India's technology news: April 2025

World Bank Group: Future Jobs – Robots, AI, and Digital Platforms

India: Reytm chips firm has raised $75M to further develop networking chips for AI-driven computing in data centres, focusing on streamlining connectivity bottlenecks / full item
India: Reytm chips firm has raised $75M to further develop networking chips for AI-driven computing in data centres, focusing on streamlining connectivity bottlenecks / full item
India: MEITY Startup Hub launches innovation challenge for startups and MSMEs to develop open-source consent management systems to comply with data protection legislation / full item
India launches its first Digital Threat Report 2024 to support cybersecurity in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance sector / full item
India: L&T Semiconductor Technologies fabless chip firm, backed by Indian engineering firm Larsen & Toubro, is planning a $10BN wafer fabrication facility / full item
India’s Adani Group is reportedly to invest $10BN in hyperscale data centers, seeing large-scale opportunity in AI processing / full item
India: ‘Digital Threat Report 2024’ from SISA, focusing on cyber issues facing the banking and financial services industry / full item

HBR: Realizing the Generative AI Opportunity

India: Taiwan’s Foxconn is considering acquisition of 300 acres in Uttar Pradesh for production facility, potentially in a first-time move into EV production / full item
India: An intro to PierSight, using satellites for sea-level intelligence, monitoring illegal fishing, oil spills and more / full item
“Apple’s main India suppliers Foxconn and Tata shipped nearly $2 billion worth of iPhones to the United States in March” in bid to bypass looming tariffs / full item
India’s KABIL partners Coal India, Oil India and ONGC Videsh in bid to gain 20% stake in Australia’s SQM’s Mount Holland and Andover lithium projects / full item
Japan-ASEAN/India Open Innovation Exchange event is set for May 7th in Tokyo, featuring pitches by 12 startups from 8 ASEAN countries and India / full item

ECIPE: AI and India’s National Interest

India: April 2025