Claude pricing in India just got a rupee makeover, as Anthropic begins localising subscription costs for what it calls its second-largest market globally. The catch: users still cannot pay through UPI, the instant payments network that handles the vast majority of digital transactions in the country. Claude Pricing in India: The Numbers Rupee-denominated prices have started appearing for some users on Claude’s website and mobile apps, though the rollout is still patchy. On the website, Claude Pro is listed at ₹2,000 (around $21) per month when billed annually, compared with $17 a month in the US. Claude Max opens at…
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Marcus Hale has been filing general news for the better part of fifteen years. He started at a regional evening paper, moved to a mid-sized digital outlet covering UK news, and spent three years as a general assignment reporter before going freelance. He has covered inquests, council elections, infrastructure announcements, and the kind of stories that sit on page five but matter on page one. He writes about public services, housing, local government, and the institutional stories that take six months to develop and thirty seconds to read. He prefers facts to angles and considers that unfashionable. Marcus lives in Bristol. He still reads the local paper and thinks that makes him an endangered species.
The NHTSA robotaxi directive issued this week is blunt by federal standards, but the agency has been careful not to spell out what happens if developers ignore it. That tension, between stern language and uncertain enforcement, is precisely the story right now in autonomous vehicles. NHTSA’s Robotaxi Directive: Strong Words, Open Consequences National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) administrator Jonathan Morrison sent a letter to every autonomous vehicle developer listed in the Department of Transportation’s Standing General Order, demanding they address a ‘clear pattern’ of driverless vehicles interfering with law enforcement and emergency services. The specific failures cited include vehicles…
The Yosemite oncology fund is moving faster than its founder expected. Reed Jobs, speaking in a wide-ranging interview, says the firm has grown to 17 people, is closing in on 25 portfolio companies across two funds, and has watched a once-cautious biotech market turn acquisitive almost overnight. The catalyst is straightforward, if long in coming: a pharmaceutical patent cliff of historic scale, record cash reserves built up during the pandemic, and falling interest rates. Deals like Kirkland-advised Eli Lilly’s acquisition of Kelonia Therapeutics illustrate what that looks like in practice. The headline figure is $7 billion; $3.25 billion of that…
The Even Realities G2 review verdict is a familiar one for first-generation smart hardware: the frame is genuinely impressive, the software needs another year in the oven. The G2 went on sale globally on 12 November 2025, priced at $599, according to Android Guys. The company behind it, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Shenzhen, is now a unicorn, and the gap between the hardware and the software experience is exactly the problem that $1 billion should help fix. Light Frame, Big Ambitions At 35 grams, the G2 barely registers on your face. The frame is magnesium alloy, the temples…
OpenAI is hiring a ChatGPT family product manager based in San Francisco, a move that shifts the company’s consumer ambitions from individual productivity tools towards something that looks a lot more like household infrastructure. The job listing describes a role that will ‘shape how families, caregivers, and older adults benefit from AI across OpenAI’s products’ and explicitly brings together product, policy, safety, research, and operations. So, a single hire. Also, not nothing. The LinkedIn posting for the role lists a base pay range of $293,000 to $325,000 per year. That salary band tells you where this sits in OpenAI’s internal…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) GitHub credential leak that spilled AWS GovCloud keys, plaintext passwords, and internal government files into a public repository went undetected from November 2025 until a private security researcher spotted it in May 2026. That, in itself, is the story. The slightly more uncomfortable coda is that when CISA finally had to respond, it did not have an incident response playbook for this class of incident. It had to write one on the fly. What the CISA GitHub Credential Leak Actually Exposed The repository at the centre of it all was named, with unfortunate…
A new filing in the Fizz confidential information lawsuit names venture capitalist Jerry Lu as a central figure in what the college social app claims was a deliberate campaign to feed its non-public data to direct rival Sidechat. Lu is a partner at Maveron, the venture capital firm. According to Fizz’s amended complaint, he approached the company’s founders under the guise of exploring a potential investment, then passed what he learned to Sidechat’s parent company, Flower Ave Inc. The Fizz Confidential Information Lawsuit Gets a New Defendant Fizz says it discovered Lu’s role only through the legal discovery process. A…
Oratomic quantum computing funding has reached $300 million in a Series A round, as the Pasadena-based startup argues it can build a fully fault-tolerant quantum computer with a fraction of the qubits rivals say they need. The round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures, with a broad slate of additional backers. The 20,000-Qubit Claim at the Heart of Oratomic Quantum Computing The pitch is deceptively simple: most quantum roadmaps assume you need roughly a million qubits to do anything genuinely useful. Caltech’s own newsroom confirms the new research suggests that figure could be as low…
India has approved the Vivo Dixon joint venture, a 51/49 manufacturing partnership majority-owned by Indian electronics giant Dixon Technologies, potentially opening a new chapter in the country’s push to become a serious smartphone export powerhouse beyond Apple. The government granted approval on 8 July under Press Note 3 of 2020, the framework introduced after the 2020 border clashes that requires extra scrutiny of investment from countries sharing a land border with India, including China. Dixon then filed a stock exchange notice with the NSE confirming it had signed a joint venture agreement and shareholders’ agreement with Vivo Mobile India on…
Gradium voice AI funding has reached $100 million after the Paris-based startup re-opened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia. The company announced the milestone on Thursday, confirming it will use the capital to plant a flag in the Bay Area and compete for talent there. Gradium launched out of stealth in December with $70 million already secured from FirstMark Capital, Eurazeo, DST Global Partners, Eric Schmidt, and French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel. Nvidia’s arrival in the re-opened round pushes the total to $100 million, which is a tidy number for a seed, even by 2026 standards. The Bay…