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India's DPDP Consent Manager registration framework activates on 13 November 2026, the first hard date-bound deadline under the Rules. With 83% of organisations unprepared, here is what software teams must know.
VS Code 1.138 ships on 16 September 2026 with agent sessions inside Dev Containers, Codex sessions that move between VS Code and ChatGPT, and a session cleanup preview.
VS Code 1.137 shipped on 10 September 2026 with Preview Automations to schedule hourly agent tasks, experimental Voice Mode for spoken coding sessions, and the new Agent Host Protocol for external agents.
SquadStack.ai launched revenue-linked pricing on 14 September 2026 — fees tied to loan disbursals and cards issued instead of call minutes, live in India's banking and NBFC sector.
Microsoft shipped .NET 11 RC1 on 8 September 2026 with a production go-live licence — C# 15 union types, runtime-native async, and x64 AVX10.1 baseline, GA in November.
Nua closed a $50 million Series C on 7 September 2026 led by Peak XV Partners and Filter Capital, reporting Rs 500 Cr ARR and profitability after five-fold revenue growth in two years.
Microsoft's September 2026 MSVC Build Tools preview targets v14.52 with Intel APX support doubling x64 registers, ARM64 NEON vectorisation, and PGO devirtualisation improvements.
Microsoft's September 8, 2026 Visual Studio 2026 update added BYOK AI for all SKUs, a thinking effort dial for Copilot, and an Agent mode built on the GitHub Copilot SDK.
Reliance Jio confirmed a September 2027 test launch for its 1,600-satellite LEO constellation at 650km altitude — cleared by IN-SPACe in July 2026 — targeting 4 to 4.8 Tbps coverage and commercial broadband service in India from early 2028.
Pixxel raised $100 million on 7 September 2026 in India's largest-ever spacetech fundraise, led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing total funding to $195 million to expand its hyperspectral satellite constellation and build the Gigapixxel manufacturing facility.
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max-0902 on 2 September 2026, ranking first on Code Arena WebDev at 1,691 points. Agentic terminal coding rose from 11.3 to 29.0. Pricing unchanged at $2/$6 per million tokens.
GitHub Actions' September 2026 update adds a runner deprecation REST API, Dependabot vulnerability-alerts token scope, and job.workflow_ref for reusable workflow identity.
On 3 September 2026, Bengaluru's Ultrahuman raised $70M led by Qualcomm Ventures at a $365M valuation to build on-device AI into its smart ring health platform.
VS Code 1.136, released 2 September 2026, adds Agent Merge preview for finishing pull requests with AI, multi-root workspace Copilot/Claude support, and hierarchical chat sessions.
Kepler Aerospace raised $8M seed on 3 September 2026 to build six autonomous swarm satellites for Indian defence ISR. The system cuts intelligence delivery from 45 days to hours.
Coder launched Agent Relay on 2 September 2026, letting regulated enterprises run Cursor Cloud Agents on their own infrastructure. SpaceXAI is the first named partner; private preview is now open.
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.
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.
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.
TILT Capital launched a ₹250 crore impact fund on 27 August 2026, backed by Binny Bansal and Indra Nooyi's family office, to invest in tech startups serving India's Next Billion.
InspeCity, an IIT Bombay-incubated Mumbai space-tech startup, raised INR 100 crore in a pre-Series A to fund autonomous in-orbit satellite refuelling and servicing technology.
On 24 August 2026, Third Wave Coffee secured Rs 408 crore in a WestBridge Capital-led round, lifting its valuation to Rs 2,000 crore as it targets 320 cafes by FY27.
Gurugram-based NeoGeoInfo Technologies raised $20 million Series A in August 2026, as India's geospatial analytics market races from $1.81 billion toward $3.55 billion by 2031.
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on 11 August 2026, an open 30B MoE with 3B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and SWE-bench Verified 51.56 built for always-on AI agent pipelines.
CRED launched Circle by CRED on 18 August 2026 in beta, connecting its 1.7-crore member community with vetted Residents for paid one-on-one conversations from Rs 25 per minute across careers, money, wellness, and relationships.
Marvell granted Google a warrant for up to $12.18 billion in shares on 19 August 2026, part of a binding custom chip deal covering AI inference accelerators and Google's TPU ecosystem.
KKR agreed on 19 August 2026 to buy about 6% of BookMyShow for up to $50 million, backing India's dominant ticketing and live entertainment platform as live events demand surges.
Centricity closed a ₹280 crore ($33M) Series A led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund on 14 August 2026, valuing the B2B2C Indian wealthtech platform at $216M to scale NRI and private wealth services.
Atlassian launched Code Context on 13 August 2026, giving AI coding agents indexed access to multi-repo codebases via the Teamwork Graph CLI — delivering 44% more accurate results on complex enterprise tasks.
Zetwerk filed its updated DRHP with SEBI on 13 Aug 2026 to raise ₹2,600 crore fresh. FY26 revenue hit ₹15,913 crore (up 40%), EBITDA quadrupled, order book reached ₹12,370 crore.
DeepSeek open-sourced its MIT-licensed agent harness (dsh) on 13 Aug 2026, reaching 66,343 GitHub stars in one day. Its Cordis-based plugin architecture makes every agent component swappable without forking.
The ICRIER State of India's Digital Economy Report 2026, released 13 August, benchmarks India 5th globally with 109 crore internet subscribers, Rs 7.51/GB data costs, and Rs 13.11 lakh crore in electronics output.
ByteDance opened Seedance 2.5 API on 7 August 2026 — 30-second audio-video with 50 multimodal references, 40% faster rendering than Seedance 2.0, priced from $0.10 per generated second.
Milky Mist opened India's largest private dairy IPO on 11 August 2026 at Rs 133-140 per share. FY26 revenue was Rs 3,145 crore (+33.6% YoY) with net profit surging 142% to Rs 127 crore.
Python 3.15.0rc1 released on 4 August 2026 brings lazy imports cutting startup by up to 70%, a built-in frozendict type, Tachyon high-frequency profiler, and JIT gains of 8-13%.
On 5 August 2026, SEBI cleared Garuda Aerospace's Rs 1,000 crore IPO — Rs 750 crore fresh issue, Rs 250 crore OFS — making it India's first drone-tech startup cleared for a mainboard listing.
Bengaluru-based River Mobility closed a $120M Series C on 5 August 2026, co-led by Elev8 Venture Partners, to build a new 800K-vehicle annual capacity factory and launch two new scooter models.
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max on 3 August 2026 — a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE with 95B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and open weights planned for public release.
Ola Electric Q1 FY27 (7 Aug 2026): market share rebounded from 5.1% to 8.4%, deliveries nearly doubled to 39,192, and net loss narrowed to Rs 336 crore as Bharat Cell is deployed.
Meta released Muse Code in public beta on 5 August 2026 — a terminal coding agent for macOS and Linux powered by Muse Spark 1.2, priced at $1.25 per million input tokens.
DeepSeek released V4 Flash 0731 on 31 July 2026 — MIT-licensed 284B MoE, 1M token context, $0.14/M input — outperforming the larger V4-Pro on every published agentic benchmark.
BrowserStack launched Test Companion on 29 July 2026, embedding agentic AI testing in VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, and Antigravity to cut test authoring and debug time by up to 4x.
InCred Finance posted Rs 172 crore net profit in Q1 FY27, up 82.3% year on year, with a Rs 14,809 crore loan book and 2% Gross NPA, ahead of parent InCred Holdings' upcoming IPO.
Shadowfax posted its highest-ever quarterly profit of Rs 65.4 crore in Q1 FY27 on 31 July 2026 — a 715% YoY surge — as revenue rose 65% to Rs 1,358 crore and FY27 guidance climbed to 38-40%.
On 31 July 2026, DeepSeek released V4-Flash-0731, a retrained build that outscored its own V4-Pro-Preview on all nine agent and coding benchmarks at a fraction of the API cost.
GitHub's July 2026 Copilot changelog (v1.127–v1.131) delivered a redesigned Agents window, Copilot Vision going GA, and BYOK model support extended to the full Agents window.
On 15 July 2026, India's Union Cabinet approved ISM 2.0 — a Rs 1,27,500 crore semiconductor mission across six pillars, targeting domestic chip design, fabs, and AI-grade silicon by 2038.
India's NSE filed its DRHP on 17 June 2026, ending a near-decade standstill, and began global roadshows as SEBI prepares to issue its observation letter for a Rs 30,000 crore IPO.
On 27 July 2026, Nvidia invested $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence and granted SSI preferred access to its Vera Rubin GPU platform, raising the lab's compute by an order of magnitude.
PhonePe's FY26 results show Rs 7,920 crore revenue — up 11.5% — but net losses widened 62% to Rs 2,792 crore as RBI removed MDR income and expenses rose 16% to Rs 10,589 crore.
Etched closed a $300M Series C at $10.3B on 23 July 2026, funding production of its Sohu ASIC chip — a transformer-only inference accelerator claiming 20x Nvidia H100 throughput.
Zetwerk raised ₹500 crore from Bharat Value Fund after SEBI's July 10 clearance, targeting a ₹4,200 crore IPO at a $4 billion valuation as India's contract manufacturing platform prepares to list.
On 23 July 2026, India's Parliament finance panel recommended crypto VDAs be governed through recognised SROs under SEBI or RBI — phased regulation before any new legislation.
InMobi appointed JPMorgan, Jefferies, Kotak Mahindra Capital, and Axis Capital on 21 July for a USD 1 billion India IPO — targeting a USD 5-6 billion valuation for India's first unicorn.
GitHub Code Quality became generally available on 20 July 2026 at $10 per committer per month, bringing quality gates that block pull request merges for 10,000+ enterprise teams.
VS Code 1.129 (15 July) and 1.129.1 (17 July 2026) introduce the Agent Host Protocol, moving Copilot, Claude, and Codex sessions to a dedicated background process that spans multiple editor windows.
The MCP 2026-07-28 RC — the biggest revision since launch — drops the protocol session layer, hardens OAuth with six new requirements, and adds MCP Apps and a Tasks extension for long-running work.
India's Union Cabinet approved ISM 2.0 on 15 July 2026 — ₹1.27 trillion ($13.21B) across six pillars: chip fabs, indigenous IP, semiconductor equipment, materials, R&D, and talent.
IBM and Red Hat launched Lightwell on 8 July 2026, delivering AI-remediated, signed open-source dependencies across 6,500+ Java and Python packages, backed by a $5 billion security commitment.
India's NPCI released Drunix on 17 June 2026, an open-source enterprise blockchain built as an enhanced Hyperledger Fabric fork for tokenisation, digital assets, and multi-organisation network deployments.
ByteDance's new Seedream 5.0 Pro reasons through prompts and searches the web before drawing, outputs editable PNG layers at 2K, and renders text in 14 languages.
An internal Meta memo reported by Reuters on 9 July 2026 confirms Iris enters mass production in September, part of a plan to double compute capacity from 7 to 14 gigawatts by 2027.
DPIIT doubled India's startup turnover cap to ₹200 crore, added a Deep Tech category with 20-year recognition, and published FoF 2.0 guidelines deploying ₹10,000 crore via SIDBI.
GitHub made Copilot Vision generally available on 1 July 2026 and added Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI as the first open-weight model in the Copilot picker, available across all plan tiers.
India's CG Semi OSAT chip plant in Sanand opened 4 July 2026 — a Rs 7,600 crore JV with Renesas and Stars Microelectronics targeting 4.7 billion units per year.
NVIDIA released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion open weights on 10 July 2026 — a 3B–14B tri-mode model that acts as its own draft model, achieving 6.82 accepted tokens per step versus Eagle3's 2.75.
India's retail digital rupee fell 24% to Rs 771.7 crore by March 2026, yet the RBI is expanding CBDC welfare pilots and planning cross-border trials with Singapore and UAE.
TypeScript 7.0 released 8 July 2026 as a complete Go compiler rewrite, cutting Canva's time-to-first-editor-error from 58 seconds to 4.8 seconds and delivering 8x-12x build speedups.
India's $50 billion IPO pipeline — Jio, NSE, PhonePe, Zepto — faces disruption after Trump declared the Iran ceasefire over on 7 July, crashing Sensex 2.15% and forcing PhonePe to pause its IPO.
Meta launched Muse Image on 7 July 2026, deploying the Meta Superintelligence Labs model inside WhatsApp, Instagram, and Meta AI for text-to-image generation and photo editing at scale.
DeepSeek announced V4's official mid-July 2026 release with time-based API pricing — charges double during peak hours — as the legacy deepseek-chat model retires on 24 July.
Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0 on 30 June 2026 — a 1.6T MoE model trained on Chinese chips that scored 59.5 on SWE-bench Pro, beating GPT-5.5, under MIT licence.
Z.ai launched ZCode on 2 July 2026, a free desktop ADE on GLM-5.2 that inverts the IDE model, places the agent at the centre, and offers plans from $16.20 per month.
Figma Code Layers, opening beta in July 2026, lets teams clone a GitHub repo onto the design canvas, convert frames to live React code, and sync changes back — all in one multiplayer file.
Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite on 30 June 2026: 4-second AI image generation at $0.034 per 1,000 images, available via the Gemini API as gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image.
Vercel Services entered public beta on 1 July 2026, letting teams deploy microservices, REST APIs, queues, and MCP servers in the same Vercel project as their frontend with atomic deployments.
India tech raised $7.2B in H1 2026, up 12% YoY, but deal count fell 43% to 652 — with CRED ($900M), Nxtra ($710M), and Neysa ($600M) accounting for 31% of all capital deployed.
AWS made the Bedrock AgentCore Harness generally available on 17 June 2026 — production AI agents from two API calls, isolated microVM sessions, and no separate harness fee.
On 23 June 2026, India's MoEngage acquired San Francisco-based Aampe in an all-cash deal, deploying a dedicated AI agent per customer via reinforcement learning at Swiggy-scale.
On 2 June 2026, Windsurf became Devin Desktop via OTA update, shifting to an Agent Command Center, adopting the open ACP protocol, and setting a Cascade end-of-life date of 1 July 2026.
On 22 June 2026, Meta invested $900 million in Indian fintech CRED for a 20% stake at a $4.5B valuation, naming CRED founder Kunal Shah as the new global head of WhatsApp.
GitHub made the Copilot Desktop App generally available on 17 June 2026, giving developers a dedicated surface for parallel AI agent orchestration across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Snowflake CoCo scored 72.1% on ADE-Bench at Summit 2026 — beating Claude Code and Codex (65.1%) with 51% fewer tokens. A coding agent built for governed data.
India's DPDP Rules came into force November 2025. Phase 2 — the Consent Manager Framework with INR 250 crore penalties — activates on 13 November 2026.
SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock on 16 June 2026, days after its historic Nasdaq IPO. Cursor's $2.6B ARR and Fortune 500 reach give xAI a top-tier coding product.
ONDC allotted shares worth ₹220 crore to Zoho, Uber, Paytm, and BSE Technologies in May 2026 as it launches ONDC 2.0 with DigiCatalog, AI-powered discovery, and agentic commerce.
OpenCode hit 160,000 GitHub stars and 7.5 million monthly active developers in its first year, topping LogRocket's June 2026 AI dev tool rankings. Here's why it matters.
Salesforce's Summer '26 release landed on 15 June 2026 with multi-agent orchestration, Slack-first AI workflows, and Tableau MCP. Here is what it means in practice for teams already running on Salesforce.
Google's Gemma 4 12B scores 77.5% on AIME 2026 under Apache 2.0, runs on a 16GB laptop, and gives teams a self-hostable multimodal model with no licensing strings attached.
Reve 2.0 debuted at number two on the Arena text-to-image leaderboard with a layout-first architecture that solves the one problem every design and e-commerce team has hit: accurate text inside AI-generated images.
MiniMax M3 scored 59.0% on SWE-Bench Pro, surpassing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro, at roughly $0.53 per million tokens — and it is open-weight with a 1M-token context window and native multimodality.
Mistral AI has rebranded Le Chat as Vibe, a unified enterprise agent platform with Work Mode and Code Mode. Here is what product teams and founders need to weigh before choosing an autonomous-agent stack.
Off-the-shelf solutions can only take you so far. Here's why custom software is the competitive edge Indian startups need.