation Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new security flaws in the n8n workflow automation platform, including a crucial vulnerability that could result in remote code execution. The weaknesses, discovered by the JFrog Security Research team, are listed below - CVE-2026-1470 (CVSS score: 9.9) - An eval injection vulnerability that could allow an authenticated user to bypass the Expression sandbox mechanism and achieve full remote code execution on n8n's main node by passing specially crafted JavaScript code…

I like to think that I have pretty good taste in music. I’d go so far as to say I’m good at getting my friends to listen to new music, whether it’s through a playlist at a party or by attaching a new song to an Instagram post. However, with such a well-trained Spotify algorithm, even I find myself in a music rut on occasion.

During any given week, I spend much of it listening to audio. I listen while I work, when I workout, during travel, as I clean the house or car, or basically any time I can multitask, I take the opportunity to be entertained and informed, while being productive. This means I am constantly on the hunt for great headphones or earbuds to listen to music, podcasts, xSpaces, and more.

January 29 — MiniMax officially unveiled MiniMax Music 2.5, announcing major breakthroughs in two long-standing AI music challenges: paragraph-level structural control and physics-level high-fidelity sound reproduction. The company claims the new model makes music creation more precise, more realistic, and capable of delivering “Grammy-level” results without the need for a recording studio. MiniMax Music 2.5 introduces full paragraph-level tag control, supporting 14 structural variants including Intro, Bridge, Interlude, Build-up, and Hook.

AYANEO has just launched pre-orders for a handheld gaming powerhouse that fits comfortably into a jacket pocket. The Pocket S Mini is only 6.6 inches long, 3.1 inches wide, and 0.73 inches deep, weighing a mere 10.8 ounces, but despite its size, it refuses to compromise. The 4.2-inch LCD screen takes center stage, with its 1280 x 960 resolution and 4:3 aspect ratio bringing back memories of classic games from the PlayStation 1, Nintendo 64, and Dreamcast.

A KRW stablecoin story usually gets filed under regulation, then forgotten. But this one is different. Wemade is trying to solve a narrower, harder problem: how to build a blockchain that can survive Korea’s compliance expectations without forcing financial users to put every transaction in public view. That design choice comes with a cost, and the trade-off is the point.

US$1.9 billion contract highlights Korea’s growing role in Europe’s defense modernization Hanwha Aerospace has secured a major defense contract in Norway, winning a project valued at around US$1.9 billion to supply long-range rocket systems, according to industry sources. The deal centers on the export of the company’s K239 Chunmoo, marking one of South Korea’s largest defense exports to Europe to date.

James Warner once owned one of those giant Kodak picture-making machines that dominated every drugstore and big-box retailer in the 1990s and early 2000s. You’d walk up to it, insert a memory card or CD, scroll through all of the photographs on the screen, select the ones you liked, maybe add a cool border or some color correction, and walk out with your freshly printed photos just a few minutes later.

Lateral Sparks, the weekly quiz from YourStory, tests your domain knowledge, business acumen, and lateral thinking skills (see the previous edition here). In this 220th edition of the quiz, we present issues tackled by real-life entrepreneurs in their startup journeys. What would you do if you were in their shoes? At the end of the quiz, you will find out what the entrepreneurs and innovators themselves actually did.

Hubble’s stunning views of distant galaxies continue to surprise us, and this latest photo of NGC 7722 serves as a gentle reminder. This lenticular beauty is a true head-scratcher, as it’s located in the constellation Pegasus, a good 187 million light-years away, and it combines characteristics from two sorts of galaxies that you’d expect to see separately. There are the graceful arms of a spiral and the smooth, rounded profile of an elliptical, but NGC 7722 stands out with a pristine disk, no spiral arms, a bright central bulge, and an outside halo that simply glows.

January 29 — DeepSeek is ramping up hiring and increasing investment in AI search and intelligent agent technologies, signaling a broader expansion of its AI product portfolio and intensifying competition with industry leaders such as OpenAI and Alphabet, according to recent job postings. Multiple recruitment listings released this month show that DeepSeek is seeking specialists to build a multilingual AI-powered search engine.

Hyundai and Kia have introduced Vision Pulse, a new driver safety system that is shaking up the road with a new method of detecting risks. This technology uses ultra-wideband (UWB) radio waves to pinpoint individuals and other vehicles with incredible accuracy, even when buildings, other automobiles, or barriers are in the way. Vision Pulse is essentially an upgrade of the Digital Key 2 technology, allowing owners to unlock and start their automobile using a smartphone.

Korea is trying something unusual for a high-income economy with a mature bureaucracy, it wants a mass-participation startup audition to fix a structural problem that policy has struggled to touch. “Startup for All” is not framed as a grant program or a campus-style accelerator. It is being sold as a national culture shift, with cameras, brackets, and a public finale. The bet is that visibility can move behavior faster than incentives alone.

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Ohio Department of Transportation and Honda completed a two-year pilot project showing how real-time connected vehicle data can identify roadway hazards such as potholes, faded lane markings, rough roads and damaged guardrails, the company said Thursday. ODOT personnel monitored some 3,000 miles of roads in central and southeastern Ohio in Honda vehicles equipped with advanced vision and lidar sensors for the project.

The Sabrent 252W 8-Port Charging Station, priced at $59.99 (was $89.99), sits on your desk like a very capable HQ for any device you own. Eight ports line up neatly one after the other, four USB-C and four USB-A, ready to charge your laptops, phones, tablets, earbuds, and other devices. There’s no need to fuss around with plugging and unplugging or looking for spare outlets.