Short answer first, because the panic deserves one: no, you are not about to start paying UPI charges. Scanning a QR code will still cost you nothing on 16 October, whatever your WhatsApp groups are saying this week. What is actually happening is narrower, and it starts on 15 October 2026 — not 1 October,…
Google will sell you its AI plan in India for ₹199 a month — the lowest AI subscription price on the market here. That is less than a month of Netflix Mobile, for a tool that writes, edits images, makes video and comes with 200GB of storage. It is a genuinely good deal. It is…
You ask ChatGPT to summarise a long article. You read the summary. A day later, you remember the summary — not the article. New research suggests AI summaries do something more troubling than that. In a study from Georgetown University and the University of Washington, people who read a misleading AI summary answered questions about…
Google has started testing a Flipkart buy button inside Gemini and AI Mode in India. Ask about a phone, and instead of a list of links you may now get a product card with a Buy option that takes you straight into checkout. It is a small test today — a limited group of users,…
Here is a number worth sitting with: 89% of Indian smartphone buyers say AI phone features influence what they buy. Only about 30% actually own a phone that can run them. Both figures come from the same study — a Flipkart and Counterpoint Research report on Indian smartphone buying, published earlier this year. Nearly nine…
ChatGPT Voice just stopped being a party trick. As of 23 September 2026, you can talk to ChatGPT and have it actually check your email, find a free slot in your calendar, and search your Slack — without touching the keyboard. OpenAI shipped three upgrades at once, and the plugin one is the change that…
The Mahindra BE 6 Sporteq is the first Indian car you can hold a proper conversation with. Say “it’s cold in here” and it works out that you want the AC turned down — no memorised command phrase required. That is because Mahindra has become the first Indian carmaker to build an in-car assistant on…
Claude Opus 5.5 arrived on 22 September 2026, and Anthropic paired it with something users have wanted for a long time: a button that resets your usage limit. It landed in the middle of the busiest AI release week in months — OpenAI and xAI both shipped new models within 48 hours. So this is…
The Vivo V80 launches in India on 6 October 2026, and Vivo has already confirmed the headline features: a huge 7,200mAh battery, triple 50MP ZEISS cameras, and a very bright 1.5K AMOLED screen. It arrives right in the middle of the festive season, aimed squarely at the crowded ₹40,000 camera-phone segment where Vivo sells more…
The OPPO Find X10 series is coming to India, and it is coming fast. OPPO launched it in China on 22 September 2026, and the India debut is tipped for the end of October — most likely around 28 October, right in the middle of the festive season. The headline is a phone that costs…