From 1 November 2026, India switches on caller name display for every mobile user. Call someone who does not have your number saved, and your name appears on their screen. Not your number. Your name, as it sits in your operator’s KYC records. Most coverage of India’s new caller name display rules has reported that…
On 12 October, Meta announced its first frontier-class AI models and published benchmarks showing them matching or beating OpenAI and Anthropic. It was the biggest AI launch of the week. For anyone in India, it was also entirely theoretical. Meta Muse, the assistant these models are built to power, launched in September in the United…
On 4 November 2025, India got something unusual: a year of ChatGPT Go, free, for anyone in the country who wanted it. Millions took it. The redemption window closed on 21 January 2026. Count twelve months forward from the day you claimed it. For the earliest claimants, that lands on 4 November 2026 — about…
On 8 October, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India will publish a consultation paper on regulating AI content within thirty days. That got the headlines. Here is what mostly did not: India has had binding rules on AI content since 20 February 2026. They require a visible label covering 10% of the screen. They apply…
Both festive sales are now running, and the same five words are on every banner: 10% instant discount with your bank card. We read the actual terms. Axis Bank publishes a PDF for the Flipkart sale, and it runs to seven different caps. Depending on which invisible category your purchase falls into, that “10%” pays…
On 6 October, Meta and the AI company Sierra published something that sounds dull and is not: an open standard for letting AI agents log into businesses and act on your behalf. The founding partners include Walmart, Shopify and Stripe. Walmart owns Flipkart. Flipkart’s Big Billion Days opens in two days. And Google is already…
Updated 7 October 2026. We published this before vivo announced the V80’s offers, built around a leaked 10% UPI discount that looked uncapped. The prices in that leak were exactly right. The offer was not: vivo announced 10% instant cashback via select banks, with UPI mentioned only for offline purchases and no cap published. We…
Updated 6 October 2026 with OPPO’s official prices. The leaked box images were right: the F35 Pro’s printed ceiling is ₹79,999 and it launched at ₹49,999. Leaked images of the OPPO F35 Pro’s retail box put the box MRP at ₹79,999. Nobody is going to pay ₹79,999 for it. OPPO has now confirmed the real…
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…
Update — 14 October 2026: this has been deferred. On 13 October, NPCI’s UPI Steering Committee postponed the fee, saying it will now begin “immediately post Diwali at a date to be notified separately”. Diwali falls on 8 November, so expect mid-November rather than 15 October. Nothing about how the fee works has changed —…