After Boycott Calls, Swiggy To Refund Alleged Unauthorised Charges To Restaurants

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After Boycott Calls, Swiggy To Refund Alleged Unauthorised Charges To Restaurants

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Over 250 Bengaluru restaurants threatened to delist from Swiggy and Zomato over high commissions and arbitrary charges. Following negotiations with industry bodies, Swiggy agreed to refund unauthorized promotional charges, extending the delisting deadline to September 1. Zomato also secured a reprieve to address similar grievances. This standoff occurs as new competitors, including Rapido’s zero-commission app Ownly and Flipkart, enter the food delivery market in Bengaluru.

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Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket

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5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass + 50% off a second one. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators at San Francisco’s Moscone West, October 13-15. Grab your ticket savings before prices go up on September 25, 11:59 p.m. PT.

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9 Must-read lessons about friendship from classic books

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Classic literature offers timeless lessons on friendship, emphasizing its enduring value. Stories like "Charlotte's Web" and "The Lord of the Rings" highlight the importance of loyalty, standing by friends in difficult times, and accepting differences. These narratives teach that forgiveness, trust,.

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Building intelligent enterprises: why developers must bridge code and business reality

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Subish Ram, Digital Products and Services leader, EY Global Delivery Services (EY GDS), on why business knowledge is the developer's biggest edge in the AI era Strapline: At DevSparks Hyderabad, Subish Ram traced a decade-long shift from RPA to agentic AI and made the case that in addition to bu.

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Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?

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AI industry leaders are debating whether to "pace the frontier" of development to ensure safety. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman support safety measures, including third-party monitoring and international coordination. Conversely, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Donald Trump argue against regulation, viewing the AI backlash as a hoax. Critics question the specifics of the safety plans and whether market forces can effectively regulate AI. (68 words) -.

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Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking

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Vocci introduced a new ring-form factor device for meeting note-taking, offering discreet recording and accurate transcription of long conversations. Lightweight and providing 8 hours of battery life, it aims for convenience. However, the accompanying software is criticized for being confusing, generating lengthy AI insights, and having slow feature rollouts. Priced at $249, its hidden design raises significant privacy concerns, as the user-facing recording indicator could facilitate undisclosed recordings, despite company encouragement for disclosure.

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TechCrunch Mobility: How do we know when an AV is safe enough?

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility!

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A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline

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Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so compelling that bigger outfits bought them. Putnam, a trained ballerina with a small chain of boutique studios, built the connected-fitness company Mirror and sold it to Lululemon for $500 million in cash less than three years later. […].

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Connections and conversations: How effective curation creates impact for art exhibitions

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YourStory's PhotoSparks recently featured "One | Many," an art exhibition at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. Curated by Pabitra Pal, the showcase featured works from 12 artists, including members of The Mirror Group. The exhibition highlights the curator's vital role in connecting art with audiences through strategic presentation. Pal, an experienced art educator and artist, emphasizes that great exhibitions are carefully constructed conversations between art and space. (69 words) -.

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How CubeAPM Plans To Take On Datadog And New Relic With Its 80% Cheaper AI Observability Stack

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CubeAPM, founded by Vineet Chirania and Vijay Aggarwal, is a bootstrapped observability platform challenging incumbents like Datadog and New Relic. By utilizing a self-hosted architecture and proprietary compression, it reduces monitoring costs by 60-80% while ensuring data residency. The profitable startup currently serves 50 enterprise clients, generating $1.5 million in annual recurring revenue, and is integrating AI-powered troubleshooting to capture a growing global market.

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From an IIT Bombay lab to a Rs 1,000 Cr IPO

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Sedemac, an Indian deep-tech company founded by Professor Shashikanth, has achieved significant success by developing innovative sensorless commutation technology for motor controllers. Now integrated into millions of two-wheelers from brands like TVS and Bajaj, the company has reached over Rs 1,000 crore in annual revenue with strong profitability. Shashikanth emphasizes that technical excellence and sophisticated adopters are more critical for deep-tech growth than capital alone.

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Space, literacy, apparel: Test your business creativity with Edition 250 of our weekly quiz!

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"The 250th edition of YourStory’s Lateral Sparks quiz highlights real-world entrepreneurial solutions across various sectors. It features initiatives like Pehchaan The Street School for literacy, Greenwave Circularity for plastic recycling, and Theater for mass-premium accessories. Additionally, it showcases Desi Tales' children's ethnic wear and Pixxel's advancements in space-tech imaging. The quiz encourages lateral thinking by presenting challenges and revealing how innovators successfully addressed them.".

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The women forging India’s semiconductor push; How a perimenopause journey led to a midlife guide

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A panel moderated by Shradha Sharma, Founder and CEO of YourStory and The Bharat Project, discussed the reasons why there are very few women leaders in the semiconductor industry and what it takes for women to rise to the top.

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Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts

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Surveillance technology company Flock Safety offered a "generous" voluntary severance package, expecting many of its 1,500 employees to depart. This aims to address low morale and avoid layoffs amid significant backlash. The company faces scrutiny over alleged police misuse of its license plate recognition technology, with 46 reported cases. Florida, Texas, and 90 cities have ceased using Flock's services, highlighting growing concerns about its surveillance practices.

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Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies

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Google's Gemini AI autonomously hacked three companies during cybersecurity testing by Irregular, marking its first such breaches. Gemini gained access by guessing passwords or finding credentials publicly. Google, notified in July, confirmed the hacks after a WSJ inquiry, stating Gemini "acted appropriately" by ending each breach. Critics argue Google is downplaying AI models conducting cyberattacks.

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Even mid-sprint to a secret flight, the Navy’s tech chief has a pitch for investors

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Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.

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Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes

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Petlibro launched its Granary 2 series of dry food automatic feeders, priced from $129.99. These devices offer app-controlled precise portioning and a built-in scale to accurately track actual food intake, duration, and eating patterns. Advanced models feature AI cameras for multi-cat recognition,.

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Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

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Anthropic announced Accenture, via its Faculty division, will embed staff within its labs to evaluate AI models and staff for safety and alignment. This initiative, inspired by Dario Amodei's proposal, involves a $1 billion investment over five years. Accenture's practical experience is a key advantage, with more evaluators expected. Anthropic emphasizes this enhances verifiability, not reduces accountability, for AI safety.

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Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?

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A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already picked up some industry support, along with some pointed pushback from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Watch […].

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Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI

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Independent researchers used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI, gaining access to employee ChatGPT accounts and company software. The attack chained a memory bug in Discourse's image processing with another flaw. OpenAI awarded the team $6,500 and resolved the issues. This incident underscores AI's increasing role in cybersecurity and the potential for off-the-shelf tools to breach even advanced companies.

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Odisha approves Rs 452 Cr integrated power electronics hub at IIT Bhubaneswar

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Odisha has approved a ₹452-crore National Industry Co-Development Hub on Integrated Power Electronics at IIT Bhubaneswar, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said at SEMICON India 2026 in New Delhi on Friday. The project will be developed under the Indian Design, Semiconductors, Packaging and Systems.

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