Field notes on software, AI, and the Indian tech stack — from the team that builds it.
Est. 2015 · Gurugram
Latest dispatch · 4 Sept 2026
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The launches, models, and India-tech moves that actually matter — summarised by the team that builds the software behind them. No hype, no spam.
JioHotstar launched in the UK, Canada and Singapore on 2 September 2026, replacing Hotstar. The platform carries 160,000+ hours of content in 12+ languages — but no live sports.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 on 1 September 2026, scoring 55.8% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. Cache reads dropped 75% to $0.25/M, making agentic workloads up to 45% cheaper.
GitHub's August 2026 changelog sets three September changes: prepaid Copilot seats from 1 September, credit pool reductions from 3,000 to 1,900 per user, and a unified Chat and cloud agent experience.
UpGrad acquired Unacademy on 1 September 2026 for around $200 million — a 94% drop from its $3.44 billion 2021 peak, structured as a 100% share swap. Gaurav Munjal stays as CEO.
Tencent released Hy4 preview on 28 August 2026: a 770B MoE model, 49B active parameters, 1M token context, Apache 2.0 — and it improved its own inference throughput by 31.8%.
VS Code 1.135, released 26 August 2026, introduces Rubber Duck — a second-opinion AI agent — alongside a redesigned Agents layout and cross-app session continuity.
Cashfree Payments launched Relay on 30 August 2026, an AI Super Agent cutting SMB payment operations from 60 hours a week to under 45 minutes, using plain-language setup.
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on 26 August 2026, a speech-to-text model with a 2.6% word error rate on pre-recorded audio, automatic language detection across 85-plus languages, and real-time self-correction.
LibreOffice 26.8 launched on 26 August 2026 with a new Paragraph Composer for Writer, OpenType variable font support, and a deliberate choice to ship without any generative AI integration.