The sales start this week — Amazon’s Great Indian Festival on 8 October, Flipkart’s Big Billion Days with early access the same day — and your feed is already full of percentages. Before you tap anything, here is the one thing worth knowing about festive sale discounts this year: the number they are measured against…
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…