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…
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…